Bristol and District League handbooks of the 1920's reveal that the Oldland football club was founded as St. Anne’s (Oldland) in 1910. St. Anne’s (Oldland) won the GFA Minor Cup at the end of the 1921/22 then lifted the 1925 GFA Junior Cup but had to wait until the 1950's for further success. Little is known about the club's fortunes between the wars but they became founder members of the Bristol Premier Combination in 1962 and were promoted to the Gloucester County League in 1973, remaining there for twelve seasons until being re-elected as Oldland Decora in 1986.

Pupils at Hanham Abbots school launched Abbotonians football club as juniors in 1947 and they enjoyed many league and cup successes in the early years, including Cup wins in 1961, 1966 and 1972. The club also won the GFA Intermediate Cup in 1962 and 1969 and the 1968 GFA Minor Cup. It also became the Bristol Churches League Under 16 league winners in 1959 and 1961 and Under 18 league winners in 1960.

The two clubs merged in 1998, playing as Oldland Abbotonians in the Somerset Senior League. The late Alan Bush was appointed chairman of the newly merged club. Oldland Abbotonians won the Somerset Senior League Division One in 2004/05, were Premier Division runners up in 2005/06 and eventually promoted to the Toolstation League in 2006/07. Derek Jones has remained with the club ever since.

Oldland has often been described as a nursery for Bristol Rovers with Vic Lambden, Peter Sampson, Brian Bush and Mike Tippets all playing for the club before turning professional at Eastville. Former Rovers favourite Bobby Jones was one of many successful Oldland managers, a list which also includes David Hillier. Abbots rose to heady heights under the leadership of Alan Bush in the 1980's with the help of former Rovers players Jeff Meacham, the late Steve Talboys (Wimbledon) plus Rovers favourites Graham Day, Peter Aitken and Phil Bater. Among other youngsters who left Abbots to play for Rovers were Stuart Taylor, Phil Kite and Kevin Westaway.

Lee Gibbs had led the club into the Western League before passing over to ex-Arsenal player David Hillier at the start of the 2008/09 season; Hillier helped them become the first ever Division 1 side to win the Les Phillips (league) cup, securing 7th place in the league as well. Having finished 4th and been assured that promotion was imminent at the end of 2015/16 Oldland were disappointingly not promoted and had to start again with the squad moving away.

2016/17 was a pivotal year as although the football side disappointed, through fundraising and grants the club spent in excess of £70,000 on ground improvements including safety fencing, stand covers, pitch maintenance equipment, a new stand and CCTV system. In 2017/18 the team were led by Scott Armstrong and for most of 2018/19 by Jon Toy before Clayton Woodman and Steve Cains returned to the club they had played for. In the 2022–23 Western Football League season, the O's finished fourth in the table and qualified for the playoffs, defeating Wincanton Town in the first round and subsequently Shirehampton in the final, qualifying for promotion to the Premier Division.

The clubhouse and dressing room improvements along with the ground boundaries and exterior work on the stands and dugouts were upgraded in 2022/23 to make the site ore secure and cut back on vandalism. However, following issues with neighbours and South Glos Council most of these now had to be taken back down. What does remain is the famous bar is known by many as the liveliest and best clubhouse in the league with numerous social events in addition to match days.

Woodman and Cains are now the joint Chairmen role with football matters being led by Paul Weeks as Director of Football and the first team managers the vastly experienced Kris Miller and Aaron Cornwall.

The Reserves are in the Bristol Premier Combination and are managed by Dave Griffin who also looks after the Under 18s side who play in the Western Counties Floodlit Youth League.