The club was formed on 12 March 1885[1] at the Gasthaus Paradiesgarten, a restaurant and pub in the north of Augsburg, as TV Lechhausen.

In 1924, the football department separated from the TV Lechhausen due to a change in the laws governing sports associations in Germany.

In August 1933, a group of local sports- and football-clubs merged to form the Turn- und Sportgemeinde Eintracht Augsburg, among them the TVL and the FC Union.

In 1934, the TVL and the FC Union merged again, this time for good, and formed the Turn- und Sport-Union 1885 Augsburg.

In April 1941, with the effects of World War II showing, the local clubs in the Lechhausen area had to finally merge and the TSG Augsburg was born.

The only solution in the end was to sell the TSG sports ground and hall to the Augsburg city council and then lease it back.

The club fell to an all-time low, to the point where they are now playing in the A-Klasse Augsburg 2, the lowest possible league level in Bavaria.