FC Schalke 04 II are the

reserve team In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players who are under contract to a club but who do not regularly play in matches for the club's primary team. Reserve teams usually include players who are part of the larger first-team squad but ...

FC Schalke 04 Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as Schalke 04 (), and abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional sports club from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia. It is best known for its football team, ...

. Until 2005 the team played as FC Schalke 04 Amateure. The team has qualified for the first round of the

DFB-Pokal The DFB-Pokal (), also known as the German Cup in English language, English, is a German knockout Association football, football cup competition held annually by the German Football Association (DFB). Sixty-four teams participate in the competiti ...

, the German Cup, on two occasions. They currently play in the tier four

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History

The team first made an appearance in the highest football league in Westphalia when it won promotion to the tier three

Verbandsliga Westfalen The Westfalenliga (''formerly the '') is the second highest amateur football league in the region of Westphalia which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the sixth tier of the German football league system. It operates in two groups ...

in 1964 but was relegated again in 1966. It made a return to the league in 1978 when the

Oberliga Westfalen The Oberliga Westfalen is the highest level football league in the region of Westphalia, which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The league existed from 1978 to 2008, but was then replaced by the NRW-Liga, a new statewide league. W ...

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.Historic German football league tables
Das Deutsche Fussball Archiv, accessed: 29 January 2015 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 The Regionalliga Nord () is the fourth tier of the German football league system in the states of Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein, Bremen and Hamburg. It is one of five leagues at this level, together with the Regionalliga Bayern, Regionalliga N ...

in 2003 but it was relegated again immediately. Four more Oberliga seasons followed until 2008 when the team qualified for the new

where it has played since. 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 Verein für Leibesübungen Wolfsburg e. V., commonly known as VfL Wolfsburg (), is a German professional sports club based in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony. The club grew out of a multi-sports club for Volkswagen workers in the city of Wolfsburg. I ...

in 1994 and

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in 2001.

Honours

The team's honours: *

** Champions: 2003, 2019 ** Runners-up: (6) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2007, 2008 *

Westfalenliga The Westfalenliga (''formerly the '') is the second highest amateur football league in the region of Westphalia which is part of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia and the sixth tier of the German football league system. It operates in two group ...

** Champions: 1992, 1997 *

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** Runners-up: 1994, 2001

Recent seasons

The recent season-by-season performance of the club:Fussball.de – Ergebnisse
Tables and results of all German football leagues * With the introduction of the

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s in 1994 and the

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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 The Regionalliga West/Südwest was the third tier of the German football league system in the states of Saarland, Rheinland-Pfalz and Nordrhein-Westfalen from 1994 to 2000. Overview The Regionalliga West/Südwest was formed in 1994 to form a ...

from

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joint the

, in 2008 these clubs left the league again to join the new

Stadium

Since the

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season FC Schalke 04 II play at the

Parkstadion Parkstadion () is a multi-purpose stadium in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, that is no longer used to host any major events. The stadium was built in 1973 and hosted five matches of the 1974 FIFA World Cup.Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen (, , ; ) is the List of cities in Germany by population, 25th-most populous city of Germany and the 11th-most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher, Emscher River (a tribu ...

Players

Current squad

Current technical staff

Managers since 1992

Klaus Fischer Klaus Fischer (born 27 December 1949) is a German former professional footballer and coach. He was a key player on the West Germany national team that lost the 1982 World Cup final to Italy. As a forward, he was noted for his bicycle kicks, ...

(1992–1995) * Klaus Täuber (1995–2002) *

Gerhard Kleppinger Gerhard Kleppinger (born 1 March 1958) is a German football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (wo ...

(2002–2005) *

Mike Büskens Michael Büskens (; born 19 March 1968) is a German former football player who played as a midfielder and a football manager. He is currently the assistant head coach of Bundesliga club Schalke 04. During a 14-year professional career, he appear ...

(2005–2008) *

Sven Kmetsch Sven Kmetsch (born 13 August 1970) is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He is the assistant manager of Schalke 04 II. Club career Kmetsch was born in Bautzen, Saxony. Including his youth career, he s ...

(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 Torsten Fröhling (born 24 August 1966) is a German football coach and former player. He has been head coach of Altona 93, Holstein Kiel II, Holstein Kiel, VfB Oldenburg, 1860 Munich II, 1860 Munich, Wehen Wiesbaden and Schalke 04 II. Playin ...

(2018–2022) * Jakob Fimpel (2022–2024) *

Tomasz Wałdoch Tomasz Wojciech Wałdoch (; born 10 May 1971) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a defender in Poland and Germany. Wałdoch had a ten-year international career with Poland. He often captained the side, including at the 20 ...

(2024) * Jakob Fimpel (2024–)

References

External links

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FC Schalke 04 II at Weltfussball.de
{{DEFAULTSORT:Schalke 04 II North Rhine-Westphalia reserve football teams Reserve team football in Germany FC Schalke 04 Premier League International Cup