However, there is some uncertainty about the exact date, which may ascribed to the fact that other sports activities were exerted in the area before that year.

During the first years of existence, association football was the only sports department in the club, but gymnastics and badminton would soon join.

[2] In 2013–14, Lystrup IF reached promotion to the Denmark Series, the fourth highest level of Danish football.

[7][8] After facing pressure from Divisionsforeningen, representing the Danish divisions, and criticism from Skive's director of football, Rasmus Brandhof, Lystrup head coach John Stoltze Madsen stated that he simply did not have enough players available to compete.

[14] In the subsequent years, Lystrup experienced a historic decline, culminating in becoming the poorest-performing team in the history of the Jutland Series and suffering another relegation in 2019.