With over 2,500 members, TSG is the largest sport club in the town and includes departments for athletics, badminton, basketball, budō, dance, gymnastics, handball, swimming, table tennis, tennis, triathlon, volleyball, and various fitness activities.

Between 1922 and 1927 the team played in the highest level regional league where it faced sides such Schalke 04, MSV Duisburg, and Borussia Dortmund.

TSG spent several decades in lower tier local play until a series of promotions; first to the Landesliga (VI) in 1996, the Verbandsliga Westfalen Südwest (V) in 1997, and to the Oberliga Westfalen (IV) for the first time in 2000.

A third-place finish in the Oberliga in 2015–16 earned the club direct promotion to the Regionalliga West after runners-up SpVgg Erkenschwick declined, but they were relegated back to the Oberliga after just one season.

The club's honours: Sprockhövel plays its home matches at Im Baumhof which was opened in 1936 and has a capacity of 3,500.