🇩🇪 Bundesliga · Top flight · promoted this season
Schalke 04
The miners of the Ruhr, 160,000 members, the Knappenschmiede and a return to the top flight after years of tears.
- Nickname
- Die Knappen
- City
- Gelsenkirchen
- Ground
- Veltins-Arena
- Founded
- 1904
- Owned by
- Owned by its members
- Setting
- Working-class town
- Shirt
- Blue
- Weather
- Grey
- Go for the
- Peace and quiet
- Last great
- Before colour television
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- Ambition
- Atmosphere
- Attacking football
- History
- Faith in youth
- Glamour
- Drama
- Underdog status
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