The Kalamunda City Football Club was established following the merge of Kalamunda United Football Club and Maddington White City Football Club in 2024. This marks the beginning of a new chapter for each club and community, however, it is important we recognise and respect the history we come from.

Kalamunda United Football Club (est. 1969 as High Wycombe Soccer Club)

The Kalamunda United Football Club was established through the creation of two clubs, one junior and one senior club. The junior club was founded as High Wycombe Soccer Club in February 1969, but shortly changed to Wycombe Wanders in 1970 linking the club the with the English professional association club of the same name. The name change brought along with it a sense of history to the local club in Perth, Australia. In 1978 the senior club was established as Kalamunda Soccer Club and competed in the Saturday league (what is now State League Football) between 1978 and 1989, playing as Kalamunda Districts between 1980 and 1983.

The club had little in the way of facilities, and operated from the car park of Maida Vale Reserve until a clubhouse with meeting rooms, canteen and storerooms were opened in May 1998. Owning to its weak financial position, the club did not have any significant success, but were competitive and passionately dedicated to the game. The senior team competed in the Saturday league’s 4^th division and developed a strong rivalry with Forrestfield United (Kalamunda United until 1979). Generally the weaker of the teams, the local derby and fierce rivalry brought out the best in the Kalamunda Soccer Club. The team did experience some success in various carnivals and end of season tournaments including the Busselton Football (soccer) cup. The senior club spent one season in 1988 at Scott Reserve and another in 1989 at Ray Owen Reserve. Unfortunately, and owning partly the constant change in location, the club folded at the conclusion of the 1989 season.

The junior side, playing at Wycombe Wanders, experience similar limits to the senior side given the financial position of the club, with talent often being lost to stronger and more financially rich clubs able to invest in young and talent players. Despite this the club steadily grew from around 100 players in 1970 to 260 players by 1997.

In 1997 the club adopted the Kalamunda United Football Club name to better reflect the area players were being drawn from and with the intent to offer both junior and senior teams. Whilst it took a few year, the senior team was established in 2001 and enjoyed immediate success winning the social North East Region league championship. The win moved the club into Amateurs Third Division for the 2002 season where the club finished 3^rd in their first year and were again promoted, this time to the Second Division. A steady, yet unremarkable few seasons where the team played between amateurs second and third divisions followed. A best placed finish of 2^nd, first in Amateurs Third Division and then in Amateurs Second Division in 2012 saw the club promoted to Amateurs First Division in 2013. Kalamunda United’s amateurs team lasted three years in the First Division, between 2013 and 2015 before starting a decline and eventually folding for the 2023 season.

Whilst little came in the way of amateur league success for the club, the junior program started to experience some success. The U16 boys completed a very successful year in 2004 claiming the Junior Soccer Association (JSA) Under 16s Premiership League title and JSA’s Metro Knockout Cup title becoming the clubs most successful team.

The Kalamunda United Football Club has also invested in female football more than any other club in our region and in 2005 established a senior women’s team for the first time. The team was established with the aim to grow the profile of female football (soccer) and provide opportunities for those living in the hills and foothills to play locally. The club has predominately held one senior female team, with short spells of two teams. The club also made significant strides in developing our junior and miniroo girls programs, with the club expanding to provide a team in each age group from U8s to U16s in 2023. The girls teams have also experienced some success with wins to the U16s in 2018 followed by titles in the U14s Girls in 2022 shortly followed by a win by the same squad in the U16s Girls in 2023.

In 2024 the club will continue to offer a full junior to senior club set up with the reintroduction of Amateurs into Division 4, social men’s and women’s teams, as well as the continuation of the Central Division women’s team. The junior girls program will also expand to provide teams from u8s through to u17s (u8, u10s, u12s, u13s, u14s, u16s & u17s). The junior boys program will continue to offer multiple teams across most age groups offering plenty of opportunity for existing and new players to play our great game.

Maddington White City Football Club (est. 1981 as Booragoon Zavicaj)

Maddington White City Football Club was founded as “Booragoon Zavicaj” by Serbian immigrants who arrived in Perth. The club initially was formed in the Serbian Community Centre, before playing their first season in the Sunday Amateur League Division 4 competition in 1981 finishing in third place. A year later the club switched to the State League competition, competing in State League Division 4 where immediate success was experienced finishing 1st and winning 12 games in the season as they gained promotion for the 1983 season into Division 3. The team had limited success in Division 3 before being relegated in 1987 into the 4th Division. Following the restructuring of the State League, Booragoon Zavicaj were placed into the third tier of three divisions where they finished 7th and 16th.

In 1992 the team merged with Dianella Serbia to create one Serbian team in WA Football which could compete in the State League. This resulted in a 4th placed finish in 1992, followed by the club winning the Division 2 competition in 1993. Despite the success of the merger on the field, the clubs separated in 1994. Booragoon Zavicaj did not continue to play in the amateur or state league competitions with the focus shifted to the community and the development of the Serbian Community Centre including the construction of football pitches. In 2007 with the construction complete the Centre once again entered a team, this time under the name “Maddington Eagles” playing in the amateurs division until 2012. A short lived merger with Fremantle Spirit (the Portuguese club originating from Benfica United) in 2013 lead to the name change of Maddington White City. Following the split from Fremantle Spirit, the Serbian based club continued with under name Maddington White City playing in the Amateur First Division from 2014.

The club earned promotion to Amateur Premier Division in 2020 after finishing 2nd in the First Division. In 2021 the first team finished 2nd but agonisingly were unable to earn promotion into State League Division 2, but only needed one more season in 2022 where they finished 1st and successfully earned promotion into State League Football again.

In 2023 the Maddington White City Football Club joined Kalamunda United Football Club in a memorandum of understanding (MOU) as a precursor to a merge with the intent to identify if the two clubs would be suited. The state league team therefore competed as Maddington-Kalamunda White City. The team were immediately successful and finished 2nd, qualifying for the play-offs for promotion into State League Division 1. Unfortunately the team were unable to beat Curtin University in the two-leg promotional play-offs and competed in State League Division 2 in 2024, however under the merged name of Kalamunda City Football Club.

Maida Vale Reserve Throughout the Years