News blog about 1. FC Cologne
Next defense failure: “Not available to us”
Updated 11/22/2025 – 10:36 p.mReading time: 36 minutes
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Saturday, November 22, 2025
The 1. FC Cologne will probably have to accept the loss of another central defender. Joel Schmied won 3:4 against on Saturday evening Eintracht Frankfurt suffered a thigh injury. The Swiss is scheduled to be examined at the Mediapark Clinic on Sunday.
Coach Lukas Kwasniok doesn’t expect Schmied to play next Saturday Bremen is ready for use. The regular player suffered “a muscular injury that suggests he will not be available to us next week.” With Luca Kilian (torn cruciate ligament), Timo Hübers (knee injury) and Rav van den Berg (shoulder joint sprain), three other Cologne central defenders had already been injured over the course of this season.
Friday, November 21, 2025
An old acquaintance is returning to the Geißbockheim in a new role: Stefan Müller-Römer, who chaired the members’ council for many years and was temporarily part of the board in 2019, is part of a newly constituted Statutory and Structural Commission of the 1. FC Cologne to.
The board trio Jörn Stobbe, Jörg Alvermann and Ulf Sobek, who were elected in September, had already announced a comprehensive reform of the association during the election campaign. In addition to the outdated statutes, streamlining the committee structure and reviewing the legal form are also on the agenda. Müller-Römer should help.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
1. FC Köln is still worried about Marius Bülter’s use against Eintracht Frankfurt. After his gastrointestinal infection, the attacker was back on the training pitch on Thursday, but according to Lukas Kwasniok, the illness took a toll on him. “When he showed up again for the first time on Tuesday, I was really scared,” said the coach.
Bülter had “lost a lot of weight” due to the infection and his face was not only “white,” but “glassy. You could see through it,” said Kwasniok. He rules out a starting eleven nomination on Saturday. It remains to be seen whether Bülter can play at all. In view of the weight loss, Kwasniok noted with a smile: “This illness would have been good for me – but not for him.”
Wednesday, November 19, 2025
Rav van den Berg played in a competitive game for the first time since his serious shoulder injury on Tuesday evening. The central defender of 1. FC Köln was in the away game on September 13th Wolfsburg suffered a sprained acromioclavicular joint and had to be operated on. The Dutchman only returned to team training in the week before the international break.