In nine seasons, Team Bath rose rapidly through the English football league system to reach the Conference South in 2008.

The club gained significant media exposure for an FA Cup run in the 2002–03 season, when it reached the first-round proper of the competition, becoming the first university team to compete at that stage since 1880.

[2] Paul Tisdale, a recently retired player who had appeared for Southampton and Yeovil Town was appointed as the team's head coach.

[4] They continued to be successful in their second year, but missed out on back-to-back promotions, finishing fourth in the league in their first season in the Premier Division.

They followed this up with victories over Backwell United,[7] Bemerton Heath Harlequins,[8] and Newport County in the early stages of the qualifying rounds.

[6] Bath drew Mansfield Town at home, and despite the offer of reversing the fixture and playing at Mansfield's Field Mill stadium, the club opted to play the match at their home ground at the university, securing permission from the local police and the city council to erect temporary seating for the match.

[12] The match, which drew a record home attendance for Team Bath of 5,469,[13] was won convincingly by Mansfield, who were leading 3–0 by half-time.

[14] The team was less successful in the FA Vase: after beating Fairford Town in a replay, Bath were knocked out of the competition by Lymington & New Milton in the second round.

[26] During the summer of 2006, head coach Paul Tisdale left the club to take up the vacant manager's position at Exeter City.

[36] Early in the season Bath were competing for a play-off berth, but failed to maintain their form, eventually finishing 11th in the table with 16 wins.

Neither has it been revealed how much was paid in rent for the use of Bath City's Twerton Park stadium, nor the remuneration received by the club's coaches.