With the industrialisation of Wissen and the considerable growth of the town just before the First World War a football club was finally formed on 28 February 1914.

[1] The war soon interrupted regular play and it took until 1919 for VfB to renter league football.

The club was grouped in the B-Klasse of the Westphalia region but won the league and entered the A-Klasse from the next season.

[2] The club was able to maintain a football team well into the last year of the Second World War.

The club was now grouped in the part of Rhineland region that would later become the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate rather than in Westphalia.

Wissen finished in sixth place but the introduction of the Bundesliga in 1963 and the changes in the league system meant that the club had to drop back to the Amateurliga.

In the same year the Oberliga Südwest was established as the third tier in the region but Wissen needed to qualify in sixth place to enter this new league and came only thirteenth.