Barden Ridgebacks Soccer Club (Inc.) was formed at its inaugural meeting on 15 October 1996. The first Committee was elected at the subsequent meeting held on 13 November 1996, with Paul Lehanne (president), Bob Campany (Vice President), Phil Clancy (Secretary), Jeff Mazzarella (Registrar) and Jeff Stewart (Treasurer).

The Club was incorporated under the Associations Incorporation Act (NSW) 1984 on 23 July 1997 and subsequently became an affiliate of the Sutherland Shire Junior Soccer Football Association Inc.

The Club is strongly family orientated and is committed to respect for the game of soccer and those involved with it.

As a new Club in a relatively new suburb, Barden Ridgebacks is dominated by junior teams, particularly in the Roo Ball division. The Club registered its first teams in winter competition in the 1997 season and continues to grow at greater than 10% per year.

Until mid-way through the 1999 winter season, the Club played all home games at the soccer field situated within the grounds of the Lucas Heights Community School. The Club's first humble home (club house, canteen, gear storage facility, dressing room etc) was a rusty shipping container. This field is still used by the Club for team grading and trial game activities as well as training for the Club's Roo-Ball teams.

On 19 July 1999, Sutherland Shire Council and Waste Services (the Club's major sponsor) completed new playing fields and modern amenities as part of a larger sporting facilities development project on reclaimed waste disposal land at Lucas Heights. The new fields, affectionately known as the "Tip-Site", were allocated by Sutherland Shire Council and the Sutherland Shire Junior Soccer Association as the Club's new playing fields for the latter part of the 1999 season and to date. The Club campaigned strongly in 2002 and 2003 for the area to be appropriately renamed "The Ridge" ensuring intuitive geographic, topographic and emotional connection with the location of the site.

With readily foreseeable continued organic growth, boosted by further residential development of the suburb and surrounding area, the Club will quickly outgrow its existing fields and will need to look to alternative accommodation at the new soccer fields which are expected to be completed at the Ridge shortly.

Extracted from Sutherland Shire Junior Soccer Football Association "Reflections" 50th Anniversary booklet, 2 May 2003.