# 2016–17 FC Schalke 04 season

The 2016–17 FC Schalke 04 season was the 113th season in the club's football history. In 2015–16 the club plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It is the club's twenty-fourth consecutive season in the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1991.

## Players
### Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | GER | Ralf Fährmann |
| 4 | DF | GER | Benedikt Höwedes (captain) |
| 5 | MF | GER | Johannes Geis |
| 6 | DF | BIH | Sead Kolašinac |
| 7 | MF | GER | Max Meyer |
| 8 | MF | GER | Leon Goretzka |
| 9 | FW | ARG | Franco Di Santo |
| 10 | MF | ALG | Nabil Bentaleb (on loan from Tottenham) |
| 11 | MF | UKR | Yevhen Konoplyanka (on loan from Sevilla) |
| 13 | FW | CMR | Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting |
| 14 | DF | GHA | Baba Rahman (on loan from Chelsea) |
| 15 | MF | GER | Dennis Aogo |
| 17 | MF | FRA | Benjamin Stambouli |
| 18 | MF | GER | Daniel Caligiuri |
| 19 | FW | AUT | Guido Burgstaller |
| 20 | DF | GER | Thilo Kehrer |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 21 | MF | AUT | Alessandro Schöpf |
| 22 | DF | JPN | Atsuto Uchida |
| 23 | DF | ESP | Coke |
| 24 | DF | GER | Holger Badstuber (on loan from Bayern Munich) |
| 25 | FW | NED | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (vice-captain) |
| 27 | DF | GER | Sascha Riether |
| 28 | DF | GER | Joshua Bitter |
| 29 | DF | BRA | Naldo |
| 30 | GK | GER | Timon Wellenreuther |
| 31 | DF | SRB | Matija Nastasić |
| 32 | FW | GHA | Bernard Tekpetey |
| 33 | FW | KOS | Donis Avdijaj |
| 35 | GK | GER | Alexander Nübel |
| 36 | FW | SUI | Breel Embolo |
| 40 | DF | GER | Phil Neumann |
| 42 | FW | USA | Haji Wright |

### Transfers
#### In

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving from | Type | Transfer Window | Contract ends | Transfer fee | Sources |
| 18 | MF | Daniel Caligiuri | 29 | VfL Wolfsburg | Transfer | Winter | 2020 | €2,500,000 | |
| 19 | FW | Guido Burgstaller | 27 | 1. FC Nürnberg | Transfer | Winter | 2020 | €1,500,000 | |
| 24 | DF | Holger Badstuber | 27 | Bayern Munich | Loan | Winter | 2017 | Free | |
| 36 | FW | Breel Embolo | 19 | FC Basel | Transfer | Summer | 2021 | €22,500,000 | |
| 17 | MF | Benjamin Stambouli | 26 | Paris Saint-Germain | Transfer | Summer | 2020 | €8,500,000 | |
| 23 | DF | Coke | 29 | Sevilla FC | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | €4,000,000 | |
| — | MF | Robert Leipertz | 23 | 1. FC Heidenheim | Transfer | Summer | 2017 | €300,000 | |
| 29 | DF | Naldo | 33 | VfL Wolfsburg | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | Free | |
| 10 | MF | Nabil Bentaleb | 21 | Tottenham Hotspur | Loan | Summer | 2017 | €1,000,000 | |
| 14 | DF | Baba Rahman | 22 | Chelsea | Loan | Summer | 2017 | €500,000 | |
| 11 | MF | Yevhen Konoplyanka | 26 | Sevilla FC | Loan | Summer | 2017 | Free | |
| 28 | DF | Joshua Bitter | 19 | Schalke 04 U19 | Promoted | Summer | 2019 | — | |
| 32 | FW | Bernard Tekpetey | 18 | FC Schalke 04 II | Promoted | Summer | 2018 | — | — |
| 11 | MF | Christian Clemens | 24 | Mainz 05 | End of Loan | Summer | 2017 | — | — |
| 24 | DF | Kaan Ayhan | 21 | Eintracht Frankfurt | End of Loan | Summer | 2017 | — | — |
| 30 | GK | Timon Wellenreuther | 20 | Mallorca | End of Loan | Summer | 2017 | — | — |
| 36 | FW | Felix Platte | 20 | Darmstadt 98 | End of Loan | Summer | 2018 | — | — |
| 33 | MF | Donis Avdijaj | 19 | Sturm Graz | End of Loan | Summer | 2019 | — | — |

