The concept of Peterhead Football Club was originally formed in the heads of a group of enthusiastic football fans in 1890, with these men forming the first committee of the Club.

Football had been played in the town as far back as the 1870's, but these men had decided it was time for a proper team, playing to the rules set down by the SFA.

And within a year, the dream of these men was realised thanks to Feuars Managers who allowed the newly formed Peterhead FC some land within the town's Raemoss Park. Named Recreation Park, it was opened by the town's Provost Smith, who was accompanied by Andrew Carnegie in August of 1891.

The Blue Toon tasted league football for the first time in 1900 when they joined the Aberdeenshire Football Association. With just six teams competing, it was a rather short season. They remained in the Aberdeenshire League until the early 30's when they became members of the Highland Football League.

As well as playing to a higher level, fitter players were needed because of the significant change in the length of the league season - with a larger base league, two cup competitions and a reserve league to compete in, though the reserve league was the old Aberdeenshire league.

During the period between then and the start of the Second World War in 1939, the club's honours list was fairly barren, with the Aberdeenshire Shield of 1905/06 the only silverware in the Recreation Park trophy cabinet for almost 30 years, before it was won twice successively in 1934/35 and 35/36.

The Blue Toon's first silverware came in 1906, when they won the Aberdeenshire Cup.

The early years of the club's history also hold the heaviest defeat a Blue Toon side has suffered. In season 1923/24, Peterhead were drawn at home to Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup. Aberdeen offered the Peterhead committee £300 to switch the game to Pittodrie, a move which the committee gladly undertook. The players were not at all happy with the decision, and walked out in protest.

That left the committee to patch together a team at the last minute to ensure the tie went ahead, but they might as well not have bothered, as the Dons routed Peterhead by 13 goals to nil.

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