The first recorded reference to the club is from 1885,[2] and it was admitted to the Nottinghamshire Football Association for the 1886–87 season.[3] The club reached the semi-final of the Nottinghamshire Junior Cup in 1887–88, losing 1–0 to Stanton Hill in Mansfield.[4]
Off the back of this minor success, the club joined the Football Association for the 1888–89 season, and entered the 1888–89 FA Cup qualifying rounds. The club drew a bye in the first round, but scratched to Cleethorpes in the second.[5]
The club's pretensions to senior status were laid bare the following month, when hammered 5–0 at Grantham Rovers in the Newark Cup;[6] the sobering effect of this was that the club did not enter any of the local competitions in 1889–90.[7] The last record of the club is an 8–1 defeat at the original Mansfield Town in the Mansfield Charity Cup in March 1891.[8]
