[1] The following season the club moved up to the West Lancashire League, where it spent the next thirty years.

Squires Gate won the league's Fair Play Award for the 1993–94 season and were losing finalists in the 1997–98 Division Two Trophy.

[1] On 10 March 2007, Squires Gate played a home match against FC United of Manchester at Curzon Ashton's ground.

The Squires Gate team that played that day were: Fletcher, Richards, Westwood, Anderson, Ferguson, Mckenna, Penswick, Kay, Dunn, Murphy, Buchan.

Penswick led Gate to a 19th-place finish in the 2015–16 season, with a last-day win over Ashton Athletic, to remain in the Premier Division.

Another success story came from Squires Gate, as Josh Kay went on to play for AFC Fylde, before eventually getting a move to Barnsley in 2015.

The record attendance at School Road is 1,000, for a regular season matchup against Bury FC in 2024.