The club has a large playing group ranging and teams range from juniors, youth academy, and social teams through to high performance men and women's programs.

Kingborough Lions has a complicated history having been formed out of several mergers of former clubs in the Hobart region.

[1] Kingborough United were a long standing southern-based Premier League team and was the result of the previous mergers of Kingston Cannons and Rapid Hobart.

In 1996, the club moved to the then Tasmanian Baseball Complex (Now known as the Lightwood Park Complex), taking up a long term tenancy and they shared the facilities with the Kingston Crows Cricket Club.

[2] The side was relatively nomadic in existence with no permanent facilities, but training was generally undertaken at the West Hobart Oval.