Newsblog for 1. FC Cologne
“Since childhood”: FC star signs at his heart club
Updated on June 17th, 2025 – 3:46 p.m.Reading time: 87 min.
The 1. FC Köln is the football club from the cathedral city. In the New sticker on T-Online you will find all the important messages about the “billy goats”.
As expected, Dejan Ljubicic has joined Dinamo Zagreb. The transfer -free transfer of the midfielder of 1. FC Köln to Croatia is perfect. As the Croats confirmed, Ljubicic has signed a multi-year contract and receives the number 77. At FC, the 27-year-old played 122 competitive games (16 goals) in four years.
“It is a great honor for me to wear the Dinamo jersey from today,” the native Viennese was quoted at the presentation by the club. “I’ve been a dinamo fan since childhood, so I’m particularly happy to officially be a player of the blue from today. I came here to win titles and I hope that we will get the championship title next season.” His contract in Cologne expires on June 30, 2025, so the FC no longer collects a transfer.
The 1. FC Köln has extended the contract with Matthias Köbbing. The fourth goalkeeper of the billy goats signed a new contract until 2027. The 28-year-old goes into his sixth season for FC, but is still only intended as a training goalkeeper and is not scheduled for competitive operations.
Behind it continues the puzzle rates about the goalkeeper talent Alessandro Blazic. The 19-year-old started preparing for the U21 of the billy goats on Monday, although his contract expires on June 30th. FC wants to extend, Blazic is still hesitating. The goalkeeper could become the new number three of the professionals. But no decision has yet been made.
The 1st FC Köln has to compete in the DFB Cup for the third time in the past five years at SSV Jahn Regensburg. This was the result of the draw for the first cup round of the 2025/26 season on Sunday. In 2021 and 2022, FC was eliminated in the penalty shootout in Regensburg.
So bad memories of the Jahnstadion. Nevertheless, the FC wants to use the competitive game debut for the new coach Lukas Kwasniok to start a successful season. “We look forward to the first challenge of the new season and want to lay the foundation for the longest as long as possible with a successful appearance in Regensburg,” said sports director Thomas Kessler in a first reaction to the lot.
The exact date for the game has not yet been determined. The first round is held between August 15 and 18, 2025.
According to “Express”, the 1. FC Köln is interested in Joel Monteiro from the Young Boys Bern. The five -time Swiss international can be used flexibly on the offensive, can storm over the right and over the left wing. He might be an alternative to Eintracht Braunschweig’s second division scorer Rayan Philippe.
Last season, Monteiro convinced in the Swiss Super League with seven goals before it was an ankle with a ligament tear from April. The 25-year-old is still under contract with the Young Boys until 2026. As a transfer fee, two to three million euros are considered realistic.
The Gerhard Struber, who was released two game days before the ascent at 1. FC Köln, may have a new job in prospect. According to “Bristol Live” and “Sky UK”, the Austrian is one of the top candidates for the English second division club Bristol City. For Struber it would be a return to the island because he had already trained FC Barnsley in the championship from November 2019 to October 2020.