FC Schalke 04

The Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as FC Schalke 04, is a successful and popular German football club.

FC Schalke 04
Full nameFußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V.
Nickname(s)Die Knappen (The Knaves)
Die Königsblauen (The Royal Blues)
Founded1904
GroundVeltins-Arena,
Gelsenkirchen
(capacity: 61,482)
ChairmanJosef Schnusenberg
ManagerHuub Stevens
League1. Bundesliga
2009–101. Bundesliga, 2nd
Veltins Arena, the home stadium of the FC Schalke 04.

It plays in Gelsenkirchen. With more than 80.313 members (15. Dezember 2009) at present it is the second largest Sportsclub of Germany and has departments for football, basketball, table tennis, handball and athletics. Since August 2001 the association plays its home plays in the Veltins arena (to 30 June 2005 Veltins Arena), one of the most modern stages of the world. In the coat of arms a white G is to be recognized, which stands for Gelsenkrichen.

There exists a great rivalry between Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund. The reason is the honorable competition of these clubs which live in neighborhood. Since the first match in 1925 there have been 135 matches. Schalke won 55 of them, Dortmund won 45 and 35 ended in a draw. In the 2009–10 Bundesliga season Schalke won both matches.

Football

The football team is playing their home plays in the Veltins Arena. 61,673 people can visit the stadium for football matches in national, or 54,442 in internation competitions. During other events as for example concerts or opera plays 79,296 people can take place in the stadium. Its was also one of the 12 venues for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and the final of the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League between FC Porto and AS Monaco has been played there.

The players in the season 2021-22

Squad

As of 31 January 2022
No. Position Player
1   GK Ralf Fährmann (fourth captain)[1]
2   DF Thomas Ouwejan (on loan from AZ)
3   DF Ko Itakura (on loan from Manchester City)
4   MF Victor Pálsson (vice captain)[1]
5   DF Marius Lode
7   MF Darko Churlinov (on loan from VfB Stuttgart)
8   MF Danny Latza (captain)[1]
9   FW Simon Terodde (third captain)[1]
10   MF Rodrigo Zalazar (on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt)
11   FW Marius Bülter
14   MF Lee Dong-gyeong (on loan from Ulsan Hyundai)
16   DF Andreas Vindheim (on loan from Sparta Prague)
17   MF Florian Flick
18   MF Marc Rzatkowski
No. Position Player
21   FW Marvin Pieringer (on loan from SC Freiburg)
24   MF Dominick Drexler
26   DF Salif Sané
27   MF Reinhold Ranftl
30   GK Martin Fraisl
33   DF Malick Thiaw (fifth captain)[1]
34   GK Michael Langer
35   DF Marcin Kamiński
36   MF Blendi Idrizi
38   MF Mehmet-Can Aydın
39   MF Yaroslav Mikhailov (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg)
41   DF Henning Matriciani
42   MF Kerim Çalhanoğlu

Coach

The current coach (and Manager) of Schalke 04 is Dimitrios Grammozis.

Success

International

  • UEFA-Cup-Sieger

o 1997 (1:0 und 0:1 (4:1 i.E.) gegen Inter Mailand)

  • UI-Cup-Sieger 2003, 2004

Championship

  • German champion (seven times):

o 1934 (2:1 vs 1. FC Nürnberg) o 1935 (6:4 vs VfB Stuttgart) o 1937 (2:0 vs 1. FC Nürnberg) o 1939 (9:0 vs Admira Wien) o 1940 (1:0 vs Dresdner SC) o 1942 (2:0 vs Vienna Wien) o 1958 (3:0 vs Hamburger SV) o Schalke was eight times runner-up

DFB-Cup

  • DFB-Pokalsieger:

o 1937 (2:1 vs Fortuna Düsseldorf) o 1972 (5:0 vs 1. FC Kaiserslautern) o 2001 (2:0 vs 1. FC Union Berlin) o 2002 (4:2 vs Bayer 04 Leverkusen) o 2011 (5:0 vs MSV Duisburg)

  • DFL-Ligapokalsieger 2005

FC Schalke 04 Media

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Danny Latza is the new captain of Schalke 04". Schalke 04. 9 July 2021.

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