Cologne tickets 2026/27

Membership comes first

A 1. FC Köln membership is needed for every presale. Without it you are left waiting for the rare general sale or for resale, so if you plan to see more than one game, joining is the first step. The club's ticketing information is at fc.de/service/stadionerlebnis/ticketing.

One presale date per game

Köln set a separate members-only presale date for each home game, and each member can buy two tickets at most. For the visit of Bayern Munich no presale date had been published at the last check, so watch the club's ticketing page for the announcement.

The July early-bird sale

Part of the day tickets went before the season started. An early-bird sale from 14 to 16 July gave members one third of the day tickets for the home games of the first half of the season, and its third phase, on 16 July, covered Leipzig, Freiburg and Dortmund. A third of the day tickets for the Dortmund game was therefore offered to members back in July.

Buying in the shop

Sales run through the FC ticket shop at ticket-onlineshop.com/ols/fckoeln, which runs a queue. Log in with your member details before the start time and keep the two-ticket limit in mind.

The Ticketbörse

The club's official Ticketbörse resells tickets that other fans hand back. They cost the day-ticket price plus a 15% service fee, and they are often reserved for members, so check it regularly once a game's presale has passed.

Bayern Munich are the dearer of the two visits on this page: Cologne v Bayern Munich tickets start well above Cologne v Borussia Dortmund tickets at the last check.

For the Dortmund game, listings open in the Nordtribüne, with the Osttribüne and Westtribüne close behind and the Südtribüne a little higher. Listings that name an upper or lower tier cost more, the lower tiers most of all, and plain "Category" listings sit in between. Seats in the away section and hospitality packages are listed separately. For Bayern, all four stands open at the same level, with the category listings far above.

Remember that the Nordtribüne also holds the away blocks, so a home supporter should check the block number before buying there. Sellers pick their own prices, which can be higher than face value, and the total appears before you pay.

The RheinEnergieStadion is in Müngersdorf, west of the city centre, at Aachener Straße 999 in the Sportpark Müngersdorf. The rebuilt stadium opened on 31 January 2004 and holds 50,000, with 41,825 seats and 8,175 standing places, or 46,195 under international rules, when standing is not used.

• Hans-Schäfer-Südkurve (South Stand), behind the south goal: blocks S1 to S6 below and S11 to S16 above, named after Hans Schäfer since August 2018.
• Nordtribüne (North Stand), behind the north goal: blocks N1 to N6 and N11 to N16, including the away blocks.
• Westtribüne (West Stand), along the west touchline: blocks W1 to W8 and W11 to W18.
• Osttribüne (East Stand), along the east touchline: blocks O1 to O8 and O11 to O18.

Tram line 1 stops at the stadium, at the stop called "RheinEnergieSTADION", with extra trams before and after matches; from mainline trains, change to line 1 at Köln Messe/Deutz or Köln Weiden West. Line 7 stops at Stüttgenhof, a short walk south, and the S12 and S19 S-Bahn lines serve Weiden West, Müngersdorf Technologiepark and Lövenich. The stadium operator says your match ticket is also valid on KVB buses and trams and across the surrounding VRS network. Visiting clubs report that bags and rucksacks are not allowed and that there is no bag storage, so travel light.

Köln set aside an away-fan quota of ten percent of capacity, about 5,000 tickets, for each game. Those supporters are housed in the Nordtribüne: a visiting club's fan information, in 2023, gave standing block N6 and seated block N16, with the away entrances in the north-east of the stadium.

For Dortmund and Bayern, the visitors' quota therefore sits at the north end. Home supporters buying resale should skip listings marked as the away section and check block numbers in the Nordtribüne. For the rest of the division, see our Bundesliga tickets page.