[2] King's Park were founder members of the Scottish Football Alliance, a rival of sorts of the SFL, in 1891 but left after one season.

[2] At this point King's Park, along with most of their fellow Central league clubs, were invited to join the newly established Second Division of the SFL.

[citation needed] The club's other great goalscorer of the 1930s was Alex Haddow, who hit five consecutive league hat-tricks in January and February 1932.

[7] The club became the centre of controversy in 1927 when a newspaper report suggested that their next opponents Clydebank were about to go out of business and as a consequence the attendance at the match was minimal.

Although the issue was resolved it helped to increase support amongst the League administrators for cutting the number of clubs due to their volatile status.

[8]: 83 When World War II started King's Park, largely as a consequence of their geographical location, dropped out of competitive football.

[8]: 126 Amid allegations of financial impropriety with regards to payment of guest players,[4]: 174  the club folded before the end of the war, on the pretext of the damage done by the bomb.

Football in the town did not disappear for long however as they were replaced by Stirling Albion, with ex managing director Tom Fergusson taking a leading role in the new club.