The team plays its home matches at the Glebe Sports Ground, Rose Avenue, Whickham.

Founded in 1944 as Axwell Park Colliery Welfare, the club first started playing in the Derwent Valley League.

In 1995, they were promoted again, as league champions, but after relegation in 1997, spent 20 seasons in Division Two, winning promotion back to Northern League 1 in 2017–18 By far the best run in the FA Cup for Whickham came during the 2003–04 season.

In the 2021-22 Season a slow start to the campaign was halted with the appointment of Tony Fawcett and some new faces to the squad and the resurgent Lang Jack's marched up the Northern League 1 table finishing in a club record 7th position.

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