 In 1903, the club joined "FC Lipsia", which had also been a founding member, to form "Neuer Leipziger Ballspielverein Olympia" which was shortened to "Ballspielverein Olympia".Over the course of the rest of the century the football club would go through a number of mergers and name changes.They were briefly united in 1917 with "Leipziger BC 1883" to form the wartime side "SG LBC Olympia 1896" but re-emerged at the end of World War I in 1918 as "BV Olympia".