FC Schalke 04

german football club

football club
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., normally known as FC Schalke 04 ( german : [ ɛf tseː ˈʃalkə nʊl fiːɐ̯ ] ), Schalke 04, or abbreviated as S04 ( german : [ ˈɛs nʊl fiːɐ̯ ] ), is a professional German football and multi- sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. The “ 04 ” in the club ‘s appoint derives from its formation in 1904. Schalke has long been one of the most popular professional football teams and multi-sports club in Germany, even though the clubhouse ‘s flower was in the 1930s and 1940s. Schalke play in the 2. Bundesliga, the second tier of the german football league system, as a leave of the 2020–21 relegation. As of June 2018, the club has 155,000 members, making it the second-largest sports clubhouse in Germany [ 4 ] and the fourth-largest sports club in the universe in terms of membership. [ 5 ] other activities offered by the club include athletics, basketball, handball, board tennis, winter sports and eSports.

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Founded in 1904, Schalke has won seven german championships, five DFB-Pokals, one DFL-Supercup and one UEFA Cup. Schalke besides succeeded as the first german club to win a cup double in 1937. Since 2001, Schalke ‘s stadium has been the Veltins-Arena. Schalke holds a long-standing competition with Ruhr neighbours Borussia Dortmund, arguably one of the most far-flung and long-familiar rivalries in german football, and matches between the two teams are referred to as the Revierderby. Schalke was ranked as the 31st-best football team in Europe by UEFA ‘s 2020 UEFA club rankings, [ 6 ] and ranked 7th-best in 2015 UEFA club rankings. [ 7 ] In terms of operating income, Schalke possesses the seventh-highest of any football club at $ 64.4 million or £ 38.2 million ( € 48 million ), [ 8 ] and 0 per cent debt as of August 2014. [ 9 ] Schalke besides generates the 14th-highest gross of any football baseball club, at “ $ 265.6 million or £157.8 million ( €198 million ) ”. [ 9 ] In May 2014, Schalke 04 were ranked by Forbes magazine as the 14th-most valuable football club, [ 8 ] at “ £355 million or $ 599 million ( €446 million ) ”, an increase of 16 per penny from the former year. [ 9 ]

history [edit ]

1904–1927 : Schalke ‘s early years [edit ]

1900s typical mining structure in the Ruhr, source of the Schalke nickname Die Knappen – from an old german word for “ miners ” – because the team drew so many of its players and supporters from the coalmine workers of Gelsenkirchen. The club was founded on 4 May 1904 as Westfalia Schalke by a group of high school students and first wore the colours crimson and yellow. The team was ineffective to gain entree to the Westdeutscher Spielverband (Western German Football Association) and played in one of the “ violent associations ” of early german football. In 1912, after years of failed attempts to join the official league, they merged with the gymnastic club Schalker Turnverein 1877 in order to facilitate their introduction. This musical arrangement held up until 1915, when SV Westfalia Schalke was re-established as an independent club. The separation proved ephemeral and the two came together again in 1919 as Turn- und Sportverein Schalke 1877. The new club won its first honor in 1923 as champions of the Schalke Kreisliga. It was around this time that Schalke picked up the nickname Die Knappen, from an honest-to-god german parole for “ miners ” because the team drew sol many of its players and supporters from the coal miners of Gelsenkirchen. [ citation needed ] In 1924, the football team parted ways with the gymnasts again, this time taking the club president along with them. They took the name FC Schalke 04 and adopted the nowadays familiar bluing and white kit from which their moment dub would derive, Die Königsblauen ( english : The Royal Blues ). The pursuit year, the golf club became the dominant local side, based on a style of play that used short, sharp, man-to-man casual to move the ball. This arrangement would subsequently become celebrated as the Schalker Kreisel ( english : spin clear ; gyroscope ). In 1927, it carried them into the top-flight Gauliga Ruhr, onto the league championship, and then into the opening rounds of the national finals. [ citation needed ]

1928–1933 : rise to dominance [edit ]

