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A week before the start: dress rehearsal against Champions League club
Updated on June 24, 2025 – 4:55 p.m.Reading time: 91 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”.
The 1. FC Köln is testing in the summer preparation against Atalanta Bergamo. The test game against the third of Serie A becomes a dress rehearsal for the billy goats on the upcoming Bundesliga season. For FC it is the first test game in the RheinEnergieStadion since the game against FC Nantes before the 2023/24 season.
Now another real highlight is waiting for the fans of the billy goats. On August 9th at 3:30 p.m., the Champions League participant from northern Italy will be a guest in the Rhine Energy Stadium. The game takes place exactly a week before the competitive game start in the DFB Cup. The 1st FC Köln meets the second division relegation Jahn Regensburg. In addition, only the first test game of the summer preparation is known on July 12 against SV Bergisch Gladbach.
A new plant of 1. FC Köln has probably found a new club. As “Reviersport” reports on Monday, Marvin Obuz should be faced with Rot-Weiss Essen and will be on the pitch on Wednesday at the third division training training. Already in the 2023/24 season, the attacker played on loan for the Essener and scored eight goals and 17 templates in 40 competitive games.
At 1. FC Köln, the 23-year-old, who had been trained at the Geißbockheim since 2009, had no future. A fact that sports director Thomas Kessler recently regretted at the membership table. “Personally, I’m extremely sorry for Marvin Obuz’s personnel,” said the former goalkeeper in terms of the five short missions, which was able to record the own plant in the past season under ex-coach Gerhard Strube. Now the career of the Cologne -born is supposed to pick up speed again at the age and new place of work.
Lukas Kwasniok will take up his work at 1st FC Köln on Monday. Now “Sky” reports that the former coach of SC Paderborn should be interested in Raphael Obermair. The midfielder, who has already worked with Kwasniok at the SCP, can imagine a change.
However, it is unlikely that FC would be willing to pay a transfer fee in the seven-digit range for a 29-year-old without any Bundesliga experience. It is also not the first rumor about a Paderborn player who could move to Cologne with Kwasniok. In addition, the billy goats to Aaron tenth and Calvin Brackelmann are said to be interested.
After Florian Wirtz’s record transfer to FC Liverpool, 1st FC Köln is expecting a discharge. The billy goats earn on the transfer fee that Bayer Leverkusen receives. The FC collects at least two million euros as a training association. Those responsible at the Geißbockheim check whether the Cologne is more entitled to even more.
FIFA generally speaks five percent of a transfer fee of a player’s training club. Because Liverpool pays a base loss of around 130 million euros in Leverkusen, it is about 6.5 million euros. The FIFA must now decide how high the Cologne part is according to a defined distribution key. But it is already clear: around two million euros are safe from FC.
According to Sky, 1st FC Köln is facing Tom Krauss. The midfielder of FSV Mainz 05, most recently awarded to VfL Bochum, has been associated with the billy goats for weeks. As the TV station reports, only last details should be clarified.