The women's side was founded in 1971. The first coach, Bernd Schröder was always looking for new players. He began to recruit former track and field athletes who were dropped by their clubs. New players were offered jobs and apartments by BSG Turbine Potsdam, and energy provider that supported the men's and women's clubs.
tournament favourite but missed the final, and then again in 1980. In 1981 the team went unbeaten in the tournament and won their first championship. Each player received 50 East German marks and
Schröder was awarded the title of "Activist of Socialist Work."
Turbine won the championship in 1982 and 1983 and began to receive invitations to tournaments around Europe. However, the East German government would not allow the club to travel to capitalist countries and even communist countries.
They won the league title again in 1989, their sixth, and it turned out to be the final East German title. With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the company who supported the team had financial troubles. In 1990 the club became SSV Turbine Potsdam. Turbine would finish in third place in the Frauen-Bundesliga.
Today the team has a team full of international players. Only eight on the roster are Germans with the rest coming from Swizterland, the United States, Israel. Japan, New Zealand, Bosnie and Herzegovina, and Ghana. They have won the Frauen-Bundesliga six times and where the runners- up 4 times. Likewise, the have two runners up in UEFA to go with their two championships.
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