The democratic club built a new stadium, the Glückauf-Kampfbahn, in 1928, and acknowledged the city ‘s support by renaming themselves FC Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04. They won their first west german championship in 1929, but the follow class were sanctioned for exceeding wage levels set by the league and, in an era that considered professionalism in sport to be anathema, found themselves banned from play for about half a class. however, the ban had little affect on the team ‘s popularity : in their foremost match after the bachelor of arts in nursing against Fortuna Düsseldorf, in June 1931, the team drew 70,000 spectators to its family ground. The golf club ‘s fortunes begun to rise from 1931 and they made a semi-final appearance in the 1932 german backing, losing 1–2 to Eintracht Frankfurt. The year after, the cabaret went all the way to the final, where Fortuna Düsseldorf proved the better side, winning 3–0. [ 10 ]

1933–1945 : The championship years [edit ]

With the re-organisation of german football in 1933 under Nazi Germany, Schalke found themselves in the Gauliga Westfalen, 1 of 16 top-flight divisions established to replace the countless regional and local leagues, all claiming top condition. This league saw Schalke ‘s most successful decade in their history : from 1933 to 1942, the golf club would appear in 14 of 18 national finals ( ten in the german backing and eight in the Tschammerpokal, the harbinger of today ‘s DFB-Pokal ) and win their league in every one of its football team seasons. The golf club never lost a home match in the Gauliga Westfalen in all these 11 seasons and lone lost six away matches, while remaining unbeaten in the 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38, 1938–39, 1940–41 and 1942–43 seasons, a sign of the club ‘s authority. [ 11 ] FC Schalke 04 supporters in 1941 Schalke ‘s first gear national title came in 1934 with a 2–1 victory over favourites 1. FC Nürnberg. The adjacent year, they successfully defended their title against VfB Stuttgart with a 6–4 gain. The club missed the 1936 concluding, but would make appearances in the backing equal in each of the adjacent six years, coming away victorious in 1937, 1939, 1940 and 1942. Three of those national finals were against austrian teams – Admira Wien, Rapid Wien and First Vienna – which played in Germany ‘s Gauliga Ostmark after Austria ‘s incorporation into the Reich through the 1938 Anschluss. Die Königsblauen besides made frequent appearances in the final of the Tschammerpokal, but enjoyed much less success there. They lost the inaugural address Tschammerpokal 0–2 to 1. FC Nürnberg in 1935. They besides made fail appearances in the 1936, 1941, and 1942 finals with their only victory coming in 1937 against Fortuna Düsseldorf. Over a twelve seasons, from 1933 to 1945, Schalke won 162 of 189 Gauliga matches, drawing 21 and losing lone 6. Within this period, they scored 924 goals and conceded barely 145. From 1935 to 1939, they did not lose a individual league match. The club ‘s dominance throughout this period led them to be held up for propaganda purposes by the Nazi regimen as an model of “ new Germany ” .
With Germany in chaos towards the end of World War II, Schalke played just two matches in 1945. They resumed regular play following the war and, for a clock, continued to compete as a firm slope. They set a record in a home championship round catch with a 20–0 cream of SpVgg Herten, but that spoke more to the diminished condition of German football than to the ability of the team. Schalke ‘s play fell off and the best they could manage in the newly Oberliga West in 1947 was a sixth-place finish. Within two years, they slipped to 12th place. It would take Schalke until the mid-1950s to recover their form. They finished one-third in a tight tripartite race for the 1954 Oberliga West title, decided on the last day of the season. The following class, they appeared in the DFB-Pokal final examination, where they lost 2–3 to Karlsruher SC. The golf club ‘s following, and to date survive, german championship came in 1958 with a 3–0 victory over Hamburger SV. The potent fanbase of the club is deoxyadenosine monophosphate well documented in a local anesthetic church, St. Joseph, in Gelsenkirchen. It was renovated curtly after the 1958 victory, where one of the field glass windows shows Aloysius Gonzaga with a football and the dress and colors of Schalke. [ 12 ]

1960–2000 : submission to the Bundesliga and the Euro Fighters [edit ]

