List of FC Schalke 04 records and statistics
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Below are lists of records of the German football club FC Schalke 04.
Player records
[edit]- First / Last: year of the first / last competitive appearance for Schalke
- Seasons (S): number of seasons in which the player made at least one competitive appearance for Schalke
- Position (Pos): GK = Goalkeeper, DF = Defender, MF = Midfielder, FW = Forward
Bundesliga era
[edit]Statistics include all competitive matches since the formation of the Bundesliga in August 1963. Players who are still active for Schalke 04 are shown in bold.
- BL = Bundesliga (1963–1981, 1982–83, 1984–1988, 1991–2021, 2022–23)
- 2.BL = 2. Bundesliga (1981–82, 1983–84, 1988–1991, 2021–22, 2023–current)
- Cup = DFB-Pokal (1963–)
- EC = European competitions: Champions League (2001–2019), UEFA Cup / Europa League (1976–2017), Cup Winners' Cup (1969–1973)
- OtC = Other competitions: Supercup (2010, 2011), Ligapokal (1972–73, 1998–2007), UI Cup (2003, 2004), Bundesliga relegation play-offs (1983)
Statistics correct as of 2 September 2024[update].
Most appearances
[edit]Players are sorted by number of total appearances, then by number of Bundesliga appearances.
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Top goalscorers
[edit]Numbers in brackets indicate appearances made. Players are sorted by number of total goals, then by goals per game (Ø).
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Other records
[edit]Youngest and oldest
- Youngest player: Assan Ouédraogo – 17 years, 80 days (28 July 2023, 2. Bundesliga)
- Youngest Bundesliga player: Julian Draxler – 17 years, 117 days (15 January 2011)
- Youngest goalscorer: Assan Ouédraogo – 17 years, 80 days (28 July 2023, 2. Bundesliga)
- Youngest Bundesliga goalscorer: Julian Draxler – 17 years, 193 days (1 April 2011)
- Oldest player: Klaus Fichtel – 43 years, 184 days (21 May 1988, Bundesliga, also league record)
- Oldest goalscorer: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar – 37 years, 276 days (15 May 2021, Bundesliga)
Goals
- Most goals in a season in all competitions: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar – 48 (2011–12)
- Most league goals in a season: Simon Terodde – 30 (2021–22, 2. Bundesliga)
- Most Bundesliga goals in a season: Klaus Fischer – 29 (1975–76), Klaas-Jan Huntelaar – 29 (2011–12)
- Most goals scored in a match: Klaus Scheer – 5 (1 September 1971, Bundesliga)
- Most penalty goals scored: Ingo Anderbrügge – 28 (of 33, 20 of 25 in Bundesliga)
Goalkeeping
- Most clean sheets: Norbert Nigbur – 133 (96 in Bundesliga)
- Most consecutive minutes without conceding a goal: Jens Lehmann – 597 (1996–97 md 16–23, Bundesliga)
- Most penalties saved: Norbert Nigbur – 18 (of 51, 16 of 42 in Bundesliga)
Internationals
- Most international caps as a Schalke 04 player: Jiří Němec – 64 (1994–2001, Czech Republic)
- Most international caps for Germany as a Schalke 04 player: Benedikt Höwedes – 44 (2011–2017)
- Most international goals as a Schalke 04 player: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar – 26 (2010–2015, Netherlands)
- Most international goals for Germany as a Schalke 04 player: Klaus Fischer – 23 (1977–1981)
- World Cup winners: Benedikt Höwedes (2014, appeared in final), Julian Draxler (2014), Helmut Kremers, Norbert Nigbur (both 1974, did not play)
- European Championship winners: Erwin Kremers (1972, appeared in final), Bent Christensen (1992, Denmark)
Transfers
- Highest transfer fee paid: Breel Embolo – €26.5 million (2016)
- Highest transfer fee received: Leroy Sané – €52.0 million (2016)
Pre-Bundesliga era
[edit]Statistics include all competitive matches from 1920 until 1963, unless a player ended his Schalke 04 career after 1963, then all of his matches are considered.
- GLW = Gauliga Westfalen (1933–1945)
- OLW = Oberliga West (1947–1963)
- OtL = Other leagues: Emscher-Kreisliga (1921–1926), Gauliga Ruhr (1926–1933), Landesliga Westfalen (1945–1947), Bundesliga (1963–)
- GC = German championship (1927–1962)
- Cup = Tschammer-Pokal (1935–1943), DFB-Pokal (1952–)
- EC = European competitions: European Cup (1958–59), Cup Winners' Cup (1969–70)
- OtC = Other competitions: Western German championship (1927–1933), Westphalian Cup (1943–1944), British zone championship (1947), Oberliga relegation play-offs (1949), Western German Cup (1953–1963), i.a.
Most appearances
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Top goalscorers
[edit]Numbers in brackets indicate appearances made.
