SV Meppen is a German association football club playing in Meppen, Lower Saxony. SV Meppen spent a total of 11 years in the 2. Bundesliga.

The club played eleven consecutive seasons in the 2. Bundesliga from 1988 to 1998. In 404 games there, the team scored 495 goals, with a record of 124 wins, 139 draws, and 141 losses.

Generally, the side ended up mid-table there with their best finishes being 7th in 1994 and 6th in 1995. Meppen played their way into the final eight of the 1997 DFB Pokal  competition on the strength of a memorable 6–1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt.

The "Haensch-Arena" is located in northern Meppen. The stadium's largest ever crowd of 18,000 spectators watched SV Meppen play a 1982 friendly against  FC Barcelona and their famous Argentinian striker Diego Maradona.Today the stadium has a capacity of 16,500.