[1] However, at the end of the 2010–11 season they finished bottom and were relegated to the Northern Premier League Division One South.

Due to financial constraints, the club opted to resign from the Northern Premier League and to compete in the Northern Counties East League Premier Division where they again won the title in the 2011–12 season but they rejected promotion opting instead to continue in NCEL.

Retford were relegated from the First Division of the NCEL to the Central Midlands North League at the end of season 2017–18.

On 27 June 2022 Ryan Hindley was appointed the new manager, in his first season he won the Central Midlands Alliance North Division after getting 77 points from 28 games, late in the season the Badgers played local rivals SJR Worksop where Mark West scored his 100th goal for the club, after winning the league the club was promoted back to the Northern Counties East League for the 2023-24 season.

The first senior games were played on the council-owned Goosemoor for a short period before moving to Oaklands and eventually to Cannon Park on Leverton Road at the start of the new millennium.