 Through the 1970s the team played in the East German third division DDR-Bezirksliga.After German reunification in 1990 the team was re-established as "Eisenbahnsportverein Halberstadt" and spent two seasons in the Verbandsliga Sachsen-Anhalt (IV) before slipping to the Landesliga Sachsen-Anhalt in 1992.Formed as a sports club for railway workers, the number of rail workers actually represented in the membership of the club dropped below 20% and it lost its affiliation with the Railway Sports Federation in 1993.