For a club as rich in history and prevalence as FC Schalke 04, it can be to some degree debilitating not to have a solitary Bundesliga title. Still, their trophy room is surely sufficiently great: seven national titles, five DFB-Pokals and one UEFA Glass.
Following a quarter century presence and a few fizzled mergers and name changes, the club took the name Schalke 04 in 1924, with the "04" in the title remaining for the time of their establishment. Alongside the name change came the new blue-and-white pullovers, which were the reason for the club's most acclaimed moniker: the Imperial Blues.
The 30s were a period of major rebuilding in top-flight German football, which prompt to the framing of sixteen provincial divisions known as Gauligen. Schalke were put in the Gauliga Westfalen, and from the very begin ended up being figured with. They won the title in each of the class' eleven seasons, meeting all requirements for the German title play-offs all the while.
The club kept on experienced its brilliant years by winning six national titles and one DFB-Pokal in the period from 1934 from 1942. Also, however the post-war period had seen them tumble off the guide a bit, they remained a solid contender. Schalke won its last national title in 1958, five years before the establishment of the Bundesliga.
After numerous times of uneven outcomes, including a few assignments, Schalke figured out how to win their first and final European trophy by overcoming Internazionale on punishments in the 1997 UEFA Glass finals. This triumph flagged the start of another, current time for Schalke, and the club tailed it up by winning two successive DFB-Pokals in 2001 and 2002. The turn of the century likewise observed them verge on winning their first Bundesliga, losing the title in the fourth moment of damage time.
The 2011 season was additionally outstanding for the club. Notwithstanding winning its fifth DFB-Pokal, Schalke made the semi-finals of the Champions Association, where they inevitably lost to Manchester Joined with a total score of 6-1.
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