Hendon are now into their sixteenth season under the ownership of its supporters, following their takeover of the club in the summer of 2010. The 2025/6 season sees the club tackling the challenge of Step 4 football after suffering their first ever relegation in 2024/25 from the Isthmian League Premier Division.

The new season sees Ben Bukowski enter his first full season in the dugout, having been appointed in January 2025 to replace Lee Allinson, who departed after more than five years to join Hemel Hempstead Town in the National League South. With a monumental task required that necessitated a full squad rebuild mid-season, relegation was confirmed on the penultimate weekend of the 2024/25 season. Bukowski, who joined from Harrow Borough, was previously a coach under long-serving manager Gary McCann..

The club has an illustrious and proud history, and the club was formed in 1908, beginning its existence as Christchurch Hampstead. In the very first season, the club finished as Champions of the Finchley & District League Third Division. There was regular success in the early years, but not before the first of four name changes!

Ahead of the 1909-10 season, the club renamed itself as Hampstead Town, and immediately won the Second Division title, and the First Division title followed a year later. Further successes followed as the club entered sides in both the London and Middlesex Leagues, and on the back of this, the club was elected into the Athenian League in 1914, reaching the top end of the amateur game just 6 years into the club's existence.

Just 2 games were played in the 1914-15 season due to the outbreak of war, but in their eventual debut season in 1919-20, the club finished a highly creditable fourth. The club finished runners-up in 1929, 1933, 1948, 1949 and 1952, before eventually winning the title in 1953. Further titles followed in 1956 and 1961.

The second renaming of the club came in 1926, when the suffix Town was dropped and the club was simply called Hampstead, followed by a change of name to Golders Green in 1933. The final name change came in 1946 when the club became known as Hendon.

There was a previous club called Hendon that reached the quarter finals of the FA Cup in 1883, and also a club variously known as Hendon Town or Hendon which played in the London League in the 1920s and early 1930s (it is not known if these were the same club). In 1932 the Hendon Town club (then known as Hendon) met Hampstead in two friendlies, the second of which was to raise funds for the Hendon Town club, which sadly ceased to exist a few years later owing to the loss of their ground.

In 1963, the club were accepted into the Isthmian League and this is where the club stayed until 2018, always playing in the top division. Success continued as they finished runners-up in their first season, followed by the first of two Championships a year later. A further title followed in 1973, with 1966, 1974 and 2015 seeing the club finish second. Indeed, in their first 11 seasons in the Isthmian League, Hendon never finished lower than 6th. Since then the club has had both good and bad seasons in the league, and in 2006 the club was reprieved from relegation due to Canvey Island taking a voluntary relegation of three levels from Conference National.

During the amateur era, the club reached the final of the FA Amateur Cup no less than 5 times, winning the final in 1960, 1965 and 1972.

FA Cup success has been enjoyed by the club throughout its history. There have been 21 appearances in the first round (the most recent at Aldershot Town in 2012), 6 appearances in the second round (most recently in 1999-2000 at Blackpool) and one appearance in the third round in January 1974 which saw the Greens draw 1-1 at Newcastle United before losing the replay 4-0 at Vicarage Road (the home ground of Watford FC).

The club has also seen plenty of success in county cups, winning the Middlesex Senior Cup no less than 16 times out of 28 final appearances, as well as winning the Middlesex Charity Cup 14 times (13 times outright and shared with Barnet in 1926/27). The London Senior Cup has been won on six occasions, with a further 11 appearances as losing finalists.

The club moved into its famous Claremont Road ground in 1926, with the first game being an FA Cup tie against Berkhamsted Town that took place on 18th September with Hendon winning 4-3. The final game was played 82 years later, almost to the day, on 20th September 2008 when local rivals Wealdstone were the visitors, and the Stones ran out 4-1 winners. Since then the club has groundshared with Wembley FC and Harrow Borough FC, before settling into the new home at Silver Jubilee Park in Kingsbury in 2016.

After narrowly missing out on promotion to the National League South in 2017/18 following a play-off final defeat to Dulwich Hamlet, Hendon were transferred to the Southern League following 55 years in the Isthmian League. After several seasons of struggle, there was finally some success in 2023/24, when the club went on a run to the FA Trophy 4th round before losing 4-0 to Wealdstone at Silver Jubilee Park. This run included a memorable 2-1 win against former Premier League club Oldham Athletic at Boundary Park, thanks to goals from Joe White and Niko Muir. In the summer of 2024, the club was transferred back to the Isthmian League after six years away.

Did you know?

• 100,000 watched Hendon against Northern giants Bishop Auckland in the 1955 Amateur Cup Final at Wembley.
• Following an invitation from the FA to test the system, Hendon were the first club to play under floodlights at Wembley Stadium.
• In October 1951, Hendon became the first team in Britain to win a floodlit cup tie when they won a London Challenge Cup match against Arsenal at Highbury.
• Following this success at Highbury, Hendon lost their next two appearances there, both London Senior Cup Finals, to Walthamstow Avenue in 1955 and to Tooting and Mitcham United in 1959.
• Hendon won both of their last two visits to Highbury. These matches came in the 1964/65 season, when Arsenal were beaten 4-3 in a London Challenge Cup tie and Finchley were downed 4-1 in a FA Amateur Cup semi-final.
• The club's original colours were broad blue and white hoops. In 1997/98 Hendon ditched their now familiar green shirts in favour of the original blue, albeit in a different style. Following complaints by the supporters the green was duly restored when the kit was next changed two seasons later.
• England's three highest capped Amateur Internationals since the war were all Hendon players. Rod Haider (65 caps), John Swannell (61) and Mike Pinner (52) lead the way with Peter Deadman (40) and Laurie Topp (32) making 5 Hendon players in the top ten of England Amateur cap winners.