The club was formed in September 1946 and spend the first three decades of its existence in lower amateur football.

An early highlight for the club was a friendly against FC Bayern Munich, in front of 7,000 spectators, as a farewell match for Bernd Dürnberger who had come out of SV Kirchanschöring youth department and joined Bayern.

The club played the 1976–77 season in the Landesliga Bayern-Süd but could only finish fifteenth and was promptly relegated again.

[5] Its second stint in the Landesliga Bayern-Süd was no more successful than its first with SV Kirchanschöring coming sixteenth in 2011–12, the last season of the league.

After finishing sixth and fifth in its first two season there Kirchanschöring won the league in 2014–15 and earned promotion to the Bayernliga for the first time.