The Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association (WISA) has called for Milton Keynes Dons to drop the Dons from their name.

Wimbledon secured promotion to the Football League for the first time on Saturday thanks to their penalty shoot-out victory over Luton Town.

It puts them just one league behind the franchise club in Milton Keynes that were formed after the Football Association granted permission for the old Wimbledon club to be moved to Buckinghamshire after Pete Winkleman bought it.

But with AFC Wimbledon's rise from the Combined Counties to League Two now complete, WISA believes it is time for the Milton Keynes club to drop all links to Wimbledon.

A statement read: "WISA believes that AFC Wimbledon’s promotion should be the time for the MK Dons to begin a new chapter in their short history and remove Dons from their name, a tag that remains a prominent beacon of theft and franchising of Wimbledon FC.

"WISA believes that Milton Keynes Dons stands out extremely awkwardly when looking through the list of the 92 Football League clubs.

"There are 91 traditionally named football clubs and then one American style franchise name leaps out.

"WISA believes the people of Milton Keynes would welcome a name change, new identity and, for a significant proportion of them, it will remove some of the shame and stigma attached to a club that claims it has community values, yet wants a nickname that is not related at all to Milton Keynes."

Simon Wheeler, chairman of WISA, said: “It must be considerably embarrassing for them, and will only get more embarrassing now that the real Dons, AFC Wimbledon, are added to the Football League list.

“Their so called supporters who demand that the name Dons should stay, only do so in a misguided attempt to try and justify their formation wasn’t wrong and to gloat at being the profiteers of franchising at the expense of genuine Wimbledon supporters.

“They no longer can give us our league place back, we regained it the proper way, the Dons way, not the Franchise way.”