1. FC Köln relies on return: Luca Kilian remains until 2025!

On December 28, 2024, the 1. FC Köln announced that the contract with defender Luca Kilian was extended. The 25-year-old, who has been playing at FC since his arrival in the summer of 2021 of the 1st FSV Mainz 05, will be bound to the club by 2025.

FC Köln is currently leaders and autumn champions of the 2nd Bundesliga. Managing Director Christian Keller underlined the full support of the Kilian Association during his recovery after several serious injuries that he suffered in the past few months. In March 2023 Kilian contracted a cruciate ligament rupture in training, but returned and completed 45 minutes in a friendly against Groningen in November 2023.

injury history and deployment statistics

Unfortunately, Kilian had to suffer another cruciate ligament injury in December 2023, which performed in the game against SV Eintracht Hohkeppel. In his previous time at FC Köln, Kilian has completed 67 missions, 59 of them in the Bundesliga, where he scored two goals. In the 2021/2022 season, he was a regular player under coach Steffen Baumgart and made a significant contribution to the fact that 1. FC Köln reached the UEFA Europa Conference League.

Kilian's return to the field remains uncertain after his second serious injury. Nevertheless, the association shows that it continues to confront the talented defender and supports him during his rehabilitation phase, such as "https://www.media-sportservice.de/2024/28/1-fc-koeln-ollet-fuer-luca-kilian/"> Media-s-s-service.de . Also tag24.de informed about the contract extension and the challenges in the recent past opposite Sah.