2018–19 1. FC Köln season

The 2018–19 1. FC Köln season was the 71st season in the football club's history and 1st consecutive and 9th overall season in the second flight of German football, the 2. Bundesliga, having been relegated from the Bundesliga in 2018. In addition to the domestic league, 1. FC Köln also participated in this season's edition of the domestic cup the DFB-Pokal. This was the 71st season for Köln in the RheinEnergieStadion, located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The season covered a period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019.

1. FC Köln

2018–19 season
President	Werner Spinner
Manager	Markus Anfang (until 27 April) André Pawlak (interim, 27 April) (head coach, from 27 April)
Stadium	RheinEnergieStadion
2. Bundesliga	1st (promoted)
DFB-Pokal	Second Round
Top goalscorer	League: Simon Terodde (29 goals) All: Simon Terodde (34 goals)
Highest home attendance	50,000
Lowest home attendance	45,900
Average home league attendance	49,547
Biggest win	BFC Dynamo 1–9 Köln
Biggest defeat	Dynamo Dresden 3–0 Köln
Home colours Away colours Third colours
All statistics correct as of 15 July 2019.

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
2. Bundesliga	4 August 2018	19 May 2019	Matchday 1	Winners	34	19	6	9	84	47	+37	055.88
DFB-Pokal	19 August 2018	31 October 2018	First round	Second round	2	1	1	0	10	2	+8	050.00
Total					36	20	7	9	94	49	+45	055.56

Last updated: 21 May 2018

Source: Competitions

2. Bundesliga

Main article: 2018–19 2. Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion, qualification or relegation
1	1. FC Köln (C, P)	34	19	6	9	84	47	+37	63	Promotion to Bundesliga
2	SC Paderborn (P)	34	16	9	9	76	50	+26	57
3	Union Berlin (O, P)	34	14	15	5	54	33	+21	57	Qualification to promotion play-offs
4	Hamburger SV	34	16	8	10	45	42	+3	56
5	1. FC Heidenheim	34	15	10	9	55	45	+10	55

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Head-to-head away goals scored; 8) Away goals scored; 9) Play-off.[1]
(C) Champion; (O) Play-off winner; (P) Promoted.

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
34	19	6	9	84	47	+37	63	9	3	5	49	26	+23	10	3	4	35	21	+14

Last updated: 19 May 2019.
Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	W	W	L	W	W	W	L	D	D	L	W	W	W	W	W	L	L	W	W	L	W	W	W	D	W	W	D	L	L	W	L	D
Position	3	4	1	1	4	1	1	1	1	1	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1

Updated to match(es) played on 19 May 2019. Source: Bundesliga
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

VfL Bochum v 1. FC Köln

4 August 2018 (2018-08-04) 1	VfL Bochum	0–2	1. FC Köln	Bochum
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Soares  32' Hoogland  43' Leitsch  58'	Report	Leitsch  44' (o.g.) Meré  50'  71' Czichos  59'	Stadium: Vonovia Ruhrstadion Attendance: 26,600 Referee: Felix Zwayer

1. FC Köln v 1. FC Union Berlin

13 August 2018 (2018-08-13) 2	1. FC Köln	1–1	1. FC Union Berlin	Cologne
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Horn  39' Clemens  41' Sobiech  61'	Report	Reichel  19' Andersson  69'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Daniel Schlager

1. FC Köln v Erzgebirge Aue

25 August 2018 (2018-08-25) 3	1. FC Köln	3–1	Erzgebirge Aue	Cologne
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Terodde  26', 69', 89' Czichos  71'	Report	Fandrich  29' Riese  38' Kempe  66' Tiffert  86' Rapp  90'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Marco Fritz

FC St. Pauli v 1. FC Köln

2 September 2018 (2018-09-02) 4	FC St. Pauli	3–5	1. FC Köln	St. Pauli
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Veerman  13' Dudziak  25' Dæhli  27' Buchtmann  65'	Report	Clemens  35' Terodde  45', 53' Guirassy  57' Sobiech  79' Hauptmann  90+1' Özcan  90+6'	Stadium: Millerntor-Stadion Attendance: 29,546 Referee: Benjamin Cortus

1. FC Köln v SC Paderborn

14 September 2018 (2018-09-14) 5	1. FC Köln	3–5	SC Paderborn	Cologne
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Terodde  37', 53' Czichos  58' Hector  81'  87' Córdoba  84'  85'	Report	Guèye  38' Gjasula  41' Klement  66', 71'  90+3' Tekpetey  89' Michel  90+4'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Marco Fritz

SV Sandhausen v 1. FC Köln

21 September 2018 (2018-09-21) 6	SV Sandhausen	0–2	1. FC Köln	Sandhausen
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Gíslason  19' Jansen  58'	Report	Höger  14' Schaub  45'  73' Terodde  54' Drexler  64'	Stadium: BWT-Stadion am Hardtwald Attendance: 13,237 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

