The team was founded in 1951 as the football club of the Richard Thomas and Baldwins Steelworks.

In 2002 the club were runners up in the Gwent Senior Cup, losing 4–1 to Newport County at Caldicot.

After two seasons in the Welsh League the club were relegated back into the Gwent County and have fluctuated between the First and Second Divisions ever since.

On 9 June 2022, it was announced that the club had been promoted to the tier 3 Ardal SE League for the 2022–23 season via the vacancy route.

[1] Information in this section is sourced from the Football Club History Database[2] and the Welsh Soccer Archive.