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The FNB Priaulx League, currently operated by the Guernsey Football Association, has been the top level of football on Guernsey since 1893. In addition, a Guernsey team has competed in the annual Muratti trophy against fellow Channel Islands sides since 1905 and at the Island Games since 1991.

In 2010, the league's representative team won the FA National League System Cup and, as a result, qualified to represent England in the 2011 UEFA Regions Cup. This was the catalyst which inspired the creation of an island team to compete in the National League System and in June 2011 the Combined Counties Football League accepted Guernsey into its Combined Counties Football League Division One. Level 10 in the English football league system. This made Guernsey the first team from the Channel Islands to compete in mainland British football, and the club funds the cost of both its own and other teams' travel to and from the island.

2011/12 was a great first season, decisively winning the Combined Counties Division One, which gave them promotion the Combined Counties Football League Premier Division, the team also went on to win the Combined Counties Premier Challenge Cup. 2012/13 was also a good season, with Guernsey coming second in the Premier Division and earning a second consecutive promotion as well as reaching the semi-final of the FA Vase.

In 2013/14 they finished 4th in the Isthmian League Division One South, winning exactly half of their 46 games, drawing 12 and losing 11. The finish earned them a play-off semi-final away at Leatherhead which they lost 3-1. The two seasons since them saw them slip down the table, in 10th and 13th, and in 2016/17 ended up one place outside of the drop zone.

In eight meetings with the Greens Lions, Herne Bay have won just once, drawing four and losing three. Last season, in the away tie in September, Sam Hasler was sent off in his last appearance for the Bay, two minutes before Danny Williams netted from the penalty spot. Guernsey levelled with an early goal in the second half and then went ahead on 68. With the clock ticking down and Herne Bay pressing for the equaliser, the home side scored three times in the last minute to complete a 5-1 rout. Bay dropped into the relegation zone for the first time in their Isthmian League history. Herne Bay’s 200th Isthmian League match, in the return tie, attracted the lowest Saturday home crowd of the season, so far, as the early kick-off and Christmas shopping put off many supporters. This was the first match that Guernsey had broken with tradition and introduced non-residents in the form of Bristol City loanee youngsters Kodi Lyons-Foster and Jake Andrews and it was Andrews who gave the Green Lions the lead three minutes after the break when he netted from the spot following a foul on him in the area by Jack Delo. On 73 Danny Walder stepped up to score his second penalty of the season to restore parity, after Mark Lovell had been brought down.

The Green Lions have picked up after early season struggles which saw them bottom after nine matches but have won four, drawn one and lost one since then, leaving them in 16th position, four places and five points below Herne Bay who have played one game less.

The team plays its home games at Footes Lane, a 5,000 capacity multi-use sports facility in St Peter Port, Guernsey. The stadium is also used as an athletics track, by the Guernsey Rugby Club and was a venue for the 2003 Island Games. They top the Isthmian South attendance table with an average of 644 (highest of 743, lowest of 513).