The original Jarrow club was formed in 1894 after Jarrow Rangers folded; a year after it was disbanded in 1902, a new
Jarrow F.C. emerged, which lasted until 1909. The current club is a continuation of a club originally known as Jarrow Croft Villa. In 1900–01, under the simpler name
Jarrow Croft, the club won the South Shields Junior League in contentious circumstances, with rival club Regent Athletic also laying claim to the title; after the league resolved the matter in favour of Jarrow Croft, a Regent Athletic member, Thomas McClasham, beat up the league secretary, and destroyed his hat, for which he was fined £2. The club won the Northern Amateur League in 1903–04 having only lost a single match, before winning the Newcastle Amateur League in 1909–10. The club was renamed Jarrow in 1912, and for the first two years of
World War I they played in the North Eastern League–Tyneside Combination. After the war the club were renamed Palmers Jarrow, before reverting to simply Jarrow in March 1920. The loss of their Campbell Park ground to the army in March 1939 led to the club resigning from the league at the end of the 1938–39 season. They dropped into the Northern Combination and subsequently disappeared. They joined Division Two of the
Wearside League in 1991 and a third-place finish in 1992–93 saw them promoted to Division One. However, they finished bottom of Division One the following season and were relegated back to Division Two. In 2007–08 Jarrow were Wearside League runners-up. They won the league in 2016–17, earning promotion to Division Two of the
Northern League. ==Ground==