 A division championship returned them to what was now the fourth-division Oberliga Nordost/Süd for one season in 1999.A three-year-long turn in the Landesliga Thüringen (V) ended in bankruptcy and demotion to the Bezirksliga Thüringen-4 (VII) in 2003, where the club played until 2007 and the merger that created the current-day club.At the end of the 2008–09 season, the club decided to revert to the name of BSG Wismut Gera.