The side can trace its roots back to an earlier
Union Solingen club founded in 1897 out of the merger of a number of clubs from the district of Ohligs that would over time include
Ohligs FC 06,
VfR Ohligs,
Walder Ballspielverein, and
BV Adler Ohligs. Of the club's predecessor sides only
VfR Ohligs would distinguish itself with any time spent in first-division football when they played the 1940–41 season in the
Gauliga Niederrhein before being relegated on the heels of last place finish. In 1949, after World War II, the club was re-formed as
Union Ohligs and began play in the
2nd Oberliga West (Gruppe 2). By the early 70s they were playing in the
Amateurliga Niederrhein (III). A 1973 merger with
VfL Wald Ohligs 1897 led to the formation of a club that played in the Regionalliga West (II) as
Ohligs SC Solingen for a single season before being relegated. Renamed
SG Union Solingen the next year, the team earned promotion to the
2.Bundesliga-Nord by the middle of the decade. They would stay fourteen seasons in the professional ranks with their best finishes being a fifth and sixth in 1984–85.
Solingen returned to the
Amateur-Oberliga Nordrhein (III) in 1989: by this time the club was suffering financially and would soon be bankrupt. In 1990 the club was dissolved. == Former coaches ==