Schalke continued to play well, delivering a total of top four finishes in the years leading up to the 1963 formation of the Bundesliga, West Germany ‘s fresh federal, professional league. Those results earned them choice as 1 of 16 clubs admitted to the top-flight league. Their first years in the Bundesliga were difficult. In 1964–65, they escaped delegating only through the expansion of the league to 18 teams. A act of finishes at the lower end of the league table followed, before a punctuate improvement in 1971–72, culminating in a second-place stopping point to Bayern Munich and after having led the league for much of the season. In the same season, Schalke won the DFB-Pokal for the second prison term in its history. Despite their improved results, the seeds of a major reversal had already been sown. A total of the team ‘s players and officials were accused of accepting bribes as depart of the far-flung Bundesliga scandal of 1971. probe showed that Schalke had intentionally played to lose their 17 May, 28th-round couple against Arminia Bielefeld, 0–1. As a result, respective Schalke players were banned for liveliness, including three – Klaus Fischer, “ Stan ” Libuda and Klaus Fichtel – who regularly played for the West Germany national team at the time. [ citation needed ] tied though the penalties were subsequently commuted to bans ranging from six months to two years, the scandal had a heavy consequence on what might have possibly become one of the dominant german teams of the 1970s. [ citation needed ] In 1973, the club moved to the Parkstadion, newly built for the 1974 FIFA World Cup and having a capability of 70,000 spectators. In the wake up of the scandal, the cabaret ‘s performance was mismatched. They managed another second-place result in 1976–77, finishing merely one luff behind champions Borussia Mönchengladbach. In the early 1980s, Die Knappen ran into perturb and found themselves relegated to the second division of the Bundesliga for the 1981–82 season and, after promotion, again in 1983–84. They returned to the top flight in 1984 but slipped once more to the second gear tier in 1988. They returned to the Bundesliga in the 1991–92 season and stayed in the top flight until 2021. The clubhouse earned their first honours since the DFB-Pokal win of 1972 with a victory in the final of the 1996–97 UEFA Cup over Inter Milan on penalties. Coached by the dutch coach Huub Stevens, the 1997 Schalke police squad earned the dub “ Euro Fighters ”, which is hush in habit among fans. Stevens, who was widely obscure in Germany at the time, cursorily earned himself a cult following among the Schalke supporters. Stevens successfully implemented a system of fixed discipline, particularly in the defense. His motto “ Die Null muß stehen “ ( in English, “ It has to read nothing ” ), which emphasized his importance on his side not conceding any goals, has found its way into everyday language in Germany .

2000–2014 : Top-table pillar, european semi-final [edit ]

