1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln or FC Co...
1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne i...
1. Fußball-Club Köln 01/07 e. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07. Köln competes in the Bundesliga after promotion in 2018–19 following relegation to 2. Bundesliga the previous season. The team are two-time top-flight champions, winning the Bundesliga in 1963 and 1978. The team plays its home matches at Rheinenergiestadion.
The club's nickname Die Geißböcke 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. The current mascot is Hennes IX as of 1 August 2019 after Hennes VIII was retired by the club due to old age. Another nickname for the club, 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 Standard German pronunciation of the abbreviation where the second syllable is emphasized.
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