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The Historical Evolution of Cologne Football Club
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The first football club in Cologne (German: 1. FC Koeln) is a football club located in Cologne, North Rhine-westfalen. Founded in February of 1948, it is the founding member and the first champion of the German Football League (1963/64 season). The team won three German games. In the 1980s, the Cologne team began to decline, and 1999 was demoted for the first time. Has been ups and downs between Group A and Group B, won the championship of Group B in 2004/05, and just relegated to Group A.. The team's most famous victory was 1965, England's European Cup against Liverpool 1/4 final. The first two games were 0-0, the rematch was 2-2, and it was a draw again. Because there was no penalty, it was decided by throwing a dime.

Cologne Football Club is the latest club in German 18 first-class teams. It was established on1February, 948 13. Six years later, when the Federal Republic of Germany won the World Cup for the first time in Bern, Switzerland, Cologne Football Club was still in a hurry.

Cologne Football Club, formerly known as Cologne Bosby Club, was founded in 190 1, Schulz07 and 1907. The Cologne team's jersey is red and white, and the team emblem has two cathedrals in Cologne, which are the tallest cathedrals in Europe, so the full name and team emblem of Cologne Football Club have the words "1".

At the founding ceremony of the club, the young club president Kramer declared ambitiously that he would become a German champion team within 65,438+00 years. At that time, everyone disagreed with this statement. Although Kramer's promise was not fulfilled immediately, after the establishment of 1 year, the Cologne team has advanced to the Western League, which is the predecessor of today's Bundesliga. Cologne ranked fifth at the end of the first division (1949 ~ 1950). Since then, Cologne has become the leader of German football. Cologne Football Club is one of the teams that participated in the professional first-class league for the first time in 1963 ~ 1964 season. Club President Kramer is also one of the founders of the professional first-class league, and the other founder is former Federal German coach Helberg. In the first professional first-class league, the Cologne team made an extraordinary effort, 17+ 1 1 won, and lost 2 games in 30 games, which opened the gap between the second place and won the championship easily. Cologne, which won the first game, took the lead and won the German Cup twice with 1968 and 1977.

In the 1990s, the position of the Cologne team in German football has declined. Due to the confusion of the policies and guidelines of the whole club, even if there are famous players such as Park Jung Su Barski, illgner and Bowles, the situation of the team ranking in the middle reaches has not changed. The team 1998 was relegated to the Bundesliga for the first time in history. Since then, the team has been wandering between the Bundesliga and the Bundesliga. In the 2004-05 season, Cologne returned to the Bundesliga with the first place, and Prince Podolski also topped the scoreboard with 24 goals. However, the team was doomed to avoid relegation in the next Bundesliga, and Podolski also switched to Bayern Munich. Cologne returned to the Bundesliga in 2008-09 under the leadership of Dom, who also retired after demotion. In the summer of 2009, the team bought back Podolski from Bayern Munich for 6.5438+million euros and partnered with Slovenian novakovic in the front line. After a disappointing first season, the combination of Polti and Nova broke out in 20 10- 1 1 season, scoring a total of 30 goals. The team was relegated at the last minute and ranked in the standings 10 with 44 points. This is also the highest league ranking of Cologne team after it entered 2 1 century. 20 12 re-entering Germany b ..