The same trio was co-opted into the welfare section of mine community development as club organizers together with Harwood Chimaliro, who would go on to serve as Wanderers' administrator for 20 years until his retirement in 1978.

While most teams in the NFL were mergers between their African and European versions, Wanderers were predominantly an all-African side for the simple reason that Mufulira was a political hot-bed during the colonial days.

The final turned out to be one of the most famous matches in Zambian football history as the Mighty men squared off with City Wanderers before a racially segregated crowd of 18,000 on 17 October 1965 at Glamis Stadium in Salisbury.

[1] After the match, the team returned to the dressing room and word soon went round that Ian Smith had unilaterally declared a state of Independence (UDI) so General Manager Hansworth of Wanderer's sponsors Roan Consolidated Mines, who had accompanied the team to Salisbury, ordered their hasty departure for the airport where they boarded their chartered plane without going through immigration formalities.

On arrival at Ndola Airport, the players were driven home in private vehicles and the Super Castle Cup was permanently in Wanderers' custody.

In 1970, Makwaza’a defensive partner in the national team Dick Chama joined Wanderers from Bancroft Blades although he returned to Blades after a season, at the end of which Wanderers finished second on the league table after Kabwe Warriors who ascended to the championship when the National Football League awarded them points for a match against Mindola United who had used an unregistered player.

[3] Wanderers also had the distinction of featuring three brothers from the Nkole family in the same team – Abraham (who was a goalkeeper but at times played as a striker), and defenders Patrick and Edward.

By this time, Ndhlovu had retired and striker Thomas Bwalya emerged as a key player who placed 5th during the voting for African Footballer of the Year in 1977, won by Tunisia's Dhiab Tarek.

Wanderers repeated the feat the following year but this time in the Africa Cup Winners Cup when their quarter-final opponents Navy of Zanzibar withdrew but they lost the semi-final to Algerian club Milaha Athletic Hussein Dey (MAHD) featuring a 19-year-old Rabah Madjer, again on the away goals rule with a 2–2 aggregate score after winning the home leg 2–1.

[6] Later that year, player power forced out the club's McDonald Mtine-led executive after some friction between members and the new management team which saw the return of former Chairman Efford Chirwa, celebrated a seventh league title at the end of the season.

Wanderers beat Nkana 2–1 to win the BP Challenge Cup in July 1986 at the end of which Johnson also left for Swiss club Fribourg.

[10] The team carried on built around Collins Mbulo, Justin Kunda, Allan Kamwanga, Alex Musungu, Bilton Musonda, Vincent Mutale, Paul Chellah and Nelson Banda.

[12] In 2000, the unthinkable happened; reduced funding meant Wanderers were no longer able to compete against their rivals and poor performance in the league culminated in their relegation to Division I when they finished 4th from the bottom.

Needing a win to survive relegation in their final game of the season against Nkwazi FC at Shinde on 16 November 2002, Wanderers could only manage a goalless draw and were demoted causing untold anguish among their fans.

[14] In 2004, Wanderers finished 2nd in Division I (North) and won promotion back to the top league but sponsorship and administration problems persisted and they made a swift return to the second tier.

[15] Wanderers continued to struggle in Division I (North) under reduced funding from Mopani Copper Mines and regularly fallen short of the promotion places.

[18] When the 2013 season kicked off, Wanderers started with a point from their opening two games and this prompted the club to re-hire former coach, midfield legend Frederick Kashimoto.

However, the poor results continued with a draw and two more losses in the next three games and in the last week of April 2013, the club executive announced that Mwanza had been fired and replaced by Emmanuel Nthala with Frederick Kashimoto as Technical Advisor, in an interim capacity, who led the team to 2–1 win away to Ndola United in their first match in charge.

In February 2014, former Zambian international defender Manfred Chabinga was named coach and tasked with returning Wanderers to the top league.

[23] He achieved this when Wanderers won promotion with a game to spare after coming from behind to draw with Grinaker FC in Chililabombwe and end a nine-year hiatus from the Zambian Premier League.

With the 2016 season barely a few weeks old, Chabinga announced that he had resigned citing frustration with reports from Mufulira suggesting the club executive members meddled in team selection and had conducted player transfers without consulting him.

[28] Chabinga's former assistant Chewe Mulenga was appointed interim coach until July 2016 when Portuguese Paulo Jorge Silva signed a two-year deal.

[29][28] What started out as an indifferent season turned into a downward spiral with the team going on a seven-game winless streak which culminated in a 4-0 humiliation to league leaders Zanaco on 10 September 2016.

[33] Former National Assembly, Nakambala Leopards and Napsa Stars coach Wilson Mwale was then engaged on a three-year deal but his first game ended in a 2–0 defeat to Lumwana Radiants leaving Wanderers bottom of the twenty team league with one goal scored and fifteen conceded.

"[36] After 22 league matches, Mwale had only managed to win three and with the team still stuck in the relegation zone, the club's executive decided to move him up to the position of Technical Director and replaced him with his former assistant Justin Chinama.

In June 2005 Wanderers lost a league match to 2–1 to Red Arrows at Shinde and fans accused the referee of biased officiating and ran amok.

[40] In August 2008, Wanderers fans again rioted at Shinde when a league match against Kitwe United was abandoned following a pitch invasion when the home team conceded a late equalizer.

It involved construction of a wall boundary, perimeter fencing of the playing surface, referees' changing rooms and toilets and was completed in early April 2013.

Shinde recently received a facelift and jointly hosted the COSAFA Under 20 Men's Tournament with Nkana Stadium in Kitwe sponsored by Mopani.

Paul Chellah, Bilton Musonda, Nelson Banda, Peter Chilufya, Vincent Mutale, Joseph Sitali, Matthews Macha, Mulifye Sitali, Brian Ambungeni, Abraham Nkole, Elijah Mwale, Swift Musonda, Michael Kapembwa, Francis Chisenga, Joe Bwalya, Justin Kunda, Honour Janza