In their first game on May 11, 1899, they were beaten 2:3 by Mittweidaer BC, a founding club of the Deutscher Fussball Bund.

The team played in the Verbandes Mitteldeutscher Ballspiel-Vereine, and in 1909-10 took part in a regional playoff in the Mitte Südwestsachsen division where they were defeated 2:4 by VfB Leipzig.

They played a single season in the Landesliga Sachsen/Chemnitz, but slipped to local level competition after a fourth-place result.

In 1952, SG was renamed BSG Einheit Mittweida and played in the Bezirksliga Karl-Marx-Stadt (III) until 1964 with the exception of a single season demotion in 1959 before then becoming part of lower level local competition again.

After the reunification of Germany in 1990, BSG re-adopted its historical pre-war identity as SV Germania Mittweida and in 1996 became part of the Bezirksklasse Chemnitz (VIII).