Serie A's ACF Fiorentina came on board as technical partners while Bollywood star Hrithik Roshan joined in as the co-owner of the club in its first year of existence.

After successfully winning the bid for Pune franchise, The Rajesh Wadhawan Group on 30 July 2014, the club revealed its identity.

They also announced their head coach in Franco Colomba and marquee player in French football legend David Trezeguet.

[15] The club bolstered its squad with the signing of Kostas Katsouranis in September 2014, as he became the first player in Indian Super League to have played in the FIFA World Cup 2014.

In their second home fixture, the club lost 1–2 to Kerala Blasters despite David Trezeguet scoring the first goal for FC Pune City in the 15th minute.

[18][19][20] A few weeks later, Adrian Mutu was announced as the marquee player[21] alongside Ivory Coast and Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Didier Zokora.

[24] Playing their fourth consecutive home game, the David Platt managed side registered a 1–0 win over defending champions Atletico De Kolkata.

For season three, FC Pune City brought in Barcelona and Iceland legend Eiður Guðjohnsen as their marquee player.

[28] With just two wins (1–0 against Mumbai City FC, 4–3 against Delhi Dynamos) in their next six fixtures and three losses and a drawn game put the club in sixth position, missing out on yet another chance to qualify for the knockout stages.

Starting from 28 January 2017 until 14 February 2017, the League had five other teams participating alongside FC Pune City in the final round to be held in New Delhi.

The women's team in the last one year had won the Late Lance Naik Mohan Goswamy Memorial All India Tournament 2016 in Uttarakhand, Guru Tej Bahadur Football Tournament and Mayor's Cup in Pune and remained unbeaten in the Pune District Football Association (PDFA) Women's League on their way to winning the title.

In both Guru Tej Bahadur Football Tournament and PDFA Women's League, this side did not concede a single goal.

A brace by Senorita added to Muriel Adam's goal ensured the win for the outfit in the all-Pune finals played at Cooperage, Mumbai.

In May, FC Pune City announced a strategic alliance with Mizoram's Chanmari Football Club, based in Aizawl.

As part of the association, FC Pune City helped the Aizawl-based club build a youth structure, providing them with coaches and training equipment.

A few months later in June, FC Pune City's U-19 team won the 121st U-19 IFA Shield tournament in its debut season.

A 3–0 win over home team and multiple time champions Mohun Bagan capped their run in the century-old tournament that concluded on Sunday.

FC Pune City signed Kean Lewis, Isaac Vanmalsawma, Nim Dorjee Tamang and Wayne Vaz, and retained the services of the goal-keeper Vishal Kaith.

The club also announced the retention of Adil Khan, Emiliano Alfaro, Marko Stankovic, Diego Carlos, Rohit Kumar, Lalchhuanmawia, Gurtej Singh and Kamaljit Singh, as well signing new players like Alwyn George, Shankar Sampingiraj, Gabriel Fernandes, Keenan Almeida, Nikhil Poojari, Jonathan Vila and Martin Diaz to fill in for the departures of Jonatan Lucca and Rafa Lopez Gomez.

Before the season began, the club announced the signing of wing-back Ashutosh Mehta, who joined as a replacement for an injured Keenan Almeida.

Diego Carlos scored FC Pune City's first goal of season 5 of the Hero Indian Super League.

This paved the way for Iain Hume to play for FC Pune City, as he recovered from his knee injury before the December break.

Before shutting down in 2019 several Pune City Players, including Indian international Ashique Kuruniyan and Canadian Iain Hume, came out with a statement that claimed that they hadn't received their salary from the management for the entire season.

[45][46] The pitch at the Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex is of natural grass and its capacity for the Indian Super League matches is 9,210.

As part of the association, FC Pune City helped the Aizawl-based club building youth structure by providing them with coaches and training equipments.