BW Lohne

The Heinz-Dettmer-Stadion on Steinfelder Straße holds 7,150. The club that plays there grew out of a gymnastics society, TV 1894 Lohne, and only became a football club through a chain of mergers: a union with Olympia Lohne in 1914, then a joining with the wartime formation Sportvereinigung Lohne in 1936, before the club settled on its present name, TuS Blau-Weiß Lohne von 1894, in 1945.

For decades the football side of that history was mostly about staying afloat. Between 1949 and 1997 the club kept falling short in promotion playoffs to the Oberliga, and after finally reaching that level it slid as low as the seventh tier by 2006, needing three years there before working back up through the Landesliga. The turn came in 2022, when winning the Oberliga Niedersachsen sent BW Lohne into the Regionalliga Nord for the first time. That same year they reached the Niedersachsenpokal final and lost to Heeslinger SC on penalties.

They went back in 2024/25 and won it, beating VfL Osnabrück 4–2 in the final on 24 May 2025. The cup put them into the DFB-Pokal for the first time, drawn against FC Augsburg. In the Regionalliga itself, results ran the other way: BW Lohne finished second-bottom in 2025/26 and dropped back into the Oberliga a season after winning a national cup tie. The rivalry that carries the most weight in that division is with SV Meppen, sharpened by a Niedersachsenpokal final defeat to them in 2024.