This was manifested in football through the establishment of a league structure separate from Germany's German Football Association (Deutsche Fussball Bund), the appearance of the region's top sides in French competition, and the formation of a national side that took part in qualification play for the 1954 FIFA World Cup.

During this period SV rose out of the Bewährungsklasse Saar, Gruppe Ost to play in the final Ehrenliga season before continuing on in the now third tier Amateurliga.

Club footballer Heinz Vollmar was capped four times in 1955 and 1956 as part of Saarland's short-lived national side.

They fielded strong sides throughout the 1960s, but their performance fell off in the 1970s as they became a lower table club and spent two seasons in the fourth tier.

By 2008, they had slipped to the Kreisliga Ostsaar (IX), Staffel Höcherberg where they earned a second-place result in 2006–07, before winning the league the year after and moving up to Bezirksliga (VIII) play.