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===Central Midlands League, 1990–2000===
[[File:Watnall Road.jpg|upright|thumb|alt=View of Watnall Road, former home of Hucknall Town|Gedling suffered its biggest-ever competitive loss at [[Hucknall Town]] in 1998–99 ''(Hucknall's Watnall Road ground pictured in 2022)''.]]
For 1990–91, R & R Scaffolding changed its name to Gedling Town and entered the [[Central Midlands Football League]] (CML) Division One. Becoming champions at the first attempt, Gedling then competed in the CML Premier Division (South) in 1991–92.<ref name="GedHist31102010"/><ref name="GedFHDb">{{cite web |url=https://www.fchd.info/GEDLINGT.HTM |title=Gedling Town |publisher=Football Club History Database |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808193820/https://www.fchd.info/GEDLINGT.HTM |archive-date=8 August 2020 |access-date=20 July 2023}}</ref> The team led the league for much of the season before finishing runners-up to Slack & Parr.<ref name="GedHist31102010"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Title chasing Slacks win local derby |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003304/19911220/023/0023 |work=Stapleford & Sandiacre News |date=20 December 1991 |page=23 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref> However, the club was still promoted to the CML Supreme Division at the tenth level of the [[English football league system]].
Before 1993–94, Gedling again met Notts County in a friendly; they lost 8–0, with Notts [[Forward (association football)|forward]] [[Gary McSwegan]] netting four.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wilson in the Magpies' Hot Seat |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003894/19930803/024/0024 |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=3 August 1993 |page=24 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref> A month later, the club entered the [[FA Vase]] for the first time, eventually losing 3–0 in a [[1993–94 FA Vase|preliminary round replay]] to [[Walsall Wood F.C.|Walsall Wood]].<ref name="GedFHDb"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Gedling's booster |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003894/19930719/019/0019 |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=19 July 1993 |page=19 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref> By November, the team had lost just one of their nine previous league games and went on to top the table in the new year.<ref>{{cite news |title=Gedling move into top four |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003714/19931125/063/0063 |work=Nottingham Recorder |date=25 November 1993 |page=63 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Gedling v Kimberley |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003894/19940103/018/0018 |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=3 January 1994 |page=18 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref> Results slipped thereafter, and Gedling finished in fifth.<ref name="GedFHDb"/><ref>{{cite news |title=Gedling cling to title hope |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0002477/19940428/202/0038 |work=Nottingham Recorder |date=28 April 1994 |page=38 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref> This season marked the arrival from [[Arnold Town F.C.|Arnold Town]] of [[Defender (association football)#Full-back|full-back]] Gary Ball, a player who later held the all-time club record for appearances with 216.<ref name="NCEL11102007"/><ref name="Ball">{{cite news |title=Arnold bid to end losing sequence |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003714/19940106/042/0042 |work=Nottingham Recorder |date=6 January 1994 |page=42 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref> The 1994–95 campaign proved difficult; the team were eliminated from title contention by January, and manager Dave Sands was sacked to be replaced by Ray Sully.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sands has not given up hope |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003894/19950107/068/0068 |work=Football Post |location=Nottingham |date=7 January 1995 |page=68 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Sands' time has run out |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0003894/19950207/020/0020 |work=Nottingham Evening Post |date=7 February 1995 |page=20 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=20 July 2023 }}</ref> Gedling closed the season in tenth.<ref name="GedFHDb"/>
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