The club joined the Suffolk & Ipswich League prior to World War II, winning Division Three in 1935–36.

They won the Senior Cup again in 1982 and 1984,[1] and also entered the FA Vase for three seasons during the 1980s, reaching the second round in 1983–84 after defeating Arlesey Town in what the Ipswich Evening Star described 25 years later as "memorable matches".

In April 2021 Crane Sports announced they would be folding, due to "commercial, financial and logistical factors".

[5] From the early 1960s to the 1980s, the club was the regular venue for the Suffolk county hockey team's matches.

[8] Between 1966 and 1998, the club played host to an annual seven-a-side invitational football tournament, the "Crane Summer Sevens", to be revived in 2011.