Schalke 04 football club playing a Bundesliga game at the Veltins Arena in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.


The German football club Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 was founded on May 4th, 1904 as Westfalia Schalke by a group of high school students. Their nickname "Die Knappen" an old German word for miner - because the team drew so many of its players and supporters from the coal mine workers of Gelsenkirchen.


Size: 3641px × 5601px
Location: Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine Westphalia, Germany.
Photo credit: © Clynt Garnham Sport / Alamy / Afripics
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