The club’s men’s and women’s teams are currently playing in the premier division of their respective leagues – the North West Counties Football League and the North West Women’s Regional League.
Club representative Beverley Moss told the council meeting on Thursday it was “one of the UK’s top-100 supported non-league clubs”, with several hundred attending Saturday games.
She said the tea bar was necessary for the club’s growth, adding that it had sought to extend Brookburn Road’s clubhouse in the past but was not now in a financial position to do so.
“The club has longer-term aspirations to provide permanent solutions to support the use of the wider site,” Ms Moss said.
“Therefore, the approval of the tea bar and container for a five-year period will really help meet their commercial needs in the meantime.”
Councillors unanimously decided to allow the club to keep the tea bar in place until 2030, the Local Democracy Reporting Service said.
