[3] In 1969, the club contracted a strong team for its first season in the top-flight, which included Pakistani internationals such as Yusuf Junior, Abdul Ghafoor and Muhammad Umer.

Aside from the Makrani talent, Bengali players like Abdul Hakim and Shahjahan Ahmed played integral roles as the club finished league runners-up behind Mohammedan SC.

Mohammedan needed to lose by a four-goal margin to hand Dilkusha the trophy, and they were succeeding in their goal.

[2] Throughout the seventies, the club produced many talented players such as, Golam Shahid Neelu who was the 1974 Dhaka League top scorer with 16 goals, while Bangladesh's leading goalscorer Ashrafuddin Ahmed Chunnu also represented the club in 1973, before moving to Rahmatganj MFS.

[6] In September 2019, Dilkusha were one of the clubs from the Motijheel area of Dhaka, who were found guilty of having an illegal casino inside of their clubhouse.