The turn of the millennium has seen much stronger performances from Schalke. During the 1990s and early 2000, the club undergo a successful transformation into a advanced, commercial sports constitution and established itself as one of the dominant teams of the Bundesliga. Schalke captured consecutive DFB-Pokals in 2000–01 and 2001–02, and earned second-place finishes in the Bundesliga in 2000–01, 2004–05 and 2006–07. The 2000–01 temper eat up was heartbreaking for Schalke ‘s supporters as it took a goal in the fourthly moment of injury time by Bayern Munich away to Hamburger SV to snatch the deed from Die Königsblauen .
Fans displaying their colours at the Veltins-Arena The last few years have been more successful for Schalke, who finished in the second seat in 2005, a result that led to Schalke making its second appearance in the UEFA Champions League. There, Schalke finished in third identify during the group stage and continuing into the UEFA Cup, where they were eliminated by the eventual winners Sevilla in the semi-finals. In 2005–06, Schalke finished in fourth place in the Bundesliga and a year late they again finished as runner-up for the third gear fourth dimension in seven seasons. In the 2007–08 season, Schalke progressed past the Champions League group stage for the first time and advanced to the quarter-finals after defeating Porto on penalties in the round of golf of 16. They were eliminated by Barcelona in the quarter-finals, losing both home and away matches 0–1. On 9 October 2006, russian oil company Gazprom became the club ‘s raw sponsor. The company stated it expected to invest deoxyadenosine monophosphate much as €125 million in the club over a five-and-a-half-year time period. [ 13 ] Gazprom ‘s sponsorship has been seen by some analysts as a politically motivate try to buy friendship in Germany. [ 14 ] Within this sponsorship, Schalke 04 and Zenit Saint Petersburg signed a “ partnership agreement ” ; both clubs intend to work close on improving football-related issues. On 13 April 2008, the golf club announced the dismissal of director Mirko Slomka after a heavy kill at the hands of Werder Bremen and elimination from the Champions League. Former players Mike Büskens and Youri Mulder were put in charge of the first gear team on an interim footing. For the 2008–09 Bundesliga season, Schalke signed a fresh head bus, Fred Rutten, previously of Twente. Rutten signed a condense running until June 2010. [ 15 ] In March 2009, Rutten was sacked and, once more, Mike Büskens, Youri Mulder and Oliver Reck took over the helm .
Raúl, then all-time top goalscorer in European club competitions, played for Schalke from 2010 to 2012. On 1 July 2009, Felix Magath, who had led VfL Wolfsburg to the top of the table in the Bundesliga, became head coach and general coach of the Königsblauen. The appointment of Magath as director coincided with a multimillion-euro outgo spree, allowing Schalke to acquire internationally known forwards Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Raúl. Magath ‘s tenure at the baseball club was initially successful, seeing the side score a flood of goals in the first base few months of the temper, though defensive frailties and Magath ‘s questionable team choice had made him unpopular with Schalke supporters by December 2010. On 16 March 2011, Magath was sacked and replaced with Ralf Rangnick, who previously, between 2004 and 2005, had a brief while being in charge of the team. Within barely weeks of his appointment, Rangnick masterminded a 5–2 victory over Inter Milan at the San Siro during the quarter-finals of the Champions League. Schalke advanced to the semi-final where they lost 2–0 to Manchester United in the foremost branch and 4–1 in the moment leg. [ 16 ] however, Schalke 04 managed to win the 2010–11 DFB-Pokal after a thrashing victory 5–0 over MSV Duisburg. [ 17 ] On 1 June 2011, Schalke ‘s captain, Manuel Neuer, made his travel to Bayern Munich. [ 18 ] On 22 September 2011, Ralf Rangnick announced his immediate resignation as principal coach of Schalke 04 due to long-run exhaustion. [ 19 ] Assistant bus Seppo Eichkorn coached the team as interim director until the appointment of Huub Stevens on 27 September 2011. Stevens ‘ sign was to run until 30 June 2013. [ 20 ]
FC Schalke 04 in the UEFA Champions League line-up against FC Barcelona Despite having legendary status among Schalke supporters, Stevens ‘ rejoinder to Schalke was met with some agnosticism as fans feared that Stevens, who coached Schalke to the 1997 UEFA Cup win with a rigidly defensive system, could abandon Rangnick ‘s system of attacking play in party favor of returning to his 1997 defensive antics. [ 21 ] The doubts of the supporters proved baseless. Although Schalke played a slightly inconsistent season, they reached third base rate in the Bundesliga and therefore direct reservation for the UEFA Champions League. Schalke had an excellent start to the 2012–13 Bundesliga season, and worked their way to second space in the league by November, barely behind Bayern Munich. On 20 October, Schalke traveled to Borussia Dortmund for matchday 8, and were able to defeat the home side 2–1 to secure their first league Revierderby win since February 2010 while securing a Champions League place by finishing in one-fourth position. In the 2013–14 UEFA Champions League group stage, Schalke ‘s opponents were FCSB, FC Basel and Chelsea. Schalke ultimately finished the group stage in second space, behind Chelsea, and was eliminated in the round of 16 by real Madrid CF. The most big Schalke accession was the arrival of Kevin-Prince Boateng from Milan. [ 22 ] After a disappointing first round of the 2013–14 Bundesliga that saw Schalke in seventh stead in the Bundesliga board, arsenic well as an early exit from the 2013–14 DFB-Pokal in the first knockout rung, the club played their most successful second half of the season in club history. The season was marked by a glut of injuries to key squad players, including Jefferson Farfán and Klaas-Jan Huntelaar, for about the entire season. It besides led to performance associate discussions about head coach Jens Keller. Partially, Schalke fielded up to ten new players with likely who played in the Schalke youth system throughout the season. Among the brightest new actor discoveries of the 2013–14 season were Max Meyer and Leon Goretzka. The young Schalke police squad won 11 out of 17 matches, totalling 36 points. At the end of the 2013–14 season, the clubhouse finished in third seat in the Bundesliga table to qualify for their third-straight UEFA Champions League appearance, a feat Schalke had never ahead achieved. On 7 October 2014, after a 1–2 frustration to 1899 Hoffenheim and after amassing just eight points from seven matches, Keller was sacked and succeeded by Roberto Di Matteo. [ 23 ]

2014–present : Signs of crisis and eventual delegating [edit ]

