# 2024–25 1. FC Kaiserslautern season

The 2024–25 season is the 125th season in the history of 1. FC Kaiserslautern and the third consecutive season in 2. Bundesliga. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the DFB-Pokal.

## Summary

On 22 June, Kaiserslautern's preparations for the start of 2. Bundesliga began. On the same day, the veteran midfielder Hendrick Zuck also signed an extension to his contract, the duration of which has not been announced.

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| FW | Angelos Stavridis | FC 08 Homburg | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| FW | Lex-Tyger Lobinger | VfL Osnabrück | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| DF | Luca Sirch | Lokomotive Leipzig | | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Jannis Heuer | SC Paderborn | | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Florian Kleinhansl | VfL Osnabrück | | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Erik Wekesser | 1. FC Nürnberg | €250,000 | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Filip Kaloč | Baník Ostrava | €435,000 | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Jannik Mause | FC Ingolstadt | €600,000 | 3 July 2024 |
| DF | Jan Gyamerah | 1. FC Nürnberg | Loan | 26 July 2024 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| DF | Nikola Soldo | 1. FC Köln | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| DF | Tymoteusz Puchacz | Union Berlin | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| MF | Aaron Basenach | | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Philipp Hercher | 1. FC Magdeburg | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Ben Zolinski | | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Julian Niehues | 1. FC Heidenheim | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| GK | Robin Himmelmann | Karlsruher SC | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Kevin Kraus | | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| 2. Bundesliga | 4 August 2024 | 18 May 2025 | Matchday 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 12 | −1 | 033.33 |
| DFB-Pokal | 17 August 2024 | | First round | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 100.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 13 | 13 | +0 | 042.86 |
Last updated: 21 September 2024 Source: Competitions

### 2. Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 2 | 1. FC Köln | 19 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 33 | 24 | +9 | 34 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 3 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 36 | 27 | +9 | 32 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 4 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 36 | 30 | +6 | 32 | |
| 5 | Hannover 96 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 25 | 19 | +6 | 31 | |
| 6 | SC Paderborn | 19 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 31 | 26 | +5 | 31 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 21 September 2024. Source: DFB

#### Results by round

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

#### Matches

The match schedule was released on 4 July 2024.