The club's most successful era was in the late 1950s and 1960s when it spent thirteen season in the tier three Bayernliga.

In this era, from 1956 to 1963, the club finished in the top ten each season with a fourth place in 1958–59 as its best result.

The club gradually declined until 1969 when an eighteenth-place finish meant relegation from the league.

Initially the club was a strong side in the league, finishing third in 1971 as its best result but not achieving promotion to the Bayernliga again.

[4][5] In 1988 the club became part of the newly introduced Bezirksoberliga Oberpfalz, the new highest football league in the Upper Palatinate.

Schwandorf made a permanent exit from the Bezirksoberliga, unable to return to this level until the league was disbanded in 2012.

The club plays its home games at the Hindenburgkampfbahn, which was opened in 1930 and holds up to 6,000 spectators.