FC Schalke 04 - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Full name | Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V. |
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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
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]Squad
[change | change source]- 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.
Coach
[change | change source]The current coach (and Manager) of Schalke 04 is Dimitrios Grammozis.
Success
[change | change source]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
[change | change source]- ↑ "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.