The club's greatest success has been to play in the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg, the highest football league in the state, of which it became a founding member in 1978.

When the Nazis rose to power, however, this cross-border competition ceased to exist and the club joined the new Schwarzwald–Bodensee–Liga instead.

In between, during the First World War football came to a halt and when it restarted in 1918 the club changed its name to FV Ravensburg.

[3][4] In 1956 the club earned promotion to the Amateurliga Württemberg, then the third tier of the German football league system.

In this new southern league, the Amateurliga Schwarzwald-Bodensee, FV Ravensburg entered, finishing in third place in its first season there.

From 1973 onwards Ravensburg was an improved side in the Amateurliga, once more finishing in the upper half of the table.

[8] After five seasons in the Landesliga FV made a return to the Verbandsliga in 1989, with a record 4,000 spectators seeing the local derby against VfB Friedrichshafen.