The club was founded in 1886 as " Kingston Football Club " and joined the STFA in 1893 as a junior club before playing its first senior match in the competition on 4 May 1895 , against North Hobart at the then STFA Ground , located on the present site of the Cornelian Bay hockey fields . After leaving that competition at the completion of 1907 , the club joined the Channel Football Association for one season in 1908 before joining the Kingborough Football Association , where it remained a member from 1909 to 1966 . After the horrific bushfires of Southern Tasmania in 1967 , the club absorbed the Longley Football Club and joined the Huon Football Association where it remained a member until it left the Association at the completion of the 1995 season to join the newly formed Southern Football League in 1996
horrific bushfires of Southern Tasmania in 1967
1967 Tasmanian fires
Kingborough Football Club