[1][2] The Universe entered the tier five Landesliga Hessen in 2008, finished runners-up in the league and was promoted to the Oberliga for 2009.

[3] From 2012 onwards the Universe played at national level in the southern division of the second tier German Football League 2.

In late 2014 the club announced that it had purchased the rights for the Galaxy name, would separate the first team from the club and field it under the Galaxy name and play from 2015 onwards in the Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion, home ground of association football team FSV Frankfurt.

In April 2016, Samsung were announced as the main sponsor of German Football League team Frankfurt Universe.

Frankfurt lost the season opener to defending GFL South champion Schwäbisch Hall Unicorns in 2016.