Shepherd's Bush Football Club were an English football club based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, although they originally played in central and south London.

The club were founded as Old St Stephen's FC in 1880 in Westminster,[1] although they soon moved out to play in Denmark Hill and Nunhead.

[3] During this time, in 1895, they moved across London to Shepherd's Bush, playing on Shepherd's Bush Green itself,[citation needed] which was to host football at the 1908 Summer Olympics (linked article says this event took place at White City stadium).

In 1898 Old St Stephen's merged with another local team to become Shepherd's Bush FC.

[5] Gaining the nickname of "the Bushmen", the club moved to Wormholt Farm, but when that site was threatened with development in 1904, Shepherd's Bush built and moved into the Loftus Road ground nearby; they played their first game there against Old Malvernians on 22 October 1904.