 Established following World War II as "Sportgemeinde Markranstädt", the club took up play in the top-flight regional Landesliga Sachsen/Leipzig in the Soviet occupied eastern part of the country and earned a first-place finish in the 1947–48 season.Renamed "SG Glück-Auf Markranstädt", the team slipped to consecutive seventh-place finishes in its next two campaigns.The club then disappeared into lower-tier play in East Germany and, like most other clubs there, underwent a succession of name changes over the years