At the beginning, club's home matches were held around the city public fields and outside Kuantan, predominantly around districts of Pahang.

The club came back from the abyss to the Malaysia Super League in 2013 after winning the play-off match against Kedah Darul Aman.

In the next year, the association begins with the preparation against another states before taking part for the first time in the HMS Beagle Cup.

Sri Pahang in that year was touted as the Dream Team when several high-profile players played for the association with the like of Dollah Salleh, Zainal Abidin Hassan, Ahmad Yusof, Khairul Azman Mohamed, Abdul Mubin Mokhtar, Australian football legend, Alan Davidson and Singaporean football legend, Fandi Ahmad.

As one of the most successful football teams in Malaysia from 1980 to 2007, Pahang FA had produced many talented local players from the academy such as Khairul Azman Mohamed, one of the best goalkeepers in Asia in the 1990s, the prolific striker, Azizul Kamaluddin, Mohd Fadzli Saari who played in SV Wehen Wiesbaden in Germany and Muhammad Juzaili Samion who also played for the 4th division of Ligue 1 club, FCSR Haguenau in 2000.

In 2005, Pahang FA was invited to the 2005 ASEAN Club Championship in which they ended up as runners-up losing the final to Singaporean side, Tampines Rovers.

[citation needed] Pahang FA also won the 2014 Piala Sumbangsih in which Matías Conti scored the only goal against LionsXII.

During the second leg of the quarter-final match on 22 December 2024, Manuel Hidalgo scored a hat-trick against Perak in a 3–3 draw which sees Sri Pahang advance to the semi-final with a 4–3 aggregate.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.