1. FC Köln v FC Ingolstadt

25 September 2018 (2018-09-25) 7	1. FC Köln	2–1	FC Ingolstadt	Cologne
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Hector  67' Terodde  70', 85'	Report	Lezcano  36' Gimber  51' Kittel  53' Krauße  57' Otávio  79'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 45,900 Referee: Arne Aarnink

Arminia Bielefeld v 1. FC Köln

28 September 2018 (2018-09-28) 8	Arminia Bielefeld	1–3	1. FC Köln	Bielefeld
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Hartherz  38' Staude  85' Salger  90+1'	Report	Bader  40' Terodde  45', 70' Drexler  83' Córdoba  90+5'	Stadium: Bielefelder Alm Attendance: 26,283 Referee: Daniel Siebert

1. FC Köln v MSV Duisburg

8 October 2018 (2018-10-08) 9	1. FC Köln	1–2	MSV Duisburg	Cologne
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Koziello  27' Hector  35'  72' J. Horn  90+3'	Report	Cauly  10'  90+4' Iljutcenko  33' Bader  73' (o.g.)	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 49,600 Referee: Florian Badstübner

Holstein Kiel v 1. FC Köln

21 October 2018 (2018-10-21) 10	Holstein Kiel	1–1	1. FC Köln	Kiel
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Okugawa  87' Mörschel  88'	Report	Terodde  42' (pen.) Özcan  72' Schmitz  76' J. Horn  90'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 9,700 Referee: Robert Kampka

1. FC Köln v 1. FC Heidenheim

27 October 2018 (2018-10-27) 11	1. FC Köln	1–1	1. FC Heidenheim	Cologne
13:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Höger  1' Hector  45+1' Guirassy  58'	Report	Beermann  9'  88' Dorsch  45+2' Griesbeck  66'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Tobias Stieler

Hamburger SV v 1. FC Köln

5 November 2018 (2018-11-05) 12	Hamburger SV	1–0	1. FC Köln	Hamburg
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Santos  29' Lasogga  86'	Report	Höger  44' Özcan  64' Hector  77'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 53,876 Referee: Christian Dingert

1. FC Köln v Dynamo Dresden

10 November 2018 (2018-11-10) 13	1. FC Köln	8–1	Dynamo Dresden	Cologne
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Córdoba  3', 51' Terodde  31'  42', 46', 61' Hector  56', 83' Czichos  75' Schaub  78'	Report	Hartmann  59' Atik  72'  88' Berko  87'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Felix Brych

Darmstadt 98 v 1. FC Köln

24 November 2018 (2018-11-24) 14	Darmstadt 98	0–3	1. FC Köln	Darmstadt
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Stark  8' Franke  60' Rieder  61'	Report	Höger  44' Terodde  55' Czichos  66' Córdoba  70'	Stadium: Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor Attendance: 17,400 Referee: Florian Heft

1. FC Köln v Greuther Fürth

1 December 2018 (2018-12-01) 15	1. FC Köln	4–0	Greuther Fürth	Cologne
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Drexler  17' Terodde  52', 78' Córdoba  60'	Report	Bauer  42'  51' Wittek  57'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 49,700 Referee: Sören Storks

SSV Jahn Regensburg v 1. FC Köln

7 December 2018 (2018-12-07) 16	SSV Jahn Regensburg	1–3	1. FC Köln	Regensburg
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Adamyan  55' Saller  74' Grüttner  87' Weis  88' Correia  89'	Report	Terodde  11' J. Horn  22' Schmitz  29' Czichos  32' Drexler  41', 55' T. Horn  80'	Stadium: Continental Arena Attendance: 15,210 Referee: Christof Günsch

1. FC Köln v 1. FC Magdeburg

17 December 2018 (2018-12-17) 17	1. FC Köln	3–0	1. FC Magdeburg	Cologne
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Córdoba  33' Drexler  48' Höger  86' Terodde  90+2'	Report		Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 49,500 Referee: Tobias Stieler

1. FC Köln v VfL Bochum

21 December 2018 (2018-12-21) 18	1. FC Köln	2–3	VfL Bochum	Cologne
13:30 CET (UTC+1)	Córdoba  19' Terodde  24' Risse  32'  76' Hector  75'	Report	Hinterseer  1', 58'  17' Gyamerah  32' Losilla  55' Sam  69' Hoogland  83'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Benjamin Cortus