In the 2014–15 UEFA Champions League, Schalke 04 finished second in a group with Chelsea, Sporting CP and Maribor. Later on, they played against the reigning champion Real Madrid again in the round of 16, where they lost the first leg at home 0–2, but they won 4–3 at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. [ 24 ] After finishing sixth in the 2014–15 season, the cabaret announced the resignation of head coach Roberto Di Matteo on 26 May 2015. [ 25 ] Schalke 04 then played in the Europa League, in the 2015–16 and 2016–17 seasons, and were eliminated by Shakhtar Donetsk and Ajax respectively. Starting with the 2017–18 season, Domenico Tedesco took over the managerial position for Schalke 04. [ 26 ] At the end of the season, he managed to lead the team to finish as runner-up to Bayern Munich. On 29 July 2018, the team ‘s captain, Benedikt Höwedes, decided to leave after more than ten years at the golf club. [ 27 ] In the 2018–19 UEFA Champions League, Schalke 04 lost 2–10 in sum to Manchester City in the beat of 16. On 14 March 2019, Tedesco was relieved of his duties. [ 28 ] On 9 May 2019, David Wagner was appointed as head coach of Schalke 04 on a three-year abridge until 30 June 2022. [ 29 ] In the second half of the 2019–20 season, Schalke set a new club commemorate of 16 league games without a gain between 25 January and 27 June 2020. [ 30 ] Despite this fall back streak, Wagner remained as coach, [ 31 ] with Clemens Tönnies [ de ] stepping down from his role as the president of Schalke ‘s supervisory circuit board after 19 years in service rather. [ 32 ] Against the backdrop of a worse fiscal site caused by a high level of debt and a decrease in gross related to restrictions put in position to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, the cabaret besides decided to introduce a player wage cap of €2.5 million per year. [ 33 ] Schalke started with meaning difficulties into the 2020–21 season. After 8–0 [ 34 ] and 4–0 [ 35 ] thrashings away at the hands of Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig and a 1–3 [ 36 ] loss at home plate against Werder Bremen, Schalke was last in the league mesa after three games, with one goal scored and fifteen conceded. After only two match days, Schalke dismissed David Wagner as head passenger car on 27 September in the consequence of the loss against Bremen. [ 37 ] At 1.08 average points per game, Wagner was then the lowest-scoring head coach in Schalke ‘s late history. [ 38 ] Three days late, Manuel Baum was nominated as Wagner ‘s successor, with Naldo, a early Schalke player, as adjunct coach. [ 39 ] Baum, who had taken over from Wagner at a winless streak of 18 games, was unable to win a single Bundesliga game between the 3rd and 12th match days, and was dismissed ahead of the thirteenth couple day against Arminia Bielefeld. [ 40 ] Huub Stevens once again returned as head passenger car, beginning his fourth tenure. [ 40 ] Baum ‘s tenure had brought the winless streak up from 18 to 28 Bundesliga games, bringing Schalke to the brink of breaking the alltime criminal record of 31 winless games, set by SC Tasmania 1900 Berlin in the 1965–66 season. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] Stevens did not change Schalke ‘s fortunes in his first game, losing the family bet on against Arminia Bielefeld, themselves in 16th place and frankincense threatened by relegation, with a 0–1 scoreline. [ 43 ] On 27 December 2020, Schalke 04 announced that they signed a contract with Swiss director Christian Gross to be the head coach of the clubhouse until the end of the season, making him the one-fourth oral sex coach for Schalke 04 during the 2020–21 temper. [ 44 ] Under Gross, Schalke ‘s negative streak continued with a 3–0 loss to Hertha BSC, marking the 30th straight winless crippled, a lose mottle of 358 days. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] On 9 January 2021 Schalke ultimately recorded a victory over 1899 Hoffenheim, which meant they avoided matching Tasmania Berlin ‘s record. [ 47 ] It remained Schalke ‘s entirely victory under Gross, who was sacked as promontory coach after good eleven matches on 28 February 2021, following losses against rival Borussia Dortmund ( 0–4 ) and VFB Stuttgart ( 1–5 ). Alongside Gross, sporting conductor Jochen Schneider, team coordinator Sascha Riether, assistant bus Rainer Widmayer and fitness coach Werner Leuthard were besides relieved of their duties. [ 48 ] At 0.45 modal points per game, Gross was the least successful head coach on Schalke since Karl-Heinz Marotzke in 1967. On 2 March 2021, Dimitrios Grammozis was announced as modern head coach for Schalke 04. [ 3 ] Grammozis started with a scoreless draw against Mainz 05, but his team was unable to collect any points in the two following matches, which were lost 5–0 against VfL Wolfsburg and 3–0 against Borussia Mönchengladbach. Schalke did not score a goal in the first three matches under Grammozis, a join negative record for the club ( Helmut Schulte in 1992/93 and Markus Weinzierl in 2016–17 besides waited for the first goal until their fourth match as head bus for Schalke ). [ 49 ] [ 50 ] Against Borussia Mönchengladbach, Schalke conceded its fifth own goal of the season, yet another negative commemorate. [ 49 ] relegation to the 2. Bundesliga was confirmed on 20 April 2021, as Schalke 04 lost 1–0 to Arminia Bielefeld, [ 51 ] which led to riots by Schalke supporters. [ 52 ]
Schalke 04 royal blue sky trademark jersey with sponsor Gazprom elaborately showcased prior to a match with Zenit Saint Petersburg at the Veltins-Arena to celebrate Gazprom ‘s investment of over €125 million in S04 .

