2015–16 1. FC Köln season

1. FC Köln
	2015–16 season
Chairman	Werner Spinner
Manager	Peter Stöger
Stadium	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne
Bundesliga	9th
DFB-Pokal	Round 2
Top goalscorer	League: Anthony Modeste (14); All: Anthony Modeste (17)
← 2014–15	2016–17 →

Background

1. FC Köln finished the 2014–15 Bundesliga in 12th place, thus ensuring a place in the 2015–16 Bundesliga. The 2015–16 season is the 45th season for the club in the Bundesliga and the second season in their current spell. The percentage of possible seasons in the Bundesliga amounts to 84.9% for the club. At the start of the season the club was on 16th place in the German TV money table. ^[1]

Review

After matchday 31 the club achieved the goal to play in the Bundesliga in the season 2016/2017 by avoiding relegation. The 2016/2017 season will be the third succeeding season in the Bundesliga for the club since the promotion in 2014. At the end of the season the club will climb in the german TV money table from 16th to the 14th place. ^[2] Finishing on the 9th position was the best club finish in the Bundesliga since the 1991/1992 season. During the season 1. FC Köln overtook the clubs Hamburger SV and Borussia Mönchengladbach to become the fourth largest club in Germany with 78.518 members in May 2016. Worldwide the club is the 14th largest football club at the moment.

Players

Squad

As of 20 March 2016^[update]^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Timo Horn
3	DF	Dominique Heintz
4	DF	Frederik Sørensen
5	DF	Dominic Maroh
6	MF	Kevin Vogt
7	MF	Marcel Risse
8	MF	Miloš Jojić
11	FW	Simon Zoller
13	FW	Yūya Ōsako
14	DF	Jonas Hector
15	FW	Philipp Hosiner

No.	Position	Player
16	DF	Paweł Olkowski
18	GK	Thomas Kessler
19	DF	Mërgim Mavraj
21	MF	Leonardo Bittencourt
25	DF	Filip Mladenović
27	FW	Anthony Modeste
29	MF	Dušan Švento
30	MF	Marcel Hartel
31	MF	Yannick Gerhardt
33	MF	Matthias Lehmann (captain)
37	GK	Daniel Mesenhöler

Players who left the club during the 2015–16 season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Position	Player
17	MF	Sławomir Peszko
25	MF	Kazuki Nagasawa
26	FW	Bård Finne

Players who joined the club during the 2015–16 season
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.		Position	Player
25		DF	Filip Mladenović

Transfers

In

N	P	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Ref.
9	FW	Anthony Modeste	27	EU	1899 Hoffenheim	Transfer	Summer	2019	^[4]
8	MF	Miloš Jojić	23	Non-EU	Borussia Dortmund	Transfer	Summer	2019	^[5]
21	MF	Leonardo Bittencourt	21	EU	Hannover 96	Transfer	Summer	2019	^[6]
4	DF	Frederik Sørensen	23	EU	Juventus	Transfer	Summer	2019	^[7]
3	DF	Dominique Heintz	21	EU	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Transfer	Summer	2019	^[8]
25	DF	Filip Mladenović	24	EU	BATE Borisov	Transfer	Summer	2019	^[9]
15	FW	Philipp Hosiner	26	EU	Rennes	Loan	Summer	2016	^[10]

Out

N	P	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Source
28	DF	Kevin Wimmer	22	EU	Tottenham Hotspur	Transfer	Summer	^[11]
9	FW	Anthony Ujah	24	Non-EU	Werder Bremen	Transfer	Summer	^[12]
22	MF	Daniel Halfar	27	EU	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Transfer	Summer	^[13]
2	DF	Mišo Brečko	31	EU	1. FC Nürnberg	Transfer	Summer	^[14]
17	MF	Sławomir Peszko	30	EU	Lechia Gdańsk	Transfer	Summer	^[15]
10	FW	Patrick Helmes	31	EU		Retired	Summer

Season overview

Competitions

Win Draw Loss

Bundesliga

League table

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Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	10	13	11	38	42	−4	43	5	5	7	16	18	−2	5	8	4	22	24	−2

Last updated: 14 May 2016.
Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	W	D	W	L	W	L	D	W	L	L	D	W	D	D	L	D	W	L	D	D	W	L	L	D	L	W	L	D	L	W	W	D	D	D
Position	4	5	4	8	5	7	7	5	6	9	9	7	9	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	10	10	12	9	9	11	11	10	8	8	9	9

