Bundesliga club 1. FC Köln won the reunion with club legend Lukas Podolski. As part of a mini-tournament in St. Johann, Austria, the team coached by Steffen Baumgart won 3-1 against the Polish first division club Gornik Zabrze.
The Cologne goals were scored by Sargis Adamyan (11′), Timo Hübers (45′) and Davie Selke (45’+1′) and the game lasted only 45 minutes. Rio world champion Podolski, who recently extended his contract with Poland by two years, was in the starting XI, as was ex-Cologne native Pawel Olkowski. Olkowski scored the interim equalizer (36th).
The test took place as part of the FC training camp in Maria Alm. It was only the fourth time that Podolski played against his former club: previously twice in the league with FC Bayern and once with Arsenal in a test in Müngersdorf.
However, the three-way tournament in the sweltering heat in the Koasa Stadium was not won by FC, but by second division team Hannover 96. Lower Saxony defeated both the Poldi club (3-0) and Cologne (1-0).