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|founded=1948
|ground=[[RheinEnergieStadion]],<br/>[[Cologne]]
|capacity=50,374
|chairman=[[Wolfgang Overath]]
|manager=[[Ståle Solbakken]]
|captain=
|league=[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]
|season=[[2010–11 Fußball-Bundesliga|2010–11]]
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'''1. FC Cologne''',<ref>https://twitter.com/fckoeln_en</ref> also known by its [[German language|German]] name '''1. FC Köln''' or simply just '''FC Cologne''', is a [[Association football|football]] [[football team|club]] that is from [[Cologne]], [[Germany]]. The 1. FC KOLN was created in 1948. It was a connection of two football clubs in Cologne (Kölner BC 01 und SpVgg Sülz 07).
In the present day, 1.FC Köln plays in the Bundesliga, the first teir of German football. The club's main rival is Borussia Mönchengladbach, though their Ultrá group WH96 does have friendly connections to The Unity of Borussia Dortmund.

== League title ==
* [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] : 2
** [[German Bundesliga 1963–64|1963/64]], [[German Bundesliga 1977–78|1977/78]]

== League position ==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left;"
|align="center"|Season||align="center"|League||align="center"|Position
|-
|[[German Bundesliga 2000–01|2000/01]]||[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]||10th
|-
|[[German Bundesliga 2001–02|2001/02]]||[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]||17th
|-
|2002/03||[[German 2. Bundesliga|2. Bundesliga]]||2nd
|-
|[[German Bundesliga 2003–04|2003/04]]||[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]||18th
|-
|2004/05||[[German 2. Bundesliga|2. Bundesliga]]||Champions
|-
|[[German Bundesliga 2005–06|2005/06]]||[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]||17th
|-
|2006/07||[[German 2. Bundesliga|2. Bundesliga]]||9th
|-
|2007/08||[[German 2. Bundesliga|2. Bundesliga]]||3rd
|-
|[[German Bundesliga 2008–09|2008/09]]||[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]||12th
|-
|[[German Bundesliga 2009–10|2009/10]]||[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]||13th
|-
|[[German Bundesliga 2010–11|2010/11]]||[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]||10th
|-
|[[2011–12 Fußball-Bundesliga|2011/12]]||[[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]]||
|}

=== Former position ===
{{scroll box|width=75%|
* [[German Bundesliga 1963–64|1963/64]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - Champions
* [[German Bundesliga 1964–65|1964/65]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 2nd
* [[German Bundesliga 1965–66|1965/66]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 5th
* [[German Bundesliga 1966–67|1966/67]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 7th
* [[German Bundesliga 1967–68|1967/68]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 4th
* [[German Bundesliga 1968–69|1968/69]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 13th
* [[German Bundesliga 1969–70|1969/70]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 4th
* [[German Bundesliga 1970–71|1970/71]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 11th
* [[German Bundesliga 1971–72|1971/72]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 4th
* [[German Bundesliga 1972–73|1972/73]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 2nd
* [[German Bundesliga 1973–74|1973/74]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 5th
* [[German Bundesliga 1974–75|1974/75]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 5th
* [[German Bundesliga 1975–76|1975/76]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 4th
* [[German Bundesliga 1976–77|1976/77]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 5th
* [[German Bundesliga 1977–78|1977/78]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - Champions
* [[German Bundesliga 1978–79|1978/79]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 6th
* [[German Bundesliga 1979–80|1979/80]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 5th
* [[German Bundesliga 1980–81|1980/81]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 8th
* [[German Bundesliga 1981–82|1981/82]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 2nd
* [[German Bundesliga 1982–83|1982/83]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 5th
* [[German Bundesliga 1983–84|1983/84]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 6th
* [[German Bundesliga 1984–85|1984/85]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 3rd
* [[German Bundesliga 1985–86|1985/86]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 13th
* [[German Bundesliga 1986–87|1986/87]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 10th
* [[German Bundesliga 1987–88|1987/88]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 2nd
* [[German Bundesliga 1988–89|1988/89]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 2nd
* [[German Bundesliga 1989–90|1989/90]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 2nd
* [[German Bundesliga 1990–91|1990/91]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 7th
* [[German Bundesliga 1991–92|1991/92]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 4th
* [[German Bundesliga 1992–93|1992/93]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 12th
* [[German Bundesliga 1993–94|1993/94]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 11th
* [[German Bundesliga 1994–95|1994/95]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 10th
* [[German Bundesliga 1995–96|1995/96]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 12th
* [[German Bundesliga 1996–97|1996/97]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 10th
* [[German Bundesliga 1997–98|1997/98]] : [[Fußball-Bundesliga|Bundesliga]] - 17th
}}

