The club's most successful era was in the late 1960s when it spent a single season in the tier three Bayernliga.
Formed in 1910, FC Münchberg has been, most of its history the club, a nondescript amateur side in local Bavarian football.
The later allowed the club promotion to the tier three Bayernliga for the first time but FC Münchberg lasted for only one season there, coming seventeenth and being relegated back to the Landesliga again.
[2] In 1988 the club became a founding member of the Bezirksoberliga Oberfranken, a league newly slotted in between the Landesliga and the Bezirksliga.
FC Münchberg played the next five seasons at this level, with an eighth place finish in 1991 as its best result.