[5] Workington was dominant in local football, reaching the final of the first Cumberland Senior Cup in 1885–86, and winning the competition for the first time by beating Carlisle A.F.C.

[11] However the cost of playing in the Lancashire Combination proved crippling, and in 1910–11 the club joined the North-Eastern League.

As the trophy was being presented, some of the home supporters threw stones at the Workington side, one of which struck the 19 year old John Robert Fisher on the left temple.

[14] The club's colours were originally red and white,[15] but by the late 1890s were made up of scarlet jerseys.

[17] The club played its home matches at the Workington Cricket Field in Schoose Close until 1909, other than two games it was forced to play at the Recreation Ground in Whitehaven in its last year there after hooliganism in a Lancashire League match against Manchester United reserves.