The club withdrew from the Isthmian League Division One North in January 2011 due to severe financial difficulties, and disbanded.

The following season, under manager Rowley Cray, the club suffered an 11–1 home defeat to Hendon and a 9–0 loss at AFC Hornchurch en route to relegation.

Steve Newing and Del Deanus (previously at Edgware Town) were appointed as joint managers for the 2008–09 season, but resigned in November citing financial difficulties at the club.

Tony Ievoli then took the reins but he resigned at the start of September 2009, before being replaced by former Grays Athletic manager, Craig Edwards.

[2] In October 2009, following an investigation by HMRC, chairman Costas Sophocleous and former director Philip Foster pleaded guilty to their parts in a £16 million VAT fraud.

Sophocleous' son, former Leyton player Mark, and his wife, Alison, were found not guilty of associated money laundering charges.

[4] Following Costas Sophocleous' conviction, Ivan Persaud left the club and was replaced as manager by former player Malcolm Dannie for the beginning of February 2010.

At its height the club had ten youth teams, ranging in age from under nines to under eighteens, and ran a Football in the Community scheme for local schools.