In the club's first season it entered the Birmingham Senior Cup and beat Sandwell F.C.

[1] The same year, the club entered the FA Cup for the first time, losing 1–0 to Derby Junction in front of another excellent crowd of 2,000.

In 1885–86, it won the Shropshire Senior Cup, beating rivals Wellington Town 3–0 in the final at Shrewsbury.

[8] The club returned to more junior football, and changed its name to St George's Victoria in the 1900s, winning the Shropshire Senior Cup twice more, although by this time it was a much less prestigious competition than in the pre-Football League days.

[11] The club originally played in all light blue, changing to claret with white shoulders and sleeves in around 1890.