City actually resigned in 1900, but returned in 1902 after two years in the Banffshire League. They did, however, become the first Highland League club to qualify for the Scottish Cup in three successive seasons (1908, 1909, 1910) but, on each occasion, went out in the first round after resounding defeats by Dunblane (3-8), Motherwell (1-6) and St. Mirren (0-8).

At the start of the 1909-10 season a new ground, Station Park, was opened and that campaign saw the club come close to winning a first Highland League title. In a championship play-off against Inverness Thistle, City went down 2-1 in a replay at Mosset Park, Forres, after a 1-1 draw.

While notable success had eluded them on the park up until the start of the First World War in 1915, the club had produced a number of players who moved on to professional clubs in the Scottish and English Leagues. R C Hamilton (Rangers, Fulham, Morton, Hearts, Dundee) headed the list, which also included James Miller (Rangers, Port Glasgow, Middlesbrough, Bradford City, Aberdeen), James Gray (St. Mirren, Celtic), John MacLachlan (Dundee, Aston Villa), Harry Anderson (Morton, Swindon), Billy Farquhar (Sunderland), Jimmy Low (Hearts) and John Mackenzie (Rangers, Cowdenbeath).

The steady progress continued into the next decade and, under the guidance of Bert MacLachlan, City tasted championship success for the first time at the end of the 1931-32 season and three seasons later player-coach Lachie McMillan led the club to their second Highland League title.

The Scottish Qualifying Cup was also lifted, in 1935 and 1937, with the the North of Scotland Cup being added in that latter year to make it a double trophy triumph.

The 1960s yielded seven Highland League titles, two League Cups, three Scottish Qualifying Cups, four North Cups and a place in Scottish Cup history. City’s swashbuckling runs of the 60s are still spoken about in the Laich o’ Moray.

It all started in 1960, when Forfar were crushed 5-1 to set up a home tie against the mighty Celtic. 11,207 filled Borough Briggs to witness City come within a whisker of eliminating the Glasgow giants, going down 2-1 only after the Celts grabbed two goals in the last six minutes.

The following season, top flight Airdrieonians were held to a thrilling 2-2 draw in front of a 7,800 crowd, with City going down 2-0 in the midweek replay at Broomfield Park in a whole new experience of a floodlit match. It was only the prelude to a glorious chapter in the club’s history, however.

In January, 1967, City unveiled their brand new floodlights with a 2-0 replay win over non-league counterparts Hawick Royal Albert to set up a first round home clash against Ally MacLeod’s First Division Ayr United. A super-charged 9,500 crowd, again under the Borough Briggs floodlights, were rewarded with a memorable 2-0 victory to set up a second round trip to Glasgow and another crack at Celtic.

A crowd of 34,000 watched as City held out for 45 minutes but, in seven minutes of injury time – added for the leg break suffered by Elgin centre-half Tommy Sanderson – Celtic notched three goals before running out 7-0 victors….just three months before going on to become the first British club to be crowned European Champions.

A year on and the Scottish Cup records were about to be rewritten. Preliminary round wins over Albion Rovers and Tarff Rovers, followed by a first round success against Forfar, set up a mouthwatering home second round tie against Arbroath. A record Borough Briggs attendance of 12,650 celebrated a fantastic 2-0 victory to take City into the quarter-finals, the first – and as yet, only – non-league side to reach that stage of the national tourney.

The thousands of City fans who made the trek to Greenock for the historic last eight clash against Morton saw the Black and Whites perform heroically, only going down 2-1at Cappielow to the First Division side.

There were League Cup and double North Cup triumphs, but no titles as teenage goalkeeper Alan Main was snapped up by Dundee United for £8,000. Main, like Wilson, went on to gain international honours.

The 1989-90 season saw a major Elgin revival as former Manchester United player Steve Paterson guided the Black and Whites to a championship, Qualifying Cup and North Cup treble. Paterson’s untimely departure to unheralded Huntly opened the door for flamboyant local lad John Teasdale, a former Wolves striker, to take the reins.

City’s Highland League days ended in 2000 when they were elected as members of the Scottish Football League, joining the Third Division along with former north rivals Peterhead. The team struggled in their first few seasons of SFL status and, badly hit by a double dose of floods in the Moray area, the club nearly went under because of crippling debts.

A spurious takeover bid in December, 2005, was thwarted by an eleventh hour counter-bid, with the majority shareholding bought by local sponsors Robertson Group keeping the club in the hands of its shareholders and alive and kicking.

Since then the club’s fortunes have fluctuated, but the management team of Ross Jack, the former Everton, Norwich, Dundee, Dunfermline and Kilmarnock striker – assisted by ex-Ross County, Southampton, Raith Rovers, Inverness Caledonian Thistle, Livingston and Queen of the South winger Barry Wilson – fuelled hopes of a real promotion challenge and a return to some of the glory days once taken as part of the course at Borough Briggs.

Ross Jack departed Elgin in January of 2014 and was replaced by his former assistant Barry Wilson, who had been managing Highland League side Wick Academy.

In November 2014, Barry Wilson resigned as Manager of Elgin City having been in the job for less than a year. A bad run of results saw Elgin sitting bottom of SPFL League 2.

Wilson was replaced by former Arbroath, Montrose and Brechin City manager Jim Weir. In his first game as manager City drew 1-1 with top of the table Arbroath.

Elgin had their best season since joining the SPFL as they finished second to East Fife in 2015/16 and reached the playoffs, where they lost to Clyde, and the following year City missed out on the play-offs by just one point.

Weir’s assistant manager Gavin Price took charge of the club in October 2017. Under the reign’s of Price , City were sitting in third place, and looking set for a place in the play-offs, when football was suspended indefinetly on March 13, 2020 due to the Coronavirus Pandemic.