In April, 1875 a meeting was supposed to be held at the Star Hotel, Beechworth to organise a football club, but it did not eventuate.

[2] In April 1876, a meeting was held at Dreyer's Corner Hotel to re-form the Beechworth FC,[3] which was a success, with players joining up and matches taking place.

One was the "Beechworth FC" and the other was the "Wanderers FC", which was based at Hurdle Flat, near Stanley and after a meeting between officials of both clubs in April 1892, they merged under the name "Beechworth District Wanderers Football Club" and adopted a red and black striped guernsey,[8] before joining the Ovens and Murray Football League in 1893.

Beechworth then left the O&KFA and re-joined the O&MFL in 1915, only to withdraw from the competition in July 1915, due to "the splendid response by playing members of the club to the appeal for recruits to serve their King and country"[12] in World War One.

This side and the thirds team were instigated by Ern Guppy, who was a wonderful man for the Beechworth Football Club.

When the Myrtleford-Bright DFL folded in 1952, the seconds side joined the Yackandandah & District Football League.

In this year it formed a thirds team, which was affiliated with the Wodonga Junior Football Association with Fred Jensen as its coach and G. Beel as its manager.

Coached by Shaun Pritchard and captained by Brayden Carey, the Bushrangers defeated Yackandandah to win the Grand Final.

[19][20][21] The Wanderers played regular matches against Yackandandah, Myrtleford, Beechworth and the Two Mile Rovers football club's.

[24] This junior club was re-formed in April 1892 and adopted a blue and white coloured jumper with red socks.