The club entered the FA Cup between 1949 and 1979 (with absence periods in the mid 1960s and 1970s) reaching the third qualifying round on one occasion.
[3] The club played in the Dover and District Junior League for the 1913–14 season, playing home matches on the newly opened recreation ground adjoining the mine,[2] winning only one match and conceding in excess of one hundred goals in the ten team league.
In their first season the club won their first Senior status trophy, the Kent League Cup, defeating Shorts Sports 4–1 in the final in April 1945.
Four seasons later the club advanced to the semi-finals of the Kent League Cup where they were defeated 4–3 after extra time by Gillingham Reserves.
Following several seasons of finishing towards the bottom of the Kent League table, in August 1949 the club appointed former Charlton Athletic and Plymouth Argyle centre-half John (known as Jack) Oakes as manager.
[14] During his almost four season tenure the team he built recorded several notable achievements: in 1949–50, Oakes' first season in charge, Snowdown CW reached the Kent League Cup Final, being defeated 1–0 by Canterbury City; the following season the team established a club record of 26 games without defeat,[15] won both the Kent Senior Cup (defeating Bromley 2–1 after extra time in a replay), the Kent League Cup (defeating Folkestone Town 2–1 in a replay), recorded a second placed finish in the League and reached third qualifying round of the FA cup (defeated in a replay 3–6 by Southern League club Tonbridge) – the latter being an all time club best; the 1951–52 season saw the club repeat their second-placed finish in the league.
Oakes left the club in February 1953[16] and shortly afterwards was replaced by former Coventry City player Harry Barratt who had been managing Rugby Town.
Snowdown CW joined the Eastern Section of the Kent County League for the 1989–90 season[31] and continued to be members of this grouping until 2004.
Snowdown CW left the league in September 2004 having been defeated in their first three matches of the 2004–05 campaign, conceding 27 goals without reply.
[34] In addition to their league commitments whilst the colliery was owned by Pearson and Dorman Long Limited (1924–1947) the club competed for (and were occasional winners of) the Colonel Byrne Cup, a Kent inter-colliery competition named for the Managing Director of the owners.