page_title: 1. FC Köln
section_title: A successful new club
hierarchical_section_title: 1. FC Köln / History / A successful new club
caption_attribution_description: English: Chart of end-season table positions of 1. FC Köln (Cologne) in the football league system of Germany. Data source: RSSSF, wikipedia, f-archiv.de, fussball.de Deutsch: Historische Tabellenplatzierungen von 1. FC Köln im Fußball-Ligasystem in Deutschland English: Результаты «Кёльна» в чемпионате Германии. Указаны места в таблице по итогам каждого сезона.
context_page_description: 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 spending a season in the 2018–19 season 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.
context_section_description: After the union of these two predecessor sides (1948), 1. FC Köln began play in the tough Oberliga West in the 1949–50 season and by 1954 had won their first divisional championship. That same year they lost the DFB-Pokal final 1–0 to VfB Stuttgart. Die Geißböcke won their second divisional championship in 1960 and appeared in the national final against Hamburger SV, where they went down to a 2–3 defeat. They went on to finish first in the Oberliga West in each of the next three seasons and again played their way to the national final in 1962 and 1963. They won the '62 match 4–0 over 1. FC Nürnberg resulting in entry to the 1962–63 European Cup where they were one of the favourites to win the trophy. In the first round Köln visited Dundee F.C. of Scotland and lost 1–8, and despite winning the second leg back in Germany by 4–0 they were out of the tournament. In the following year's national final they lost 1–3 to Borussia Dortmund.
caption: Historical chart of 1. FC Köln league performance
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