1. FC Köln

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1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., normally known as plainly FC Köln or FC Cologne in English ( german pronunciation : [ ʔɛf ˈtseː ˈkœln ] ), is a german professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a amalgamation of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07. Köln competes in the Bundesliga after promotion in 2018–19 following delegating to 2. Bundesliga the previous season. The team are two-time top-flight champions, winning the Bundesliga in 1964 and 1978. The team plays its home matches at Müngersdorfer Stadion.

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The club ‘s nickname Die Geißböcke ( The Billy Goats ) refers to the club ‘s mascot, a male goat named Hennes after the seasoned FC player and former director Hennes Weisweiler. The first Hennes was donated by a circus entrepreneur as a Cologne circus jest. The stream mascot is Hennes IX as of 1 August 2019 after Hennes VIII was retired by the club due to honest-to-god old age. [ 1 ] Another dub for the club, more common locally ascribable to its ambiguity, is FC ( frequently written as Effzeh ), a coarse german abbreviation for football clubs. Characteristic for the dialect spoken around Cologne, this is pronounced “ EF-tsay ”, in contrast to the standard German pronunciation of the abbreviation where the second syllable is emphasized ( [ ʔɛf ˈtseː ] ). Köln play at home in ashen and crimson, both colours having been used as the independent shirt tinge throughout its history. The club has long-standing rivalries with nearby clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach, Fortuna Düsseldorf, and Bayer Leverkusen. Like many of Germany ‘s other master football clubs, 1. FC Köln is function of a larger sports cabaret with teams in other sports like handball, table tennis and gymnastics. 1. FC Köln has over 100,000 members, making it the fourth largest club in Germany. [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

history [edit ]

Predecessor sides [edit ]

Kölner BC historical logo of harbinger side Kölner BC was formed on 6 June 1901 by a group of unseasoned men who were dysphoric as part of the gymnastics club FC Borussia Köln and far more concerned in football. BC was a competitive side in the Zehnerliga West in the years before World War I who took the Westdeutsche championship in 1912 and advanced to the preliminary rounds of the national finals. Their next best leave was a lose appearance in the 1920 league final, where they lost 1–3 to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Spielvereinigung 1907 Köln-Sülz was established in 1907 as Sülzer Sportverein and on 1 January 1919 merged with Fußball Club 1908 Hertha Sülz to form SpVgg. They won the Westdeutscher title in 1928 and they excessively went out in the early rounds of the national finals in their turn on that stage. They went on to play as a top flight club in the Gauliga Mittelrhein, one of sixteen chancellor level divisions established in 1933 in the re-organization of german football under the Third Reich. The side earned by and large good results through the 1930s – including a divisional backing in 1939 – but then faltered in the early on 1940s. After the 1941 temper the Gauliga Mittlerhein was split into two new divisions : the Gauliga Köln-Aachen and the Gauliga Moselland, which included clubs from fill Luxembourg. Sülz struggled until they were united with VfL Köln 1899 for the 1943–44 season to form the compound wartime side Kriegspielgemeinschaft VfL 99/Sülz 07 which promptly won the Gauliga Köln-Aachen deed by a single sharpen over SG Düren 99 in a close rush. The club did not play the next campaign as war overtook the area .

A successful new golf club [edit ]

historical chart of 1. FC Köln league performance After the union of these two harbinger sides ( 1948 ), 1. FC Köln began play in the hard Oberliga West in the 1949–50 season and by 1954 had won their beginning divisional championship. That same year they lost the DFB-Pokal final 1–0 to VfB Stuttgart. Die Geißböcke won their second gear divisional championship in 1960 and appeared in the national final against Hamburger SV, where they lost 2–3. They went on to finish first in the Oberliga West in each of the adjacent three seasons and again played their way to the home final in 1962 and 1963. They won the 1962 match 4–0 over 1. FC Nürnberg resulting in entry to the 1962–63 european Cup where they were one of the favourites to win the trophy. In the first rung Köln visited Dundee F.C. of Scotland and lost 1–8, and despite winning the second leg back in Germany by 4–0 they were out of the tournament. In the follow class ‘s national concluding they lost 1–3 to Borussia Dortmund .

