The first football club in Quorn was established in the early 1880s, with the current club founded in 1924 by attendees of the local Wesleyan Chapel and, accordingly, was named Quorn Methodists F.C., changing its name in 1952. In 1937 the club joined the Leicestershire Senior League. Immediately after World War II they played in the Central Division, and then from 1948 in Division 2 after a league re-organisation.

Over the next fifty years the club moved up and down between the divisions on four separate occasions, finally cementing their place in the renamed Premier Division in the late 1990s, before claiming the league title and, with it, promotion to the Midland Alliance in 2001. In 2003 the club was the only one at its level to sell a player to a Football League team, when Luke Varney moved to Crewe Alexandra for £50,000.

In the 2006/07 season they finished 3rd in the Midland Alliance and, due to the expansion of the Northern Premier League First Division into two regional divisions, were accepted into the Northern Premier League Division One South. In May 2007 the club received a £500,000 windfall after Luke Varney’s £2,000,000 move from Crewe to Charlton Athletic.

In 2011 Quorn won the Westerby Cup for the first time with a 5–4 victory over Hinckley United at Walkers Stadium under the management of Dougie Keast, but were relegated from the Northern Premier League Division One South during the same season.

John Folwell was appointed as their new manager in May 2013, joining from local rivals Barrow Town. He resigned in January 2015, with two time former manager Dougie Keast taking over, initially, until the end of the 2014–15 season.

Dougie Keast remained at the helm until December 2017, when former Hinckley AFC manager Carl Abbott was appointed, joining the club from Northern Premier Division Market Drayton Town. On Wednesday 8 May 2019 – Carl Abbott left Quorn AFC to join Evesham United FC.

Following The COVID-19 Outbreak – The 2019/2020 playing season was expunged. Quorn was in first place in the United Counties league (Step 5) when the football season closed Officially on 16 March 2020. Former Burton Albion and Scunthorpe United Midfielder – Cleveland Taylor was appointed as 1st Team Manager on 1 May 2020 but left his position on 14th October 2021.

Richard Lavery, who had been Assistant Manager at Nuneaton Borough, took over with the club languishing at the wrong end of the table in the UCL Premier North. Fortunes turned immediately, with the club recovering to finish in the top half of the table. The following season Lavery led the side to the playoffs in dramatic fashion, as an injury time winner in the final game of the season lifted the club in to second place.

There was still work to be done though and a long journey to the Essex coast saw Quorn triumph 5-0 away to Great Wakering Rovers in the inter-step playoff, catapulting the club back up to step four, the highest level the club have achieved to date.

2023/24 saw a successful return to step four football. Despite Manager Richard Lavery’s departure in February, the club went on a superb run to finish the season, edging local rivals Loughborough Dynamo for the final playoff spot in the NPL Midlands Division. Ant Carney had taken over the Managerial reigns, but despite taking the lead, the Reds would succumb to a 3-1 defeat away to Anstey Nomads in the playoff semi-final. Carney stepped down shortly afterwards, with Ryan Beswick named Player/Manager.

The 2024/25 season started with a 24 match unbeaten run in the league, building a 20 point lead by the start of January. The Reds wrapped up the NPL Midlands Division title on the 22nd of March with a 3-0 win at home to Wellingborough Town, earning promotion to step three for the first time in the history of the club.