The club is the successor to BSG Chemie Böhlen which played four seasons in the former East German first division DDR-Oberliga.

Liga was scrapped in 1963, when they were one of 64 teams regrouped in the Bezirksliga because a third-place finish for them was way short of a promotion playoff place.

Their debut in the DDR-Liga (II) was a disappointing one, ending in second from bottom and relegation yet they acted as a yo-yo club in 1967 when they earned their third Bezirksliga title and succeeded in the playoffs again.

Chemie played the last eight seasons of the DDR-Liga and won Group B before the league system dissolved.

Chemie subsequently joined the Kreisklasse Borna/Geithain (VII) and in 2003 went up to the Bezirksklasse/Kreisoberliga (VII-VIII) where they presently belong, except two seasons in the Kreisliga after voluntary reassignment.