Club
A hundred years. Lane by lane.
Founded by young athletes from St. Joseph’s parish who set up their own club that same evening. Today the seventh largest of 109 sports clubs in Osnabrück.
- 1925
Founded
On 1 November at the Wellinghoff inn as FC Nahne. Every founder pays 6 Reichsmarks for black shirts with white collars and a leather ball.
- 1929
Own ground
The Koksche Strasse ground opens. The ball for the opening match is dropped from a plane.
- 1934
Ban
DJK sport is banned, the Gestapo drives the footballers off the pitch, founder Bernhard Avermann is arrested and freed by the diocese.
- 1945
Grün-Weiss
The military government bans the name Rasensport. The club restarts as SV Grün-Weiss and is called Rasensport again in 1948.
- 1951
Under-19s
Lower Saxony runners-up, one of the greatest successes in club history.
- 1967
Floodlights
Osnabrück’s first floodlights switch on at Koksche Strasse.
- 1981
DFB-Pokal
The greatest game in club history, see below.
- 1996
The hill
On 24 October the RASPO sports park on Mercatorstrasse opens.
- 2003
Merger
The police sports club brings boxing, fencing and judo.
- 2015
Fair Fighting
Judo coach Sebastian Häfker starts the project for German and refugee teenagers. It brings together more than a hundred people, NDR reports on it.
- 2025
A hundred years
Volunteers’ celebration on the hill, Green Walker anniversary tournament, party at the Rosenhof with some 300 guests, Heinrich Hünecke medal for the club.
- 2026
Second century
The first team is promoted again, the U19s win the district cup and go up, the Green Walkers keep the Enger cup for good.
29 August 1981
The greatest game.
First round of the German Cup against the second-division side. RASPO narrowly lost and was celebrated anyway. The club chronicle says: «The winners were laughed at, SV Rasensport was celebrated.»
Honours 2025
Eighty years a member.
At the volunteers’ celebration on the hill, Mayor Katharina Pötter congratulated two men on 80 years of membership, honorary chairman Appi Niemann and Heinz Buch, who joined on 1 May 1945. Karl Glandorf has been a member for 70 years. Appi Niemann led the club from 1968 and turned ninety in December 2025.
Board
Who runs the club.
- ChairmanWolfgang Boberggs@raspo.de
- Vice chairmanMarco Westermannstellv.vorsitzender@raspo.de
- TreasurerKarin Hülsmannk.huelsmann@raspo.de
- Deputy treasurerNico Willmann
- MembershipAnita Borghoffanita.borghoff@googlemail.com
- SecretaryIrmgard Stumpe
- WebDagmar Kuhlmann
- Honorary chairmanAlois «Appi» Niemann
The board meets every two months. The council of elders, chaired by Norbert Wischmeyer, advises it.
A Rasensport player I want to be.
Well-known names with a RASPO past: international Hannes Haferkamp, Daniel Thioune, who started as a youth player at Koksche Strasse and became a Bundesliga coach at Werder Bremen, and Omar Traoré, who reached the Bundesliga via VfL Osnabrück.
