2024–25 1. FC Köln season

1. FC Köln
2024–25 season
Manager	Gerhard Struber
Stadium	RheinEnergieStadion
2. Bundesliga	9th
DFB-Pokal	Second round
Top goalscorer	League: ; Linton Maina (3); All: ; Linton Maina (4)
Biggest win	1. FC Köln 5–0 Eintracht Braunschweig
Biggest defeat	1. FC Köln 1–2 Hamburger SV; 1. FC Köln 1–2 1. FC Magdeburg
	← 2023–24
	All statistics correct as of 21 September 2024.

The 2024–25 season is the 77th season in the history of 1. FC Köln. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the DFB-Pokal.

Transfers

In

Pos.	Player	Transferred from	Fee	Date	Source
MF	Mathias Olesen	Yverdon-Sport	Loan return	30 June 2024
GK	Jonas Urbig	Greuther Fürth	Loan return	30 June 2024
DF	Nikola Soldo	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Loan return	30 June 2024	^[1]
FW	Marvin Obuz	Rot-Weiss Essen	Loan return	30 June 2024
FW	Tim Lemperle	Fürth	Loan return	30 June 2024
MF	Chilohelm Onuoha	RB Leipzig U19		1 July 2024
FW	Mansour Ouro-Tagba	1860 Munich		1 July 2024
DF	Rasmus Carstensen	Genk	€1,500,000	1 July 2024
FW	Luca Waldschmidt	VfL Wolfsburg	Undisclosed	1 July 2024	^[2]

Out

Pos.	Player	Transferred to	Fee	Date	Source
DF	Rasmus Carstensen	Genk	Loan return	30 June 2024
MF	Faride Alidou	Eintracht Frankfurt	Loan return	30 June 2024
DF	Benno Schmitz	Grasshopper	End of contract	1 July 2024	^[3]
FW	Davie Selke	Hamburger SV	End of contract	1 July 2024	^[4]
FW	Mansour Ouro-Tagba	Jahn Regensburg	Loan	1 July 2024	^[5]
DF	Jeff Chabot	VfB Stuttgart	€4,000,000	1 July 2024	^[6]
FW	Justin Diehl	VfB Stuttgart	End of contract	1 July 2024	^[7]
MF	Chilohelm Onuoha	SC Verl	Loan	2 July 2024	^[8]

Friendlies

Pre-season

29 June 2024 Friendly	VfL Rheingold 1912 Köln-Poll	0–18	1. FC Köln	Cologne
14:00 UTC+2		Report	Adamyan 2' Waldschmidt 6' (pen.), 12', 36' Martel 20', 24', 45' Downs 49', 63', 79', 89' Tigges 50', 67' Olesen 54' Wäschenbach 60' Huseinbašić 74' Čuber Potočnik 76' Dietz 86'	Stadium: Südstadion Attendance: 2,500

5 July 2024 Friendly	Sportfreunden Siegen	0–6	1. FC Köln	Siegen
15:45 UTC+2		Report	Waldschmidt 7' Huseinbašić 10' Lemperle 30', 41' Martel 36' Adamyan 72' (pen.)	Stadium: Leimbachstadion Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Felix Weller

10 July 2024 Friendly	SC Union Nettetal	v	1. FC Köln	Nettetal
18:00
Note: The match was cancelled due to security concerns.^[9]

13 July 2024 Friendly	1. FC Köln	3–1	Kickers Offenbach	Cologne
14:00	Hübers 36' Adamyan 54', 77'	Report	Mustafa 6'	Stadium: Südstadion Attendance: 4,100 Referee: Lutz Meyersieck

19 July 2024 Friendly	1. FC Köln	3–0	Sint-Truiden	Euskirchen
18:00	Lemperle 17' Downs 54' Dietz 79'	Report		Stadium: Heinz-Flohe-Stadion Attendance: 3,500

20 July 2024 Friendly	Viktoria Köln	3–3	1. FC Köln	Cologne
14:00	Engelhardt 4' Vrenezi 50' Güler 74'	Report	Adamyan 19' Heintz 43' Dietz 47' Smajić 64' Thielmann 89'	Stadium: Sportpark Höhenberg Attendance: 6,214 Referee: Luca Marx

24 July 2024 Friendly	1. FC Köln	2–1	Swansea City	Bad Waltersdorf, Austria
16:00	Lemperle 11', 14'		Cabango 41'	Stadium: Thermenstadion

27 July 2024 Friendly	Udinese	2–3	1. FC Köln	St. Veit an der Glan, Austria
16:00 UTC+2	Success 8' Lucca 25'		Downs 45' Kabasele 45+1' (o.g.) Ljubičić 67'	Stadium: Sportplatz St. Veit Rennbahn

Competitions

Overall record

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
2. Bundesliga	2 August 2024	18 May 2025	Matchday 1	1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	000.00
DFB-Pokal	18 August 2024		First round	0	0	0	0	0	0	+0	!—
Total				1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	000.00

Last updated: 2 August 2024
Source: Soccerway

2. Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
10	1. FC Kaiserslautern	10	4	3	3	18	16	+2	15
11	Greuther Fürth	10	3	4	3	17	17	0	13
12	1. FC Köln	10	3	3	4	22	20	+2	12
13	Darmstadt 98	10	2	4	4	18	21	−3	10
14	SSV Ulm	10	2	2	6	10	13	−3	8

Updated to match(es) played on 27 October 2024. Source: Bundesliga
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head results; 5) Head-to-head away goals scored; 6) Away goals scored; 7) Play-off.^[10]
(Rules 4–6 only apply after home and away matches have been played between the tied teams.)

