The club was established in 1906 after a team was formed by locals to play workers building Netherne Hospital.

[2] They were subsequently runners-up on three occasions and won the League Cup three times.

They won the league's Challenge Trophy in the first season,[3] and went on to win the title in 1989–90.

The club play at High Road, which was originally part of the Shabden Park Farm estate owned by Lord Marshall.

[2] After World War II players changed in a cow shed until a new hut was brought in from Hookwood.