In 1940, the club made its only appearance in play for the Tschammerpokal, predecessor to the modern-day DFB-Pokal (German Cup), and was put out in the second qualifying round.

They earned a return in 1943, but World War II made play untenable and the Gauliga Sachsen broke up into a number of small local city-based leagues.

In 1963, East German football was re-organized with a view towards fostering the development of talent for the country's national side.

Once again, the remade side captured the Oberliga title before following with a string of uneven results that saw the club moving between first and second division play into the early 1980s.

At the end of May 1990, the club was renamed FC Grün-Weiß Leipzig and quickly merged with SV Chemie Böhlen (formerly BSG Chemie Böhlen) to create FC Sachsen in August of that year and took up play in the Oberliga Nordost which was the top-flight successor of the DDR-Oberliga in 1990/91 at first and later in the early 1990s would become a third-tier league in the unified Germany on former GDR soil and including former East and West Berlin.