1972−1997: Formation years Nerang Soccer Club was founded in 1972 after a group of players from the Tweed District Soccer Association sought to base their team closer to the
Gold Coast and pursue stronger football competition. The original home ground was located at the Nerang Velodrome site in Hope Street, Nerang. Initially the club's senior teams played in emerging Gold Coast competitions before moving into various lower divisions within the
Brisbane soccer leagues, considered to be a much stronger level of competition and more established football environment than the Tweed District and newer Gold Coast competition could provide at the time. From 1976 through to the mid-1980s the club ascended through the Brisbane soccer divisions, winning multiple premierships, grand finals and promotions. After consecutive years of growth and success the club abandoned its shared home ground in 1987 to move to its current location at Glennon Park, in Recreation Drive, Nerang. At the 1990 Brisbane Division Two Grand Final the Nerang senior men's team defeated
Brisbane Croatia three goals to one, securing the club's promotion into the
Brisbane XXXX League First Division (State League), which was considered to be the second tier of football in Australia at the time. In 1991 the club was relegated back to the second division, returning again at the end of the 1995 season to the XXXX League First Division. The Eagles won numerous men's, women's and junior premierships and grand finals during their formation years and featured regularly in Brisbane and Gold Coast newspapers and media.
Since 1997: Return to the Gold Coast In 1997 a restructuring of
soccer in Queensland resulted in Nerang's senior teams leaving the Brisbane competitions and returning home to enter their home city's leagues for the first time since its formative years. The club remains in the
Gold Coast competitions and their men's teams currently compete in the
Football Queensland Premier League 3 − South Coast (formerly Football Gold Coast Premier League) after securing promotion in 2017 to return to the top flight of Gold Coast Football. The club's various other men's, women's and junior teams all compete on the Gold Coast. On Sunday 30 May 2021 the Nerang Eagles Premier League men's first grade team won its first major trophy since returning to the Gold Coast in 1997, defeating
Surfers Paradise Apollo for the 2021 Football Gold Coast President's Cup which ended a twenty three-year drought for the Eagles with no major titles. The match was played at Lex Bell Oval in
Isle of Capri on the Gold Coast, and was declared a draw at the end of regulation time with both teams having scored three goals, before going to a
penalty shootout where Nerang won with four goals to Surfers Paradise's one goal. ==Partnerships==