It rented a private ground in Balmoral Park and entered the Churchill Cup, the leading local competition, for the first time.

[11] At the close of the season, Balmoral Park hosted an inter-counties match between Kirkcudbrightshire and Wigtownshire, which ended 3–3; a veiled comment on the abilities of the current Rovers side was that "some ill-natured critics had prophesied a heavy defeat for the Stewartry [of Kirkcudbright] team, owing to the fact that it was mainly composed of Douglas Rovers".

[21] In a sign of the general decline in local football, despite the failings in the larger competitions, the Rovers had its most successful season on the pitch in 1892–93.

[23] However the club did finish the season with its only trophy, the Stewartry Challenge Cup for second XIs, the Douglas Rovers second string beating the 5th K.R.V.

reserves - the Kirkcudbright Scorpions - at Creetown, the side being greeted with a torchlight procession, "and were made the centre of a series of demonstrations peculiar to football optimists".

[27] A new club in town, Douglas Wanderers, which had started up the previous year, wearing the same colours,[28] had effectively usurped the role of the Rovers, which quietly petered out.