Established on 15 June 1904, the club was a founding member of the city's Neuen Leipziger Fußball-Verbandes.

In 1915–16, the club took first place after suffering only a single defeat through the season (0:1 to VfB Leipzig).

The next season, Eintracht captured a third title by finishing just one point ahead of VfB.

As regional champions, Eintracht would normally have taken part in the subsequent final round of the German championship, but this was cancelled due to the ongoing war.

German football was reorganized that year into 16 top-flight regional divisions and the club was unable to qualify for the new Gauliga Sachsen (I), remaining in now second tier city-level play until being dissolved at the end of World War II in 1945.