The club previously played in the Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League and Outer East FL, leaving the latter at the end of 2020.

[6] It became one of the SWGFL's most powerful clubs during the 1970s, and by 1982 it had contested eleven consecutive finals series and won two more premierships – back-to-back in 1977 and 1978.

[7] On 19 November 1982 Berwick was admitted to the Victorian Football Association's second division for the 1983 season, as part of the VFA's restructuring and expansion in the early 1980s.

[8] The club spent five seasons in the VFA, without achieving any significant success, its best result a seventh placing out of eleven in 1984 with a 7–9 record from sixteen games played.

After a fire destroyed the pavilion in December 1984, the club moved to the newer Edwin Flack Reserve in Manuka Rd, where it remains today.