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
1	0	0	1	1	2	−1	0	0	0	1	1	2	−1	0	0	0	0	0	0

Last updated: 21 September 2024.
Source: DFB

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
Ground	H	A	H	A	H	A	H
Result	L	D	W	W	L	D
Position

Updated to match(es) played on 21 September 2024. Source: DFB
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

The match schedule was released on 4 July 2024.^[11]

2 August 2024 1	1. FC Köln	1–2	Hamburger SV	Cologne
20:30	Lemperle 39' Pauli 69' Maina 78'	Report	Königsdörffer 5', 35', 86' Muheim 45+3'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Max Burda

10 August 2024 2	SV Elversberg	2–2	1. FC Köln	Spiesen-Elversberg
13:00				Stadium: Waldstadion an der Kaiserlinde Referee: Tom Bauer

24 August 2024 3	1. FC Köln	5–0	Eintracht Braunschweig	Cologne
20:30				Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck

1 September 2024 4	Schalke 04	1–3	1. FC Köln	Gelsenkirchen
13:30				Stadium: Veltins-Arena Referee: Sven Jablonski

14 September 2024 5	1. FC Köln	1–2	1. FC Magdeburg	Cologne
20:30				Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Referee: Richard Hempel

21 September 2024 6	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–2	1. FC Köln	Düsseldorf
13:00				Stadium: Merkur Spiel-Arena Referee: Christian Dingert

29 September 2024 7	1. FC Köln	v	Karlsruher SC	Cologne
13:30				Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion

DFB-Pokal

18 August 2024 First round	SV Sandhausen	2–3	1. FC Köln	Sandhausen
15:30				Stadium: Hardtwaldstadion

29 October 2024 Second round	1. FC Köln	v	Holstein Kiel	Cologne
20:45				Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion

References

^ "1. FC Kaiserslautern: Warum Soldo mehr Chancen auf Einsatzzeit hat". 3 June 2024.
^ "Köln confirm Waldschmidt's permanent capture: "I will give 111 percent."". Bulinews.Com. 20 June 2024.
^ "Ließ Köln-Angebot verstreichen: Ex-FC-Profi hat einen neuen Klub gefunden: "Eine ideale Verstärkung"". 27 July 2024.
^ "HSV confirm Selke pick up". Bulinews.Com. 11 July 2024.
^ "Stürmer Mansour Ouro-Tagba verstärkt die Jahnelf". www.ssv-jahn.de. 13 June 2024.
^ "Stuttgart sign defender Chabot from relegated Cologne". Yahoo Sports. 25 May 2024.
^ "Diehl signs for next season". VfB Stuttgart.
^ "Chilohelm Onuoha joins FC | 1. FC Köln". fc.de.
^ "Sicherheitsbedenken – Das Testspiel gegen Nettetal ist abgesagt". OneFootball. 11 July 2024.
^ "DFL–Spielordnung (SpOL)" [Match rules] (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 7 June 2024. p. 3. Retrieved 10 September 2024.
^ "2024/25 Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 fixture lists to be released on 4 July". bundesliga.com. 7 June 2024.

[1] "1. FC Kaiserslautern: Warum Soldo mehr Chancen auf Einsatzzeit hat". 3 June 2024.

[2] "Köln confirm Waldschmidt's permanent capture: "I will give 111 percent."". Bulinews.Com. 20 June 2024.

[3] "Ließ Köln-Angebot verstreichen: Ex-FC-Profi hat einen neuen Klub gefunden: "Eine ideale Verstärkung"". 27 July 2024.

[4] "HSV confirm Selke pick up". Bulinews.Com. 11 July 2024.

[5] "Stürmer Mansour Ouro-Tagba verstärkt die Jahnelf". www.ssv-jahn.de. 13 June 2024.

[6] "Stuttgart sign defender Chabot from relegated Cologne". Yahoo Sports. 25 May 2024.

[7] "Diehl signs for next season". VfB Stuttgart.

[8] "Chilohelm Onuoha joins FC | 1. FC Köln". fc.de.

[9] "Sicherheitsbedenken – Das Testspiel gegen Nettetal ist abgesagt". OneFootball. 11 July 2024.

[10] "DFL–Spielordnung (SpOL)" [Match rules] (PDF) (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 7 June 2024. p. 3. Retrieved 10 September 2024.

[11] "2024/25 Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 fixture lists to be released on 4 July". bundesliga.com. 7 June 2024.

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