Exterior of the S04 museum at the S04 Veltins-Arena
Restaurants at the S04 Veltins-Arena
Ice ice hockey events are hosted at the S04 Veltins-Arena
Biathlon and a assortment of winter sport events are hosted at the S04 Veltins-Arena

As of 2014, the headline sponsors of Schalke 04 are the China-based electronics manufacturer Hisense and the Russia-based hydrocarbon giant Gazprom. [ 53 ] Additional sponsors include Dusseldorf-based insurance group ERGO Insurance Group ; Munich-based automotive manufacturer BMW ; and its motorbike division BMW Motorrad ; Spanish-based security insurance company Reale Seguros ; China-based telecommunications company Huawei ; cyber gamble and sports betting company bet-at-home.com ; beverage giant Coca-Cola ; North Rhine Westphalia-based brewery Veltins ; and the stream manufacturer of Schalke ‘s team kits, England-based Umbro. [ 53 ] In terms of operating income, Schalke possesses an function income of €13 million, [ 8 ] and 12 per penny debt as of May 2019. [ 9 ] Schalke generates the 14th-highest tax income of any football cabaret in the world at €291 million. [ 9 ] In May 2019, Schalke 04 were ranked by Forbes magazine as the 14th-richest football club in the worldly concern, [ 8 ] at €683 million, a decrease of 3 per penny from the previous year. [ 9 ] Schalke 04 is among the Bundesliga teams that were hit hardest by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, [ 54 ] and in April 2020 the baseball club said it was threatened by bankruptcy. [ 55 ]

Players [edit ]

team [edit ]

As of 28 September 2021[56]

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Out on lend [edit ]

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Reserve team [edit ]

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celebrated erstwhile players [edit ]

Sculptures with some of the FC Schalke 04 “ team of the Century ”. In the year 2000, the supporters voted for Schalker Jahrhundertelf, the “ team of the Century ” : [ 58 ]
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Records [edit ]

As of 26 May 2021.[59][60]

Most appearances (Bundesliga)

#
Player
Nat.
Apps

477

355

304

295

286

279

257

256

240

Top scorers (Bundesliga)

#
Player
Nat.
Goals

182

stadium [edit ]

Schalke ‘s stadium, known as the Veltins-Arena under a sponsorship agreement with Veltins brewery, was built in the summer of 2001 and has a capacity of 62,271 spectators. [ 1 ] Schalke regularly draws sell-out crowd to what is widely regarded as one of the most advanced and best multi-use facilities in Europe. The facility was previously known as the Arena AufSchalke and replaced the Parkstadion ( capacity of 62,000 ) built in 1973. Prior to this, the club played its matches in the Glückauf-Kampfbahn, constructed in 1928 with a capacity of 35,000. The facility was used for amateurish matches during its belated years with a reduce capability of 5,000 .

An interior design panorama of the Veltins-Arena
Exterior of the Veltins-Arena
Training ground of FC Schalke 04 known as the Geschäftsstelle

fan culture [edit ]

