# 2024–25 1. FC Köln season

The 2024–25 season is the 77th season in the history of 1. FC Köln. In addition to the domestic league, the team is scheduled to participate in the DFB-Pokal.

## Transfers
### In

| Pos. | Player | Transferred from | Fee | Date |
| MF | Mathias Olesen | Yverdon-Sport | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| GK | Jonas Urbig | Greuther Fürth | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| DF | Nikola Soldo | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| FW | Marvin Obuz | Rot-Weiss Essen | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| FW | Tim Lemperle | Greuther Fürth | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| MF | Chilohelm Onuoha | RB Leipzig U19 | | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Mansour Ouro-Tagba | 1860 Munich | | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Rasmus Carstensen | Genk | €1,500,000 | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Luca Waldschmidt | VfL Wolfsburg | Undisclosed | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Jusuf Gazibegović | Sturm Graz | €2,000,000 | 1 January 2025 |
| FW | Imad Rondić | Widzew Łódź | €1,500,000 | 3 February 2025 |

### Out

| Pos. | Player | Transferred to | Fee | Date |
| DF | Rasmus Carstensen | Genk | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| MF | Faride Alidou | Eintracht Frankfurt | Loan return | 30 June 2024 |
| DF | Benno Schmitz | Grasshopper | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Davie Selke | Hamburger SV | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Mansour Ouro-Tagba | Jahn Regensburg | Loan | 1 July 2024 |
| DF | Jeff Chabot | VfB Stuttgart | €4,000,000 | 1 July 2024 |
| FW | Justin Diehl | VfB Stuttgart | End of contract | 1 July 2024 |
| MF | Chilohelm Onuoha | SC Verl | Loan | 2 July 2024 |
| FW | Sargis Adamyan | Jahn Regensburg | Loan | 3 January 2025 |
| FW | Florian Dietz | Rheindorf Altach | Loan | 5 January 2025 |
| DF | Elias Bakatukanda | Blau-Weiß Linz | Loan | 8 January 2025 |

## 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 | 2 August 2024 | 18 May 2025 | Matchday 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 000.00 |
| DFB-Pokal | 18 August 2024 | | First round | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | −1 | 000.00 |
Last updated: 2 August 2024 Source: Soccerway

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

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion, qualification or relegation |
| 1 | 1. FC Köln | 20 | 11 | 4 | 5 | 35 | 25 | +10 | 37 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 2 | Hamburger SV | 20 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 45 | 27 | +18 | 35 | Promotion to Bundesliga |
| 3 | 1. FC Magdeburg | 20 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 41 | 29 | +12 | 35 | Qualification for promotion play-offs |
| 4 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 38 | 31 | +7 | 35 | |
| 5 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 20 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 36 | 29 | +7 | 33 | |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 22 December 2024. Source: DFB

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
| Ground | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A |
| Result | L | D | W | W | L | D | D | W | L | L | W | W | W | D | W | W | W | | | |
| Position | 12 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 1 | | | |

#### Matches

The match schedule was released on 4 July 2024.