2018–19 1. FC Köln season

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
	← 2017–18 2019–20 →
	All statistics correct as of 15 July 2019.

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.

Competitions

Win Draw Loss

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	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

League table

Pos	Team v t e	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	Promotion to Bundesliga
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.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (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

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

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

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

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

16 September 2018 (2018-09-16) 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

27 February 2019 (2019-02-27) 20	Erzgebirge Aue	0–1	1. FC Köln	Aue
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Last updated: 19 May 2019
Source: Soccerway

References

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

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

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

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

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