After the First World War, in 1919, the club established a football department, which initially played under the name of FC Vorwärts Starnberg.

The club was reformed after the Second World War, in 1947, but it took until 1951 to receive all its assets back, at which time the football department was restarted again, too.

[1][3] SpVgg Starnberg had been established in 1912 and, apart from its one year in the Bayernliga, spend a number of seasons in the Landesliga Bayern-Süd from 1975 to 1981, 1986 to 1989 and again from 1990 to 1992.

After an eleventh place in the following year, the club entered its most successful era, finishing in the top five for the next three seasons.

[5][6] At the end of the 2011–12 season the club qualified directly for the newly expanded Landesliga after finishing fourth in the Bezirksoberliga.