Fulham were formed in 1879 as Fulham St Andrew's Church Sunday School F.C.,founded by worshipers at the Church of England on Star Road, West Kensington (St Andrew's, Fulham Fields). Fulham's mother church still stands today with a plaque commemorating the team's foundation. They won the West London Amateur Cup in 1887 and, having shortened the name to its present form in 1888, they then won the West London League in 1893 at the first attempt. One of the club's first ever kits was half red, half white shirts with white shorts worn in the 1886–7 season.Fulham started playing at their current ground Craven Cottage in 1896, their first game against now defunct rivals Minerva F.C.
The club gained professional status on 12 December 1898, in the same year that they were admitted into the Southern League's Second Division. They adopted a red and white kit during the 1900–01 season.In 1902–03 they won promotion from this division, entering the Southern League First Division. The club's first recorded all-white club kit came in 1903, and ever since then the club has been playing in all-white shirts and black shorts, with socks going through various evolutions of black and/or white, but are now normally white-only.The club won the Southern League twice, in 1905–06 and 1906–07.
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