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.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 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.Oberliga Westfalen tables and results Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 January 2015Regionalliga West tables and results Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 January 2015
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 2001.1994–95 DFB-Pokal Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 January 20152001–02 DFB-Pokal Weltfussball.de, accessed: 29 January 2015
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:Das deutsche Fußball-Archiv Historical German domestic league tablesFussball.de – Ergebnisse Tables and results of all German football leagues Year Division Tier Position 1999–2000 Oberliga Westfalen IV 2nd 2000–01 Oberliga Westfalen 5th 2001–02 Oberliga Westfalen 2nd 2002–03 Oberliga Westfalen 1st↑ 2003–04 Regionalliga Nord III 16th↓ 2004–05 Oberliga Westfalen IV 3rd 2005–06 Oberliga Westfalen 3rd 2006–07 Oberliga Westfalen 2nd 2007–08 Oberliga Westfalen 2nd↑ 2008–09 Regionalliga West 15th 2009–10 Regionalliga West 12th 2010–11 Regionalliga West 11th 2011–12 Regionalliga West 11th 2012–13 Regionalliga West 3rd 2013–14 Regionalliga West 6th 2014–15 Regionalliga West 11th 2015–16 Regionalliga West 10th 2016–17 Regionalliga West 16th↓ 2017–18 Oberliga Westfalen V 6th 2018–19 Oberliga Westfalen 1st↑ 2019–20 Regionalliga West IV 12th 2020–21 Regionalliga West 8th 2021–22 Regionalliga West 9th2022–23Regionalliga West9th2023–24Regionalliga West5th2024–25Regionalliga West14th2025–26Regionalliga West3rd 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 joined 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
Out on loan
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–)
References
External links . . FC Schalke 04 II at Weltfussball.de