In the past, the winners of the Senior Division were also invited to play in the League of Ireland Cup until the competition's demise.

The 1909–10 season saw six teams representing the Highland Light Infantry, the Royal Welch Fusiliers, the Durham Light Infantry, the Sherwood Foresters, the King's Regiment and Haulbowline all playing in the Munster League First Division.

In the Munster Cup the Highland Light Infantry lost 1–0 to the Royal Welsh Fusilers in the final played at Turner's Cross.

In 1921 Harry Buckle, a former Ireland international, settled in Cork and began working for the Ford Motor Company.

Finding little or no association football activity in the city, Buckle initially founded Fordsons F.C.