Continuing success [edit ]

Mascot Hennes VIII In 1963, FC Köln was selected as one of the original 16 teams to play in the Bundesliga, Germany ‘s new professional football league. Köln continued their succeed ways by becoming the beginning ever Bundesliga ace in the league ‘s inaugural address 1963–64 season. As german champions, Köln entered the 1964–65 european Cup where it met England ‘s Liverpool at the quarter-final stagecoach. After two 0–0 draws, a third game was played which was besides a deadlock, this time 2–2. As the penalty gunfight had not so far been introduced as the means of deciding a tie, Köln went out of the rival on the flip of a coin. Ironically enough, there was the motivation for a second mint flip because the foremost time the coin stuck vertically in the ground. The club besides became the beginning Bundesliga side to field a brazilian musician when it signed Zézé for a then club commemorate tip of DM 150,000. [ 4 ] Domestically, Köln recorded a second-place finish in the 1964–65 Bundesliga season and won its first DFB-Pokal in 1967–68. At the start of the 1970s, Köln reached three DFB-Pokal finals in four seasons, losing all three ; to Kickers Offenbach in 1970, Bayern Munich in 1971 and Borussia Mönchengladbach in 1973. The team besides achieved another second position Bundesliga finish in 1973 before reaching another DFB-Pokal concluding in 1977, beating Hertha BSC over two legs to win the trophy for the moment time. In 1977–78, FC Köln enjoyed its most successful season, winning the Bundesliga title, its third gear national title overall, and retaining the DFB-Pokal. This makes Köln one of entirely four clubs to have won the double in the Bundesliga era. Köln had another losing DFB-Pokal concluding appearance in 1980, before winning the competition for a fourth time in 1983. In 1986, the cabaret appeared in its first european final, losing 5–3 on aggregate to Real Madrid in the UEFA Cup Final. Two second set Bundesliga finishes, in 1988–89 and 1989–90, and another DFB-Pokal final loss in 1991, marked the end of a glorious thirty-year period for FC Köln .

twenty-first century : ups and downs [edit ]

In holocene years, the club ‘s performance has been mixed. The FC holds the doubtful distinction of the worst goal drought in Bundesliga history : in 2002, the supporters had to wait 1034 excruciating minutes ( equivalent to 11-and-a-half games ) until Thomas Cichon found the back of the net again. [ 5 ] In the early on years of the Bundesliga, 1. FC Köln was the most successful clubhouse in West Germany in terms of sum points won. Beginning in the early 1990s, however, the club ‘s operation fell, and in 1998 it was relegated for the first time. Since about 2000, the side has been a “ yo-yo team “, moving between the first and second divisions. It has returned to the Bundesliga at the end of the 2004–05 season as 2. Bundesliga champions after having been relegated the temper before. There was small optimism about their render to the exceed flight as they were picked by German football magazine kicker as one of the clubs most probably to be relegated. This prediction came true when Köln lost to Hamburger SV 1–0 in the third-to-last match of the season. The baseball club finished the season in second-last station and was relegated after conceding a league-worst 71 goals. The team ‘s most fecund goal scorer was Lukas Podolski with a entire of 12 goals, who transferred to Bayern Munich after the conclusion of the season. He besides appeared with the Germany national team at the 2006 FIFA World Cup. In late 2006, former coach Christoph Daum was convinced to once again take the helm of the 2. Bundesliga club and succeeded in leading the cabaret back to the Bundesliga in 2008. After a successful Bundesliga campaign in 2008–09, Daum left Köln for his early baseball club Fenerbahçe. Köln ‘s erstwhile star-striker Lukas Podolski returned for the 2009–10 season. After a poor run of form in the 2010–11 season, recording alone one winnings from its opening nine Bundesliga fixtures, Köln replaced coach Zvonimir Soldo with Frank Schaefer. Schaefer, who was originally in tear of the under-23 team of Köln, decided after the season that he would rather spend more prison term with his family than be a coach in the Bundesliga. Former norwegian international and late Copenhagen coach Ståle Solbakken replaced him. After earning just eight points in the foremost 13 matches of the second half of the season, Schaefer and former Köln player Dirk Lottner replaced Solbakken. [ 6 ] The golf club, however, was relegated at the end of the season, finishing in 17th place, having accumulated €33m debt, and €11m negative fairness. [ 7 ]

Turnaround ( 2012–2017 ) [edit ]

