1. FC Köln

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NICKNAME – Die Geissböcke (The Billy Goats)
FOUNDED – 1948
LOCATED IN – Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
STADIUM – Rhein Energie Stadion
BY TRAM – 15 minutes from the centre (Line 1)
CAPACITY – 49,698
PROMOTED – 2019
BEST LEAGUE FINISH – Winners (3 times)
BEST DFB POKAL RUN – Winners (4 times)
BEST EC/CL FINISH – SF (1978/1979)
BEST UC/EL FINISH – Runners Up (1985/1986)
BEST CWC FINISH – SF (1968/1969)
BEST ECL FINISH – Group Stage (2022/2023)
RECORD GOALSCORER – Hannes Lohr (222)
2022/2023 FINISH – 11th

FIVE FACTS ABOUT 1. FC KÖLN
1. Köln won the very first Bundesliga title back in 1963.
2. Their mascot is a billy goat named Hennes IX, who normally resides in the zoo, but attends all home matches.
3. The goat is named after coach Hennes Weisweiler, a legend both here and at nearby Borussia Mönchengladbach.
4. Weisweiler is the main source of enmity between these two rivals. Under him, Köln won the double in 1977/1978, pipping former charges Mönchengladbach to the post.
5. In 2002, the Billy Goats went 1034 minutes without scoring, a Bundesliga record.

FIVE FACTS ABOUT COLOGNE
1. With over a million residents. Cologne is the largest city on the Rhine and the fourth largest in Germany.
2. The cathedral, wryly nicknamed “The Eternal Construction Site” by locals, is Germany’s most visited building.
3. The original “Eau de Cologne” (Kölnisch Wasser) was mixed here in 1709 by Johann Maria Farina.
4. Cologne hosts the largest carnival in Germany, a source of rivalry with nearby Düsseldorf, who have one of their own. In Cologne you drink Kölsch, a light beer; in Düsseldorf it’s Alt, a dark beer.
5. Nobel prize winning author Heinrich Böll, “the conscience of the nation”, was both born and resided in the city.

INTERESTING VIDEO LINKS
Goal music
“Me stonn zo dir FC Kölle”
“Erste Bundesliga wir sind wieder da”
A look around Cologne

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