Rollers is the most successful club in Botswana football history, having won more league titles and cup competitions than any other local side.

Rollers also have a bitter rivalry with Mochudi Centre Chiefs, and matches between the two sides over time have eclipsed the Gaborone Derby as the biggest football encounter in Botswana due to both clubs' following and success.

The club is currently administered by an executive committee comprising Walter Kgabung (chairman), Jagdish Shah (president), Khumo Masonya (secretary general), Kebadile Mosiakgabo (deputy secretary), Phempheretlhe Bafana Pheto (public relations officer), Minkie Molatlhegi (Treasurer), and additional member Baatweng Motladiile.

[citation needed] The club was formed by the Public Works Department (PWD) workers of the Bechuanaland Protectorate (colonial-era Botswana) government in 1961.

[3] Rollers made an impact in Botswana football in the 1960s and 1970s, led by administrators such as Francis van Vuuren and Mokhutshwane Sekgoma, with star players including Clement 'Captain Muller' Mothelesi, Morwalela Seema, Sliding Matsila, Sola 'Ace' Mokgadi, and goalkeeper Mchuu 'City' Manyalela.

After a national league was introduced in 1978, Rollers became hugely successful under Chibaso 'Coach' Kande, a player-coach from the then Zaire (Democratic Republic of Congo).

In the season 2004–05 under the tutelage of a Botswana icon, the late coach Banks Panene they won both the Coca-Cola Cup and the league title.

After the 2004–05 success, Township Rollers struggled to have impact in domestic competitions for a three-year period (2006-9) winning only the 2006 Kabelano Charity Cup.

This was mainly due to the sale of their influential players among them Mogogi Gabonamong (who went on to captain South Africa's PSL club Santos), Moemedi Moatlhaphing and Phenyo Mongala who were sold to Platinum Stars.

Mongala moved on to Pretoria University, and later Orlando Pirates and Bloemfontein Celtic before returning to Botswana club football.

At the society annual general meeting (AGM) held at the Gaborone West Community Hall in January 2016 the elected executive committee led by chairman Walter Kgabung was given the mandate to keep Shah as the club investor.

Rollers famously made the group stage of the 2018 CAF Champions League after defeating Al-Merreikh of Sudan in the preliminary rounds.

[citation needed] This arrangement was challenged in court by former officials Mookodi Seisa and others, who said managing director Somerset Gobuiwang had not followed due diligence in privatising the club.

The August 2015 High Court ruling by Justice Leatile Dambe returned Rollers to being purely a society owned by its members.

The Rollers society AGM in January 2016 endorsed a continued working relationship with investor Shah, and began a process of adopting a new constitution, seeking ways of commercialising the club through proper legal means.

[citation needed] Along with rivals, Mochudi Centre Chiefs, Extension Gunners and neighbours Gaborone United, Popa enjoys massive following all over the country.

In its early years Popa played their games in dusty football grounds in Gaborone due to the lack of stadiums in Botswana.

[citation needed] But in the post-2000 period the derby waned somewhat due to the mixed fortunes of the teams, as they struggled in the early years of the new millennium (2000-4).