In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the club's football team fielded a side in the third division Amateurliga Hamburg.

[1] A football department was established within the association in 1910 and in 1921 became independent as Sport Klub Ahrensburg.

This team briefly played as part of the combined side Fußballspielgemeinschaft SK Ahrensburg/FC Bargteheide in 1932–34.

The restored side undertook an ambitious program and established 17 different sporting departments.

ATSV's football team spent four seasons in the Amateurliga Hamburg (III) between 1957 and 1962, but was a lower table side that never finished better than 13th.