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Gosport Borough Athletic Club was founded just two weeks after the D-Day landings in 1944 in an initiative to bring back organised football, athletics, swimming and cycling to the town after a break of several years.
For their second season, the club were accepted into the Hampshire League and won the Division One title at their first attempt. However, this feat was not to be repeated for thirty-one seasons despite being a major force in Hampshire football during that period. After winning the Hampshire League title in successive seasons (1976/77 and 1977/78), Gosport were elected to the Southern Football League. In the team's first four seasons they never finished outside the top four and when the League was restructured for the start on the 1982/83 season, Gosport were placed in the Premier Division. Two years later Boro' lost their Premier Division status and was relegated to the Southern Division. However the next season saw the team bounce straight back after an incredible run of sixteen wins in the final nineteen matches earned them the runners-up spot and promotion. Gosport still needed to win their final match to be certain of promotion and in front of a home crowd in excess of 1,500 they demolished Salisbury 5-0.
The club enjoyed their highest ever finish in the 1988/89 season when seventh place in the Premier Division was achieved. Unfortunately, a mass exodus of players and a change in the management saw the Boro' relegated to the Southern Division and two years later (1992) to the Wessex League. Following relegation, the chairman at the time Ian Hay appointed Roger Sherwood as manager. Although Boro' had three good seasons with Roger, the Wessex League Cup in 1992/93 was his only major success. After the departure or Roger Sherwood at the start of the 1995/96 season, the management committee undertook a review of the club's policies. It was decided to commence a period of financial consolidation and re-structuring was required.
Boro's position in the Wessex League continued to deteriorate until former reserve team manager Mick Marsh was appointed as the new first team manager in December 1999 and the corner was turned. Marsh, along with his assistant Gary Lee had five seasons at the helm. In Marsh's five seasons the club finished in the top four on four occasions and reached the quarter-finals of the FA Vase in 2003/04.
In his first full season in the hot-seat, Alex lived up to his high standards and Boro' lifted the Wessex League Championship - Gosport's first title in 29 years. The silverware was won on the very last day of the season at title rivals AFC Totton. Boro' had to avoid defeat by two goals to lift the title and in a nervous afternoon eventually lost 1-0 to win the Championship on goal difference only. With the title in the bag, Boro' officials and supporters waited for the news from the FA on their application for promotion. Two weeks after lifting the title, the news came through from FA headquarters and Boro' were elected back into the Southern League for the 2007/08 season. After completing three solid seasons back in the Southern League, the club are looking again to promotion and the continuing the climb back up the non-league ladder. Elsewhere the club continues to expand. The youth structure, in association with Gosport Borough Youth, has grown and now consists of teams from under 18s down to under 7s and includes girls teams. In addition, the Club has a Ladies team, a veterans side and was also became an FA Community Club in 2010.
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In their first season (1944/45), the football section of the
club finished as runners-up in the Portsmouth and District League
Division One under the guidance of former Southampton player, Stan Cribb.
The team at that time included Jimmy Scoular and Peter Harris who both
went on to become full internationals.
In the 1987/88 season the team were once again threatened
with relegation. Until the April of that season Boro' had looked
odds-on favourites for the drop but a run in the Hampshire Senior Cup
that took them all the way to the Final at The Dell lifted the players
spirits. A thrashing of the favourites Farnborough Town in the final
was followed by a good run of results in the League lifting the team out
of trouble to remain in the Premier Division.
In 1997, Boro' approached Gomer Football Club, a successful
youth club to form an affiliation. Not only did it given the senior
club the ability to tap into local talent as it emerged through the
ranks but it also gave the boys the opportunity to aim for a higher
standard of football than they might normally achieve when youth
football ended. 
With Marsh retiring from the game at the end of the 2004/05
season to move to Spain, the club appointed John Robson his successor
but Robson's tenure only lasted a few months until December 2005 when
the club appointed Alex Pike as first team manager.