 By virtue of a second-to-last position "SV" remained in the new fourth-tier Landesliga when the Verbandsliga Westfalen was introduced in 1956 as the highest league in Westphalia.The club was relegated in 1958 then entered a period of obscurity in the lower leagues for the next decades.In 2000 "SV" returned to the Landesliga (VI) but went down once again to spend the next 13 years in the Bezirksliga.