1. FC Union Berlin v 1. FC Köln

31 January 2019 (2019-01-31) 19	1. FC Union Berlin	2–0	1. FC Köln	Berlin
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Hartel  1' Trimmel  29' Hübner  30' Friedrich  50' Reichel  58'  66'	Report	Terodde  45+2' Geis  73' Schmitz  78'	Stadium: Stadion An der Alten Försterei Attendance: 22,012 Referee: Tobias Welz

1. FC Köln v FC St. Pauli

8 February 2019 (2019-02-08) 21	1. FC Köln	4–1	FC St. Pauli	Cologne
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Córdoba  32', 53', 58'  54' Terodde  85'	Report	Meier  38' Carstens  47'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Sören Storks

SC Paderborn v 1. FC Köln

15 February 2019 (2019-02-15) 22	SC Paderborn	3–2	1. FC Köln	Paderborn
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Strohdiek  56' Michel  77' Tekpetey  80' Pröger  85' Ritter  90+2'  90+3'	Report	Córdoba  38' Schmitz  25' Czichos  39' Terodde  46' Kainz  47'  89' Modeste  73' Sørensen  79'	Stadium: Benteler-Arena Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Sven Waschitzki

1. FC Köln v SV Sandhausen

23 February 2019 (2019-02-23) 23	1. FC Köln	3–1	SV Sandhausen	Cologne
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Drexler  49' Koziello  52' Modeste  83', 90+5'	Report	Wooten  4' Kister  11' Diekmeier  45' Taffertshofer  88' Förster  90+1'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 49,600 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

Erzgebirge Aue v 1. FC Köln

27 February 2019 (2019-02-27) 20	Erzgebirge Aue	0–1	1. FC Köln	Erzgebirge
19:30 CET (UTC+1)	Rizzuto  29' Samson  47'	Report	Drexler  32' Höger  35' Czichos  78' Córdoba  86'	Stadium: Erzgebirgsstadion Attendance: 13,089 Referee: Martin Petersen

FC Ingolstadt v 1. FC Köln

3 March 2019 (2019-03-03) 24	FC Ingolstadt	1–2	1. FC Köln	Ingolstadt
13:30 CET (UTC+1)	Kotzke  39' Mavraj  42' Kittel  65' Paulsen  90+1'	Report	Meré  16' Modeste  40' Höger  43' Drexler  59' Schaub  90+2' Kainz  90+4'	Stadium: Audi Sportpark Attendance: 11,042 Referee: Florian Heft

1. FC Köln v Arminia Bielefeld

9 March 2019 (2019-03-09) 25	1. FC Köln	5–1	Arminia Bielefeld	Cologne
13:00 CET (UTC+1)	Drexler  14' Terodde  21', 69', 90' Córdoba  48'	Report	Voglsammer  71'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Marco Fritz

1. FC Köln v Holstein Kiel

31 March 2019 (2019-03-31) 27	1. FC Köln	4–0	Holstein Kiel	Cologne
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Meré  13' Terodde  22' Hector  25' Córdoba  46' Modeste  90+1'	Report	Schmidt  7'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

1. FC Heidenheim v 1. FC Köln

7 April 2019 (2019-04-07) 28	1. FC Heidenheim	0−2	1. FC Köln	Heidenheim an der Brenz
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Andrich  64'	Report	Drexler  10' Córdoba  41' Modeste  44' Czichos  64'	Stadium: Voith-Arena Attendance: 15,000 Referee: Matthias Jöllenbeck

MSV Duisburg v 1. FC Köln

10 April 2019 (2019-04-10) 26	MSV Duisburg	4–4	1. FC Köln	Duisburg
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Stoppelkamp  2', 71' Fröde  29' Albutat  45+1' Wolze  65'  81' Wiedwald  72'	Report	Córdoba  24', 53' Schaub  47' Terodde  54' Sobiech  74'	Stadium: Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena Attendance: 25,675 Referee: Daniel Schlager

1. FC Köln v Hamburger SV

15 April 2019 (2019-04-15) 29	1. FC Köln	1–1	Hamburger SV	Cologne
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Drexler  26' Terodde  39' Kainz  47' Hector  66' Meré  74'	Report	Jung  49' van Drongelen  56' Wintzheimer  85'  87'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Robert Hartmann

Dynamo Dresden v 1. FC Köln

21 April 2019 (2019-04-21) 30	Dynamo Dresden	3–0	1. FC Köln	Dresden
13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Berko  12', 66' Duljevic  35' Atik  41' Burnic  61' Nikolaou  81'	Report	Höger  15' Hector  38' Meré  66' Kainz  90+2'	Stadium: Rudolf-Harbig-Stadion Attendance: 30,753 Referee: Robert Schröder

1. FC Köln v SV Darmstadt 98

26 April 2019 (2019-04-26) 31	1. FC Köln	1–2	SV Darmstadt 98	Cologne
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Córdoba  66' Drexler  79'	Report	Dursun  34'  90+1' Holland  56' Platte  76'  90'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Marco Fritz

