1904–1927: Schalke's early years
The club was founded on 4 May 1904 as Westfalia Schalke by a group of high school students and first wore the colours red and yellow. The team was unable to gain admittance to the See more

• Crest of Schalke 04 (1924–1945)
• Crest of Schalke 04 (1945–1958)
• Crest of Schalke 04 (1958–1960) See more

The number of members of Schalke 04 grew from 10,000 in 1991 to 160,000 in 2022. This figure makes Schalke 04 the second-biggest … See more

The basketball department played in the 1988–89 season in the National Basketball League Basketball Bundesliga and from 2004 for several seasons in the ProA, the second highest basketball league in Germany. 2009 saw Schalke 04 voluntarily withdrawal from the … See more

• Exterior of the S04 museum at the S04 Veltins-Arena
• Restaurants at the S04 Veltins-Arena
• Ice hockey events are hosted at the S04 Veltins-Arena
• Biathlon and a variety of winter sport events are hosted at … See more

Schalke's stadium, known as the Veltins-Arena under a sponsorship agreement with Veltins brewery, was built in the summer of 2001 and has a capacity of 62,271 spectators. … See more

Schalke has been subject of a feature-length film called Fußball ist unser Leben ("Football is our life"). Actors Uwe Ochsenknecht and Ralf Richter, both of whom were in the … See more