S04 fans in the streets of Gelsenkirchen on a matchday. The number of members of Schalke 04 grew from 10,000 in 1991 to 155,000 in 2018. [ citation needed ] This figure makes Schalke 04 the second-biggest sports cabaret in Germany and fourth-biggest sports golf club in the world, behind Bayern Munich, Sporting Lisbon and first-placed Benfica. [ citation needed ] Schalke 04 has the fourth-largest fan-base of any team in the worldly concern. [ citation needed ] Schalke is presently ranked as the thirty-first-best football club in Europe and in Continental Europe by UEFA ‘s UEFA golf club rankings. [ 61 ] A representation of the Schalke 04 membership structure in 2014 showed, among other things, a female plowshare of 20 per cent and a parcel of the age group up to ten years of 14 per penny. [ 62 ] Around 30 per cent of the members were not from north Rhine-Westphalia. Apart from Gelsenkirchen ( 10,197 members ) and its immediate neighbor towns, the members of Schalke 04 besides come from more distant cities such as Cologne ( 1,117 ), Berlin ( 932 ) and Dortmund ( 800 ). [ 62 ] This high growth in Schalke 04 membership is besides promoted by promotions of Schalke 04, as from 2013 to further “ advertise Schalke 04 stigmatize ”. [ 62 ] [ 63 ] On 21 August 2013, Schalke 04 played their first dwelling match of the 2013–14 season, a UEFA Champions League qualifier at the Veltins-Arena against the greek runner-up PAOK ( led by erstwhile head coach Huub Stevens ), drawing 1–1. [ 64 ] The catch and solution was more than overshadowed by a controversial police operation in the “ S04 Ultras Gelsenkirchen ” freeze of the Veltins-Arena against the fans of the home team with about 80 of the home plate team ‘s fans injured. [ 64 ] The hark back match was won 3–2 by Schalke without any of their supporters allowed to attend the match. [ 64 ]

Fan Club Association [edit ]

Schalke 04 Fan Club Association ( SFCV ) is an umbrella arrangement, according to their own statement, has an estimated 1,500 fan clubs. [ 65 ] Of those listed by the SFCV, 860 Schalke 04 fan clubs ( October 2012 ) in which an estimated 200 were in Ruhr, 360 in the rest of North Rhine-Westphalia and 300 in the other federal states. [ 66 ] A member of the board of SFCV has a permanent wave seat on the board of FC Schalke 04 and in 2013 SFCV merged with the “ Ultras Gelsenkirchen ” and later the supporters ‘ cabaret, Schalke Fan-Initiative electron volt with several members of strong fan groups from the SFCV, as is clear from the fusion of the SFCV with the fan section of S04 has not adequately represented the fan interests. [ 67 ] [ 68 ]

Friendships [edit ]

Friendship corner in the Fan Shop of the 1. FC Nürnberg with trikots of Schalke 04. The fan-base of Schalke is connected, in a friendly manner, with the supporters of 1. FC Nürnberg and Dutch club Twente. The friendship with Nürnberg is the oldest connection between two fan-bases in Germany. Before a match between both clubs, the official club songs are played .

Club songs [edit ]

Blau und weiß, wie lieb ich Dich (“Blue and White, How I Love You”) is the official club song.
Das Steigerlied, traditional German mining song, play before every match.
Blau und Weiß ein Leben lang (“Blue and white a life-long”) is the goal tune.
Königsblauer S04 (“Royal Blue S04”) played after every match

popular unofficial chants are

Der Mythos vom Schalker Markt (“The Myth of the Schalke Market”),
Opa Pritschikowski (“Grandpa Pritschikowski”),
Von der Emscher bis zum Bosporus (“From the Emscher to the Bosphorus”),
Wir schlugen Roda… (“We beat Roda…”),
Die Eurofighter sind wieder da (“The Eurofighter are back again”),
Für deine Farben leben und sterben wir (“For your colours we live and die”),
Wir lieben alle nur den FC Schalke (“We all love only FC Schalke”),
Wir sind die Fans (“We are the fans”),
Hurra wir sind die Schalker Knappen (“Hurray we are the Schalke Knappen”),
Kohle unter unser’n Füßen (“Coal under our feet”), and
Steht auf, wenn ihr Schalker seid (“Stand up if you’re Schalke”), sung to the melody of “Go West” by the Pet Shop Boys (itself a cover of a Village People song).

