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| Full name | 1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V. | |
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| Nickname(s) | Die Geißböcke (The Billy Goats) FC | |
| Founded | 13 February 1948 | |
| Ground | RheinEnergieStadion (Capacity: 50,000) | |
| Chairman | Werner Spinner | |
| Manager | Peter Stöger | |
| Current League | Bundesliga | |
| 2016–17 | Bundesliga, | |
1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply 1. FC Köln, is a German association football club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07. Köln play in the Bundesliga, the highest league of German football.
The club's nickname Die Geißböcke ("The Billy Goats") refers to the club's mascot, a male goat named Hennes after the veteran FC player and (later) manager Hennes Weisweiler. The first Hennes was donated by a circus entrepreneur as a Cologne carnival joke. Currently (since 24 July 2008) the eighth Hennes is the acting mascot. Another nickname, more common locally due to its ambiguity, is FC, a common German abbreviation for football clubs. Characteristic for the dialect spoken around Cologne, this is pronounced "EF-tsay", in contrast to the high language pronunciation of the abbreviation where the emphasis is on the "C".
Like many of Germany's other professional football clubs, 1. FC Köln is part of a larger sports club that also incorporates departments playing other sports, in this case handball, table tennis and gymnastics. The club's main rivals are Borussia Mönchengladbach, Bayer Leverkusen, and Fortuna Düsseldorf — all clubs from the same general region, near the river Rhine.
External links
| 1. FC Köln |
| Current season • Players • Managers • Statistics • Honours • RheinEnergieStadion History: Seasons |
| 1. FC Köln current squad - 2023–24 |
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1 Horn • 2 Subotić • 3 Heintz • 4 Sørensen • 5 Maroh • 6 Höger • 7 Risse • 8 Jojić • 9 Rudņevs • 11 Zoller • 13 Osako • 14 Hector • 16 Olkowski • 17 Clemens • 18 Kessler • 19 Guirassy • 20 Özcan • 21 Bittencourt • 24 Klünter • 27 Modeste • 30 Hartel • 33 Lehmann (c) • 34 Rausch • 35 Müller • Manager: Peter Stöger |
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