Last updated: 14 May 2016.
Source: Bundesliga
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Matches

16 August 2015 (2015-08-16) 1	VfB Stuttgart	1–3	1. FC Köln	Stuttgart
17:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Baumgartl 34' Gentner 67' Insúa 71' Didavi 79' (pen.)	Report	Sørensen 61' Vogt 61' Modeste 75' (pen.) Zoller 77' Osako 90+2'	Stadium: Mercedes-Benz Arena Attendance: 59,500 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

22 August 2015 (2015-08-22) 2	1. FC Köln	1–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Zoller 30' Lehmann 72' Vogt 78'	Report	Bendtner 83' Klose 88'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 46,000 Referee: Knut Kircher

29 August 2015 (2015-08-29) 3	1. FC Köln	2–1	Hamburger SV	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Zoller 42' Vogt 68' Hosiner 76' Modeste 81' (pen.) Risse 83'	Report	Holtby 47' Schipplock 49' Ekdal 55' Spahić 79'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

12 September 2015 (2015-09-12) 4	Eintracht Frankfurt	6–2	1. FC Köln	Frankfurt
18:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Stendera 1' Meier 4', 23', 87' Castaignos 15', 30' Reinartz 63' Seferović 73'	Report	Modeste 28' Heintz 81' Hector 89'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 51,500 Referee: Marco Fritz

19 September 2015 (2015-09-19) 5	1. FC Köln	1–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Modeste 64'	Report	Xhaka 23' Hazard 70' Wendt 78'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 47,800 Referee: Felix Brych

22 September 2015 (2015-09-22) 6	Hertha BSC	2–0	1. FC Köln	Berlin
20:00 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Skjelbred 11' Ibišević 43', 90+4'	Report	Hosiner 73'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Attendance: 40,181 Referee: Florian Meyer

25 September 2015 (2015-09-25) 7	1. FC Köln	1–1	FC Ingolstadt	Cologne
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Modeste 10' Heintz 62' Lehmann 85'	Report	Matip 21', 64' Leckie 76' Hübner 80'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 47,800 Referee: Christian Dingert

4 October 2015 (2015-10-04) 8	Schalke 04	0–3	1. FC Köln	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Geis 79' Meyer 90+2'	Report	Modeste 45' Bittencourt 50' Risse 69' Gerhardt 79' Zoller 84'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 61,723 Referee: Knut Kircher

18 October 2015 (2015-10-18) 9	1. FC Köln	0–1	Hannover 96	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Sørensen 21' Osako 49' Risse 81'	Report	Schmiedebach 23' Andreasen 38' Sané 67'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 48,700 Referee: Bastian Dankert

24 October 2015 (2015-10-24) 10	Bayern Munich	4–0	1. FC Köln	Munich
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Robben 35' Vidal 40' Rafinha 55' Lewandowski 62' Müller 77' (pen.)	Report	Lehmann 61'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Florian Meyer

31 October 2015 (2015-10-31) 11	1. FC Köln	0–0	TSG Hoffenheim	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Osako 66' Maroh 74'	Report	Schwegler 30'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 48,000 Referee: Günter Perl

7 November 2015 (2015-11-07) 12	Bayer Leverkusen	1–2	1. FC Köln	Leverkusen
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Hernández 33' Papadopoulos 53' Ramalho 86'	Report	Maroh 17', 72' Bittencourt 40' Heintz 65'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Felix Zwayer

21 November 2015 (2015-11-21) 13	1. FC Köln	0–0	Mainz 05	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Modeste 34'	Report	Muto 61'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 46,700 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

27 November 2015 (2015-11-27) 14	Darmstadt 98	0–0	1. FC Köln	Darmstadt
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Garics 45' Sulu 74'	Report	Zoller 80'	Stadium: Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor Attendance: 17,000 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

5 December 2015 (2015-12-05) 15	1. FC Köln	0–1	FC Augsburg	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Hector 76' Maroh 86'	Report	Verhaegh 54' Feulner 56' Baier 58' Bobadilla 64', 83'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 45,500 Referee: Daniel Siebert

