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	Mondpalast-Arena
Capacity	13,500
Executive Board	Christian Heidel Alexander Jobst Peter Peters
Manager	Torsten Fröhling
League	Oberliga Westfalen (V)
2017–18	6th
Home colours Away colours Third 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 five Oberliga Westfalen.

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
  • 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]

• 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.

Stadium

Since the 2008–09 season FC Schalke 04 II play at the Mondpalast-Arena in Herne.

Players

Current squad

As of 21 July 2018^[8]

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

No. Position Player GK Krystian Wozniak GK Sören Ahlers DF Phil Halbauer DF Jonas Carls DF Serdar Bingöl DF Finn Heiserholt DF Marius Schley DF Richard Weber DF Niklas Wiemann DF George Timotheou MF Jason Ceka MF Christian Eggert

No. Position Player MF Philip Fontein MF Berkan Firat MF Marcel Langer MF Nicholas Taitague MF Sandro Plechaty MF Jānis Grīnbergs MF Björn Liebnau MF Nassim Boujellab MF Jannis Kübler FW Haji Wright FW Benedikt Zahn

Current technical staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Torsten Fröhling
Assistant coach	Tomasz Wałdoch
Goalkeeping coach	Christian Wetklo
Fitness coach	Markus Zetlmeisl
Physiotherapist	Marc Magnier
Team caretaker	Peter Nahke
Team caretaker	Michael Bruske

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–)

References

External links

• Official club website (in German)
• FC Schalke 04 II at Weltfussball.de (in German)