About us

 Footscray Swimming and Water Polo Clubs is an all-welcome, aquatic sports club, which has been in continuous operation in the inner-west Melbourne community for over 109 years. We are a family-friendly club offering a supportive sporting chance to swimmers and players of all abilities.

Our primary function is to promote and encourage competition for our members - from beginners to State, National and International level. Our history demonstrates our ongoing success in this endeavour in both swimming and water polo. To date we have had over 25 members representing Australia either as athletes or officials, some several times.

While our club is well-represented at an elite level, we believe that the success of our club can also be measured by the efforts of all our members to have a go, improve their performance and do the best that they can do. This effort may be in the pool, or helping out with any of the jobs needed for our club to function.

The other important function of our club is to create and maintain a friendly, social environment and provide the opportunity for all members of the community to keep fit and live a healthy life regardless of age, ability or background. We do this through come and try days, our junior water polo program, junior and senior water polo competition and social events.

Come down and give it a try, you will always be welcome!