The 2012–13 1. FC Köln season was the 64th season in club history. In the 2012–13 season, the club played in the 2. Bundesliga; the second tier of German football. It was the club's first season back in this league, after being relegated from the Bundesliga in 2012. The season started on 5 August 2012 and ended on 19 May 2013.

Review and events

Season

The club is taking part of the 2012–13 edition of the 2. Bundesliga and the 2012–13 edition of the DFB-Pokal. The season started on 5 August 2012 with a loss against Eintracht Braunschweig and ended on 19 May 2013 against Ingolstadt 04.

The club started their league season with a six-match winless streak. Their first league win came against FSV Frankfurt on matchday seven. Overall, The first victory came against SpVgg Unterhaching in the opening round of the cup.

Holger Stanislawski was hired as the new head coach on 14 May 2012.

Discipline 1. FC Köln was hit with a €50,000 fine. The club was only allowed to sell 15.000 tickets to its own supporters and a maximum of 5.000 tickets to supporters of SV Sandhausen. The club stated that this is an economic loss of approximately €500,000. The club appealed the decision and will only pay €40,000 fine and the maximum number of tickets that can be sold to its own supporters was increased to 22.500.

Financial problems There have been repeated rumours about the club being in a grave financial situation. In a letter to club supporters, the club stated "The current financial position of the 1st FC Köln is serious. However, we also want to use this letter to continually eliminate repeated rumors that are without substance. An over-dramatizing the situation is just as damaging as to trivialize it." The club stated that they'll be using revenue bonds for debt restructuring.

Problem supporters Supporters of the club went to the home of Kevin Pezzoni and harassed and threatened him. Pezzoni's car was "smeared." There was an anti-Pezzoni Group on Facebook where more than 400 people joined. This isn't the first case where club supporters went to the home of a 1. FC Köln footballer. Club supporters went to Pedro Geromel's home during the night. Pezzoni had his contract dissolved because of the incident. Pezzoni stated that he didn't want to terminate his contract and had hoped that the club would stand behind him against the problem supporters.

Chronology of events Date Event Source 19 February 2012 In a carnival party, Kevin Pezzoni has to have surgery because of a broken nose after an incident. Pezzoni was "portrayed as one of the biggest scapegoats" during the 2011–12 season 27 August 2012 1. FC Köln starts the season without any victory. Erzgebirge Aue defeats 1. FC Köln in the 4th match of the season. The defence was blamed and Pezzoni is the specific player blamed for the loss. 28 August 2012 An angry club supporter starts a Facebook page against Pezzoni. That night, five "extreme" supporters go outside Pezzoni's flat and made threats. His car is defaced. 31 August 2012 Pezzoni is transfer listed. 1 September 2012 Pezzoni is released from his contract. 2 September 2012 Pezzoni leaves Cologne and moves in with his parents in Frankfurt. 6 September 2012 Jürgen Domian, who called himself Benny, is named as the initiator of the incident at Pezzoni's flat. He is a 21 years old with a criminal record.

Match results and fixtures

Legend

2. Bundesliga

League results and fixtures

MatchDateTimeVenueCityOpponentResultAttendance GoalscorersTableSource1. FC KölnOpponentPos.Pts. 1 15:30 Eintracht-Stadion Braunschweig Eintracht Braunschweig 0–1 21,820 — Ademi 16 0 2 18:00 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne SV Sandhausen 1–1 22,900 Bröker Dorn 15 1 3 20:15 Sparkassen-Erzgebirgsstadion Aue Erzgebirge Aue 0–2 9,000 — Müller Savran 17 1 4 18:15 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Energie Cottbus 0–1 34,000 — Sanogo 17 1 5 20:45 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne FC St. Pauli 0–0 45,200 — — 16 2 6 18:00 Stadion An der Alten Försterei Berlin Union Berlin 1–2 16,750 Bröker Silvio Mattuschka 17 2 7 17:30 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne FSV Frankfurt 2–1 32,000 Strobl Chihi Verboek 16 5 8 18:00 Benteler Arena Paderborn Paderborn 07 2–1 15,000 Ujah Chihi Zeitz 14 8 9 20:15 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Dynamo Dresden 1–1 41,800 Ujah Poté 13 9 10 13:00 Jahnstadion Regensburg Jahn Regensburg 3–2 11,465 Ujah Maroh Bigalke Müller Rahn 11 12 11 18:00 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne 1. FC Kaiserslautern 3–3 46,000 Chihi Clemens Royer Baumjohann Idrissou 10 13 12 13:30 Scholz-Arena Aalen VfR Aalen 0–2 10,091 — Dausch Cidimar 12 13 13 18:00 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne MSV Duisburg 0–0 39,900 — — 12 14 14 20:30 Allianz Arena Munich 1860 München 2–0 25,800 McKenna Chihi — 11 17 15 18:00 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne VfL Bochum 3–1 40,000 Ujah McKenna Gelashvili 10 20 16 20:15 Olympic Stadium Berlin Hertha BSC 1–1 36,000 McKenna Ronny 11 21 17 13:30 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Ingolstadt 04 1–0 38,500 Ujah — 10 24 18 20:15 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Eintracht Braunschweig 2–2 38,000 Clemens Ujah Kumbela Bičakčić T9 25 19 18:00 Hardtwaldstadion Sandhausen SV Sandhausen 0–0 6,200 — — T9 26 20 13:00 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Erzgebirge Aue 2–1 41,800 Maroh Clemens Pezzoni 8 29 21 13:00 Stadion der Freundschaft Cottbus Energie Cottbus 0–0 10,201 — — 9 30 22 20:15 Millerntor-Stadion Hamburg FC St. Pauli 1–0 29,063 Clemens — 5 33 23 13:00 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Union Berlin 2–0 42,000 McKenna Maierhofer — 4 36 24 13:30 Frankfurter Volksbank Stadion Frankfurt FSV Frankfurt 1–1 10,740 Clemens Yelen 4 37 25 13:00 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Paderborn 07 3–0 42,700 Matuschyk Ujah — 4 40 26 20:15 Glücksgas Stadium Dresden Dynamo Dresden 2–0 27,284 Ujah — 4 43 27 13:30 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Jahn Regensburg 2–1 45,600 McKenna Royer Djuricin 3 46 28 18:00 Fritz-Walter-Stadion Kaiserslautern 1. FC Kaiserslautern 0–3 49,780 — Idrissou Šimůnek 4 46 29 13:30 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne VfR Aalen 1–0 44,100 Przybyłko — 4 49 30 20:15 Schauinsland-Reisen-Arena Duisburg MSV Duisburg 1–1 27,029 Bröker Bomheuer 4 50 31 13:30 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne 1860 München 1–1 49,100 Ujah Halfar 4 51 32 13:00 rewirpowerSTADION Bochum VfL Bochum 1–2 28,400 Chihi Dedić Maltritz 4 51 33 13:30 RheinEnergieStadion Cologne Hertha BSC 1–2 49,500 Clemens Kobiashvili Morales 5 51 34 13:30 Audi Sportpark Ingolstadt Ingolstadt 04 3–0 12,520 Royer Nascimento Ujah — 5 54

