Histon FC are a Cambridgeshire club situated just off the A14, north of Cambridge. Nicknamed 'The Stutes' they play in a home kit of Red & Black Striped Shirts, Black Shorts & Socks.

The club was formed in 1904 as Histon Institute FC and played for 44 years in the Cambridgeshire Football League. John Chivers, chairman of major Histon employer Chivers & Sons, helped to found the football club. The company donated a field, then covered in roses, for the club to play on, which is commemorated by the rose on the club’s crest. From 1926, the club moved to its current location where a grandstand was erected in 1934. In 1948, the club became champions of the Cambridgeshire League and joined the Spartan League, winning promotion to its Premier Division in 1951. The “Institute” was dropped from the club’s name that season. In 1960, Histon entered the Delphian League, which became part of the Athenian League structure in 1963 but struggled at the higher level. The pitch was re-sited at right angles to the old one in 1960-61, and a replacement stand opened in 1964-65. In 1965, the club switched to the Eastern Counties League where they were to play for the next 35 years. When the ECL adopted a two-division format in 1988, Histon were placed in the Premier Division. In the 1989–90 season Histon won the ECL League Cup and sold players Lance Key and Shaun Sowden to Sheffield Wednesday. At the same time, Giuliano Maiorana was sold to Manchester United for a transfer fee that rescued the club financially. As part of the deal, a Manchester United team played Histon in a friendly match at Bridge Road on 19 May 1989.

Following administrative and financial difficulties, the club was relegated to ECL Division One in 1995 but were promoted back to the Premier Division two years later. The 1997–98 season saw Histon finish 3rd in the table.Two seasons later the ECL Premier Division title was won and Histon was promoted to the Southern League Eastern Division. In the first three Southern League seasons Histon managed 4th spot twice and then a disappointing 10th, but the 2003–04 season saw the club finish 2nd in the Eastern Division to claim promotion to the Premier Division. The following year Histon took on League Two side Shrewsbury Town in the FA Cup 1st Round Proper, setting up a 2nd Round tie at home to Yeovil Town. The club lost to Yeovil but clinched the Southern League Premier Division title on the last day of the 2004-05 season and were promoted to the Conference South. In their first Conference South season, Histon finished 5th and secured a place in the play-offs for promotion to the Conference National. They won their first play-off game away at Farnborough Town 3–0 but lost 2–0 in the final against St. Albans City. In the FA Cup they reached the second round proper and secured a draw at Nuneaton Borough but were defeated in the replay at Bridge Road 2–1 before a crowd of 3,077. The season was also notable for a 5–0 win against local rivals Cambridge United in the FA Trophy. On 14 April 2007, Histon, now popularly known as the Stutes, beat Welling United 1–0 at Bridge Road to go 19 points clear at the top of the Conference South in the final table. Two days previously, officials from the Conference had passed Bridge Road as fit for Conference National football, paving the way for promotion (the club’s fourth in 7 years) to the highest point in the non-league pyramid. Histon’s 2007-08 season in the Conference National saw the Stutes play their first televised game, Setanta broadcasting the 1–0 home win against Oxford United. Later that season the club broke its record home attendance when a crowd of 3,721 saw Histon beat Cambridge United 1–0 on 1 January 2008. Histon finished the season 7th. The second season of Conference National football saw the Stutes finish third, qualifying for the play-offs where they were defeated 2–1 on aggregate by Torquay United at the semi-finals stage. In the FA  Cup, Histon reached the third round, losing 2-1 at home to Championship side Swansea City, after beating League One opposition in Swindon Town at home in the first round and Leeds United 1–0 at home in the second round, which was the first time Leeds had lost to a non-league side. The Leeds United match attracted an attendance of 4,103 and was shown live on national television. Histon’s fortunes declined after the high spots of the 2008-09 season as the money raised from the cup run was not sufficient to maintain such a high level of football. The club finished 18th in the Conference National in season 2009/10 and bottom in 2010/11. Alan Lewer, John Beck, and David Livermore served successively as managers as Histon finished their first Conference North season in 16th place. In the 2012/13 season Histon secured their existence in the Conference North on the last day of the season. Histon were now fielding a very young side, largely drawn from the club’s youth structure. The 2013/14 season saw them relegated from the Conference North to the Southern Premier League where they remained in season 2014/15, securing an 18th place finish, but the following season (2015/16) saw further relegation to the Southern League Division 1 Central at the end of season. The club was relegated back to the Eastern Counties League the following season, where it all started in the 1990s.

After a season of adjustment, the 2018-19 saw the club heading in the right direction again as the side gained promotion, claiming the league title by an impressive 14-point margin. On returning to Step 4, the club was unexpectedly allocated a place in the Isthmian League for the first time in its 115-year history. After spending much of the first season in this league in top half of Division One North, a mid-table finish looked to be on the cards before the season was curtailed due to the Coronavirus pandemic. After two aborted seasons, the club was moved into the Northern Premier League Midlands Division as part of the FA’s restructuring of non-league football. However, the extra travelling proved to be too much of a burden and the club was demoted back to Step 5 after losing a relegation play-off game at home against Northern League side Consett AFC.

For the 2022/23 season the club was placed in the United Counties League for the first time in its history, finishing the season in a respectable 6th place. But after a disappointing start to the 2023/24 season, Histon ended up in 11th position and last season they ended up 12th with 46 points from their 36 games (13 wins; 7 draws; 16 defeats).

This season sees them currently occupying 3rd spot with 37 points from their 20 games to date (11 wins; 4 draws; 5 defeats). Their last 4 games has seen them win twice away at Easington Sports 2-0 and league leaders, Nuneaton Town 1-0, draw away at Godmanchester Rovers 2-2 and lose last weekend away to Coventry United 1-5. The game on Saturday v Moulton will be their first at home in five games. At the beginning of November they were knocked out of the Cambridgeshire Invitation Cup away at Soham Town Rangers 1-3. At the beginning of September they exited the Sports Ground Development Cup in the preliminary round at home to Southwell City 0-4, the FA Cup 1st round qualifying in August at home to Mulbarton Wanderers 2-3 and the FA Vase 1st round qualifying at home on penalties to Eaton Socon.

Saturdays match official is scheduled as Stewart Horn, another new name to officiate a Moulton match.