 The history of the club includes the mergers of a number of earlier clubs, the most important of these being the "Duisburger Turngemeinde für Erwachsene von 1848" – predecessor of the "Duisburger Spielverein" – and "TuS Duisburg 48/99".It was these two sides that fused to create today's club on 24 July 1964.Duisburger SV was one of the most successful sides of early football in western Germany.