The club, which had struggled for much of the previous fifteen years, went into recess owing to a lack of available players prior to the 2016 season and folded.

Channel adopted the Saints emblem and Red, White & Black playing strip and were firstly based at Margate before moving to the club's present Snug Park headquarters.

Channel left the Huon Football Association at the end of 1995 and joined the then STFL (now SFL) in 1996 whereby they won the League's inaugural Senior premiership.

After a number of years of continuous struggle in the OSFA, including losing their first forty consecutive matches in the competition, the club battled on until the end of the 2015 season.

Over the Summer break, Channel found itself with a critical shortage of players and in March 2016 it announced that the club would cease to exist effective immediately.