==Head coaches since 1963==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"| Head coach<ref name="1. FC Köln - Trainerhistorie">{{cite web|title=1. FC Köln|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/vereine/1-bundesliga/2014-15/1-fc-koeln-16/trainer.html|website=kicker.de|publisher=kicker|access-date=18 November 2014|language=de|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140729023505/http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/vereine/1-bundesliga/2014-15/1-fc-koeln-16/trainer.html|archive-date=29 July 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref>
!rowspan="2"| From<ref name="1. FC Köln - Trainerhistorie"/>
!rowspan="2"| To<ref name="1. FC Köln - Trainerhistorie"/>
!colspan="5"| League Record<ref name="1. FC Köln - Trainerhistorie"/>
|-
!{{Tooltip|M|Matches coached}}
!{{Tooltip|W|Matches won}}
!{{Tooltip|D|Matches drawn}}
!{{Tooltip|L|Matches lost}}
!{{Tooltip|Win %|Winning percentage}}
|-
| [[Georg Knöpfle]]
| 1 July 1963
| 30 June 1966
{{WDL|115|59|34|22}}
|-
| [[Willi Multhaup]]
| 1 July 1966
| 30 June 1968
{{WDL|79|37|17|25}}
|-
| [[Hans Merkle]]
| 1 July 1968
| 30 June 1970
{{WDL|78|38|11|29}}
|-
| [[Ernst Ocwirk]]
| 1 July 1970
| 30 June 1971
{{WDL|44|19|11|14}}
|-
| [[Gyula Lóránt]]
| 1 July 1971
| 4 April 1972
{{WDL|31|14|10|7}}
|-
| [[Rolf Herings (footballer)|Rolf Herings]]
| 5 April 1972
| 30 June 1972
{{WDL|11|6|3|2}}
|-
| [[Rudi Schlott]]
| 1 July 1972
| 16 September 1973
{{WDL|55|24|17|14}}
|-
| [[Zlatko Čajkovski]]
| 17 September 1973
| 12 December 1975
{{WDL|92|47|18|27}}
|-
| [[Georg Stollenwerk]]
| 1 January 1976
| 30 June 1976
{{WDL|20|9|6|5}}
|-
| [[Hennes Weisweiler]]
| 1 July 1976
| 15 April 1980
{{WDL|165|90|36|39}}
|-
| [[Karl-Heinz Heddergott]]
| 16 April 1980
| 13 October 1980
{{WDL|19|7|5|7}}
|-
| [[Rolf Herings (footballer)|Rolf Herings]]
| 13 October 1980
| 18 October 1980
{{WDL|1|0|0|1}}
|-
| [[Rinus Michels]]
| 18 October 1980
| 21 August 1983
{{WDL|108|53|26|29}}
|-
| [[Hannes Löhr]]
| 22 August 1983
| 6 February 1986
{{WDL|97|45|18|34}}
|-
| [[Georg Kessler]]
| 7 February 1986
| 22 September 1986
{{WDL|24|7|4|13}}
|-
| [[Christoph Daum]]
| 23 September 1986
| 28 June 1990
{{WDL|154|78|43|33}}
|-
| [[Erich Rutemöller]]
| 1 July 1990
| 30 August 1991
{{WDL|54|21|20|13}}
|-
| [[Udo Lattek]]
| 30 August 1991
| 4 September 1991
{{WDL|1|0|1|0}}
|-
| [[Johannes Linßen]]
| 4 September 1991
| 11 September 1991
{{WDL|1|0|0|1}}
|-
| [[Jörg Berger]]
| 11 September 1991
| 28 February 1993
{{WDL|53|21|14|18}}
|-
| [[Wolfgang Jerat]]
| 28 February 1993
| 29 April 1993
{{WDL|9|3|1|5}}
|-
| [[Morten Olsen]]
| 29 April 1993
| 27 August 1995
{{WDL|89|35|23|31}}
|-
| [[Stephan Engels]]
| 27 August 1995
| 31 March 1996
{{WDL|23|4|11|8}}
|-
| [[Peter Neururer]]
| 1 April 1996
| 30 September 1997
{{WDL|60|25|8|27}}
|-
| [[Lorenz-Günther Köstner]]
| 1 October 1997
| 30 June 1998
{{WDL|26|8|5|13}}
|-
| [[Bernd Schuster]]
| 1 July 1998
| 30 June 1999
{{WDL|35|12|9|14}}
|-
| [[Ewald Lienen]]
| 1 July 1999
| 28 January 2002
{{WDL|94|38|24|32}}
|-
| [[Christoph John]]
| 28 January 2002
| 13 February 2002
{{WDL|4|1|0|3}}
|-
| [[Friedhelm Funkel]]
| 14 February 2002
| 30 October 2003
{{WDL|63|29|15|19}}
|-
| [[Marcel Koller]]
| 2 November 2003<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.spiegel.de/sport/fussball/0,1518,272286,00.html
|title=Funkel Nachfolger: 1.FC Köln verpflichtet Marcel Koller|date=2 November 2003|work=[[Der Spiegel]] |access-date=18 November 2014}}</ref>
| 14 June 2004<ref name="Stevens beerbt Koller">{{cite news|title=Stevens beerbt Koller|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/2bundesliga/startseite/300356/artikel_stevens-beerbt-koller.html|access-date=18 November 2014|newspaper=kicker|date=14 June 2004|language=de}}</ref>
