Australian Football

For many years Kingsway fielded teams in both the Western Australian Amateur Football League, playing on Saturdays, and the Mercantile Football Association, which played on Sundays. Nowadays they are members of the Western Australian Amateur Football League only, competing in B Grade. The club dates back to 1947 when it was known as Wanneroo and engaged solely in social matches. In 1956 Wanneroo commenced in the South Midlands Football Association and spent the next four seasons in this competition, getting as far as the grand final in 1959, only to lose to Hearne Hill.

Between 1960 and 1968 Wanneroo competed in the Sunday National Football League with a 2 point grand final loss to North Perth in 1962 the closest it came to procuring a flag. The club had to wait until it commenced in the Western Australian Football Association in 1969 to claim its first senior grade premiership. That year's grand final encounter with Osborne Park was a hard, slogging affair and Wanneroo, although hard pressed all day, held on to win by 10 points. The ‘Roos would go on to be the WAFA’s most successful club with a total of eight senior grade premierships to their name over the course of the competition’s fifteen year existence.

The 1984 season saw Wanneroo commencing in the Sunday Football League and making it through to the grand final, only to lose to Kalamunda. Senior grade premierships eventually came the Kangaroos’ way in 1988, 1991 and 1992.

In 2007, a year before the SuFL disbanded, Wanneroo Kingsway as the club was by then known transferred to the MFA, and enjoyed premiership success straight away thanks to a 19 point grand final victory over Midland. The following year saw the club dropping the word ‘Wanneroo’ from its name and emphasising its ambition by fielding a second senior grade team in the Western Australian Amateur Football League. Competing in D Grade, this side qualified for the finals in third place before going on to claim a rousing come from behind triumph over minor premier Ballajura in the grand final. The ‘Roos trailed at the first change by 16 points and by 17 points at the half. They then battled their way back to be on even terms at the last change before producing a superb 7 goals to 2 final term to win convincingly by 32 points, 15.13 (103) to 10.11 (71). Since the demise of the MFA the Kangaroos have, as alluded to above, competed solely in the WAAFL. They reached a C1 Grade grand final in 2014 and downed Stirling convincingly by 71 points. They then spent two seasons in B Grade, finishing eighth (of ten) in 2015 before reaching the finals for an eventual fourth place finish the following year. Then, in 2017 they achieved promotion to A Grade as runners-up after a 10.7 (67) to 14.7 (91) grand final loss to Wannaroo and the 2018 season saw them consolidating at that level by winning 5 of 18 matches to finish seventh (of ten).