It was the first football club established in Upper Silesia and remained active until 1945.

The club was established in 1903 by Fritz Seidl as Fußball Club Ratibor and in 1906 became part of the Upper Silesian division (Bezirk Oberschlesien) of the Southeast German Football Association.

[1] During the interwar period, Ratibor was in and out of regional first class competition with their best result coming as a second-place finish in 1931.

In 1933, German football was reorganized under the Third Reich into sixteen top-flight divisions and Ratibor became part of the Gauliga Schlesien.

They made a single appearance in the Tschammerpokal tournament, predecessor to today's DFB-Pokal (German Cup), in 1937.