#### Out

| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | Moving to | Type | Transfer Window | Transfer fee | Sources |
| 3 | DF | Júnior Caiçara | 27 | İstanbul Başakşehir | Transfer | Winter | €3,000,000 | |
| 16 | FW | Fabian Reese | 19 | Karlsruher SC | Loan | Winter | Free | |
| 34 | GK | Fabian Giefer | 26 | Bristol City F.C. | Loan | Winter | Free | |
| 18 | MF | Sidney Sam | 28 | Darmstadt 98 | Loan | Winter | Free | |
| 19 | MF | Leroy Sané | 20 | Manchester City | Transfer | Summer | €50,000,000 | |
| 11 | MF | Christian Clemens | 24 | Mainz 05 | Transfer | Summer | €2,000,000 | |
| — | MF | Robert Leipertz | 23 | FC Ingolstadt 04 | Transfer | Summer | €1,500,000 | |
| 12 | MF | Marco Höger | 26 | 1. FC Köln | Transfer | Summer | €1,300,000 | |
| 2 | DF | Marvin Friedrich | 20 | FC Augsburg | Transfer | Summer | €1,000,000 | |
| 24 | DF | Kaan Ayhan | 21 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | Transfer | Summer | €500,000 | |
| 32 | DF | Joël Matip | 24 | Liverpool | Transfer | Summer | Free | |
| 33 | MF | Roman Neustädter | 28 | Fenerbahçe S.K. | Transfer | Summer | Free | |
| 30 | GK | Michael Gspurning | 35 | 1. FC Union | Transfer | Summer | Free | |
| 36 | FW | Felix Platte | 20 | Darmstadt 98 | Loan | Summer | Free | |
| 11 | MF | Younès Belhanda | 26 | FC Dynamo | End of Loan | Summer | — | — |
| 23 | MF | Pierre-Emile Højbjerg | 20 | Bayern Munich | End of Loan | Summer | — | — |

## Club
### Kit

Supplier: Adidas / Sponsor: Gazprom
| Home | Home alt. | Home alt. 2 | Home alt. 3 | Away | Away Alt. | Away 2017-18 | Third | Third Alt. |

## Friendly matches

Win  Draw  Loss

## Competitions

Win  Draw  Loss

### Overview

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| Bundesliga | 27 August 2016 | 20 May 2017 | Matchday 1 | 10th | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 45 | 40 | +5 | 032.35 |
| DFB-Pokal | 20 August 2016 | 1 March 2017 | First round | Quarter-finals | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 075.00 |
| Europa League | 15 September 2016 | 20 April 2017 | Group stage | Quarter-finals | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 11 | +8 | 058.33 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 50 | 21 | 13 | 16 | 75 | 58 | +17 | 042.00 |
Last updated: 27 May 2017 Source: Competitions

### Bundesliga
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 8 | Werder Bremen | 34 | 13 | 6 | 15 | 61 | 64 | −3 | 45 |
| 9 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 34 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 45 | 49 | −4 | 45 |
| 10 | Schalke 04 | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 45 | 40 | +5 | 43 |
| 11 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 42 |
| 12 | Bayer Leverkusen | 34 | 11 | 8 | 15 | 53 | 55 | −2 | 41 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 27 May 2017. Source: Bundesliga

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A |
| Result | L | L | L | L | L | W | D | W | D | W | W | W | L | L | D | L | W | L | D | W | D | D | L | W | W | D | L | W | L | D | W | L | D | D |
| Position | 15 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 18 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |

#### Matches
### UEFA Europa League
#### Group stage

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification | SCH | KRA | SAL | NCE |
| 1 | Schalke 04 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | +6 | 15 | Advance to knockout phase | — | 2–0 | 3–1 | 2–0 |
| 2 | Krasnodar | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 | Advance to knockout phase | 0–1 | — | 1–1 | 5–2 |
| 3 | Red Bull Salzburg | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 7 | | 2–0 | 0–1 | — | 0–1 |
| 4 | Nice | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 11 | −6 | 6 | | 0–1 | 2–1 | 0–2 | — |

