The Glencoe Football Club began as both a Gymnasium and Football Club. The first records of this body are of a meeting held on April 5 1910 and the Club was named The Glencoe Juniors. The Club has the original minute book from that meeting and all others since. The Club released a history book on the Glencoe Football Club titled, ”Murphies Lore” at it’s centenary in 2010.

The original colours for the Club were red, white & blue but these were changed in 1912 to maroon and gold but instead of the current gold V on a maroon background, the colours were combined in horizontal stripes.

On June 28 1913 it was agreed to dissolve the Gymnasium Club which left the Football Club to function on its own. It was to be known as The Glencoe Junior Football Club until 1920 when at the Annual Meeting it was changed to The Glencoe Football Club.

Football matches were played whenever they could be organised prior to 1910 and this continued up until 1927 when Glencoe joined the Mount Gambier B Grade Association. In 1929 this became the South Eastern B Grade Association.

These matches were played wherever they could, mostly in different paddocks around the district, as the club had no permanent home ground. In 1927 a football oval was established at the Glencoe East Showgrounds and in 1940 the Club moved to its current location at the Glencoe West oval on Kirip Road.

In 1936 the Mid South Eastern Football League was formed with the Glencoe Football Club being a founding member. The football club has continued to develop and prosper in the decades that followed with a particular milestone being the construction of the current club room complex which was officially opened on 22nd July 1973.