It also got promoted to the National Football League, but the glory however did not last long as the team performed poorly and again relegated to the second division. It once again qualified for the National Football League in 2004–05 but after that, there were hardly any notable achievement for the club in the national level. Pursuant to the directions of AIFF, SBT formed a team of Under-19's in 2005. This team also holds great promise: it entered the 'E' Division of Trivandrum District League in 2007 and in less than a decade, it has reached the super division, winning all the lower division leagues and was clubbed with SBT's senior team, in 2016 giving SBT the distinction of fielding two teams in the super-division- a first in the history of Trivandrum League. The future of the club was in threat after the merger between the State Bank of India with State Bank of Travancore in April 2017. But the new management decided to continue with the football team and the club took part in 2016-17 Kerala Premier League with a new name SBI Kerala.