& G. Thomson shipbuilding company or the Singer Manufacturing Co.[4] In its first season, the club entered the Dumbartonshire Cup, losing in the second round to Dumbarton Athletic.

The clubs met in the first round the following year, but at kick-off time Clydebank was short of four players.

[11] From 1891 to 1892, the Scottish Cup introduced qualifying rounds, and Clydebank did not make the main stage again.

That season, the club became a founder member of the Scottish Football Federation, a de facto third national division.

[14] The club was 3–0 up at Wishaw Thistle early in the season but the match was abandoned because of bad light with ten minutes remaining, the late start caused by the Clydebank players missing their train;[15] Thistle won the re-played fixture 8–2.

Without a ground, the club was not one of the teams that transferred into the Scottish Football Alliance on the Federation's dissolution.