FC Zirndorf, SpVgg Zindorf, Arbeiter Turn- und Sportverein Jahn and Radfahrverein Solidarität merged.

The club played an impressive first season in this league, finishing runners-up to champions 1.

Having finished in the top seven they also qualified for the new single division Bayernliga which was introduced at the end of the 1962–63 season.

[2] In the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte, which was also introduced in 1963, the club continued to struggle and was relegated again after another sixteenth-place result, this time to the Bezirksliga.

Eleven seasons of lower league football followed before Zirndorf made their way back to Landesliga play in 1986.

The first two seasons were promising, with a sixth and a seventh-place finish, but then results declined and the club was relegated again in 2005 after coming seventeenth.