Once formalised, it played in the Reporter Districts Football Association on the same oval used today.

In 1907 the club joined the Reporter District FA, a football competition sponsored by a local Box Hill newspaper.

It has remained in the top flight of the Eastern Football Netball League in the years since with their highest ladder finish being 3rd after the 2019 season, playing off in the Premier Division Grand Final.

Come what may you'll find us striving, Teamwork is the thing that counts ( 2,3,4) All for one and one for all, The way we play at Blackburn, We are the Mighty Fighting 'Burns.

*(Sung to the tune of ''The Yankee Doodle Boy'', and similar to AFL club Hawthorn).