[3] The club drew a bye in the first round and lost to Nottingham Wanderers in the quarter-finals in a replay by six goals to two.

[6] Presumably encouraged by these runs, the club entered the FA Cup for the first time in 1886–87, being drawn to play Notts County in the first round.

[11] Remarkably the club recovered enough to enter the Cup the following year, and even won its first round tie with Lincoln Albion, 3–2, all of the goals coming in the first half.

[12] The club was however drawn against Notts County in the second round, and, given the attendance of the previous season's match was a mere 800, and the result was a formality, Basford accepted an inducement to scratch from the competition, while County played a prestige friendly against Preston North End instead.

The name was revived in 1893 for two seasons at a much lower level (finishing sixth out of nine in the Notts Leen Valley Football League in 1894–95[20]) and periodically afterwards.