Football clubs using the name Rolls Royce have played at the Hucknall site since 1935 when the factory first opened its gates, however, in those early days they only competed in the Notts Amateur and combination levels, that was until John Hemment and the late Philip Creswell took a Rolls side to the old Midlands League First Division before becoming founding members of the Northern Counties East League. In the mid seventies before the club disbanded making way for the current club. After starting out in the East Midlands Regional League we moved to the Notts Alliance in 1983 and under the management team of Dave Tilford and Ken Knighton won the first division title in 1988 at which time Rick Bentley took over as manager, in his first season he saw this side lose in the Semi-finals of the Notts Senior Cup, however success soon followed winning the leagues senior cup in the very next season. In 1993 after a succession of mid table finishes in the senior division, Roger Dawkins took over as manager. The following season saw us finish 8th, 4th and 3rd before a decision to progress into the Central Midlands Premier Division at the same time we joined forces with our Junior Section forming one clubbing compromising of 17 teams and a soccer school for five to eight year olds. In the early days the amalgamation paid dividends with the erection of a stand and senior side finishing runners up and gaining promotion to the Supreme Division. Unfortunately, due to financial reasons, the seniors and juniors agreed to run as separate clubs again from 2000. At the end of the 2000-01 season the committee resigned on bloc making way for a new management team and committee chaired by John Hemment. The first team control was taken by joint manager Tony Johnson and Phil Towle who despite off field problems, steered Rolls to second in the league, denied promotion only by lack of facilities. After losing Manager Phil Towle and many players in the previous close season in came Joint Managers John Cheetham and Billy Miller. Rolls struggled to make an impact during the first 16 games of the 2003 / 04 season but a brave revival lifted them off the bottom of the Central Midlands Supreme League towards the end of the campaign. Despite a promising start to the 2004 / 2005 , Rolls finished in a relegation position but were saved by the facilities at the ground and the relegation of Clubs without Floodlights. Rolls had a bad start to the 2005 / 2006 season under Manager Horace Francis. John Cheetham then decided that something needed to change and brought in Ex-Hucknall Town player Craig Maddison. John and Craig are now running the side who were left with only 1 point in October 2005, the combination of Maddison and Cheetham combined with new signings saw Rolls results pick up and finish clear of the relegation places. The squad that finished the 2005-2006 have re-signed, along with a few new faces and after a very positive pre-season, the management team are confident that the 2006-2007 campaign will prove successful. Rolls have also extended their back room staff and would like to take the opportunity to welcome Chris Carrington and Dave Shannon to the committee.