They currently compete in the NRF Championship, however, have enjoyed successful spells at the top of the New Zealand game, namely in the former National League, and having won two NRFL Premier League crowns.

The club entered the new Franklin & Districts competitions in 1960, competing from a site at the Papatoetoe Recreation Ground on Great South Road.

In 1965 the club moved to its current home at Murdoch Park and the same year its senior team entered the Northern League.

[citation needed] Papatoetoe have reached the Quarter-finals of the Chatham Cup on three occasions, in 1984, 1985, and 1986, but have yet to progress beyond this stage of the competition.

[citation needed] In 2022, the Reserves team won the NRF Knockout Cup.