They are former members of the Yorkshire Football League and have played in the FA Cup on numerous occasions.

[1] The club play at the Miners Welfare Ground, Millar's Walk, South Kirkby.

[8] In 1905–06 the club won the Sheffield Association League, the South Yorkshire League, the Hemsworth and District League, the Hemsworth and District Challenge Cup[9] and narrowly missed out on a fifth title that season when they lost in the final of the Montague Hospital Cup for the second season in succession, in front of a crowd of over 5,000.

By 1905 the club had signed James Aston formerly of Woolwich Arsenal and Small Heath[11] and Edward Layton of Sheffield United, amongst a number of current and former professionals playing for the club in this era and moved into a new purpose built stadium of very high quality.

[12] Malloch also was a pivotal player in the club's run in the FA Cup that season.

[17] The club play at the Miners Welfare Ground, Millar's Walk, in the village of South Kirkby, West Yorkshire.

In 1926 South Kirkby Colliery Company bought a new ground for use by all teams under the banner of the collieries athletics club, including South Kirkby Colliery and South Kirkby Cricket Club, they immediately made plans to build a pavilion on the ground.

[20] The football club immediately made the move to the new ground in time for the 1926/27 season.

South Kirkby Colliery's local rivals are nearby Frickley Athletic and Hemsworth Miners Welfare.