Greuther Fürth v 1. FC Köln

6 May 2019 (2019-05-06) 32	Greuther Fürth	0–4	1. FC Köln	Fürth
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Steininger  32'	Report	Córdoba  8', 41', 65' Steininger  20' (o.g.)	Stadium: Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer Attendance: 12,520 Referee: Guido Winkmann

1. FC Köln v SSV Jahn Regensburg

12 May 2019 (2019-05-12) 33	1. FC Köln	3–5	SSV Jahn Regensburg	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Höger  44' Hector  45+1'  65', 73' Córdoba  45+3' Meré  56' Modeste  71'  76' Drexler  83'	Report	Czichos  7' (o.g.) Adamyan  34', 68' Al Ghaddioui  45+5' (pen.)  49' Grüttner  88' Föhrenbach  90'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Robert Kampka

1. FC Magdeburg v 1. FC Köln

19 May 2019 (2019-05-19) 34	1. FC Magdeburg	1–1	1. FC Köln	Magdeburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Müller  34' Rother  52' Lohkemper  53'	Report	Terodde  3' Sobiech  28' Schaub  34'	Stadium: MDCC-Arena Attendance: 18,902 Referee: Sven Waschitzki

DFB-Pokal

Main article: 2018–19 DFB-Pokal

BFC Dynamo v 1. FC Köln

19 August 2018 (2018-08-19) First round	BFC Dynamo	1–9	1. FC Köln	Berlin
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Twardzik  19' Çepni  31' Lambach  55' Silva  65'	Report	Terodde  21', 34', 41', 75' Drexler  44', 66' Risse  58' Koziello  61' Höger  72' Schaub  86'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 14,357 Referee: Johann Pfeifer

1. FC Köln v Schalke 04

31 October 2018 (2018-10-31) Second round	1. FC Köln	1–1 (a.e.t.) (5–6 p)	Schalke 04	Cologne
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Córdoba  43' Özcan  61' Schaub  84'	Report	Schöpf  51' Uth  63' Bentaleb  84',  88' (pen.) Burgstaller  100' Nastasić  110'	Stadium: RheinEnergieStadion Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Harm Osmers
	Penalties
	Höger Özcan Terodde Guirassy Risse Hector Drexler		Burgstaller Nastasić Caligiuri Harit Bentaleb Rudy Uth

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		2. Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK		Timo Horn	35	0	33	0	2	0
18	GK		Thomas Kessler	1	0	1	0	0	0
28	GK		Jan-Christoph Bartels	0	0	0	0	0	0
Defenders
2	DF		Benno Schmitz	15	0	14+1	0	0	0
3	DF		Lasse Sobiech	17	0	9+8	0	0	0
4	DF		Frederik Sørensen	5	0	0+5	0	0	0
5	DF		Rafael Czichos	34	2	32	2	2	0
22	DF		Jorge Meré	28	0	26	0	2	0
23	DF		Jannes Horn	19	0	12+6	0	1	0
34	DF		Noah Katterbach	0	0	0	0	0	0
35	DF		Matthias Bader	4	0	4	0	0	0
Midfielders
6	MF		Marco Höger	28	1	22+4	1	1+1	0
7	MF		Marcel Risse	23	2	18+3	1	2	1
8	MF		Johannes Geis	14	0	13+1	0	0	0
13	MF		Louis Schaub	29	4	20+7	3	2	1
14	MF		Jonas Hector	31	6	29	6	2	0
17	MF		Christian Clemens	21	2	18+2	2	1	0
20	MF		Salih Özcan	17	1	7+8	1	1+1	0
21	MF		Vincent Koziello	15	1	6+8	0	1	1
24	MF		Dominick Drexler	35	11	33	9	2	2
30	MF		Florian Kainz	14	0	14	0	0	0
33	MF		Matthias Lehmann	4	0	0+4	0	0	0
36	MF		Niklas Hauptmann	12	0	5+7	0	0	0
38	MF		Nikolas Nartey	1	0	0+1	0	0	0
Forwards
9	FW		Simon Terodde	35	33	28+5	29	1+1	4
11	FW		Kingsley Schindler	3	0	0+2	0	0+1	0
15	FW		Jhon Córdoba	33	21	22+9	20	1+1	1
27	FW		Anthony Modeste	10	6	3+7	6	0	0
Players transferred out during the season
19	FW		Serhou Guirassy	17	2	5+11	2	1	0

Last updated: 19 May 2019
Source: Soccerway

References

1. "Spielordnung" [Match rules] (PDF). DFL.de (in German). Deutsche Fußball Liga. 1 July 2018. p. 3. Retrieved 27 July 2018.