FC Schalke 04 II

FC Schalke 04 II

Full name	Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V.
Nickname(s)	Die Königsblauen (The Royal Blues) Die Knappen (The Miners)
Founded	1904 (club)
Ground	Parkstadion
Capacity	5,000
Executive Board	Jochen Schneider Alexander Jobst Peter Peters Gerald Asamoah
Coach	Torsten Fröhling
League	Regionalliga West (IV)
2023–24	5th
Home colours Away colours

FC Schalke 04 II are the reserve team of German association football club FC Schalke 04. Until 2005 the team played as FC Schalke 04 Amateure.

The team has qualified for the first round of the DFB-Pokal, the German Cup, on two occasions. They currently play in the tier four Regionalliga West.

History

The team first made an appearance in the highest football league in Westphalia when it won promotion to the tier three Verbandsliga Westfalen in 1964 but was relegated again in 1966. It made a return to the league in 1978 when the Oberliga Westfalen was established as the tier above the Verbandsliga but was once more relegated in 1980. It returned to the league for a third time in 1986 and played there until 1992 when a division championship took the team up to the Oberliga Westfalen. ^[1]

The team played for three seasons against relegation in the Oberliga until 1995, when it dropped back to the Verbandsliga. It returned to the Oberliga again in 1997, now as a much stronger side. A league championship in the Oberliga earned the club promotion to the Regionalliga Nord in 2003 but it was relegated again immediately. Four more Oberliga seasons followed until 2008 when the team qualified for the new Regionalliga West where it has played since. ^{[2] [3]}

The team has played in the DFB-Pokal twice, qualifying for the first round in 1994–95 and 2001–02, going out to VfL Wolfsburg in 1994 and VfL Bochum in 2001. ^{[4] [5]}

Honours

The team's honours:

• Oberliga Westfalen
  • Champions: 2003, 2019
  • Runners-up: (6) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008
• Westfalenliga
  • Champions: 1992, 1997
• Westphalia Cup
  • Runners-up: 1994, 2001

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club: ^{[6] [7]}

Year	Division	Tier	Position
1999–2000	Oberliga Westfalen	IV	2nd
2000–01	Oberliga Westfalen		5th
2001–02	Oberliga Westfalen		2nd
2002–03	Oberliga Westfalen		1st↑
2003–04	Regionalliga Nord	III	16th↓
2004–05	Oberliga Westfalen	IV	3rd
2005–06	Oberliga Westfalen		3rd
2006–07	Oberliga Westfalen		2nd
2007–08	Oberliga Westfalen		2nd↑
2008–09	Regionalliga West		15th
2009–10	Regionalliga West		12th
2010–11	Regionalliga West		11th
2011–12	Regionalliga West		11th
2012–13	Regionalliga West		3rd
2013–14	Regionalliga West		6th
2014–15	Regionalliga West		11th
2015–16	Regionalliga West		10th
2016–17	Regionalliga West		16th↓
2017–18	Oberliga Westfalen	V	6th
2018–19	Oberliga Westfalen		1st↑
2019–20	Regionalliga West	IV	12th
2020–21	Regionalliga West		8th
2021–22	Regionalliga West		9th
2022–23	Regionalliga West		9th
2023–24	Regionalliga West		5th
2024–25	Regionalliga West

• With the introduction of the Regionalligas in 1994 and the 3. Liga in 2008 as the new third tier, below the 2. Bundesliga, all leagues below dropped one tier. In 2000 all clubs from the disbanded Regionalliga West/Südwest from North Rhine-Westphalia joint the Regionalliga Nord, in 2008 these clubs left the league again to join the new Regionalliga West.

↑ Promoted

↓ Relegated

Stadium

Since the 2020–21 season FC Schalke 04 II play at the Parkstadion Gelsenkirchen.

Players

Current squad

As of 8 February 2025 ^[8]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK   GER Finn Kotyrba 2 DF   FRA Tidiane Touré 3 DF   GER Ngufor Anubodem 4 DF   GER Pablo Zahnen Martinez 5 DF   GER Phil Kemper 6 MF   GER Tim Giesen 7 FW   KOR Seokju Hong 9 FW   GER Pierre-Michel Lasogga 10 MF   LUX Timothé Rupil 11 FW   GER Simon Breuer 12 DF   GER Malik Talabidi 14 MF   GER Tim Albutat

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 MF   BUL Nedzhib Hadzha 17 MF   GER Yannick Tonye 20 FW   GER Niklas Frese 22 FW   POL Philip Buczkowski 23 MF   GER Finn Heiserholt 24 MF   GER Felix Allgaier 25 MF   FRA Yassin Ben Balla 26 FW   GER Bojan Potnar 27 DF   GER Tim Schmidt 28 FW   LUX Maurice Deville 29 MF   GER Oguzcan Büyükarslan 32 GK   GER Faaris Yusufu

Current technical staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Jakob Fimpel
Assistant coach	Willi Landgraf
Assistant coach	Tomasz Wałdoch
Forward coach	Martin Max
Goalkeeping coach	Christian Wetklo
Athletics coach	Markus Zetlmeisl

Managers since 1992

• Klaus Fischer (1992–1995)
• Klaus Täuber (1995–2002)
• Gerhard Kleppinger (2002–2005)
• Mike Büskens (2005–2008)
• Sven Kmetsch (2008)
• Markus Högner (2008–2009)
• Oliver Ruhnert (2009–2010)
• Michael Boris (2010–2011)
• Bernhard Trares (2011–2014)
• Jürgen Luginger (2014–2017)
• Onur Cinel (2017–2018)
• Torsten Fröhling (2018–2022)
• Jakob Fimpel (2022–2024)
• Tomasz Wałdoch (2024)
• Jakob Fimpel (2024–)

References

1. Historic German football league tables (in German) Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 29 January 2015
2. Oberliga Westfalen tables and results (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 January 2015
3. Regionalliga West tables and results (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 January 2015
4. 1994–95 DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 January 2015
5. 2001–02 DFB-Pokal (in German) Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 January 2015
6. Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv (in German) Historical German domestic league tables
7. Fussball.de – Ergebnisse (in German) Tables and results of all German football leagues
8. "Kader U23". FC Schalke 04 (in German). Retrieved 4 July 2024.

External links

• Official website . Archived 2015-01-25 at the Wayback Machine (in German).
• FC Schalke 04 II at Weltfussball.de (in German)