 The club's greatest successes came between 1949 and 1960, when it won the league title three times and the FA Cup twice, as well as hosting a series of high profile friendly matches against Europe's leading club sides, also competing in two early editions of the European Cup.During this era, Wolves frequently attracted crowds of between 40,000 and 50,000.Wolves went on to win the Football League Cup in 1974 and again in 1980, spending all but three seasons outside the top division of English football during the first 35 years of postwar league football, and continued to attract strong crowds.