The side originated with the 1912 establishment of a football department in the gymnastics club "Turnerbund Weiden". The footballers became independent on 19 January 1924 and enjoyed some early success in capturing local titles in 1924 and 1931, gaining promotion to the "Bezirksliga Bayern" for one season. Between 1929 and 1934 they were united with "Fußball Club Windischeschenbach" to play as "SpVgg Weiden-Windischeschenbach". In 1934, the team qualified to play in the Gauliga Bayern, one of sixteen top flight divisions formed in the 1933 re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They were relegated to lower level play after just one season, but returned to the Gauliga in 1941 in a union with "Reichsbahn SV Weiden" as part of the combined wartime side "Reichsbahn Sport- und Spielvereinigung Weiden". This club remained in the top flight until the end of World War II.