The club's greatest success has been promotion to the tier three Oberliga Nordrhein on five occasions, to be relegated again after short stints in the league.

Long a local amateur club TuS began its rise through the league system in the early 1970s after former German international Georg Stollenwerk was hired as coach.

[1] The club first won promotion to the highest football league in the Middle Rhine region, the tier three Verbandsliga Mittelrhein, in 1973.

[2] In the era from 1973 to 2000 when TuS Langerwehe either played in the Verbandsliga or the Oberliga above the club also made seven appearances in the German Cup.

[8] Making its sixth appearance in the competition in 1980–81 the club defeated SV Stuttgart-Rot in the first round before being knocked out by Borussia Mönchengladbach in the second.