FC Schalke 04

Schalke 04 are based in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. Schalke is one of the districts of the Ruhr Area town Gelsenkirchen which was the most important coal mining town in Europe in the early 20th century, hence the nickname Die Knappen (miners). S04 is one of the most popular football teams in Germany, albeit the number of successes is rather small. Nonetheless, Schalke managed to win the UEFA cup with the legendary team of "Euro Fighters" coached by Huub Stevens in 1997.

With about 110,000 members, Schalke 04 are the second biggest sports club in Germany (after Bayern München). Their stadium is the fantastic Veltins-Arena, formerly called "Arena auf Schalke" which has a capacity of 61,673 people for domestic matches (seats+terraces) and 54,142 people when it is converted into an all-seater stadium for international matches.


Schalke 04 have a long-lasting rivalry with Borussia Dortmund, and the matches between the two teams are known as as the Revierderby ("Revier" being the local name for the coal mining area in the Ruhr Area).

Schalke have a famous and very productive youth academy, the Knappenschmiede

Schalke 04 Homepage: http://www.schalke04.de

Squad 2016/17

The Goalkeepers:
#01 - Ralf Fährmann (27)
#34 - Fabian Giefer (26)
#30 - Timon Wellenreuther (20)
#35 - Alexander Nübel (19)

The Defenders:
#04 - Benedikt Höwedes (28) (CB)  Captain
#29 - Naldo (33) (CB)
#31 - Matija Nastasic (23) (CB)
#06 - Sead Kolasinac (23) (LB)
#14 - Abdul Rahman Baba (22) (LB)
#15 - Dennis Aogo (29) (LB)
#03 - Júnior Caiçara (27) (RB)
#22 - Atsuto Uchida (28) (RB) - injured
#23 - Coke (29) (RB) - injured
#27 - Sascha Riether (33) (RB)
#28 - Joshua Bitter (19) (RB)
#40 - Phil Neumann (19) (RB)

The Midfielders:
#05 - Johannes Geis (22) (DM)
#10 - Nabil Bentaleb (21) (DM)
#17 - Benjamin Stambouli (26) (DM)
#20 - Thilo Kehrer (19) (DM)
#08 - Leon Goretzka (21) (CM)
#07 - Max Meyer (20) (AM)
#21 - Alessandro Schöpf (22) (AM)
#11 - Yevhen Konoplyanka (26) (LW)
#13 - Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (27) (LW)
#18 - Sidney Sam (28) (RW)
#32 - Bernard Tekpetey (18) (RW)

The Attackers:
#16 - Fabian Reese (18) (SS)
#33 - Donis Avdijaj (20) (SS) - color=#FF0000]injured[/color]
#09 - Franco di Santo (27) (CF)
#25 - Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (33) (CF)  
#36 - Breel Embolo (19) (CF)

Coach: Markus Weinzierl
Mascot: Erwin (also: Ährwin)

Players in royal blue come from Schalke's own youth academy "Knappenschmiede"
Darker blue - spent a year at the Knappenschmiede, but originally came from another academy

Current Squad: http://www.transfermarkt.de/en/fc-schalke-04/kader/verein_33.html
(Positions of the players according to transfermarkt.de)[/spoiler]

Schalke 04 - Season 2016/17

Bundesliga:

Matchday 01: Sa 27.08.2016 - Eintracht Frankfurt 1:0 FC Schalke 04
Matchday 02: Fr 09.09.2016 - FC Schalke 04 0:2 FC Bayern München
Matchday 03: So 18.09.2016 - Hertha BSC 2:0 FC Schalke 04
Matchday 04: We 21.09.2016 - FC Schalke 04 1:3 1.FC Köln
Matchday 05: So 25.09.2016 - TSG Hoffenheim 2:1 FC Schalke 04
Matchday 06: So 02.10.2016 - FC Schalke 04 4:0 Borussia M'gladbach
Matchday 07: Sa 15.10.2016  - FC Augsburg 1:1 FC Schalke 04
Matchday 08: So 23.10.2016  - FC Schalke 04 3:0 1.FSV Mainsz 05
Matchday 09: So 29.10.2016  - Borussia Dortmund 0:0 FC Schalke 04
Matchday 10: So 06.11.2016  - FC Schalke 04 3:1 Werder Bremen
Matchday 11: So 19.11.2016  - VfL Wolfsburg 0:1 FC Schalke 04
Matchday 12: So 27.11.2016  - FC Schalke 04 3:1 SV Darmstadt 98
Matchday 13: So 03.12.2016  - RB Leipzig 2:1 FC Schalke 04
Matchday 14: So 11.12.2016 - FC Schalke 04 0:1 Bayer Leverkusen
Matchday 15: Sa 17.12.2016 - FC Schalke 04 1:1 SC Freiburg


DFB-Pokal:

Sa 20.08.2016: FC 08 Villingen 1:4 FC Schalke 04 (Round 1)
We 26.10.2016: 1.FC Nürnberg 2:3 FC Schalke 04 (Round 2)

We 08.02.2016: SV Sandhausen vs FC Schalke 04 (Last 16)


