Founded in 2011 and playing its first season in 2012, the team spent six years in the fourth-tier National Premier Soccer League.

[2] After being expelled from the NPSL at the end of the 2017 season,[3] AFC Cleveland folded and was replaced by Cleveland SC, who began play in the NPSL in 2018.

[5] On November 11, 2011, AFC Cleveland announced that they would join the National Premier Soccer League.

[7] From 2012 to 2013, the kit sponsor of the club was Admiral Sportswear.

[9] 6th City Syndicate is the supporters' group for Cleveland soccer.