# FC Schalke 04 II

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 four Regionalliga West.

## 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.
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.
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.

## Honours

The team's honours:
* Oberliga Westfalen
** Champions: 2003, 2019
** 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:
| Year | Division | Tier | Position |
| 1999–2000 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 2nd |
| 2000–01 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 5th |
| 2001–02 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 2nd |
| 2002–03 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 1st↑ |
| 2003–04 | Regionalliga Nord | III | 16th↓ |
| 2004–05 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 3rd |
| 2005–06 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 3rd |
| 2006–07 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 2nd |
| 2007–08 | Oberliga Westfalen | IV | 2nd↑ |
| 2008–09 | Regionalliga West | IV | 15th |
| 2009–10 | Regionalliga West | IV | 12th |
| 2010–11 | Regionalliga West | IV | 11th |
| 2011–12 | Regionalliga West | IV | 11th |
| 2012–13 | Regionalliga West | IV | 3rd |
| 2013–14 | Regionalliga West | IV | 6th |
| 2014–15 | Regionalliga West | IV | 11th |
| 2015–16 | Regionalliga West | IV | 10th |
| 2016–17 | Regionalliga West | IV | 16th↓ |
| 2017–18 | Oberliga Westfalen | V | 6th |
| 2018–19 | Oberliga Westfalen | V | 1st↑ |
| 2019–20 | Regionalliga West | IV | 12th |
| 2020–21 | Regionalliga West | IV | 8th |
| 2021–22 | Regionalliga West | IV | 9th |
| 2022–23 | Regionalliga West | IV | 9th |
| 2023–24 | Regionalliga West | IV | 5th |
| 2024–25 | Regionalliga West | IV | |
* 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.
| ↑ Promoted | ↓ Relegated |

## Stadium

Since the 2020–21 season FC Schalke 04 II play at the Parkstadion Gelsenkirchen.

## Players
### Current squad

    As of 8 February 2025
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | GER | Finn Kotyrba |
| 2 | DF | FRA | Tidiane Touré |
| 3 | DF | GER | Ngufor Anubodem |
| 4 | DF | GER | Pablo Zahnen Martinez |
| 5 | DF | GER | Phil Kemper |
| 6 | MF | GER | Tim Giesen |
| 7 | FW | KOR | Seokju Hong |
| 9 | FW | GER | Pierre-Michel Lasogga |
| 10 | MF | LUX | Timothé Rupil |
| 11 | FW | GER | Simon Breuer |
| 12 | DF | GER | Malik Talabidi |
| 14 | MF | GER | Tim Albutat |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 15 | MF | BUL | Nedzhib Hadzha |
| 17 | MF | GER | Yannick Tonye |
| 20 | FW | GER | Niklas Frese |
| 22 | FW | POL | Philip Buczkowski |
| 23 | MF | GER | Finn Heiserholt |
| 24 | MF | GER | Felix Allgaier |
| 25 | MF | FRA | Yassin Ben Balla |
| 26 | FW | GER | Bojan Potnar |
| 27 | DF | GER | Tim Schmidt |
| 28 | FW | LUX | Maurice Deville |
| 29 | MF | GER | Oguzcan Büyükarslan |
| 32 | GK | GER | Faaris Yusufu |

## Current technical staff

| Position | Name |
| Head coach | Jakob Fimpel |
| Assistant coach | Willi Landgraf |
| Assistant coach | Tomasz Wałdoch |
| Forward coach | Martin Max |
| Goalkeeping coach | Christian Wetklo |
| Athletics coach | Markus Zetlmeisl |

## 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 (2018–2022)
* Jakob Fimpel (2022–2024)
* Tomasz Wałdoch (2024)
* Jakob Fimpel (2024–)