FC Schalke 04 Esports

FC Schalke 04 Esports is the esports department of football club FC Schalke 04. It has a League of Legends team competing in the LEC (formerly EU LCS), the top level of professional League of Legends in Europe. Matches are played in the Am Studio 20D in Adlershof, Berlin.[1]

FC Schalke 04 Esports
Short nameS04
SportLeague of Legends
Founded16 May 2016 (2016-05-16)
LeagueLeague of Legends European Championship (LEC)
Based inAdlershof, Berlin
ArenaRiot Games studio
Head coachDylan Falco
ManagerNicolas "Atomium" Farnir
Parent groupFC Schalke 04
Websiteschalke04.de/esports/
Departments of Schalke 04
Football Basketball Handball
Blind football Table tennis Athletics
Esports

The team previously played in the European League of Legends Challenger Series (EU CS) after being relegated in the 2017 EU LCS Spring Promotion tournament, but returned to the EU LCS after defeating the Ninjas in Pyjamas 3–0 in the 2018 EU LCS Spring Promotion tournament.[2]

History

In 2016, FC Schalke 04 opened an esports department and acquired the EU LCS spot of Elements, becoming the fourth football club to enter the professional League of Legends scene after Beşiktaş (which acquired the roster of Turkish team Aces High the previous year), Santos and Remo.[3] The club also announced former Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Sportfreunde Siegen midfielder and SK Gaming co-founder Tim Reichert as Head of eSport.

Schalke finished eighth in the 2016 Summer EU LCS and was relegated to the European League of Legends Challenger Series after losing a promotion match to Misfits Gaming.[4] In December 2016, Steve and sprattel joined PSG eSports and left Schalke.[5]

Schalke announced a new roster on 13 January 2017, with SmittyJ, loulex, SELFIE, Upset and Vander joining the team.[6] SELFIE and Vander left Schalke on 30 April 2017. Memento, Caedrel and Norskeren joined Schalke on 22 May 2017, as Jungler, Mid Laner and Support respectively. Schalke also released loulex on the same day.[7]

Schalke returned to the EU LCS on 25 August 2017, after defeating Ninjas in Pyjamas 3–0 in the 2018 EU LCS Spring Promotion tournament.[2] On 30 September, Schalke released most of its roster: SmittyJ, Memento, Caedrel and Norskeren all announced their free agency via Twitter.[8]

On 21 November 2017, Schalke announced the addition of Vizicsacsi, Pridestalker (now Pride), and Nukeduck to their roster as top laner, jungler, and mid laner respectively. Vander rejoined on the same day as Support.[9] The team ended the 2018 EU LCS Spring Split in eighth place, but did not have to play in a promotion tournament as EUCS was abolished prior to the split. Amazing joined Schalke as starting jungler on 31 May 2018, after Pride was moved to a substitute role on 3 April.[10] Schalke ended the 2018 EU LCS Summer Split in third place with a 12–6 record, qualifying the organisation for their first appearance in playoffs. The team managed to make it to the finals, but were defeated by Fnatic 1–3,[11] and later failed to qualify for the 2018 World Championship after falling to G2 Esports 1–3 in the regional qualifiers.[12]

Riot Games announced on 20 November 2018 that Schalke would be one of ten franchise partners participating in the newly rebranded League of Legends European Championship (LEC).[13][14] Schalke completely revised their roster prior to the 2019 Spring LEC, signing veterans top laner Tamás "Vizicsacsi" Kiss,[15] jungler Jonas "Memento" Elmarghichi, and support Lee "IgNar" Dong-geun, and rookie mid laner Felix "Abbedagge" Braun.[16] Despite a strong start to the regular season, Schalke ended in seventh place with a 9–9 record, barely missing playoffs.

In preparation for the 2019 Summer LEC, Schalke signed 2016 Summer EU LCS MVP Kim "Trick" Gang-yun to replace Memento in the jungle.[17][18] The team ended the regular season in fourth place with an 11–7 record, qualifying for playoffs. After defeating Team Vitality[19][20] and Rogue[21][22][23] in the first and second round of playoffs respectively, Schalke moved on to the third round in Athens, where they were swept by Fnatic.[24][25]

Roster

Current
Nat. ID Name Role Joined
LEC team
Odoamne Andrei Pascu Top Laner 12 December 2018
Lurox Lukas Thoma Jungler 6 February 2020[26]
Abbedagge Felix Braun Mid Laner 30 November 2018
FORG1VEN Konstantinos Tzortziou Bot Laner 22 November 2019[27]
Innaxe Nihat Aliev Bot Laner 13 February 2020[28]
Dreams Han Min-kook Support 2 December 2019[29]
Prime League team
Sleeping Christian Tiensuu Top Laner 12 December 2019
Gilius Erberk Demir Jungler 13 February 2020
Sertuss Daniel Gamani Mid Laner 7 January 2019
Innaxe Nihat Aliev Bot Laner 6 December 2019
SirNukesAlot Risto Luuri Support 13 December 2019

Former
ID Name Role Joined Left
IgNar Lee Dong-geun Support 11 December 2018 20 November 2019[30]
Upset Elias Lipp Bot Laner 13 January 2017 12 November 2019[31]
Trick Kim Gang-yun Jungler 8 April 2019 1 October 2019[32]
Vizicsacsi Kiss Tamás Top Laner 21 November 2017 23 November 2018
Nukeduck Erlend Våtevik Holm Mid Laner 21 November 2017 20 November 2018
Vander Oskar Bogdan Support 21 November 2017 20 November 2018
Amazing Maurice Stückenschneider Jungler 31 May 2018 19 November 2018
Pride Milo Wehnes Jungler (sub.) 21 November 2017 19 November 2018
SmittyJ Lennart Warkus Top Laner 13 January 2017 30 September 2017
Memento Jonas Elmarghichi Jungler 22 May 2017 30 September 2017
Caedrel Marc Robert Lamont Mid Laner 22 May 2017 30 September 2017
Norskeren Tore Hoel Eilertsen Support 22 May 2017 30 September 2017
loulex Jean-Victor Burgevin Jungler 13 January 2017 30 April 2017
SELFIE Marcin Wolski Mid Laner 13 January 2017 30 April 2017

Tournament results
Placement Event Final result (W–T–L)
8th 2016 EU LCS Summer Split 3–9–6
Not qualified 2017 EU LCS Spring Promotion 1–3 (against Misfits)
5th–8th 2016 GeForce Cup 0–2 (against TEAM #1)
1st 2017 EUCS Spring Split 5–0–0
3rd–4th 2017 EUCS Spring Playoffs 1–3 (against Misfits Academy)
2nd 2017 EUCS Summer Split 3–2–0
Qualified 2017 EUCS Summer Playoffs 3–1 (against Red Bulls)
Qualified 2018 EU LCS Spring Promotion 3–0 (against Ninjas in Pyjamas)
8th 2018 EU LCS Spring Split 7–11
3rd 2018 EU LCS Summer Split 12–6
2nd 2018 EU LCS Summer Playoffs 1–3 (against Fnatic)
2nd 2018 EU LCS Regional Qualifiers 1–3 (against G2 Esports)
7th 2019 LEC Spring Split 9–10
4th 2019 LEC Summer Split 11–7
3rd 2019 LEC Summer Playoffs 0–3 (against Fnatic)

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