The Benalla Football Netball Club, nicknamed the Saints, is an Australian rules football and netball club based in Benalla, Victoria. Its football and netball teams currently compete in the Goulburn Valley Football League.

The first published evidence of a club meeting was in 1871, to arrange a local football match on the Queen's Birthday holiday.

Football in Benalla appeared to of lapsed between 1872 and 1877, then the football club was re-formed in April 1878, with a meeting at Hamilton's Hotel when Mr. D.G. McC. O'Leary was elected as president. "The first and inaugurating match of Benalla FC" was played on the Benalla Recreation Reserve on Saturday, 27 April 1878.

In May, 1878, Carlton Football Club played a match against a North Eastern Victorian team at Benalla.

In May 1882, Benalla hosted a match between the Melbourne Football Club and a North Eastern representative team, with Melbourne winning a tight contest.

In 1883, Benalla FC played their home games on the oval adjoining the Benalla East State School and "have given amusement to the public during many a dreary Saturday".

In 1884 and 1885 the club's colours were a "blue guernsey and red and blue hose and cap".

In 1886, Essendon Football Club played a representative team from the North East of Victoria at the Benalla Recreation Reserve, which resulted in a win to Essendon.