After a break of a number of years, MTV has returned to competitive football, restarting at the lowest possible level, the C-Klasse, in 2009.

In the pre-Second World War days, the club lacked behind its local rival VfB Ingolstadt-Ringsee, the later ESV.

After World War II occupying Allied authorities ordered the dissolution of all organizations in Germany, including sporting associations.

The league was then split into a northern and a southern group and MTV finished fourth out of eleven teams in the south.

In the 1965–66 Landesliga season, it won the championship straight away and finally returned to the third division after a ten-year absence.

MTV could not maintain its Amateurliga status, however and promptly returned to the Landesliga,[6] symptomatic for a club that would remain an elevator side between those two leagues for the next forty years, until the merger.

[8] In this league, the club's first season was a success, finishing eleventh out of twenty teams, six points clear of relegation.

At the end of the season, ESV had won what was now renamed Amateur Oberliga Bayern and also earned promotion to the second tier.

While ESV finished 17th out of 21 clubs and remained in the league for another season, MTV came 19th and missed out on survival by three points to FSV Frankfurt.

[9] While beating BFC Preußen Berlin in the first round, the team lost to FC St. Pauli in the semi-finals and finished the season empty handed apart from its Bayernliga title.

The 1984–85 season was the last to see two teams from Ingolstadt in the Amateur Oberliga Bayern, ESV was relegated in 1986 and never managed to regain this level of play.

[11] MTV spent two seasons in the Landesliga before returning in 1987, having to beat FC Memmingen and VfB Helmbrechts in a promotion round to do so.

The club archived another fourth place in the Bayernliga in the following season and remained a strong side in the league until 1991.

MTV itself did not field a senior football team any more for a number of years but it continued to operate a small youth department.

ESV survived its insolvency, which it had to declare in July 2004[16] and which was one of the main reasons the new club was formed.