The club was established 1 July 1920 as the gymnastics club Turnverein Trebgast which quickly formed football, fistball and handball departments.

[1] The footballers enjoyed their best seasons in the late 1970s when they played in the Amateurliga and Amateuroberliga Bayern following the capture of a title in the Landesliga Bayern-Nord in 1977.

Their most recent success came as a second-place finish in the Bezirksliga Oberfranken-Ost in 2002.

TSV dropped as far as the A-Klasse Bayreuth (X) before promotion in 2015–16 took the club back up to the Kreisklasse.

In addition to the football side, the club has departments for Karate, hiking, women's gymnastics, shooting and carnival.