Highlights include the club being selected in 1902 to represent Newcastle against Sydney and winning 4–2.

After a five-year stint in the NBN State League, the club was relegated back to the NEW-FM First Division at the end of the 2012 season after finishing last.

The club has gradually returned to be one of the stronger sides in the First Division Competition in recent years, highlighted by their Grand Final Appearance in 2018.

Mr Johnston cleared and marked a soccer football field on land leased from the Caledonian Coal company.

Adamstown Rosebud FC and Weston Workers Bears are two other clubs who have built up a rivalry with West Wallsend in over 100 years of encounters.