the club was founded following a public meeting on 9 july 1925 following a poor season for both bungay united and bungay harriers in the south norfolk league. the new club entered both the lowestoft & district league and the north suffolk league, and after doing well in both, moved up to the east anglian league in 1926. in 1933 they switched to the norwich & district league, before joining the norfolk & suffolk league in 1935.