In April 2012 the club members elected a new display panel of directors, Werner Spinner as president, Markus Ritterbach for market, and Toni Schumacher for fun. In the 2012–13 season, under newly flight simulator Holger Stanislawski, Köln finished in fifth home in the 2. Bundesliga, missing out on promotion back to the top division. In 2012 the control panel hired Jörg Jakobs as film director of football who then got promoted in 2014 to sporting director, foreman scout and director of the academy. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] In January 2013 Alexander Wehrle joined as managing conductor of FC Köln ltd. Wehrle was working as adjunct for VfB Stuttgart president Erwin Staudt, particularly for rebuilding the stadium. [ 10 ] In summer 2013 Peter Stöger and Manfred Schmid were hired as coaching team, and Jörg Schmadtke as general coach. 2013–14 Köln finished first gear in the 2. Bundesliga and earned promotion to the top class. It was followed by a twelfth place 2014–15, one-ninth in 2015–16, and one-fifth place in 2016–17. 25 years after the club ‘s last appearance in external football to date they qualified for the Europa League. After restructure and repaying debt, equity turned from €11m negative to €20m positive. The upset increased from €56m in 2012/13 to more than €120m in 2016/17. [ 7 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ]

decay and changes ( 2018– ) [edit ]

After the club ‘s return the european stagecoach, fortunes promptly changed. The team experienced an unsuccessful beginning to the 2017–18 Bundesliga season gaining only three points from its foremost sixteen matches. At the same time, the baseball club ‘s Europa League campaign ended after the group stage. [ 13 ] This downtrend led to the resignation of Jörg Schmadtke [ 14 ] and Stöger ‘s dismissal in December 2017 ; he was replaced by Stefan Ruthenbeck who was appointed as caretaker director. [ 15 ] In cattiness of an better commemorate in the second half of the season, the team finished last and were relegated to 2. Bundesliga at the conclusion of the class. ahead of the 2018–19 season, Markus Anfang was appointed director with a mandate to achieve an contiguous return to the top flight. [ 16 ] While the golf club occupied the league ‘s peak smudge for much of the season, Anfang was let go after a winless streak in April 2019. [ 17 ] Just a week former, with André Pawlak at the helm, the team achieved promotion with a 0–4 victory over Greuther Fürth. [ 18 ] On 13 May 2019, the club announced that Jahn Regensburg coach Achim Beierlorzer would assume its vacant head coaching position from the approaching season. He was signed to a contract until 2021. [ 19 ] Following an abortive get down to the 2019–20 season, which included a 3–2 cup defeat against 1. FC Saarbrücken, the baseball club decided to terminate Beierlorzer ‘s contract on 9 November 2019. [ 20 ] Sporting director Armin Veh, who weeks early had announced that he would not extend his contract with the club, was besides dismissed from his position. [ 21 ] On 18 November, erstwhile HSV coach Markus Gisdol was appointed to the club ‘s pass coach position, while Horst Heldt was made sporting director. Both signed contracts until 2021. [ 22 ] After avoiding relegation at the end of the season, Gisdol ‘s condense was extended until 2023. [ 23 ]

stadium [edit ]

The team plays its home matches in the Müngersdorfer Stadion, besides known as the RheinEnergie Stadion for sponsorship purposes. It has a seat capacity of 50,000 and the average attendance in the 2015–16 season was 48,676. [ 28 ] The stadium sponsorship comes from a contract with the local world power supplier RheinEnergie AG. however, most fans still call the stadium “ Müngersdorfer Stadion ”, named after the suburb of Müngersdorf, where it is located. The club owns the Geißbockheim trail center, presently known as RheinEnergieSportpark for sponsorship, located in Sülz which is a municipal part of Köln in the southwest of the city. The center is home to the Franz-Kremer-Stadion the home of 1. FC Köln II .

Honours [edit ]

domestic [edit ]

regional [edit ]

Doubles [edit ]

1977–78: Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal

Reserve team [edit ]

German amateur champions: 1981

young person [edit ]

Statistics [edit ]

Kits [edit ]

Köln ‘s kits are presently made by Uhlsport, who will pay €3.5m a year alternatively of €2.5m. [ 29 ]

Rivals [edit ]

The club ‘s independent rivals are Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayer Leverkusen, and Fortuna Düsseldorf – all clubs from the same Rhine-Ruhr region, near the river Rhine .

Players [edit ]

current squad [edit ]

As of 25 August 2021[30]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Players out on lend [edit ]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

second team team [edit ]

Coaching staff [edit ]

As of 1 July 2021

head coaches since 1963 [edit ]

Women ‘s section [edit ]

The women ‘s team was promoted to the Bundesliga in 2015. [ 42 ] They were immediately relegated back to the 2. Frauen-Bundesliga after the 2016–17 season ended, but managed to regain promotion in May 2017 to the Bundesliga. [ 43 ] [ 44 ]

See besides [edit ]

References [edit ]

literature [edit ]

Grüne, Hardy (2001). Vereinslexikon. Kassel: AGON Sportverlag ISBN 3-89784-147-9