The team first came to notice in 1932 by capturing the Baltenverband title and advancing to the national playoff round where they were put out in an eighth-final match by Eintracht Frankfurt (0:6).

[1] In 1933, German football was re-organized under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight regional divisions and SV joined the Gauliga Ostpreußen.

SSV repeated their group and division wins in the 1936–37 season and again advanced to the opening round of the national playoffs, this time by defeating Yorck Boyen Insterburg (0:0, 7:0).

The team also made appearances in play for the Tschammerspokal, predecessor to the present day DFB-Pokal (German Cup) in three consecutive years from 1936 to 1938.

[2] Allenstein won the Gauliga Ostpreußen outright in 1939 and made one last appearance in the national playoffs before military sides were no longer permitted to take part in general competition.