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includes 3 goals in 7 matches in European Cup
Other records
[edit]Youngest and oldest
- Youngest player: Otto Schrader – 15 years, 331 days (21 March 1937, Gauliga Westfalen)
- Youngest goalscorer: Otto Schrader – 15 years, 331 days (21 March 1937, Gauliga Westfalen)
- Oldest player: Ernst Kuzorra – 43 years, 92 days (16 January 1949, Oberliga West)
- Oldest goalscorer: Ernst Kuzorra – 41 years, 333 days (14 September 1947, Oberliga West)
Goals
- Most goals in a season in all competitions: Hermann Eppenhoff – 42 (1940–41)
- Most league goals in a season: Ernst Kuzorra – 34 (1929–30, Gauliga Ruhr)
- Most Gauliga Westfalen goals in a season: Hermann Eppenhoff – 28 (1940–41)
- Most Oberliga West goals in a season: Hans Kleina – 23 (1950–51)
- Most German championship goals in a season: Hermann Eppenhoff – 13 (1941)
- Most goals scored in a match: Herbert Burdenski – 8 (23 February 1947, Landesliga Westfalen)
- Most goals scored in a German championship match: Ernst Kalwitzki – 5 (18 June 1939, final)
Internationals
- First international cap as a Schalke 04 player: Ernst Kuzorra – 20 November 1927
- Most international caps as a Schalke 04 player: Fritz Szepan – 34 (1929–1939)
- Most international goals as a Schalke 04 player: Adolf Urban – 11 (1935–1942)
- World Cup winner: Bernhard Klodt (1954)
All time
[edit]Most appearances
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Rk | Player | First | Last | Sea- sons |
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Year | Age | Year | Age | ||||
1 | Klaus Fichtel | 1965 | 20 | 1988 | 43 | 19 | 556 |
2 | Ernst Kuzorra | 1923 | 17 | 1949 | 43 | 24 | 466 |
3 | Norbert Nigbur | 1966 | 18 | 1982 | 34 | 14 | 455 |
4 | Fritz Szepan | 1925 | 17 | 1949 | 41 | 22 | 437 |
5 | Bernhard Klodt | 1943 | 16 | 1962 | 35 | 18 | 425 |
6 | Olaf Thon | 1983 | 17 | 2002 | 35 | 13 | 384 |
7 | Gerald Asamoah | 1999 | 20 | 2013 | 34 | 12 | 381 |
8 | Rolf Rüssmann | 1969 | 19 | 1980 | 30 | 12 | 375 |
9 | Ingo Anderbrügge | 1988 | 24 | 1999 | 35 | 12 | 355 |
10 | Herbert Lütkebohmert | 1968 | 20 | 1979 | 31 | 11 | 351 |
Top goalscorers
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Rk | Player | First | Last | Goals (Apps) |
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Year | Age | Year | Age | ||||
1 | Ernst Kuzorra | 1923 | 17 | 1949 | 43 | 445 (466) | 0.95 |
2 | Fritz Szepan | 1925 | 17 | 1949 | 41 | 311 (437) | 0.71 |
3 | Klaus Fischer | 1970 | 20 | 1981 | 31 | 226 (349) | 0.65 |
4 | Ernst Kalwitzki | 1933 | 23 | 1944 | 34 | 195 (253) | 0.77 |
5 | Bernhard Klodt | 1943 | 18 | 1962 | 35 | 168 (425) | 0.40 |
6 | Hermann Eppenhoff | 1938 | 19 | 1955 | 36 | 146 (277) | 0.53 |
7 | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar | 2010 | 27 | 2021 | 37 | 128 (249) | 0.51 |
8 | Adolf Urban | 1932 | 18 | 1943 | 29 | 124 (153) | 0.81 |
9 | Ernst Poertgen | 1934 | 22 | 1938 | 26 | 104 (101) | 1.03 |
10 | Ebbe Sand | 1999 | 27 | 2006 | 33 | 104 (282) | 0.37 |
Manager records
[edit]Most matches managed
Bundesliga era
[edit]BL = Bundesliga, 2.BL = 2. Bundesliga, Cup = DFB-Pokal, EC = European competitions, OtC = Other competitions (Supercup, Ligapokal)
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Pre-Bundesliga era
[edit]OLW = Oberliga West, GWL = Gauliga Westfalen, Cup = DFB-Pokal, GC = German championship, EC = European Cup
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Team records
[edit]Bundesliga era
[edit]Matches
- Record league win: 7–0 vs. FC Bayern Munich (a), Bundesliga, 9 October 1976
- Record league home win: 6–0 each vs. SpVgg Bayreuth, 24 October 1981; SC Freiburg, 29 October 1983; Darmstadt 98, 10 March 1984; all 2. Bundesliga
- Record Bundesliga home win: 6–1 each vs. Kickers Offenbach, 4 October 1972; Fortuna Köln, 2 March 1974; Borussia Dortmund, 10 December 1985
