The club's greatest success has been promotion to the German Football League 2 in 2009 and 2013, where it played for five seasons until 2015.

[1] The Holzgerlingen Twister entered league football in 1998, joining the tier five Verbandsliga.

A runners-up finish took the club up to the Regionalliga Mitte but it was relegated back to the Oberliga after just two seasons.

[1] Two Oberliga seasons followed in which the second one produced another league championship and a return to the Regionalliga for 2009.

Holzgerlingen played at the second tier of the German league system for the next three seasons with a third place in 2011 as its best result.