The club's most notable era was when it was playing in the 2nd Oberliga Süd, then the second tier of the German football league system, from 1955 to 1963.

After a number of attempts, Helmbrechts won the A-Klasse championship in 1931 and earned promotion to the tier-two Kreisliga, where it played against well-known local sides like SpVgg Weiden and FC Bayern Hof.

The club restarted its football life in the local third division in 1946, earning a championship there and promotion to the tier-two Landesliga Bayern.

In a group with Borussia Fulda and Amicitia Viernheim, it won promotion finishing first, moving up alongside FC Penzberg, SpVgg Neu-Isenburg and VfR Heilbronn.

At the winter break, it led the league, but in the end it fell two points short of Jahn Regensburg in second place and finished fourth.

[7] Changes to the German league system in 1963, the introduction of the Fußball-Bundesliga and the Regionalligas below meant, VfB would have had to finish ninth or better to retain its second division status.

[9] In the Landesliga, Helmbrechts slowly worked its way up, finishing fourth in 1972, third in 1973 and second in 1971, but only the league champion was eligible for promotion at that time.

After this, results dropped off but the club remained an upper table side in this league, finally winning a championship and promotion back to what was now the Oberliga Bayern in 1979.

[11] VfB experienced a couple of good Oberliga years with a sixth place in 1982 the highlight but in 1983, the club was relegated back to the Landesliga once more.

[14] The club made a quick on-the-field recovery, earning promotion to the Bezirksliga Oberfranken Ost (VII) in 2000.