Watsonia Heights Soccer Club was formed in 1969 by Mr Don Drake. Don came from Moreland City FC and as an Englishman he wanted to encapsulate the ‘British’ origin of the club by making our club logo very similar to that of Moreland City Soccer Club. So, our logo has the Welsh Leek, Irish Clover, Scottish Thistle and English Rose – surrounding the Australian Kangaroo.

We also play in the British colours of Red, White and Royal Blue.

Watsonia Heights Soccer Club was represented by only Junior teams from 1970 through until 1985. They always used as their home ground – the Gabonia Avenue Reserve.

In 1986, Watsonia Heights SC fielded its first senior men’s team and an Under 18’s junior team. The senior men’s team played in a competition run by the Victorian Amateur Soccer Association (VASA).

In 1987, Watsonia Heights SC fielded a first team and a reserve team for the first time, but no junior teams.  

To become a member of the Victoria Soccer Federation (VSF) in 1987, Watsonia Heights SC had to obtain a VSF – License. Nearby Diamond Creek SC were struggling to field a team and had incurred a sizeable debt. Peter Delany and his brother Glenn Delany agreed on behalf of Watsonia Heights SC to pay off the DCSC’s outstanding debt (of $5000.00) to obtain the VSF License.

Even though we were always Watsonia Heights SC, to use the VSF license, we had to play under name – Diamond Valley until 1996.

In 1997, the VSF allowed us to revert back to Watsonia Heights SC to help remove the confusion with a neighbouring club – Diamond Valley United SC. 

In 2001, Grant Noons organised the first junior team since 1986 to represent Watsonia Heights SC.

Grant worked with the Banyule City Council to take over the use of Elder Street Reserve for our junior teams to play on. We had just the one junior team in 2001.

In 2013, while in the process of updating our club constitution, we changed our club name from Watsonia Heights Soccer Club to Watsonia Heights FC.