Overview

• Lukas Berg moves up from his role as youth academy head a month after Christian Keller’s exit to fill the newly created Technical Director position.
• He will share sports department leadership with 39-year-old Sports Director Thomas Kessler.
• Berg’s responsibilities include driving strategic development and optimizing structures and processes across the club’s football operations.
• The 31-year-old has been with 1. FC Köln since 2016 and led the FC Academy from 2022.
• The club has announced that a successor for the youth academy head role will be named shortly to finalize the organizational reshuffle.