They are currently members of the Northern League Division One and play at the Sir Tom Cowie Millfield.

However, an outbreak of smallpox in the Middlesbrough area had prevented the club finishing their league fixtures.

In 1900–01 the club won the FA Amateur Cup, defeating King's Lynn 3–0 in a replay at Ipswich after a 1–1 draw at Dovercourt in Essex.

In 1919–20 they were one of three clubs to finish joint top of the table on 38 points, alongside Bishop Auckland and South Bank; a three-way play-off was held, in which each club won one match and lost one match, with South Bank declared champions on goal scored.

[3] The season also saw them win the Northern League for a second time, but after an investigation into illegal payments to amateur players the following season, the club was suspended by the Durham County Football Association on 7 January,[3] and their league record was expunged.

[3] With the club virtually bankrupt after finishing bottom of the North Eastern League in 1935–36 a special meeting was called and the decision to revert to amateur status and rejoin the Northern League as Crook Town was made.

The club struggled on until World War II and the Northern League closed down in 1940.

[3] In 1958–59 they won the league and reached the FA Amateur Cup for the third time, winning 3–2 against Barnet.

[10] During the 1925–26 season a new main stand was built, costing £1,300; grassed banks were also created all round the pitch using coal mine spoil.

[6] Terracing was installed in the 1960s and floodlights erected in 1968; the first match under the lights was a friendly against Manchester City on 16 December that year.