The club was founded under the name
Leafield Swifts F.C. as a revival of the
Queen of the South Wanderers F.C., which the
Scottish Football Association had expelled for professionalism. At the start of the 1890–91 season, the club changed its name to
Dumfries Wanderers F.C., and at the start of the 1891–92 season the Scottish FA allowed the club to revive
Queen of the South Wanderers F.C. name. The club's greatest national honour came as Dumfries Wanderers, reaching the 4th round (last 24) of the
Scottish Cup in
1890–91. The club was the first
Scottish club to play
Liverpool at
Anfield in September 1892. That season, the Wanderers secured a
treble of local cups, with victories in the Churchill Cup, the Southern Counties Challenge, and Charity Cups. The team lost both finals of the Southern Counties' Cups in its last season of competition in
1893–94. The club's final competitive match was a defeat to the
5th KRV in the Charity Cup final in May 1894. On 13 August 1894, the committee voted to dissolve the club. The reason was a combination of
professionalism and difficulty in arranging fixtures since
League football had been introduced. The club has no connection to the modern football team called
Queen of the South. ==Colours==