Altona Football Club was established in 1918 in a Pier Street café by James Duke, Dick Blomberg and a number of other business people from Altona.
James Duke`s son George was the first soldier from Altona to return home after WW1 and his battalion`s colours of Purple & Gold were adopted by the newly formed Altona Football Club as their guernsey colours.
Altona Football Club fields Senior and Junior sides in the WRFL competition and is an institution in the Altona area allowing adults and children to play Australian Rules Football.