The side earned generally good results through the 1930s – including a divisional championship in 1939 – but then faltered in the early 1940s. They went on to play as a top flight club in the Gauliga Mittelrhein, one of sixteen premier level divisions established in 1933 in the re-organization of German football under the Third Reich. They won the Westdeutscher title in 1928 and they too went out in the early rounds of the national finals in their turn on that stage. Spielvereinigung 1907 Köln-Sülz was established in 1907 as Sülzer Sportverein and on 1 January 1919 merged with Fußball Club 1908 Hertha Sülz to form SpVgg. Their next best result was a losing appearance in the 1920 league final, where they lost 1–3 to Borussia Mönchengladbach. BC was a competitive side in the Zehnerliga West in the years before World War I who took the Westdeutsche championship in 1912 and advanced to the preliminary rounds of the national finals.
Kölner BC was formed on 6 June 1901 by a group of young men who were unhappy as part of the gymnastics club FC Borussia Köln and far more interested in football. Historical logos of predecessor side Kölner BC FC Köln has over 100,000 members, making it the fourth largest club in Germany.
FC Köln is part of a larger sports club with teams in other sports like handball, table tennis and gymnastics.
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Like many of Germany's other professional football clubs, 1. The club has long-standing rivalries with nearby clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach, Fortuna Düsseldorf, and Bayer Leverkusen. Köln play at home in white and red, both colours having been used as the main shirt colour throughout its history. Characteristic for the dialect spoken around Cologne, this is pronounced "EF-tsay", in contrast to the Standard German pronunciation of the abbreviation where the second syllable is emphasized ( ). Another nickname for the club, more common locally due to its ambiguity, is FC (often written as Effzeh), a common German abbreviation for football clubs. The current mascot is Hennes IX as of 1 August 2019 after Hennes VIII was retired by the club due to old age. The first Hennes was donated by a circus entrepreneur as a Cologne carnival joke. The club's nickname Die Geißböcke (The Billy Goats) refers to the club's mascot, a male goat named Hennes after the veteran FC player and later manager Hennes Weisweiler.
The team plays its home matches at RheinEnergieStadion. The team are three-time national champions, winning the 1962 German football championship, as well as the Bundesliga twice, first in its inaugural season of 1963–64 and then again in 1977–78. Köln competes in the Bundesliga after promotion in 2018–19 following relegation to 2. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln ( German pronunciation: ( listen)) or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne, in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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