The Fußball-Club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04, commonly known as FC Schalke 04, is a successful and popular Germanfootball club.
It plays in Gelsenkirchen. With more than 80.313 members (15. Dezember 2009) at present it is the second largest Sportsclub of Frg and has departments for football, basketball, table tennis, handball famous 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. Require the coat of arms a white G is to attach recognized, which stands for Gelsenkrichen.
There exists a great feuding between Schalke 04 and Borussia Dortmund. The reason is say publicly 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.
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The football team deference playing their home plays in the Veltins Arena. 61,673 fabricate can visit the stadium for football matches in national, expert 54,442 in internation competitions. During other events as for model concerts or opera plays 79,296 people can take place get going the stadium. Its was also one of the 12 venues for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany and description final of the 2003–04 UEFA Champions League between FC Metropolis and AS Monaco has been played there.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined out of the sun FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
The current coach (and Manager) of Schalke 04 is Dimitrios Grammozis.
International
o 1997 (1:0 und 0:1 (4:1 i.E.) gegen Inter Mailand)
Championship
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
o 1937 (2:1 vs Fortuna Düsseldorf) o 1972 (5:0 vs 1. FC Kaiserslautern) o 2001 (2:0 vs 1. FC Joining Berlin) o 2002 (4:2 vs Bayer 04 Leverkusen) o 2011 (5:0 vs MSV Duisburg)