12 December 2015 (2015-12-12) 16	Werder Bremen	1–1	1. FC Köln	Bremen
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Vestergaard 4' Bartels 70' Öztunalı 70' Fritz 83'	Report	Vogt 45+1' Gerhardt 50' Švento 79'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 40,727 Referee: Guido Winkmann

19 December 2015 (2015-12-19) 17	1. FC Köln	2–1	Borussia Dortmund	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Lehmann 72' Zoller 82', 83' Modeste 90', 90+1'	Report	Papastathopoulos 18' Aubameyang 67'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Knut Kircher

23 January 2016 (2016-01-23) 18	1. FC Köln	1–3	VfB Stuttgart	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Modeste 19' (pen.)	Report	Niedermeier 18' Didavi 36' Werner 51' Gentner 83'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

31 January 2016 (2016-01-31) 19	VfL Wolfsburg	1–1	1. FC Köln	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Draxler 67' Luiz Gustavo 77' Jung 82' Bendtner 89'	Report	Lehmann 45' Modeste 75'	Stadium: Volkswagen Arena Attendance: 29,156 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

7 February 2016 (2016-02-07) 20	Hamburger SV	1–1	1. FC Köln	Hamburg
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Djourou 45' N. Müller 47' Kačar 56' Holtby 58' Spahić 65' Schipplock 89'	Report	Zoller 41' Mladenović 49' Risse 71'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 51,999 Referee: Felix Brych

13 February 2016 (2016-02-13) 21	1. FC Köln	3–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Cologne
18:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Gerhardt 29' Risse 54' Heintz 57' Modeste 66', 72'	Report	Fabián 19' Meier 24' Regäsel 50' Hasebe 52' Stendera 66' Russ 66' Oczipka 82'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 49,200 Referee: Felix Zwayer

20 February 2016 (2016-02-20) 22	Borussia Mönchengladbach	1–0	1. FC Köln	Mönchengladbach
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Dahoud 9' Stindl 46' Raffael 70'	Report	Maroh 46' Olkowski 83' Hosiner 88'	Stadium: Stadion im Borussia-Park Attendance: 52,226 Referee: Knut Kircher

26 February 2016 (2016-02-26) 23	1. FC Köln	0–1	Hertha BSC	Cologne
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Modeste 52' Jojić 78'	Report	Ibišević 43' Brooks 67' Plattenhardt 71'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 48,900 Referee: Tobias Stieler

1 March 2016 (2016-03-01) 24	FC Ingolstadt	1–1	1. FC Köln	Ingolstadt
20:00 CET (UTC+01:00)	Lezcano 29' Hinterseer 36' Bauer 75'	Report	Maroh 53' Modeste 72'	Stadium: Audi Sportpark Attendance: 14,503 Referee: Florian Meyer

5 March 2016 (2016-03-05) 25	1. FC Köln	1–3	Schalke 04	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Maroh 2' Bittencourt 33'	Report	Huntelaar 2' (pen.) Meyer 23' Di Santo 76'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 49,300 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

12 March 2016 (2016-03-12) 26	Hannover 96	0–2	1. FC Köln	Hanover
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Schmiedebach 69'	Report	Bittencourt 43', 61' Sørensen 49'	Stadium: HDI-Arena Attendance: 40,600 Referee: Peter Sippel

19 March 2016 (2016-03-19) 27	1. FC Köln	0–1	Bayern Munich	Cologne
15:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Sørensen 89'	Report	Lewandowski 10' Lahm 86'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 49,600 Referee: Tobias Welz

3 April 2016 (2016-04-03) 28	TSG Hoffenheim	1–1	1. FC Köln	Sinsheim
17:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Amiri 7' Rudy 39' Volland 90+1'	Report	Zoller 69', 72'	Stadium: Wirsol Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 30,150 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

10 April 2016 (2016-04-10) 29	1. FC Köln	0–2	Bayer Leverkusen	Cologne
17:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Heintz 90+3' Bittencourt 90+6'	Report	Wendell 9', 90+6' Brandt 39' Hernández 44' Ramalho 70' Aránguiz 76'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

17 April 2016 (2016-04-17) 30	Mainz 05	2–3	1. FC Köln	Mainz
17:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Córdoba 8' Balogun 49' Donati 67'	Report	Mavraj 48' Risse 64' Jojić 74' Gerhardt 79' Modeste 83'	Stadium: Coface Arena Attendance: 33,275 Referee: Peter Sippel

