For a time, it was coached by German football legend Fritz Walter,[1] who wrote a book about the club, titled Aufstieg einer Dorfmanschaft (English: Rise of a village team).

The club's fortunes fundamentally changed in the 1960s when the retired captain of Germany's 1954 FIFA World Cup winning squad, Fritz Walter, moved to town.

Walter became the coach of the side who was playing at this stage in the local A-Klasse, then the fifth tier of the German football league system in the region.

FC Kaiserslautern player, vowed to build up the little club and take it to the top level of German football.

[2] The next season saw a repeat of the league championship, sitting on equal points with Neuendorf but having scored considerably more goals.

In the last round, against Hertha Zehlendorf, on 22 June 1969, it needed a win for promotion but lost 0–3 instead and Oberhausen went up, being one point ahead of SVA.

At the end of the season, the club had to sell one of its best players, Lorenz Horr, who was then a record transfer for the German Bundesliga.

[4] In its three years in the Bundesliga promotion round, the club played all its home games in the considerably larger stadium in Ludwigshafen.

The club continued to be a strong team in the Regionalliga after 1970, earning a fifth and third place in the following seasons, but not being able to repeat its performance from the time between 1967 and 1970.

In 1963, like in 1974, the rumor was that the German Football Association chairman Hermann Neuberger, a native of the Saarland and honorary member of the 1.

With the promotion of the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim to the Fussball-Bundesliga in 2008, a village club finally archived what Alsenborn aimed for in the late 1960s.