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Treaty extended: Important millions of deal for 1. FC Köln
Updated on April 16, 2025 – 3:29 p.m.Reading time: 52 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 has extended an important contract. The hooked goats announced that DEVK will decorate the jersey as a sleeve sponsor by 2028. The insurance company has been the main partner at FC since 2017 and, according to reports, has previously paid around two million euros per season.
In addition to the main sponsor Rewe and name sponsor RheinEnergie, DEVK is one of the three most important sponsors of the billy goats. The extension should go hand in hand with an increase in the amount of sponsors, it said on Wednesday from the Geißbockheim. This means that FC has planning security in all important sponsorship areas.
The 1. FC Köln strengthens with Luc Dabrowski. The 19-year-old changes from VfL Bochum to Geißbockheim. So far, the central defender has played the Bochumer in the U19 and is planned for the U21 at FC. Since his contract expires at VfL in summer, no transfer is due for the defense talent.
Dabrowski is the son of the former Bundesliga professional and today’s coach Christoph Dabrowski. The former midfielder ran a total of 273 times in the Bundesliga and played 103 second division games. His son went through the entire youth in Bochum, where Dabrowski senior is a legend with 208 competitive games.
The 1. FC Köln has to pay a juicy punishment to the DFB in four games in four games. A total of 316,400 euros were made. The largest proportion is the pyro show before the cup game against Hertha BSC on December 4, 2024. At that time, several hundred fireworks had been raised in the south curve and numerous beacons had been ignited. For this, the DFB has set a sum of 290,600 euros.
As the DFB reports, the punishment could have been twice as high if the club had not determined two perpetrators. According to the applicable guidelines, this leads to a criminal reduction of 50 percent. In addition, the association threatened to consider further sanctions that go beyond a fine, should “other serious pyro occurrences in the Cologne audience block”.
Another 15,600 euros are added to the burning of Bengalische Feinen against 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 8,400 euros from the game against Eintracht Braunschweig and 1800 euros for the game against SV Elversberg. FC sports director Christian Keller was not very pleased with the punishment, especially since such had not led to a rethink of the fan scenes.
“Uncontrolled burning of pyrotechnics is prohibited and therefore it would be desirable that it does not take place. So far, however, no rigorous approach has been successfully crowned,” said the managing director. “The dialogue between the club, fan scene and security providers is therefore the only sustainable path. For me, the security concept always goes. As long as nobody in the stadium is harmed, pyrotechnics can be accepted as part of the fan culture in a certain, also economically justifiable framework. Of course, this does not apply to Pyro excesses like the cup game against Hertha BSC.”
Despite the rather disappointing 1-1 draw at SpVgg Greuther Fürth, the 1. FC Köln is one of the winners of the match day in the promotion race. Since Magdeburg and Kaiserslautern both lost their games, the billy goats were able to expand their lead over the two direct pursuers.
SC Paderborn and Hannover 96 also had to give up. For this, SV Elversberg and Fortuna Düsseldorf were able to win their games and shorten the gap to FC to four points. Five game days before the end of the season, the Cologne team still have a lead of two games. If the FC gets nine points from the remaining games, the pursuers should no longer allow themselves to be defeated. From a Cologne perspective, a comfortable starting point in front of the final sprint.