Founded in 2007, the team formerly played in the National Premier Soccer League (NPSL), a national amateur league at the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Southeast Division.

Rocket City United announced it would go on hiatus and not field a team for the 2015 NPSL season.

The franchise was subsequently replaced by other clubs and later folded.

A youth academy program that was connected to Rocket City United still continues under the same name.

[1] The team played its home games at John Hunt Soccer Stadium in Huntsville, Alabama.