After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons in the third tier of the German football league system before floating between the 2.

Energie Cottbus can trace its roots back to a predecessor side of FSV Glückauf Brieske-Senftenberg, a club founded by coal miners in 1919, in what was then called the town of Marga.

[citation needed] SC Cottbus was quickly assisted by a wholesale transfer of players from SC Aktivist Brieske-Ost ordered by the East German authorities,[citation needed] who often intervened in the business of the country's sports and football clubs for political reasons.

In the mid-1960s, a re-organization program by the regime led to the separation of football sides from sports clubs and the creation of BSG von Bodo Krautz under the patronage of a local coal mine.

[citation needed] The football club went by that name only briefly and was quickly renamed BSG Energie in early 1966.

[citation needed] After being relegated, Energie narrowly missed a prompt[tone] return to the top tier, losing out to Mainz 05 on goal difference.

[citation needed] Energie Cottbus were the only club from the former East Germany playing in the Bundesliga until they lost a relegation play-off to 1.

The club's honours: Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply.

Energie often fielded nine or ten foreigners that season: German players appeared a total of just 83 times, with striker Sebastian Helbig as the leader with 28.

The players were Tomislav Piplica, Faruk Hujdurović, Bruno Akrapović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), János Mátyus, Vasile Miriuță (Hungary), Rudi Vata (Albania), Moussa Latoundji (Benin), Andrzej Kobylański (Poland), Antun Labak (Croatia), Laurențiu Reghecampf (Romania), and Franklin (Brazil).

As a side note, even the three substitutes were foreigners, namely Johnny Rödlund from Sweden, Sabin Ilie from Romania and Witold Wawrzyczek from Poland [1].