In addition to the earliest East German championship sides, current day club FSV Zwickau can name a long list of other local associations among its predecessors.

In the aftermath of World War II, most German organizations, including sports and football clubs, were dissolved by the occupying Allied authorities.

FC Nürnberg, but were denied permission to travel to Stuttgart to play the match as a result of early Cold War tensions between the Soviets and the Western Allies.

Nürnberg went on to claim the national title in a playoff staged under the authority of the German Football Association (Deutscher Fußball Bund) and made up entirely of Westzonen (Western Zones) teams.

Like many other teams in Soviet-occupied East Germany, Planitz would undergo a number of name changes associating the club with the "socialist work force" in various sectors of the economy in a commonly used propaganda device.

They were renamed ZSG Horch Zwickau in 1949 and became part of East Germany's new top-flight circuit, the DDR-Oberliga, for the inaugural 1949–50 season.

physical game and, abetted by the referee who refused the homeside substitutions and eventually reduced Friedrichstadt to an eight-man squad, "won" the match 5–1.

Unhappy, Dresden Friedrichstadt fans invaded the field several times, and at game's end, badly beat a Zwickau player.

Within weeks, the Dresden side was dismantled and the players scattered to other teams: most eventually fled to the west, many to play for Hertha Berlin.

They remained competitive through the early 1950s, but were unable to claim another national championship, as in the following decades they settled into the role[vague] of a mid- or lower-table side.

[1][2] Zwickau beat SV Elversberg 2–1 on aggregate in a promotion-play-off at the end of the 2015–16 season to return to the third level of German football, where it played until relegation in 2023.