It competes in the Darwin Football Association, running Senior and Reserve Grade sides.

Yeoman was formed around 1895 and originally competed in junior competitions prior to World War I.

It became a senior club when it was invited to compete in the North West Football Union in 1920.

In March 1945, the Darwin Football Association changed its name to the NWFU Western Division 2.

In Yeoman's first decades of existence home matches were played on a paddock at a local farm owned by James Gale, about 90 metres north of the Elliott Hall.