The club was founded in 1947 as the Elmore Sports Club. They joined Junior Division One of the
Exeter & District League in 1953, and were runners-up in their first two seasons. After finishing as runners-up again in 1959–60, the 1960–61 season saw the club win the Devon Junior Cup, the Football Express Cup, and the Junior Division One East title, resulting in promotion to Senior Division One. and in 1971–72 the club won the East Devon Senior Cup, beating
Dawlish Town 3–2 in the final. The Exeter & District League was renamed the
Devon & Exeter League in 1972. In 1974 Elmore moved up to the
South Western League. They won the East Devon Senior Cup again in 1975–76, and the
Devon Senior Cup the following season. The club remained in the South Western League for four seasons, before transferring to Division One of the
Western League in 1978. After finishing bottom of the division in
1988–89, they won the Les Phillips Cup and were Division One runners-up in
1990–91, resulting in promotion to the Premier Division. The
1994–95 season saw them win the Les Phillips Cup again and finish as runners-up in the Premier Division, finishing one point below neighbours
Tiverton Town.
Two seasons later, Elmore finished bottom of the Premier Division, but avoided relegation as the division was expanded from 18 to 20 clubs. They finished bottom of the division again in
2003–04 and were relegated back to Division One. The next few seasons saw the club struggle, conceding over 100 goals in five of the next nine seasons and finishing bottom of the league in
2005–06 and
2010–11. At the end of the
2012–13 season Elmore transferred to the Premier Division of the
South West Peninsula League. However, they withdrew from the league midway through the
2014–15 season, after which the reserve team in the Devon & Exeter League became the first team. The club were Premier Division champions in 2017–18, earning promotion to Division One East of the South West Peninsula League. League restructuring saw them become members of the Premier Division East for the
2019–20 season. ==Ground==