After a poor start to the 2000/01 season Yate Town enjoyed a long run of victories that saw them finish in third place in the league. Manager Martin Durnell resigned and was replaced by former players Gary Hewlett and Richard Thompson who became Joint Player Managers. Unfortunately they finished well adrift and were relegated to the Hellenic League. The 1999/2000 season saw Yate Town return to the Midland Division for the first time for six seasons due to the regionalisation of the Midland and Southern Division into Western and Eastern Divisions.

The 1998/99 season a young side finished 20th in the Southern League. Despite these changes the Club still finished in the basement spot, but as before, relegation was avoided due to the restructuring of the Southern League. During the 1997/98 close season John Freeguard was appointed Manager but after obtaining just two victories from seventeen games he resigned and was replaced by Martin Durnell, Manager of Yates very successful Youth Team, assisted by Club Captain Danny Iddles. The club celebrated its Golden Jubilee in season 1996/97.

Improvement continued in the 1995/96 season with a young squad enjoying their best campaign for a long time, finishing in the top half of the Southern League. They again reached the final of the Gloucester Senior Cup losing on penalties after extra time to Cheltenham Town. The club enjoyed an excellent end of season run which saw them finish in sixteenth position. The appointment of former Bristol Rovers favourites Ian Alexander and Phil Purnell, as Manager and Assistant, led to an immediate upturn in fortunes. The 1994/95 season, their first in the Southern Division, saw Yate make a terrible start which lead to long serving manager, Pete Jackson, being relieved of his duties. Luckily relegation was avoided but restructuring of the Southern League meant that the club was switched back to the Southern Division after three seasons in the Midland. The 1993/94 season was disappointing as Yate finished second from bottom in the Midland Division. Covered accommodation was erected in 1987 and floodlighting in 1988. Yate Town moved to their present ground in Lodge Road in 1984 having previously played at Yate Aerodrome (1954-1960) and Sunnyside Lane (1960-84) to prepare for the higher standard of football. In the quest for further soccer prestige, Yate Town obtained election to the Southern League, Southern Division in 1989. A second prize was obtained in the shape of the Gloucestershire Challenge Trophy. That successful formula continued into the 1988/89 season when they retained the Championship crown, losing just one league game. The following season they won the Hellenic Premier League finishing the campaign unbeaten at home. Promotion to the Premier Division was soon accomplished when at the conclusion of the 1984/85 season Yate Town finished runners-up behind Pegasus Juniors in Division One. Yate YMCA were amongst the founders of the Gloucester County League in 1958 and the following year they dropped the YMCA from their title in favour of Town.Ī major step forward in the clubs progress occurred in 1983 when they obtained membership of the Hellenic League and moved on to the first step of the non-League pyramid system. After the Second World War, they reformed, still known as Yate YMCA, playing in the Bristol and District League and the Avon Premier Combination.

The team was promoted to Division 3 at the end of the following season. Goalkeeper Frank Boulton, one of four brothers in this team, later played for Arsenal. was formed and they entered the Bristol and District Division 5 under the captaincy of Arthur Gould. World War One then intervened, and although Rovers reformed after the war, they later disbanded, probably in the early thirties.

Yate Town FC began life as Yate Rovers in 1906, and Rovers won the Glos F.A. The Evo-Stik League Southern - Division One South & West

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