René Lewejohann (born 13 February 1984) is a German football manager and former player who is the manager of Regionalliga West club 1. FC Bocholt.
Playing career Lewejohann played in youth for SC Westfalia Herne and VfL Bochum, with whom he reached the semi-finals of the German A-Youth Championship in the 2002–03 season.Rene Lewejohann verpflichtet, reviersport.de, 22 August 2008 He began his professional career with LR Ahlen, and made his professional debut for the club on 21 September 2003 as a substitute for Christian Mikolajczak in a 3–1 defeat to FSV Mainz 05 in the 2. Bundesliga. Since then, he only made seven appearances with LR Ahlen in two years
He left Ahlen in 2005 and spent two years playing for Schalke 04's reserve team. There he became a regular player, playing 51 league games for the club and scoring 13 goals. During this time, however, he also contracted two metatarsal fractures within six months. After two years at Schalke, he left the team and signed with SV Wilhelmshaven and later the second team of Alemannia Aachen in the 2007–08 season, but was hardly used due to injuries.
For the 2008–09 season he returned to his home club, Westfalia Herne, which he left again during the winter break to play for Bonner SC. However, since he was rarely used there, he moved to SV Meppen in January 2010. He played there for half a year and returned to Westfalia Herne in the summer.
Lewejohann signed a two-year contract with the NRW-Liga team Sportfreunde Siegen in May 2011, with which he made the leap into the Regionalliga West in the 2011–12 season. In June 2013 he left the Sportfreunde and joined the 1. FC Kaan-Marienborn. After only a few appearances, Lewejohann got injures again and was out until the end of the season. In January 2015, he moved to DSC Wanne-Eickel and in August 2015 Lewejohann went to BV Herne-Süd in the Bezirksliga.
Coaching career In January 2016 Lewejohann went to Australia for a few months together with former footballers, Kerim Baba and Max Korell, to gain initial coaching experience. He supervised the youth teams of Sydney FC and was to teach German training philosophy on behalf of the Australian Football Academy.Erste Trainerstation in Australien, reviersport.de, 10 February 2016 Lewejohann also worked for an international German school in Sydney. He returned to Germany in the summer 2016 and returned playing with BV Herne-Süd.
In March 2017, he became assistant coach of Denis Tahirović at FSV Duisburg.Lewejohann sammelt erste Trainer-Erfahrungen, reviersport.de, 21 March 2017 At the start of the 2017–18 season, he took over the head coaching post from Tahirović.Lewejohann verrät sein Erfolgsrezept, reviersport.de, 21 August 2018 On 16 January 2018 Lewejohann resigned at the FSV Duisburg.Trainer René Lewejohann tritt beim FSV Duisburg zurück, waz.de, 16 January 2018 In January and June 2019, Lewejohann also played two games for FC Schalke 04's oldboys team.
A month later, SpVgg Erkenschwick hired him as their new head coach.SpVgg Erkenschwick stellt mit René Lewejohann neuen Trainer vor, match-day.de, 2 March 2018 In November 2018, he moved to Hammer SpVg as a head coach.Oberliga Westfalen: René Lewejohann neuer Trainer der Hammer SpVg, media-sportservice.de, 23 November 2018 On 28 January 2020, he was released from his duties.Das Hammer Trainer-Karussell: So reagieren Lewejohann, Degelmann und Wessel, wa.de, 29 January 2020
In March 2023, he was appointed assistant manager of Rot Weiss Ahlen, serving under head coach Markus Kaya.Neues Trainerteam ist da - Das sagen die Protagonisten, reviersport.de, 7 March 2023 At the conclusion of the season, both his contract and that of Kaya were not renewed by the club.Rot Weiss Ahlen trennt sich von Cheftrainer Markus Kaya, media-sportservice.de, 15 May 2023
On 18 July 2024, Lewejohann was appointed manager of KFC Uerdingen 05.Lewejohann wird Cheftrainer beim KFC, wz.de, 18 July 2024
On 1 October 2025, he returned to Rot Weiss Ahlen, this time as head coach, signing a contract running until 30 June 2026.
He became the manager of 1. FC Bocholt on 1 January 2026 on a contract running until 2028.
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