VfL Oldenburg is a German sports club from the town of Oldenburg, Lower Saxony which is best known for its football team, which plays in the Niedersachsenliga, the fifth level of the German football league system.
[1] The club has over 2,000 members in nine different sports departments including handball, American football, badminton, athletics, gymnastics and volleyball.
VfL Oldenburg were relegated from the German fifth tier (Oberliga) in 2009–10.
[2] In 2013, they returned to the Oberliga Niedersachsen as Landesliga Weser-Ems champions.
The club was awarded the DFB-Pokal berth after a draw between the remaining participants of the Lower Saxony Cup, which had been abandoned amid the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany.