SV Atlas Delmenhorst was formed on 13 July 1973 when three local Delmenhorst clubs, FC Roland, VSK Bungerhof and SSV Delmenhorst, merged with the support of local building equipment manufacturer Atlas Weyhausen GmbH. The new club took up the stadium of
SSV, built in 1930, the Stadion an der Düsternortstraße, as its home ground as FC Roland's was too small and
VSK neither had a football team nor a stadium. The new club quickly rose through the league system, winning promotion to the tier four
Landesliga Niedersachsen in 1975.
Atlas won this league as a freshly promoted side and moved up to the tier three
Oberliga Nord for the 1976–77 season. The club played for six seasons in the league until 1983 when an eighteenth-place finish meant relegation again. In between the club finished as high as fourth place in the league in 1979–80. It also made a single appearance in the
DFB-Pokal for
1980–81, reaching the fourth round, eliminating
2. Bundesliga sides
Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and
Kickers Offenbach on the way before being knocked-out by
Borussia Mönchengladbach. Back in the Oberliga the club came thirteenth in 1999. With the loss of support from long-term sponsor Atlas Weyhausen the fortunes of the club declined. It played three more seasons in the western division of the Verbandsliga Niedersachsen and was renamed to
Delmenhorster SC in October 1999. It came last in the league in 2001–02 and had to declare insolvency, being eventually stricken from the register of clubs. On 10 June 2002, Eintracht Delmenhorst was formed to take over and continue the youth department of
Atlas, with the latter de-registered. In the subsequent year the club won the
Landesliga Weser-Ems, earning promotion to the Niedersachsen Oberliga. In 2019, Delmenhorst won the Niedersachsenpokal, a local amateur cup tournament, and thus qualified for the
2019–20 DFB-Pokal. The club was knocked-out in the first round by
Werder Bremen. ==Honours==