The origins of an organised sports club in Wissen goes back to 1889 when the TV Wissen was formed, a gymnastics club. Attempts to form a football department within this club failed because of the club rejecting football as a suitable sport for young men. Attempts were made to form an independent football club in 1910 but this club soon folded again. With the industrialisation of Wissen and the considerable growth of the town just before the
First World War a football club was finally formed on 28 February 1914. The war soon interrupted regular play and it took until 1919 for
VfB to renter league football. The club was grouped in the B-Klasse of the
Westphalia region but won the league and entered the A-Klasse from the next season. The club was able to maintain a football team well into the last year of the
Second World War. The club reformed in 1946 with the permission of the French occupation authorities but had to official disband and reform again the following year. The club was now grouped in the part of
Rhineland region that would later become the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate rather than in Westphalia. VfB Wissen was promoted to the
Rheinlandliga, then the
Amateurliga Rheinland, in 1956. The club played in the eastern division of the league, then split into two regional groups and won the league in 1961 and 1962. While it failed to win the Rhineland championship in
1961 it did so in
1962 and was promoted to the tier two
2. Oberliga Südwest. Wissen finished in sixth place but the introduction of the
Bundesliga in 1963 and the changes in the league system meant that the club had to drop back to the Amateurliga. The club also won the
Rhineland Cup on two occasions in this era, in 1959 and 1961. After 21 consecutive seasons in the Amateurliga/Verbandsliga the club finally won the Rheinlandliga in 1988 and was promoted to the Oberliga Südwest for the 1988–89 season, where the club finished sixteenth and was promptly relegated again. It took
VfB two seasons to return to the Oberliga. It spent three seasons in the league from 1991 to 1994. After an eleventh place in 1992 it came fourth in 1993 and third in 1994. The later result was enough to be one of six teams from the league to qualify for the new
Regionalliga West/Südwest, one of four Regionalligas introduced that year. VfB Wissen came last in this league in 1994–95 and was relegated from the Regionalliga again. The following season, in the Oberliga, the club came last again and was relegated from this league, too. The Regionalliga West/Südwest disbanded in 2000 and the Oberliga Südwest renamed in 2012 and
VfB did not return to either in this time. ==Honours==