A football match was recorded having been played in 1879 by the 'Berwick (combined)' club with Dandenong. Two weeks later another match was played by a 'combined team from Berwick and Pakenham'. In 1880 a team is recorded as the 'Berwick and Harkaway United club'. The club, then recorded as Berwick from 1881, is shown to have played annual matches against Dandenong through the 1880s. Its first known premiership success came in the Berwick District Football Association in 1910, and it won one more premiership in its time in that competition, in 1925. The club later competed in the Dandenong District Football Association. It then joined the
South West Gippsland Football League in 1954, winning the premiership in its first season. It became one of the SWGFL's most powerful clubs during the 1970s, and by 1982 it had contested eleven consecutive finals series and won two more premierships – back-to-back in 1977 and 1978. On 19 November 1982 Berwick was admitted to the
Victorian Football Association's second division for the 1983 season, as part of the VFA's restructuring and expansion in the early 1980s. The club spent five seasons in the VFA, without achieving any significant success, its best result a seventh placing out of eleven in
1984 with a 7–9 record from sixteen games played. The club struggled to recruit local players, in large part because the players preferred to play SWGFL games on Saturdays than VFA games on Sundays; and it found that its VFA attendances were no larger than its SWGFL crowds had been. The club elected to leave the VFA after the 1987 season, and returned to the SWGFL in 1988. Over the following 25 years, the club contested the different variations of the local competition. This was initially the SWGFL from 1988 until 1994; the league was absorbed by the
Mornington Peninsula Nepean Football League, becoming the Casey-Cardinia Division, in 1995, and the club won one premiership in that competition, in 1999. In 2019, the league merged with AFL Yarra Ranges to become
AFL Outer East, in which Berwick contested one season. In 2020, Berwick departed the country competition and joined the metropolitan
Eastern Football League, becoming its south-easternmost member, initially joining an expanded Premier Division. Its inaugural season was cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, meaning 2021 was its first season of competition. They also have multiple junior football clubs, ranging from Under 8’s to Under 19 Girls. ==Club symbols==