Verden 04

When the football department of TSV Verden went bankrupt in 2004, their answer was FC Verden 04, set up that July as its successor. The name was chosen to carry on the town's older football heritage, the predecessor clubs that had merged into TSV Verden back in 1945.

The new club began in the 1st Kreisklasse, the lowest amateur tier. It won the Kreispokal Verden in its first season, 2004/05, and by 2008 it was in the Bezirksliga.

The climb into the Landesliga Lüneburg was not a straight line. Promotion came in 2012 and the club went straight back down. It returned in 2015 and was relegated again. Promotion in 2018 was the one that lasted, and the club has stayed at that level since.

In 2023/24 FC Verden 04 won the Landesliga Lüneburg without losing a game. That took them up to the Oberliga Niedersachsen, the fifth tier. They play at the Sportanlage Hubertushain on Lüneburger Weg, a ground of about 2,000 seats. For bigger occasions they move to the Stadion am Berliner Ring, which holds around 15,000. It hosted a friendly against Werder Bremen in 2025.

They went out to Heeslinger SC on penalties in the Niedersachsenpokal in 2024/25. A year later they were back in the competition and beat LSK Hansa 4:1.