Known as the "Tigers", the club fields senior teams in the Eastern Football League which it joined in 2007.

In 1926 Balwyn finished runners-up to Auburn in the last year of the Reporter District League, and in 1927 were admitted to the VFL Sub-district Competition.

In the 1932 Balwyn became a founding member of the Eastern Suburban Football League, winning flags in 1933 and 1934.

Balwyn decided to transfer to what was then the strongest metro competition in Melbourne, the Eastern Football League which it joined in 2007.

Next year Daniel Harford led the Tigers to their first EFL flag against Vermont in the 2008 Grand Final.