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2019–20 1. FC Köln season

season of football team

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ73923142 ↗
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The 2019–20 1. FC Köln season was the 72nd season in the football club's history and first consecutive and 48th overall season in the top flight of German football, the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 2019. 1. FC Köln participated in this season's edition of the domestic cup, the DFB-Pokal. Köln were the reigning 2. Bundesliga champions. This was the 72nd season for Köln in the Müngersdorfer Stadion, located in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The season covered a period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020.

Achim Beierlorzer was sacked on 9 November 2019 after posting a 2–1–8 record in the first eleven matches of the season, sitting in 17th place in the Bundesliga.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Köln, season and football can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as season of football team. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “2019–20 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.