Edmonton Rovers Football Club was formed in July 1976 by David Ashton and Laurence Hughes, who at the time were pupils at Edmonton County School . Although the club started off as an Under-17 team, it was a deliberate policy of Ashton’s to exclude any parents from the running of the club, so 17-year-old Hughes was appointed Club Secretary, a position he still holds today.
15-year-old Ashton then appointed himself as Manager with the intention of signing up the rest of his school team colleagues to play for Rovers in the Enfield & District Sunday Youth League for the 1976/77 season, but most of them were not interested and a motley collection of ‘rejects’ turned out instead which subsequently saw Rovers finish bottom of the Under-17’s Division, conceding 163 goals in just 14 games and losing their first ever competitive match 29-0 !

Rovers then joined the mens’ Edmonton Sunday League for the following season (in Division 8 - the lowest Division), but they finished in the bottom three in their first two seasons and nearly folded up on several occasions due to a lack of players.
However the 1979/80 season turned out to be the club’s most successful season to date as an influx of good new players saw them win the Division 8 title and the Divisional Cup Final and finish Runners-Up in the League Junior Cup.
The club has been well-run ever since in terms of fielding teams and general organisation, although they have rarely been successful in terms of winning trophies. Ironically though, because the Edmonton Sunday League was not affiliated to the F.A., another team calling themselves Edmonton Rovers Youth started up during the early 1980’s and became highly successful in various F.A. affiliated competitions, much to the real Rovers embarrassment.
However, it was the original Edmonton Rovers who were to eventually survive the longest and they continued their improvement when they joined the now-defunct Haringey, Tottenham & District Sunday League at the start of the 1984/85 season after resigning from the Edmonton Sunday League in protest after having their Reserve Team harshly expelled. They stayed in this League for four seasons, with a Division 2 Title in 1987/88 being their only success.
Rovers became disillusioned by the poor administration and general standard of sportsmanship in the Haringey League at the time though, and joined the much stronger Mercury Waltham Sunday League for the 1988/89 season and in which they still play today. Rovers were placed in Division 3 for their first season in this League, but they struggled badly in what was a much higher standard of football and by the end of the 1991/92 season they had slumped down the Divisions and were heading towards Division 6 until a number of quality young players were persuaded to join the club. This saw Rovers gradually improve to the extent that their First Team finished in third place in the Premier Division in the 2002-2003 Season, although they only reached such heights after being promoted several times during the late 1990's as a result of teams dropping out of higher Divisions and only once as a result of finishing in the top two (in the 1994/95 Season in which they finished Runners-Up in Division 5). In fact Rovers' First Team have not reached a Cup Final since their Haringey League days back in 1985, and have not won a trophy at the 11-a-side game since winning Division 2 in the Haringey League in 1988.

Rovers entry into the Mercury Waltham Sunday League in the late 1980’s also saw the start of their tradition of having every match recorded on video (by Club Secretary Laurence Hughes), something for which the club has become famous for in recent seasons, especially after their numerous appearances on Sky Sports cult ‘Soccer A.M.’ show in the late-1990's.
The club also prides itself on its strict internal disciplinary code which has resulted in them having only been fined by the Mercury Waltham Sunday League on a handful of occasions in the last 20 years, a proud record which no other club in the League can match, and although Rovers policy of dropping players for a lack of discipline may have denied them success in winning trophies on the pitch, it has earnt them a great deal of respect off it for the way the club is run.

The club re-formed a Reserve Team for the start of Season 2003-2004 after an 18-year absence in order to bring through some younger players for an eventual progression into the First Team. The Reserve Team managed to reach the Mercury Waltham Sunday League Reserve Cup Final in it's first season, but both the First Team and Reserve Team lost several good players during Season 2004-2005, resulting in relegation to Division One and Division 5 respectively. That resulted in the Reserve Team being scrapped for Season 2005-2006 and the club is now back to running just the one team.

The club is run by a large Management Committee, but it’s mainstays are brothers Laurence & Trevor Hughes who have been with the club since it’s formation. Trevor Hughes has been First Team Manager since the early 1990’s and as a qualified F.A. Coach has been instrumental in the development of a number of good young players, some of whom have progressed into Senior Saturday football.
The majority of Edmonton Rovers players in recent seasons have either been former pupils of Edmonton County School or members of Edmonton Cricket Club, so the club’s ‘base’ is very much on the Edmonton/Bush Hill Park border, although players living in Cheshunt and Enfield have also joined on the recommendations of friends, relatives or work colleagues and this has helped to keep the club alive for over 30 years.