 After the merger of the football department with BC Augsburg to form FC Augsburg Schwaben was initially prohibited from fielding a team.Those members of the club disagreeing with the merger joined Eintracht Augsburg for a season but returned to Schwaben in 1970 again.The footballers had to restart in the lowest division, the tier eight C-Klasse Augsburg, and worked their way up through the league system from there.