- Record league home goals scored: 7–4 vs. Bayer Leverkusen, 11 Februar 2006
- Record DFB-Pokal win: 11–1 vs. FC Teningen (a), 31 July 2011
- Record DFB-Pokal final win: 5–0 each vs. 1. FC Kaiserslautern, 1 July 1972; MSV Duisburg, 21 May 2011
- Record European win: 6–1 vs. HJK Helsinki (h), Europa League, 25 August 2011
- Record Champions League win: 4–0 vs. RCD Mallorca (a), 16 October 2001
- Record Revierderby win: 6–1 vs. Borussia Dortmund (h), Bundesliga, 10 December 1985
- Record defeat: 0–11 vs. Borussia Mönchengladbach (a), Bundesliga, 7 January 1967
League
- Most league wins in a season: 24 (Bundesliga, 1971–72, 34 games)
- Most league goals scored in a season: 95 (2. Bundesliga, 1983–84, 38 games)
- Most Bundesliga goals scored in a season: 77 (1976–77, 34 games)
- Fewest league goals conceded in a season: 29 (2. Bundesliga, 1990–91, 38 games)
- Fewest Bundesliga goals conceded in a season: 31 each (2005–06, 2009–10, 34 games)
- Most consecutive league wins: 6 each (Bundesliga, 2004–05 md 7–12, 2006–07 md 16–21, 2017–18 md 23–28; 2. Bundesliga, 1990–91 md 3–8)
- Most consecutive league matches without a defeat: 14 (Bundesliga, 1976–77 md 29 – 1977–78 md 8)
- Most consecutive league matches without a defeat within a season: 13 each (Bundesliga, 1997–98 md 16–28, 2006–07 md 10–22)
- Most consecutive league matches without a win: 30 (Bundesliga, 2019–20 md 19 – 2020–21 md 14)
Pre-Bundesliga era
[edit]Matches
- Record league win: 20–0 vs. SpVgg Herten (a), Landesliga Westfalen, 23 February 1947
- Record league home win: 15–1 vs. Union Recklinghausen, Gauliga Westfalen, 16 February 1936
- Record Oberliga West win: 8–0 vs. Borussia Mönchengladbach (h), 24. September 1950
- Record German championship win: 16–0 vs. CSC 03 Kassel (h), 16 June 1940
- Record German championship final win: 9–0 vs. Admira Vienna (in Berlin), 18. June 1939
- Record DFB-Pokal win: 13–0 vs. VfvB Alsum (a), 20. August 1939
- Record European win: 5–2 vs. KB Copenhagen (h), European Cup, 18 September 1958
- Record Revierderby win: 10–0 vs. Borussia Dortmund (h), Gauliga Westfalen, 20 October 1940
League
- Most league wins in a season: 21 (Gauliga Westfalen, 1940–41, 22 games)
- Most league goals scored in a season: 103 (Gauliga Westfalen, 1936–37, 18 games)
- Fewest league goals conceded in a season: 10 each (Gauliga Westfalen, 1934–35, 1937–38, 1941–42, 1943–44, 18 games)
- Most consecutive league wins: 26 (Gauliga Westfalen, 1935–36 md 4 – 1936–37 md 11)
- Most consecutive league wins with a season: 16 (Gauliga Westfalen, 1942–43 md 3–18)
- Most consecutive league matches without a defeat: 84 (Gauliga Westfalen, 1934–35 md 18 – 1939–40 md 11)
Honours
[edit]Competition | # | Years |
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International title | ||
UEFA Cup | 1 | 1997 |
National titles | ||
German Championship | 7 | 1934, 1935, 1937, 1939, 1940, 1942, 1958 |
DFB-Pokal | 5 | 1937, 1972, 2001, 2002, 2011 |
DFL-Supercup | 1 | 2011 |
DFL-Ligapokal | 1 | 2005 |
2. Bundesliga | 3 | 1982, 1991, 2022 |
Regional titles | ||
Oberliga West | 2 | 1951, 1958 |
Landesliga Westfalen | 2 | 1946, 1947 |
Gauliga Westfalen | 11 | 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1944 |
Western German Championship | 4 | 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933 |
Western German Cup | 1 | 1954 |
Westphalian Cup | 2 | 1943, 1944 |
See also
[edit]- List of FC Schalke 04 players
- List of FC Schalke 04 managers
- List of FC Schalke 04 seasons
- FC Schalke 04 in European football
Sources
[edit]- Königsblau: Die Geschichte des FC Schalke 04. Die Werkstatt. 2015. ISBN 978-3-7307-0204-8.
- "FC Schalke 04 » Players from A-Z". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 5 October 2017.
- "Rekordlisten". FC Schalke 04 (in German). Retrieved 29 November 2018.