Europa League:

Group Stage:
Th 15.09.2016, 21:05 GMT+2 - OGC Nice 0:1 FC Schalke 04 (Matchday 1)
Th 29.09.2016,19:00 GMT+2 - FC Schalke 04 3:1 FC Salzburg (Matchday 2)
Th 20.10.2016,19:00 GMT+2 - FK Krasnodar 0:1 FC Schalke 04 (Matchday 3)
Th 03.11.2016, 21:05 GMT+2 - FC Schalke 04 2:0 FK Krasnodar (Matchday 4)
Th 24.11.2016,19:00 GMT+2 - FC Schalke 04 2:0 OGC Nice (Matchday 5)
Th 08.12.2016, 21:05 GMT+2 - FC Salzburg 2:0 FC Schalke 04 (Matchday 6)

Play-off
Th 16.02.2017, 21:00 GMT+1 - PAOK Saloniki vs FC Schalke 04
Th 23.02.2017, 19:05 GMT+1 - FC Schalke 04 vs PAOK Saloniki

Draxler

Breaking News: As Raúl and Farfán are still in doubt to play for Schalke against Plzen and Pukki isn't allowed to play in the EL this season, Torres might be called up for the Schalke attack!

The Spaniard convinced Stevens in training and test matches, so he might get his first chance among the seniors. Oh, maybe I should mention I'm talking about Manuel Torres Jiménez (21) from the Schalke 04 II team

http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/manuel-torres/profil/spieler_160376.html

Spoiler:

rwo power wrote:Breaking News: As Raúl and Farfán are still in doubt to play for Schalke against Plzen and Pukki isn't allowed to play in the EL this season, Torres might be called up for the Schalke attack!

The Spaniard convinced Stevens in training and test matches, so he might get his first chance among the seniors. Oh, maybe I should mention I'm talking about Manuel Torres Jiménez (21) from the Schalke 04 II team

http://www.transfermarkt.de/de/manuel-torres/profil/spieler_160376.html

i was :vagi:ed there for a second

So, first leg of the EL round is PLzen 1:1 Schalke with goals from Darida for Plzen in the 22nd minute and the Hunter for Schalke in the 75th minute. Plzen were actually better than Schalke over most of the match, but Schalke equalized nonetheless.

Drat. This weekend seems to be bad for collarbones. Yesterday, Patrick Herrmann from BMG broke his collarbone, earlier the day the young Slovenian ski jumper Peter Prevc broke his collarbone due to a fall after he reached the record width of 225.5m, and just before the break in the match Schalke vs Wolfsburg, the young goalkeeper Lars Unnerstall also broke his collarbone after a collision with Mario Mandzukic. Such a tragic weekend for these athletes! I hope they will fully recover as soon as possible! Fortunately, Schalke could field experienced keeper Timo Hildebrand as replacement for the time being.

RWO
Schalke

Not too many Schalke bandwagoners despite Señor Raúl, Julian Draxler, the Hunter and Teemu Pukki here ^^

When Raul first joined them I was butthurt, but then I started supporting them and now I try and catch their games whenever I can.

Well, from his interviews it sounds as if Raúl has a lot of fun at Schalke. I hope they'll kick out Plzen tomorrow and get into the next round of the EL!

I hope they win the EL with Raul scoring a lot of European goals along the way to add to his record.

Yeah. And it would be even more fun if they'd throw out ManUtd in the process. (ManUtd looks more beatable this season than the last )

Schalke are my team on FIFA12 Career mode. Great team with loads of good young talent, sort of like Dortmund.



edit: Erwin>>>>>

Raul carrying Schalke in his photo

Zealous wrote:Raul carrying Schalke in his photo

Raúl carrying Schalke on the pitch, too

Viktoria Plzen fought valiantly, but Schalke finally beat them after extra time with an aggregate 4:2. Now Schalke has to play Twente Enschede next.

Huntelaar

what a match!! thought plezen had the better chances till the sending off.. and huntelaar's third was lol .. poor defender was so tires he didnt even attempt to tackle the hunter.. obassi was great too.

Yeah, I felt a bit sorry for the Plzen goalkeeper for the last goal. But then, a Hunter hat-trick is a cool thing, too. The red card for Plzen was a real stupidity by the guy who committed that unnecessary elbow check, otherwise it would have been even closer in the end.

yeah true, raul missed so many chances , that too in europe.. huntelaar
s second goal was amazing .. even the first goal. poaching like that looks easy but it requires a lot of intelligence to anticipate where that ball would go and technique to finish chances like that too

Schalke fight another day

Looks like Chinedu Obasi (sprained ankle), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (suspected broken nose) and Christian Fuchs might not be available for the match against Schalke due to injuries suffered in the Plzen match. Lewis Holtby is expected to return from injury, though.

rwo power wrote:Looks like Chinedu Obasi (sprained ankle), Kyriakos Papadopoulos (suspected broken nose) and Christian Fuchs might not be available for the match against Schalke due to injuries suffered in the Plzen match. Lewis Holtby is expected to return from injury, though.

hmm S04vs S04