23 April 2016 (2016-04-23) 31	1. FC Köln	4–1	Darmstadt 98	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Modeste 4', 35' Risse 52', 75' Gerhardt 59' Lehmann 72'	Report	Gondorf 12', 81' Garics 86'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Christian Dingert

29 April 2016 (2016-04-29) 32	FC Augsburg	0–0	1. FC Köln	Augsburg
20:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Koo 62' Altıntop 77' Kohr 90+3'	Report	Lehmann 44', 56' Jojić 66' Maroh 84'	Stadium: WWK ARENA Attendance: 30,144 Referee: Tobias Welz

7 May 2016 (2016-05-07) 33	1. FC Köln	0–0	Werder Bremen	Cologne
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Maroh 24' Hector 51' Sørensen 61'	Report	Grillitsch 38' Bartels 79'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Felix Zwayer

14 May 2016 (2016-05-14) 34	Borussia Dortmund	2–2	1. FC Köln	Dortmund
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Castro 11' Papastathopoulos 45' Reus 75'	Report	Modeste 27' Jojić 43'	Stadium: Signal Iduna Park Attendance: 81,359 Referee: Michael Weiner

DFB-Pokal

8 August 2015 (2015-08-08) Round 1	SV Meppen	0–4	1. FC Köln	Meppen
15:30 CEST (UTC+02:00)	Gommert 24'	Report	Modeste 1', 27' (pen.), 78' Olkowski 8' Zoller 87'	Stadium: Hänsch-Arena Attendance: 13,815 Referee: Christian Dietz

28 October 2015 (2015-10-28) Round 2	Werder Bremen	1–0	1. FC Köln	Bremen
20:30 CET (UTC+01:00)	Ujah 23'	Report	Modeste 39'	Stadium: Weserstadion Attendance: 40,052 Referee: Felix Brych

Statistics

Goalscorers

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
27	FW		Anthony Modeste	36	18	34	15	2	3
11	FW		Simon Zoller	26	7	24	6	2	1
21	MF		Leonardo Bittencourt	30	3	29	3	1	0
7	MF		Marcel Risse	35	3	33	3	2	0
8	MF		Miloš Jojić	17	2	15	2	2	0
5	DF		Dominic Maroh	25	2	25	2	0	0
8	MF		Yannick Gerhardt	30	2	29	2	1	0
3	DF		Dominique Heintz	35	2	33	2	2	0
29	MF		Dušan Švento	8	1	7	1	1	0
15	FW		Philipp Hosiner	15	1	15	1	0	0
13	FW		Yuya Osako	27	1	25	1	2	0

As of 14 May 2016^[update]

Assists

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
7	MF		Marcel Risse	35	7	33	7	2	0
8	MF		Yannick Gerhardt	30	5	29	4	1	1
21	MF		Leonardo Bittencourt	30	4	29	4	1	0
14	DF		Jonas Hector	34	4	32	4	2	0
27	FW		Anthony Modeste	36	3	34	3	2	0
25	DF		Filip Mladenović	14	2	14	2	0	0
16	DF		Paweł Olkowski	20	2	19	1	1	1
4	DF		Frederik Sørensen	24	2	22	2	2	0
6	MF		Kevin Vogt	25	2	23	2	2	0
13	FW		Yuya Osako	27	2	25	1	2	1
33	MF		Matthias Lehmann	34	2	32	2	2	0
5	DF		Dominic Maroh	25	1	25	1	0	0
11	FW		Simon Zoller	26	1	24	1	2	0
3	DF		Dominique Heintz	35	1	33	0	2	1

As of 14 May 2016^[update]

By competition

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bundesliga	16.08.2015	14.05.2016	Matchday 1		34	10	13	11	38	42	−4	29.41
DFB-Pokal	08.08.2015		Round 1	Round 2	2	1	0	1	4	1	+3	50.00
Total					36	11	13	12	42	43	−1	30.56
Updated: 14 May 2016

Attendance figures

The average attendance in the 2015-2016 Bundesliga season was 48.676.
So the utilisation of the stadium amounts to 97.35%.
As of 14 May 2016^[update]

Disciplinary record

Competition	Record
Competition	Games	Red cards	Yellow/Red	Yello cards
Bundesliga	34	1	1	55
DFB-Pokal	2	0	0	2
Total	36	1	1	57
Updated: 14 May 2016

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