The club plays in the Southern Counties East League Premier Division.

Sutton Athletic has been playing football at a county level in Kent since the 1960s, winning leagues and cups in the Kent County Football League system, particularly during the late 1960s and early 1970s, when they won three successive league-and-cup doubles.

[1] Sutton were accepted into the newly formed Kent Invicta Football league for the inaugural 2011–12 season.

[1] During its three promotions, the club also reached each division's respective challenge cup, achieving two consecutive league-and-cup doubles, and almost achieving a Third but double, but losing to Westerham in the Premier League cup final.

[5] The team was relegated within the next few years but finished runners-up in the West Premier Division in 1982–83.