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2016–17 1. FC Köln season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ24910058 ↗
Source-derived summary

2016–17 1. FC Köln season is the 2016–17 for the German football club.

Background

1. FC Köln finished the 2015–16 Bundesliga season in 9th place, thus ensuring a place in the 2016–17 Bundesliga. The 2016–17 season is the 46th season for the club in the Bundesliga and the third season in their current spell. The percentage of possible seasons in the Bundesliga amounts to 85.18% for the club. At the start of the season the club was in 14th place in the German TV money table.

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July–August

The preparations for the 2016/17 season began on 4 July 4, 2016. From 10 July till 15 July 2016 the squad was in a training camp in Bad Tatzmannsdorf. From 29 July till 5 August 2016 there was another training camp in Kitzbühel.

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“2016–17 1. FC Köln season” enters the record as season of football team. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Köln, season and football can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2016, 2015—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Köln, season and football.
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“2016–17 1. FC Köln season” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Köln, season and football provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24910058. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2016 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “2016–17 1. FC Köln season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.