Table

Overall league table

Results summary

DFB-Pokal

RoundDateTimeVenueCityOpponentResultAttendance1. FC Köln goalscorersSource 1 18 August 2012 15:30 Generali Sportpark Unterhaching SpVgg Unterhaching 2–1 7,500 Bröker 2 30 October 2012 19:00 EWR-Arena Worms Wormatia Worms 0–0 7,203 — 3 19 December 2012 20:30 Mercedes-Benz Arena Stuttgart VfB Stuttgart 1–2 27,500 Clemens

Squad information

Squad and statistics

Squad, appearances and goals

Source:

! colspan="10" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"| Goalkeepers

! colspan="10" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"| Defenders

! colspan="10" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"| Midfielders

! colspan="10" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"| Strikers

! colspan="10" style="background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center;"| No longer at club

Bookings

Sources:

NumberName2. BundesligaDFB-PokalTotal 33 Matthias Lehmann 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 5 Dominic Maroh 5 0 0 0 0 0 5 0 0 8 Adam Matuschyk 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 21 Anthony Ujah 4 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 16 Mikael Ishak 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 19 Mato Jajalo 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 15 Tobias Strobl 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 2 Mišo Brečko 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 21 Sascha Bigalke 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 11 Thomas Bröker 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 7 Adil Chihi 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 27 Christian Clemens 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 23 Kevin McKenna 2 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 4 Christian Eichner 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 14 Jonas Hector 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 9 Stefan Maierhofer 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 25 Daniel Royer 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 28 Kevin Wimmer 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 Kevin Pezzoni 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 TOTALS 45 0 0 1 0 0 46 0 0

Transfers

In No.Pos.NameAgeEUMoving fromTypeTransfer WindowContract endsTransfer feeSources Midfield Matthias Lehmann Yes Eintracht Frankfurt Transfer Summer Martin Lanig Midfield Daniel Royer Yes Hannover 96 Loan Summer Defence Kevin Wimmer Yes LASK Linz Transfer Summer Midfield Sascha Bigalke Yes SpVgg Unterhaching Transfer Summer 30 June 2015 Midfield Anthony Ujah No Mainz 05 Loan Summer 30 June 2013 Forward Stefan Maierhofer Yes Red Bull Salzburg Winter 30 June 2013

Out

No.Pos.NameAgeEUMoving toTypeTransfer WindowTransfer feeSources 9 Forward Lukas Podolski Yes Arsenal F.C. Transfer Summer €13 Million Midfielder Armando Petit Yes Boavista F.C. End of contract Summer Free Defender Andrezinho No Summer Free Forward Mark Uth Yes SC Heerenveen Transfer Summer Undisclosed Midfielder Mitchell Weiser Yes Bayern Munich Transfer Summer Defender Pedro Geromel Yes RCD Mallorca Loan Summer Undisclosed Goalkeeper Michael Rensing Yes Bayer Leverkusen Summer Free Midfielder Christopher Buchtmann Yes FC St. Pauli Transfer Summer Free 6 Midfielder Kevin Pezzoni Yes Erzgebirge Aue Released Winter Free Forward Chong Tese No Suwon Samsung Bluewings Winter

Notes 1.Times are in the CET/CEST. 2.1. FC Köln goals listed first. 3.Players who were in the squad at the time of the first competitive fixture; but have left the club or loan out since.

Sources

Match reports

Other sources

External links 2012–13 1. FC Köln season at Weltfussball.de 2012–13 1. FC Köln season at kicker.de 2012–13 1. FC Köln season at Fussballdaten.de