#### Knockout phase
##### Quarter-finals
## Statistics
### Appearances and goals

Squad Season 2016–17 :
| No | NAT | Player | Age | Contract ends | All A | | | | | BL A | BL | | | | Cup A | Cup | | | | EL A | EL | | | |
| Goalkeepers |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | | Ralf Fährmann | 36 | 30.06.2019 | 49 (0) | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 34 (0) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 (0) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | | Timon Wellenreuther | 28 | 30.06.2017 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 34 | | Fabian Giefer | 34 | 30.06.2018 | 1 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | | Alexander Nübel | 28 | 30.06.2018 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Defenders |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | | Júnior Caiçara | 35 | 30.06.2018 | 7 (2) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 4 | | Benedikt Höwedes (C) | 36 | 30.06.2020 | 46 (0) | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 31 (0) | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 4 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 (0) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | | Sead Kolašinac | 31 | 30.06.2017 | 33 (3) | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 (1) | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 (2) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 14 | | Baba Rahman | 30 | 30.06.2017 | 14 (7) | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 (6) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (1) | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 15 | | Dennis Aogo | 37 | 30.06.2017 | 9 (5) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 (4) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | | Thilo Kehrer | 28 | 30.06.2019 | 17 (8) | 1 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 12 (4) | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (3) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | | Atsuto Uchida | 36 | 30.06.2018 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | | Coke | 37 | 30.06.2019 | 7 (1) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 (1) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 24 | | Holger Badstuber | 35 | 30.06.2017 | 11 (1) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 (0) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | | Sascha Riether | 41 | 30.06.2017 | 6 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | | Joshua Bitter | 27 | 30.06.2019 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | | Naldo | 42 | 30.06.2018 | 29 (0) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 19 (0) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 (0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (0) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 31 | | Matija Nastasić | 31 | 30.06.2019 | 34 (1) | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 21 (1) | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 3 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 (0) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Midfielders |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | | Weston McKennie | 26 | - | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | | Johannes Geis | 31 | 30.06.2019 | 22 (2) | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 17 (1) | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (1) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 7 | | Max Meyer | 29 | 30.06.2018 | 27 (11) | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 (10) | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (2) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 8 | | Leon Goretzka | 29 | 30.06.2018 | 39 (2) | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 30 (0) | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (2) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 10 | | Nabil Bentaleb | 29 | 30.06.2017 | 38 (6) | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 28 (4) | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 3 (0) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 (2) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | | Yevhen Konoplyanka | 35 | 30.06.2017 | 10 (17) | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 (12) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 (4) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | | Benjamin Stambouli | 34 | 30.06.2020 | 26 (11) | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 15 (8) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 3 (0) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 (3) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 18/2 | | Daniel Caligiuri | 36 | 30.06.2020 | 20 (3) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 (2) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (0) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 18 | | Sidney Sam | 36 | 30.06.2018 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | | Alessandro Schöpf | 30 | 30.06.2019 | 30 (12) | 8 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 22 (6) | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 (2) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 (4) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Forwards |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9 | | Franco Di Santo | 35 | 30.06.2019 | 5 (10) | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 (9) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 13 | | Eric M. Choupo-Moting | 35 | 30.06.2017 | 23 (7) | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 19 (4) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (1) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | | Fabian Reese | 26 | 30.06.2019 | 2 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | | Guido Burgstaller | 35 | 30.06.2020 | 24 (1) | 12 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 (1) | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 (0) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 25 | | Klaas-Jan Huntelaar | 41 | 30.06.2017 | 10 (14) | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 (9) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 (1) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (4) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 32 | | Bernard Tekpetey | 27 | 30.06.2018 | 1 (2) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 (2) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 33 | | Donis Avdijaj | 28 | 30.06.2019 | 3 (9) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 (6) | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 36 | | Breel Embolo | 27 | 30.06.2021 | 7 (3) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (3) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| — | | Felix Schröter | 28 | 30.06.2018 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 (0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | — | 74 | 97 | 2 | 3 | — | 45 | 67 | 0 | 3 | — | 11 | 5 | 1 | 0 | — | 18 | 25 | 1 | 0 |
| Last updated: 17 May 2017 |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Players in white left the club during the season.