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Club facts: Schalke

Club facts: Schalke
Club facts: Schalke ©Getty Images

FC Schalke 04
Formed:
1904
Nickname:
S04, Die Königsblauen (The Royal Blues), Die Knappen (The Miners)

UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets)
• UEFA Cup: 1997
• UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003, 2004

Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets)
League title: 7 (1958)
German Cup: 5 (2011)

Ten-year European record (UEFA Champions League unless indicated otherwise)
2017/18:
did not take part in UEFA club competition
2016/17:
UEFA Europa League quarter-finals
2015/16: UEFA Europa League round of 32
2014/15:
round of 16
2013/14:
round of 16
2012/13:
round of 16
2011/12:
UEFA Europa League quarter-finals
2010/11:
semi-finals
2009/10:
did not take part in UEFA club competition
2008/09:
UEFA Cup group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round)

Records
UEFA club competition
• Biggest home win
6-1: Schalke v HJK Helsinki
25/08/11, UEFA Europa League play-off second leg
5-0:
Schalke v Vardar
17/07/04, UEFA Intertoto Cup third round first leg

• Biggest away win
0-5: AEK Larnaca v Schalke
20/10/11, UEFA Europa League group stage

• Heaviest home defeat
1-6: Schalke v Real Madrid
26/02/14, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg
0-5: Schalke v Chelsea
25/11/14, UEFA Champions League group stage

• Heaviest away defeat
7-0: Manchester City v Schalke
12/03/19, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg

UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only)
• Biggest home win
3-0 three times, most recently v Steaua Bucureşti
18/09/13, group stage

• Biggest away win
0-4: Mallorca v Schalke
16/10/01, first group stage

• Heaviest home defeat
1-6: Schalke v Real Madrid (see above)
0-5: Schalke v Chelsea (see above)

• Heaviest away defeat
7-0: Manchester City v Schalke (see above)