Highett joined the Federal Football League
in 1929 playing in the junior section.
In 1934 the club entered a team in the
Federal League's Second Division.
Highett played in three successive
Second Division Grand Finals,1936-37-38,
finishing runners up on each occasion before
winning the club's first Premiership in 1939.
1945 saw the club in the Federal League's First Division.
However from then on the record was not good -
405 games with 102 wins, 299 losses, 4 ties
and the wooden spoon on 6 occasions.
At the end of the 1970 season, the club embarked on a
mission to become the most powerful club in the then
Federal League, and appointed Sandringham ruckman
Darrell Mackenzie as club coach.
Mackenzie was an immediate success taking
the club to four successive
Federal League Grand Finals for:
SENIOR Premiership 1971 Vs Springvale
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SENIOR Premiership 1973 Vs Noble Park
RESERVES Premiership 1973 Vs Oakleigh Districts
SENIOR Premiership 1974 Vs Cheltenham
1971-1974 - A four period which was without doubt
the most exciting and successful four years
in the history of the Highett Football Club
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In 1979 the club, administered by a group of former
players appointed George Allen,(ex Port Melbourne)
as Captain/Coach.
Allen-like Mackenzie was an immediate success,
taking the club to it's fifth Grand final in nine years,
defeating Clayton at Cheltenham to win the club
it's fourth Federal League Premiership in the 70's.
the end of 1981, Highett joined the
South East Suburban Football League,
now known as the
Southern Football League,
where it plays in the League's Second Division.
