Newsblog for 1. FC Cologne
Captain indicates farewell: “Wants to play abroad”
Updated on May 30, 2025 – 2:44 p.m.Reading time: 78 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”.
Timo Hüber’s farewell to 1. FC Köln. The captain of the billy goats still have a contract in the cathedral city until 2026 and then apparently wants to move abroad. He “assumes that he will play the next season at FC at the moment”, said Hüber’s in the podcast Kicker meets dazn. “But I’m not a friend of lip service. I know that it is my last year of contract.”
Hübers continued: “Maybe the club also has an interest in saying: We want to make you money. I don’t think so, but it doesn’t help now. I look at how it comes.” Then Hüber wants to fulfill a dream. “It is very strong on my agenda to live abroad and ideally play. Preferably still like my girlfriend and I have no family and children yet.” A farewell in the summer of 2026 is likely when Hüber is 30 years old.
The 1. FC Köln has lost the race by two third division stars. The billy goats had inquired about Borussia Dortmund II in the past few months and would have liked to commit the offensive player. But now the outdoor car player changes free of charge to Fortuna Düsseldorf.
In addition, there had recently been rumors about Jonas Sterner from Dynamo Dresden. The right-back was recently loaned by Holstein Kiel to the second division promoted. Now Hannover 96 is about the 23-year-old’s commitment. Meanwhile, the 1. FC Köln has made a new addition to the coming season with Ragnar Ache.
The 1. FC Köln has apparently committed itself to Lukas Kwasniok when looking for a new trainer. But according to the transfer expert Fabrizio Romano, the billy goats recently knocked on Miron Muslic. The largely unknown coach of Plymouth Argyle in Germany is about to switch to FC Schalke 04. According to Romano, FC was also interested.
However, a transfer to the billy goats would have come as a surprise. After climbing, FC is looking for a coach, who is at least experienced in Germany. Kwasniok has not yet trained in the Bundesliga, but made a name for itself over the 2nd division. There he became seventh with SC Paderborn in four years, once sixth and now fourth.
The 1. FC Köln has signed Ragnar Ache from 1. FC Kaiserslautern. The center forwarder signs a contract until 2029. The billy goats announced this on Tuesday evening. The flush bowls were able to hire the 26-year-old due to an exit clause. This is said to have been around four million euros.
“Already in the first conversations with Ragnar I had the feeling that he fits the 1. FC Köln very well in terms of sport and human,” said FC sports director Thomas Kessler. “He is not only a really good striker, but also a guy who will quickly integrate into our team and improve our offensive with its quality in the top. For our squad planning, the occupation of this position was a central goal – I am all the more pleased that we were able to successfully complete the transfer.”
Three and a half years after his last coaching station, Peter Stöger will be back on the sidelines from the coming season. The former coach of the 1st FC Köln takes over Rapid Vienna. There, the Viennese native signed a contract by the summer of 2027.
The ex-FC coach had already run for Rapid as a player between 1995 and 1998 before playing for the city rival Austria Vienna and also celebrating great success as a coach. So now the return to the green-whites. “I am very pleased that I can perform this responsible task. I am convinced that we have a squad of great quality, and the academy, including the second team, has many players with potential for higher tasks,” said Stöger.