The new club took Swifts' place in the Second Division of the Football League and took over residence at their Peel Croft home.

However, the new club failed to achieve success, and never finished above 10th place or made it past the first round of the FA Cup.

At the end of the season the club failed to win re-election, losing their Football League place to Fulham.

[1] Following the re-election meeting Burslem Port Vale resigned from the League, and although United applied to take their place, it was instead offered to and accepted by Oldham Athletic.

At the end of the 1909–10 season the club finished bottom of the Birmingham & District League and second bottom of their Southern League division, and subsequently merged with Burton All Saints, who had been established around the same time as United.