The club is affiliated to the Bedfordshire County Football Association.

[1][4] The club returned to the South Midlands League, in the 1976–77 season, starting in Division one.

[4] In the 2009–10 they played in the FA Cup for the first ever time, losing to Crawley Green 3–1 in the extra preliminary qualifying round.

[4] Cranfield United resigned from the Spartan South Midlands League at the end of the 2012–13 season and took their reserve team's place in Division Two of the Bedfordshire County League.

At the end of the 2014–2015 season Cranfield United's first team won the Bedfordshire County Football League Division One as Champions, and were promoted to the Premiership Division for the 2015-2016 Season.