The club has long-standing rivalries with nearby clubs Borussia Mönchengladbach, Fortuna Düsseldorf, and Bayer Leverkusen. Köln play at home in white and red, both colours having been used as the main shirt colour throughout its history. Characteristic for the dialect spoken around Cologne, this is pronounced "EF-tsay", in contrast to the Standard German pronunciation of the abbreviation where the second syllable is emphasized ( ). Another nickname for the club, more common locally due to its ambiguity, is FC (often written as Effzeh), a common German abbreviation for football clubs. The current mascot is Hennes IX as of 1 August 2019 after Hennes VIII was retired by the club due to old age. The first Hennes was donated by a circus entrepreneur as a Cologne carnival joke. The club's nickname Die Geißböcke (The Billy Goats) refers to the club's mascot, a male goat named Hennes after the veteran FC player and later manager Hennes Weisweiler. The team plays its home matches at RheinEnergieStadion. The team are three-time national champions, winning the 1962 German football championship, as well as the Bundesliga twice, first in its inaugural season of 1963–64 and then again in 1977–78. Köln competes in the Bundesliga after promotion in 2018–19 following relegation to 2. It was formed in 1948 as a merger of the clubs Kölner Ballspiel-Club 1901 and SpVgg Sülz 07. V., commonly known as simply FC Köln ( German pronunciation: ( listen)) or FC Cologne in English, is a German professional football club based in Cologne in North Rhine-Westphalia.
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