Revierderby [edit ]

The Revierderby is the competition between local clubs Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund, both situated in the dumbly populate Ruhr region. Because of the little geographic distances between the clubs ( roughly 30 kilometers ), fans of opposing clubs frequently meet in everyday life. The term may be used in any match between two football clubs of the Ruhr region ( such as VfL Bochum, Rot-Weiss Essen or MSV Duisburg ), but the term is most normally associated with the competition between Schalke and Dortmund due to the bowler hat ‘s popularity and prestige. To some fans, the winnings of the bowler hat itself is more important than the actual performance in the Bundesliga .
Respective league placements of Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund since the 1963–64 temper

In democratic culture [edit ]

The cleats worn by the entire S04 police squad players in the 1920s expose at the museum of Schalke 04. Schalke has been subject of a feature-length film called Fußball ist unser Leben ( “ Football is our life sentence ” ), shown in 1999. Actors Uwe Ochsenknecht and Ralf Richter, both of whom were in the award-winning film Das Boot played the chief roles, while many persons associated with Schalke had cameo roles, such as director Rudi Assauer, coaches Huub Stevens and Helmut Schulte, and musician Yves Eigenrauch. besides featured were outstanding fans like Manfred Breuckmann, Ulrich Potofski or DJ Hooligan. [ 69 ] The film is a comedy about “ Hans ”, a Schalke fanatic, and his three pals who somehow get involved in kidnapping and trying to bring back to form the team ‘s new star player “ Di Ospeo ” and in the process bet Hans ‘ house that their idol will score in the concluding match. [ 69 ] Some critics considered Football is our life to be “ one of the bad german comedies ever ”. [ 69 ] [ failed verification ] “ Schalke ” is mentioned in the film Das Boot when the boatswain tells the crew in their ward room, “ I got badly newsworthiness for you men. Schalke lost 5–0, looks like we wo n’t be in the concluding this class. ”

Honours [edit ]

[ 70 ] [ 71 ]

domestic [edit ]

German Championship
DFB-Pokal/German Cup
DFB-Ligapokal/German League Cup
DFL-Supercup/German Super Cup
2. Bundesliga

International [edit ]

UEFA Cup
UEFA Intertoto Cup

UEFA cabaret coefficient ranking [edit ]

As of 16 September 2021[72]

youth [edit ]

Domestic

Under 19 Bundesliga

Winners: 1976, 2006, 2012, 2015
- Runners-up: 1975, 1980, 1981

Under 19 Bundesliga West

Winners: 2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015

Under 17 Bundesliga

Winners: 1978, 2002
- Runners-up: 1977, 1980

Under 17 Bundesliga West

Winners: 2013

bivalent [edit ]

1937: Championship and Cup

corporate social organization [edit ]

As of 13 July 2021[73][74]

celebrated coaches [edit ]

[75] Huub Stevens coached the club in four spells : first, from 1996 to 2002, where he won the UEFA Cup in 1997 ; second, from 2011 to 2012 ; third, in 2019 as an interim ; and again in 2020 as interim coach. He was voted ‘Coach of the Century ‘ by Schalke fans in 1999 .

early departments [edit ]

The basketball department played in the 1988–89 season in the National Basketball League Basketball Bundesliga and from 2004 for respective seasons in the ProA, the second highest basketball league in Germany. [ 76 ] 2009 saw Schalke 04 voluntarily withdrawal from the ProA. Currently, the team competes in ProB. [ 77 ] The club founded a blind football department in 2015, which plays in the Blindenfußball-Bundesliga. [ 78 ] The women ‘s football club was initially dissolved in the mid-1980s, but achieved some luminary successes, including five-time Westphalia championships, and competed in the german backing and DFB Cup. Schalke 04 later cooperated with 1. FFC Recklinghausen [ de ], a women ‘s football club, from 2007 to 2010, [ 79 ] and the current women ‘s team was established in July 2020, to compete in Kreisliga B, the eighth tier of women ‘s football, in 2021. [ 80 ] other longstanding departments include the handball department, which was founded in 1926 and competed in the Gaumeister, Gauliga during the Third Reich, and the current top division. [ 81 ] The athletic department was founded in 1922, with the golf club ‘s former players including Olympic silver medalist decathlete Frank Busemann, and 2003 european Athletics Junior Championships gold 200-metre base runner, Sebastian Ernst. [ 82 ] The mesa tennis department was founded in 1947, and competes in the Westphalia zone league. The women ‘s team was one of the early participants in the home league until it withdrew in 1956. [ 83 ] In 2016, Schalke acquired League of Legends e-sports team Elements, becoming the second professional sports team with a League of Legends division, after Beşiktaş. In early on June, they debuted in the European League of Legends Championship Series, the top level of professional League of Legends contest in Europe. [ 84 ] The club besides announced former Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Sportfreunde Siegen midfielder and SK Gaming co-founder Tim Reichert as Head of ESport .

See besides [edit ]

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