The club was founded in 2015 as a youth team, then known as Lopes Tavares London, before moving into adult football the following season, joining the Premier Division of the Essex Alliance Football League. They played at the Memorial Recreation Ground in West Ham. They finished eighth in their first season and fifth in 2017–18, before successfully applying to join the new Division One South of the Eastern Counties Football League for the 2018–19 season. On 27 August 2020, the club announced the renaming of the club to Athletic Newham. In 2021, the club were promoted to the Essex Senior League based on their results in the abandoned 2019–20 and 2020–21 seasons.

in the 2023-24 Season Athletic Newham was able to have not just the first team playing in Essex Senior League but they continued to run the Reserves Side that was playing Premier Division (West) in the Essex Alliance League also adding a new team for the upcoming season with a Sunday side playing in Division Five of the Essex Sunday Corinthian Football League