Schalke 04 have a proud record as seven-times German Champions - albeit that the last of those championships came in 1958!
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| Ebbe Sand - Bundesliga top scorer 2001 |
Indeed, all of those championship titles came in the period before the creation of the Bundesliga (1963/64). At that time, the winners of all of Germany's regional leagues met in a knock-out competition to decide the ultimate national champions. As you can see below, Schalke's real heyday was from the mid 1930s to the early 1940s.
Apart from Ebbe Sand (pictured right) who was the Bundesliga's joint top goalscorer in the 2000/2001 season with 22 goals, you also have to go back over a quarter of a century to find another Schalke player topping the goal scoring lists. That was Klaus Fischer in 1976. How long before a Schalke goal scorer does it again??
| German championship - Winners |
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| 1934 |
Beat Nuremberg 2-1 in the final |
| 1935 |
Beat Stuttgart 6-4 |
| 1937 |
Beat Nuremberg 2-0 |
| 1939 |
Beat Admira Vienna 9-0 |
| 1940 |
Beat SC Dresden 1-0 |
| 1942 |
Beat Vienna Wien 2-0 |
1958
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Beat Hamburg 3-0
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German championship - Runners-up |
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| 1933 |
Lost 3-0 to Düsseldorf |
| 1938 |
Lost 7-6 (agg.) to Hanover |
| 1941 |
Lost 4-3 to Rapid Vienna |
1972 - Bundesliga |
2nd to Bayern Munich |
1977 - Bundesliga |
2nd to Borussia Mönchengladbach |
2001 - Bundesliga
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2nd to Bayern Munich
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| German Cup Final - Winners |
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| 1938 |
Beat Düsseldorf 2-1 |
| 1972 |
Beat Kaiserslautern 5-0 |
| 2001 |
Beat Union Berlin 2-0 |
2002
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Beat Leverkusen 4-2
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| UEFA Cup - Winners |
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1997
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Beat Inter Milan 1-1 (4-1 on pens)
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| German second division - Winners |
1982 and 1991 |
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