Stirling Macedonia Football Club (formerly West Perth Macedonia, Stirling Lions) is an Australian football club based in Perth, Western Australia, who are competing in the National Premier Leagues Western Australia.

That year, the Club represented the Soccer Federation of Western Australia against Adelaide City in the NANDA Cup in front of a crowd of approximately 5,000 people.

The main bright spot of the 2000s was the 2006 season, where Stirling won the State Cup and finished as runners-up in the league.

Overall the 2000s would only see two State Cups, coming in 2006 and 2007, a meager trophy haul compared to the massive ones of the 80s and 90s, and of course the unfortunate years away from the top flight that the club had grown accustomed to.

Under the tutelage of Technical Director Richard Changadzo with an elite group of coaching staff, in 2016 the club's junior NPL teams flourished and finished top 5 overall in 2016/17.

Stirling would exit the Top 4 Cup in the first week, but the signs were there- they were ready to make an impact next season.

However, Stirling would prevail, gaining their revenge on RedStar and winning 2–0 to finally return to the top of Perth football for the first time since 1996, with Aleksandar Tanevski and Calvin "Chisto Makedonche" Whitney writing themselves into the Stirling history books with their goals.

Stirling would defeat RedStar 3-0, moving on to the Grand Final for the second consecutive season, where they will play arch-rivals Olympic Kingsway SC in a bid to defend their 2023 title and capture a second successive Championship.

The rivalry stems from the Macedonia naming dispute, but also from the fact that the two clubs are some of Perth's largest and most successful and have often contested each other for silverware.

Winning against your old rivals is something special, supporters you didn't know existed come out of the woodwork and buy you a beer after the game, and I swear it tastes so much better after beating them.In the same interview, Floreat's skipper at the time, Ludovic Boi, also commented on the rivalry, saying that: Whether playing for Stirling or Floreat, this game will be tough no matter which side you are on.

The history goes way back before I even started playing and you can see what it means when winning these games to the fans and the players.Olympic Kingsway SC are another one of Stirling's other biggest rivals.