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Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Wolverhampton, West Midlands. Founded in 1877 as St. Luke's, they adopted their current name in August 1879. Wolves began playing league football in 1888 when they were nominated to become one of the twelve founder members of the Football League. Wolves remained in the Football League for 115 years in different divisions, in this time the club were English football champions for three seasons. In 2003 they were promoted into the Premier League, which had replaced the Football League's First Division at the top of the English football league system in 1992. The team were relegated back into the Football League after one season in the Premier League. Their second promotion to the Premier League came in 2009 and this spell spanned three seasons. Since 2012 the club has been in the Football League.
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Wolverhampton Wanderers played their inaugural league fixture as part of the 1888–89 Football League on 8 September 1888 against Aston Villa. Since that game they have faced 112 different sides in league football with their most regular opponent having been West Bromwich Albion, against whom they have played on 146 occasions since their first meeting on 15 December 1888. They met their most recent different league opponent, Burton Albion, for the first time in the 2016–17 Football League Championship season. The club has won 62 of the league matches against Burnley, which represents the most Wolves have won against any club. They have drawn more matches with West Brom than with any other club; out of the 146 league matches between the two teams, 40 have finished without a winner. The side has lost more league games to Derby County than to any other club, having been defeated by them 58 times in 139 encounters.