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Jul 9, 2023 · Bundesliga club-by-club historical guide: FC Schalke 04. A total of 57 clubs have had the honour of competing in the Bundesliga over its 60-year history – and no team has played in more ...
Schalke play in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the German football league system, following relegation from the Bundesliga in 2022–23. As of 2023, the club has 178,000 members, [2] making it the second-largest football club in Germany and the fourth-largest club in the world in terms of membership. [3]
- 4 May 1904; 119 years ago as Westfalia Schalke
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In 2001, for four glorious minutes, Schalke were Bundesliga champions for the first time. Then, in the blink of an eye, the title was taken away from them in the cruellest possible fashion, as a goal from Bayern Munich's Patrik Andersson at Hamburg, in the final seconds of the season's last game, gave the Bavarians the championship and condemned Sc...
FC Schalke 04’s earliest presence as a sports club dates back to its founding as Westphalia Schalke on 4 May 1904 (hence the 04 in the club’s name), and their first kit was red and yellow. However, after a series of mergers with other sports clubs alongside various name changes, Schalke’s football department broke away in 1924 to form the club as i...
Around the same time as the Royal Blue moniker caught on, Schalke also gained another nickname: Die Knappen, an old German word for miners, on account of the strong support they received from local mine workers in Gelsenkirchen that made up both their fanbase and playing staff. Ernst Kuzorra, perhaps Schalke’s most famous player and the man whose n...
German clubs’ commitment to giving young players a chance to impress in the Bundesliga is well known, but few clubs have a better record in this department than Schalke. The Royal Blues academy – known as Die Knappenschmiede – has been the classroom for countless star names to have emerged since the turn of the century. The likes of Manuel Neuer, M...
Fast forward three quarters of a century from Kuzorra's heyday and Schalke are on the brink of winning a first ever European competition. Under Huub Stevens, The Royal Blues get past Valencia and Tenerife before facing Italian giants Inter Milan in the final. They win the first leg 1-0 courtesy of a Marc Wilmots goal and lose the second leg at the ...
The setting: Signal Iduna Park. The occasion Dortmund vs Schalke, Matchday 13 of the 2017/18 season. A quarter of the game in and Borussia were 4-0 up and 80,000 fans in black-and-yellow were already thinking about how they'd run this into their Royal Blue friends and colleagues. Then came the second half, when the world seemed to turn on its axis....
In the dugout that day was Domenico Tedesco, appointed Schalke boss in the summer of 2017 as the second-youngest head coach in Germany top-flight history behind Julian Nagelsmann. Appointing Tedesco turned out to be a masterstroke, as the young coach showed tremendous tactical nous to get the best out of players such as Leon Goretzka, Max Meyer and...
Another well-known academy graduate is a young man currently impressing in the first team. USA international Weston McKennie is one of the club’s prized assets, having joined the academy in 2016, he reached the semi-finals of his first U19 Bundesliga season before successfully making the leap to the first team. The Texas native is also the latest i...
Schalke’s traditional home, the Parkstadion, is remembered fondly by the fans, but its replacement, the VELTINS Arena, is one of the finest arenas in the world. Atmospheric, modern and innovative, it has a fully retractable pitch that allows the stadium to be used as a concert venue while avoiding damage to the turf. The ground was also the venue f...
German Championship Winners (7): 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1958 DFB Cup Winners (5):1937, 1972, 2001, 2002, 2011 UEFA Cup Winners (1):1997 UEFA Intertoto Cup Winners (2):2003, 2004 Leading Bundesliga goalscorer:Klaus Fischer, 182 Leading Bundesliga appearance-maker:Klaus Fichtel, 477 Click here for the latest Schalke news and features!
Discover Schalke 04's (Germany) Ranking History: World Ranking, Continental Ranking, National Ranking, League Table, and Scores.
Oct 5, 2014 · 27. 57. -30. 3-5-6. 2-4-9. FC Schalke 04 2 Bundesliga standings, conference rankings, updated FC Schalke 04 records and playoff standings.
ClubsClubsPtsW-d-l15818-4-725716-9-435215-7-744914-7-810-6-14. 12th in German 2. Bundesliga. Visit ESPN for Schalke 04 live scores, video highlights, and latest news. Find standings and the full 2023-24 season schedule.
Detailed squad. All departures. Total ranking. All information about FC Schalke 04 (2. Bundesliga) current squad with market values transfers rumours player stats fixtures news.