{{WDL|24|4|5|15}}
|-
| [[Huub Stevens]]
| 14 June 2004<ref name="Stevens beerbt Koller"/>
| 27 May 2005<ref>{{cite news|title=Stevens trainiert Kerkrade|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/intligen/startseite/315640/artikel_stevens-trainiert-kerkrade.html|access-date=18 November 2014|newspaper=kicker|date=27 May 2005|language=de}}</ref>
{{WDL|36|21|8|7}}
|-
| [[Uwe Rapolder]]
| 1 July 2005
| 18 December 2005
{{WDL|18|3|3|12}}
|-
| [[Hanspeter Latour]]
| 3 January 2006
| 10 November 2006
{{WDL|30|10|9|11}}
|-
| [[Holger Gehrke]]
| 10 November 2006
| 26 November 2006
{{WDL|3|1|1|1}}
|-
| [[Christoph Daum]] 
| 26 November 2006
| 2 June 2009<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.fc-koeln.de/index.php?id=16&tx_ttnews\tt_news]=3761&tx_ttnews\backPid]=2327&cHash=fc2a21cef2 | title = Daum zu Fenerbahce&nbsp;– der FC ist auf Trainersuche! | trans-title = Daum to Fenerbahce&nbsp;– the FC is looking for a new coach! | language = de | publisher = kicker.de | date = 2 June 2009 | access-date = 18 November 2014 }}{{Dead link|date=November 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
{{WDL|90|36|19|35}}
|-
| [[Zvonimir Soldo]]
| 1 July 2009
| 24 October 2010
{{WDL|48|14|13|21}}
|-
| [[Frank Schaefer]]
| 24 October 2010<ref>{{cite news|title=FC entlässt Soldo&nbsp;– Schaefer auf der Bank gegen Löwen|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/543983/artikel_fc-entlaesst-soldo---schaefer-auf-der-bank-gegen-loewen.html|access-date=18 November 2014|newspaper=[[Kicker (sports magazine)|Kicker]]|date=24 October 2010}}</ref>
| 27 April 2011<ref>{{cite news|title=Schaefer tritt zurück, Finke übernimmt|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/551666/artikel_schaefer-tritt-zurueck-finke-uebernimmt.html|access-date=18 November 2014|newspaper=[[Kicker (sports magazine)|Kicker]]|date=27 April 2011|language=de}}</ref>
{{WDL|24|10|3|11}}
|-
| [[Volker Finke]]
| 27 April 2011
| 30 June 2011
{{WDL|3|3|0|0}}
|-
| [[Ståle Solbakken]]
| 1 July 2011
| 12 April 2012<ref name="Köln entlässt Solbakken - Schaefer hilft aus">{{cite news|title=Köln entlässt Solbakken&nbsp;– Schaefer hilft aus|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/bundesliga/startseite/567421/artikel_koeln-entlaesst-solbakken---schaefer-hilft-aus.html|access-date=18 November 2014|publisher=kicker|date=12 April 2012|language=de}}</ref>
{{WDL|32|9|5|18}}
|-
| [[Frank Schaefer]]
| 12 April 2012<ref name="Köln entlässt Solbakken - Schaefer hilft aus"/>
| 30 June 2012
{{WDL|4|0|1|3}}
|-
| [[Holger Stanislawski]]
| 1 July 2012
| 19 May 2013<ref>{{cite news|title=Köln bestätigt: Stanislawski wirft das Handtuch|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/2bundesliga/startseite/586518/artikel_koeln-bestaetigt_stanislawski-wirft-das-handtuch.html|access-date=18 November 2014|newspaper=kicker|date=18 May 2013|language=de}}</ref>
{{WDL|37|16|12|9}}
|-
| [[Peter Stöger]]
| 11 June 2013<ref>{{cite news|title=Neuer FC-Trainer: Stöger ist raus aus der Warteschleife|url=http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/2bundesliga/vereine/587709/artikel_neuer-fc-trainer_stoeger-ist-raus-aus-der-warteschleife.html|access-date=18 November 2014|newspaper=kicker|date=12 June 2013|language=de}}</ref>
| 3 December 2017
{{WDL|147|56|51|40}}
|-
| [[Stefan Ruthenbeck]]
| 3 December 2017
| 30 June 2018
{{WDL|22|5|4|13}}
|-
| [[Markus Anfang]]
| 1 July 2018
| 27 April 2019
{{WDL|31|18|8|5}}
|-
| [[Achim Beierlorzer]]
| 1 July 2019
| 9 November 2019
{{WDL|11|2|1|8}}
|-
| [[Markus Gisdol]]
| 18 November 2019
| 11 April 2021
{{WDL|51|13|13|25}}
|-
| [[Friedhelm Funkel]]
| 12 April 2021
| 30 June 2021
{{WDL|6|3|1|2}}
|-
| [[Steffen Baumgart]]
| 1 July 2021
| 
{{WDL|0|0|0|0}}
|}

