While achieving success with the senior team, the youth department of the Falcons was also able gain attention by winning the 2011 and 2012 German Junior Bowl.
2014 the Cologne Falcons finished third in the league and were qualified for the play-offs, but lost in the semifinals to New Yorker Lions who won the 2014 Championship afterwards.
One year later, the team competed in league football for the first time, starting in the sixth tier Landesliga North Rhine-Westphalia.
In its first season in the second league, the club won the Northern Conference and consequently was being promoted to the Bundesliga, the highest tier in German American Football.
[1] The 2005 season did not bring much success for the Falcons, as the team finished the league fifth in the Northern Conference, only evading relegation by leaving the Düsseldorf Panther behind.
[1] A year later, the team managed to come fourth in the league, thus reaching the play-offs for the first time in the club's history.
The decline of the Falcons was continued in the 2008 season, when the team finished last in the Northern Conference and lost the following relegation games against the Assindia Cardinals.
The 2013 season saw the club come last in its division but narrowly defend its league membership in the relegation round against the Bielefeld Bulldogs.
The stadium has a capacity of 12,000 people[3] and is shared with SC Fortuna Köln, a soccer club currently playing in the Fußball-Regionalliga West.