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The club was nicknamed The Shots for obvious reasons (the last syllable of the town name, the military links, and a vague link to football).

Based in the Hampshire military town of Aldershot the club was founded in 1926 as Aldershot Town, and admitted to League football when Thames F.C. declined to apply for re-election in 1932, when it dropped the 'Town' from its name. They spent many seasons in the lower divisions of The Football League, never reaching Division 2.

They came bottom of Division 3 South in 1934/5 and 1936/7, but were re-elected both times.

They were among the founder members of Division 4 in 1958/9, and the first winners of a play off final (this was before the play offs involved a trip to Wembley or Cardiff), Aldershot beat Wolves over two legs.

In March 1992 the financial problems that had hung over them for some time finally swallowed the Shots. The final game played was at Cardiff City F.C.Cardiff City Football Club are a football team based in the Welsh city of Cardiff. Their current ground is Ninian Park, but the club are in the process of planning and construcing a new stadium to be located opposite the old one. They currently play in th on 20 March, 1992. That two clubs ( Maidstone United F.C.Maidstone United F. are an English football team from Maidstone, Kent. They currently play in the Kent League. The original Maidstone United club was formed in 1897 and played in various local leagues before joining the Southern League, the major semi-pro went out of business at the end of that season) from the lower divisions went under in the season running up to the foundation of the Premier LeagueThe FA Premier League (often referred to as the Barclaycard English Premier League for sponsorship reasons) comprises the top 20 football clubs in the league system of English football. It was created in 1992 when the teams of the old First Division of Th, which was primarily motivated on distribution of more TV rights money to the larger clubs, was not unremarked on at the time, yet predictions of further club failures have yet to be fulfilled.

In response to the bankruptcy a group of supporters set up Aldershot Town (1992) F.C.Aldershot Town Football Club was founded in the spring of 1992 just after the closure of debt ridden fourth division club Aldershot F. who had been founded in 1925 and had been league members since 1932. Like the old club, the new Aldershot football club to play in a much lower division within the non-league pyramid of English football. Between 1992 and 2003 this club thrived and in 2003 won promotion to the Nationwide Conference, only one division below the league Aldershot were in at their demise. There they joined the re-formed Accrington Stanley F.C.Accrington Stanley are a non-league football club from Accrington in Lancashire, in the north-west of England. They played in the Football League between 1921 and 1962. They are not to be confused with Accrington F. who were one of the original twelve fou, the club who were the last before Aldershot to go out of business mid season (in 1962).