[2] The club plays its home matches at Albert Park[3][4] and currently competes in the East of Scotland League Third Division.

Before the East of Scotland League was split into two divisions, Hawick Royal Albert won it three times and finished runners-up once.

In its first year, the club was ranked 11th from fifteen, before the season was declared null and void due to a backlog of outstanding fixtures.

[8] Remaining in the East of Scotland League, they won the competition for the first time in the 1966–67 season, and defended the title the following year.

Its inaugural match in the tournament was in the first preliminary round against rivals Gala Fairydean and ended in a 4–1 victory, before losing to Elgin City in January 1967 in a replay by two goals to nil.

[11][12] A new format was introduced, which allowed all clubs with Scottish Football Association membership in the three senior non-league competitions to qualify automatically for the first round of the tournament.

[3][4][16] Shortly after moving to the ground, it was inspected and passed criteria to allow the club to become a member of the Scottish Football Association.

[citation needed] The spectator stand at Albert Park was constructed from the steel remnants of the Wilson and Glenny woollen factory, which was destroyed by a fire in 1959.