Cologne fined for fans' excess during league match

The German football federation has fined Cologne ?10,000 ($14,000) after fans threw ''several beakers filled with urine and excrement'' at Schalke fans during a Bundesliga match.

The DFB says it fined the club for the fans' ''unsporting behavior'' on Aug. 13, when the plastic cups hit Schalke supporters in the stand below.

Cologne, which lost the game 5-1, agreed to pay the fine.

Cologne president Wolfgang Overath said at the time that the perpetrators were ''not football fans. These people have no interest in sport.''

Overath added that ''it's impossible to understand how football can be abused for such incomprehensible actions. The DFB, and of course we as a club, have to reflect on how things have come to such excesses.''