FC Schalke 04

FC Schalke 04
Full name	Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V.
Nickname(s)	Die Knappen (The Knaves); Die Königsblauen (The Royal Blues)
Founded	1904
Ground	Veltins-Arena,; Gelsenkirchen
Capacity	61,482
Chairman	Josef Schnusenberg
Manager	Huub Stevens
League	1. Bundesliga
2009–10	1. Bundesliga, 2nd

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

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^[1]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	Germany	Ralf Fährmann (fourth captain)^[2]
2	DF	Netherlands	Thomas Ouwejan (on loan from AZ)
3	DF	Japan	Ko Itakura (on loan from Manchester City)
4	MF	Iceland	Victor Pálsson (vice captain)^[2]
5	DF	Norway	Marius Lode
7	MF	Macedonia	Darko Churlinov (on loan from VfB Stuttgart)
8	MF	Germany	Danny Latza (captain)^[2]
9	FW	Germany	Simon Terodde (third captain)^[2]
10	MF	Uruguay	Rodrigo Zalazar (on loan from Eintracht Frankfurt)
11	FW	Germany	Marius Bülter
14	MF	South Korea	Lee Dong-gyeong (on loan from Ulsan Hyundai)
16	DF	Norway	Andreas Vindheim (on loan from Sparta Prague)
17	MF	Germany	Florian Flick
18	MF	Germany	Marc Rzatkowski


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	FW	Germany	Marvin Pieringer (on loan from SC Freiburg)
24	MF	Germany	Dominick Drexler
26	DF	Senegal	Salif Sané
27	MF	Austria	Reinhold Ranftl
30	GK	Austria	Martin Fraisl
33	DF	Germany	Malick Thiaw (fifth captain)^[2]
34	GK	Austria	Michael Langer
35	DF	Poland	Marcin Kamiński
36	MF	Kosovo	Blendi Idrizi
38	MF	Germany	Mehmet-Can Aydın
39	MF	Russia	Yaroslav Mikhailov (on loan from Zenit St. Petersburg)
41	DF	Germany	Henning Matriciani
42	MF	Germany	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

References

↑ "Der Kader des FC Schalke 04". Schalke 04 (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2021.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 "Danny Latza is the new captain of Schalke 04". Schalke 04. 9 July 2021.

Other websites

[1] "Der Kader des FC Schalke 04". Schalke 04 (in German). Retrieved 17 June 2021.

[captains-2] 2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 ^2.3 ^2.4 "Danny Latza is the new captain of Schalke 04". Schalke 04. 9 July 2021.

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