===Current squad===
{{updated|8 March 2022|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://fc.de/fc-info/mannschaften/profis/kader/|title=1. FC Köln – Kader|trans-title=1. FC Köln – Squad|access-date=14 August 2020|language=de|publisher=1. FC Köln|archive-date=28 November 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211128131256/https://fc.de/fc-info/mannschaften/profis/kader/|url-status=dead}}</ref>}}

{{Fs start}}
{{Fs player|no= 1 |nat=GER |pos=GK |name=[[Timo Horn]]|other=[[Captain (association football)|vice-captain]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 2 |nat=GER |pos=DF |name=[[Benno Schmitz]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 4 |nat=GER |pos=DF |name=[[Timo Hübers]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 5 |nat=GER |pos=DF |name=[[Bright Arrey-Mbi]]|other=on loan from [[FC Bayern Munich|Bayern Munich]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 6 |nat=TUR |pos=MF |name=[[Salih Özcan]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 7 |nat=AUT |pos=MF |name=[[Dejan Ljubičić]]}}
{{Fs player|no= 9 |nat=SWE |pos=FW |name=[[Sebastian Andersson]]}}
{{Fs player|no=11 |nat=AUT |pos=MF |name=[[Florian Kainz]]}}
{{Fs player|no=13 |nat=GER |pos=FW |name=[[Mark Uth]]}}
{{Fs player|no=14 |nat=GER |pos=MF |name=[[Jonas Hector]]|other=[[Captain (association football)|captain]]}}
{{Fs player|no=15 |nat=GER |pos=DF |name=[[Luca Kilian]]|other=on loan from [[1. FSV Mainz 05|Mainz 05]]}}
{{Fs player|no=17 |nat=GER |pos=MF |name=[[Kingsley Schindler]]}}
{{Fs player|no=18 |nat=SVK |pos=MF |name=[[Ondrej Duda]]}}
{{Fs player|no=19 |nat=NGA |pos=DF |name=[[Kingsley Ehizibue]]}}
{{Fs mid}}
{{Fs player|no=20 |nat=GER |pos=GK |name=[[Marvin Schwäbe]]}}
{{Fs player|no=21 |nat=AUT |pos=MF |name=[[Louis Schaub]]}}
{{Fs player|no=23 |nat=GER |pos=DF |name=[[Jannes Horn]]}}
{{Fs player|no=24   |nat=GER |pos=DF |name=[[Julian Chabot]]|other=on loan from [[U.C. Sampdoria|Sampdoria]]}}
{{Fs player|no=25 |nat=GER |pos=MF |name=[[Tim Lemperle]]}}
{{Fs player|no=27 |nat=FRA |pos=FW |name=[[Anthony Modeste (French footballer)|Anthony Modeste]]}}
{{Fs player|no=28 |nat=TUN |pos=MF |name=[[Ellyes Skhiri]]}}
{{Fs player|no=29 |nat=GER |pos=FW |name=[[Jan Thielmann]]}}
{{Fs player|no=30 |nat=GER |pos=MF |name=[[Marvin Obuz]]}}
{{Fs player|no=31 |nat=CZE |pos=MF |name=[[Tomáš Ostrák]]}}
{{Fs player|no=36 |nat=GER |pos=MF |name=[[Niklas Hauptmann]]}}
{{Fs player|no=40 |nat=GER |pos=GK |name=Jonas Urbig}}
{{Fs player|no=44 |nat=GER |pos=GK |name=Matthias Köbbing}}
{{Fs player|no=47 |nat=LUX |pos=MF |name=[[Mathias Olesen]]}}
{{Fs end}}

== Popular ex-players ==
* [[Toni Polster]]
* [[Bernd Cullmann]]
* [[Thomas Häßler]]
* [[Bodo Illgner]]
* [[Pierre Littbarski]]
* [[Dieter Müller]]
* [[Morten Olsen]]
* [[Wolfgang Overath]]
* [[Anton Polster]] from 1993 – 1998
* [[Harald "Toni" Schumacher]] from 1972 – 1987
* [[Bernd Schuster]] from 1978 – 1980 (Coach 1998 – 1999)
* [[Lukas Podolski]] from 1995 - 2006 and from 2009 to 2012

==References==
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