The club's most successful era was from 1978 to 1985, when it spent six seasons in the tier three Fußball-Bayernliga, with a ninth place in this league as its best result.

[1] Their youth team reached the final of the Bavarian Under 19 championship twice in the 1970s and produced players like former German international Klaus Augenthaler.

FC Vilshofen was formed in 1919[2][3] and rose above local play in 1973, when it achieved promotion to the tier four Landesliga Bayern-Mitte.

After relegation in 1985, the club spent another ten seasons at Landesliga level, initially as an upper table side.

[6] At the end of the 2011–12 season the club qualified for the promotion round to the newly expanded Landesliga, after finishing eighth in the Bezirksoberliga.