Fastening element for producing a blind rivet connection between, in particular, plate-shaped components, comprising - a screw with a screw head projecting radially beyond the screw shank and - a sleeve-shaped rivet arrangement through which the screw passes and which, starting from the screw head, successively comprises - a) a mounting distance region, - b) a deformation region and - c) a drive region with an internal thread, into which the screw is screwed, - wherein, viewed in the axial direction from the drive region to the screw head - the circumferential limits of the drive region lie within the circumferential limits of the deformation region, - the circumferential limits of the mounting distance region project radially beyond the circumferential limits of the deformation region, and - the circumferential limits of the screw head project radially beyond the circumferential limits of the mounting distance region and the circumferential limits of the deformation region, and wherein the mounting distance region and the deformation region are formed in such a way that, when the screw is tightened by rotation of the same in the screw-in direction in the internal thread of the drive region first there is a plastic deformation of the deformation region in such a way that its axial length is shortened and its circumferential limits are radially enlarged, and then there is a shortening of the axial length of the mounting distance region, wherein the mounting distance region comprises a first abutment ring, which is provided on its one side with a circumferential conical first chamfer, and a second abutment ring, which is provided on its one side facing the first chamfer with a circumferential conical second chamfer adapted to this first chamfer, wherein one of the two rings (331, 332) is provided with a circumferential interruption, wherein the two rings (331, 332) are designed in such a way that, in order to shorten the axial length of the mounting distance region, the two abutment rings (331, 332) dip into one another while reducing or enlarging the diameter of the interrupted abutment ring. - a screw with a screw head projecting radially beyond the screw shank and - a sleeve-shaped rivet arrangement through which the screw passes and which, starting from the screw head, successively comprises - a) a mounting distance region, - b) a deformation region and - c) a drive region with an internal thread, into which the screw is screwed, - a) a mounting distance region, - b) a deformation region and - c) a drive region with an internal thread, into which the screw is screwed, - wherein, viewed in the axial direction from the drive region to the screw head - the circumferential limits of the drive region lie within the circumferential limits of the deformation region, - the circumferential limits of the mounting distance region project radially beyond the circumferential limits of the deformation region, and - the circumferential limits of the screw head project radially beyond the circumferential limits of the mounting distance region and the circumferential limits of the deformation region, - the circumferential limits of the drive region lie within the circumferential limits of the deformation region, - the circumferential limits of the mounting distance region project radially beyond the circumferential limits of the deformation region, and - the circumferential limits of the screw head project radially beyond the circumferential limits of the mounting distance region and the circumferential limits of the deformation region, first there is a plastic deformation of the deformation region in such a way that its axial length is shortened and its circumferential limits are radially enlarged, and then there is a shortening of the axial length of the mounting distance region, wherein the mounting distance region comprises a first abutment ring, which is provided on its one side with a circumferential conical first chamfer, and a second abutment ring, which is provided on its one side facing the first chamfer with a circumferential conical second chamfer adapted to this first chamfer, wherein one of the two rings (331, 332) is provided with a circumferential interruption, wherein the two rings (331, 332) are designed in such a way that, in order to shorten the axial length of the mounting distance region, the two abutment rings (331, 332) dip into one another while reducing or enlarging the diameter of the interrupted abutment ring.