2016–17 FC Schalke 04 season

The 2016–17 FC Schalke 04 season was the 113th season in the club's football history. In 2015–16 the club plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It is the club's twenty-fourth consecutive season in the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1991.

Schalke 04

2016–17 season
President	Clemens Tönnies
Head coach	Markus Weinzierl
Stadium	Veltins-Arena
Bundesliga	10th
DFB-Pokal	Quarter-finals
UEFA Europa League	Quarter-finals
Top goalscorer	League: Guido Burgstaller (9) All: Guido Burgstaller (12)
Highest home attendance	62,271
Lowest home attendance	42,210
Average home league attendance	60,703
Biggest win	Schalke 4–0 Gladbach
Biggest defeat	Bayern 3–0 Schalke Bremen 3–0 Schalke
Home colours Away colours Third colours

Players

Squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  GER Ralf Fährmann 4 DF  GER Benedikt Höwedes (captain[1]) 5 MF  GER Johannes Geis 6 DF  BIH Sead Kolašinac 7 MF  GER Max Meyer 8 MF  GER Leon Goretzka 9 FW  ARG Franco Di Santo 10 MF  ALG Nabil Bentaleb (on loan from Tottenham) 11 MF  UKR Yevhen Konoplyanka (on loan from Sevilla) 13 FW  CMR Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting 14 DF  GHA Baba Rahman (on loan from Chelsea) 15 MF  GER Dennis Aogo 17 MF  FRA Benjamin Stambouli 18 MF  GER Daniel Caligiuri 19 FW  AUT Guido Burgstaller 20 DF  GER Thilo Kehrer

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 MF  AUT Alessandro Schöpf 22 DF  JPN Atsuto Uchida 23 DF  ESP Coke 24 DF  GER Holger Badstuber (on loan from Bayern Munich) 25 FW  NED Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (vice-captain[2]) 27 DF  GER Sascha Riether 28 DF  GER Joshua Bitter 29 DF  BRA Naldo 30 GK  GER Timon Wellenreuther 31 DF  SRB Matija Nastasić 32 FW  GHA Bernard Tekpetey 33 FW  KVX Donis Avdijaj 35 GK  GER Alexander Nübel 36 FW   SUI Breel Embolo 40 DF  GER Phil Neumann 42 FW  USA Haji Wright

In

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	NAT	Moving from	Type	Transfer Window	Contract ends	Transfer fee	Sources
18	MF	Daniel Caligiuri	29		VfL Wolfsburg	Transfer	Winter	2020	€2,500,000	[3]
19	FW	Guido Burgstaller	27		1. FC Nürnberg	Transfer	Winter	2020	€1,500,000	[4]
24	DF	Holger Badstuber	27		Bayern Munich	Loan	Winter	2017	Free	[5]
36	FW	Breel Embolo	19		FC Basel	Transfer	Summer	2021	€22,500,000	[6]
17	MF	Benjamin Stambouli	26		Paris Saint-Germain	Transfer	Summer	2020	€8,500,000	[7]
23	DF	Coke	29		Sevilla FC	Transfer	Summer	2019	€4,000,000	[8]
—	MF	Robert Leipertz	23		1. FC Heidenheim	Transfer	Summer	2017	€300,000	[9]
29	DF	Naldo	33		VfL Wolfsburg	Transfer	Summer	2018	Free	[10]
10	MF	Nabil Bentaleb	21		Tottenham Hotspur	Loan	Summer	2017	€1,000,000	[11]
14	DF	Baba Rahman	22		Chelsea	Loan	Summer	2017	€500,000	[12]
11	MF	Yevhen Konoplyanka	26		Sevilla FC	Loan	Summer	2017	Free	[13]
28	DF	Joshua Bitter	19		Schalke 04 U19	Promoted	Summer	2019	—	[14]
32	FW	Bernard Tekpetey	18		FC Schalke 04 II	Promoted	Summer	2018	—	—
11	MF	Christian Clemens	24		Mainz 05	End of Loan	Summer	2017	—	—
24	DF	Kaan Ayhan	21		Eintracht Frankfurt	End of Loan	Summer	2017	—	—
30	GK	Timon Wellenreuther	20		Mallorca	End of Loan	Summer	2017	—	—
36	FW	Felix Platte	20		Darmstadt 98	End of Loan	Summer	2018	—	—
33	MF	Donis Avdijaj	19		Sturm Graz	End of Loan	Summer	2019	—	—

Out

No.	Pos.	Name	Age	NAT	Moving to	Type	Transfer Window	Transfer fee	Sources
3	DF	Júnior Caiçara	27		İstanbul Başakşehir	Transfer	Winter	€3,000,000	[15]
16	FW	Fabian Reese	19		Karlsruher SC	Loan	Winter	Free	[16]
34	GK	Fabian Giefer	26		Bristol City F.C.	Loan	Winter	Free	[17]
18	MF	Sidney Sam	28		Darmstadt 98	Loan	Winter	Free	[18]
19	MF	Leroy Sané	20		Manchester City	Transfer	Summer	€50,000,000	[19]
11	MF	Christian Clemens	24		Mainz 05	Transfer	Summer	€2,000,000	[20]
—	MF	Robert Leipertz	23		FC Ingolstadt 04	Transfer	Summer	€1,500,000	[21]
12	MF	Marco Höger	26		1. FC Köln	Transfer	Summer	€1,300,000	[22]
2	DF	Marvin Friedrich	20		FC Augsburg	Transfer	Summer	€1,000,000	[23]
24	DF	Kaan Ayhan	21		Fortuna Düsseldorf	Transfer	Summer	€500,000	[24]
32	DF	Joël Matip	24		Liverpool	Transfer	Summer	Free	[25]
33	MF	Roman Neustädter	28		Fenerbahçe S.K.	Transfer	Summer	Free	[26]
30	GK	Michael Gspurning	35		1. FC Union	Transfer	Summer	Free	[27]
36	FW	Felix Platte	20		Darmstadt 98	Loan	Summer	Free	[28]
11	MF	Younès Belhanda	26		FC Dynamo	End of Loan	Summer	—	—
23	MF	Pierre-Emile Højbjerg	20		Bayern Munich	End of Loan	Summer	—	—

Club

Kits

Supplier: Adidas / Sponsor: Gazprom

Away

Third

Kit information

Adidas continues its supply of the Schalke 04 kit, a relationship dating back to the 1975–76 season. Gazprom is the current sponsor, dating back to the middle of the 2006–07 season.

• Away: The away kit features a Marseille-inspired traditional home kit with light grey hoop, aqua blue three Adidas stripes, aqua blue shorts with white three Adidas stripes and white socks.
• Third: The third kit with white three Adidas stripes features a gradiented-hoop pattern, running from dark green to green, with black sleeve, all black back panel and all black shorts.

Kit usage

Kit	Description	Usage
Away	White-light grey hoop with aqua shorts and white socks.
Third	Dark green to green gradient hoop body with black sleeve, back panel, shorts and socks.

Friendly matches

  Win   Draw   Loss

5 July 2016 Friendly	Guangzhou R&F	1–6	Schalke 04	Guangzhou, China
19:30 CST (UTC+8) 13:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Zhizhao  41'	Report	Geis  5' Goretzka  16', 28' Huntelaar  45' Di Santo  47', 89'	Stadium: Guangdong Provincial People's Stadium Attendance: 9,830 Referee: Wang Zhe (China)

7 July 2016 Friendly	Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao	0–0 (5–4 p)	Schalke 04	Foshan, China
19:35 CST (UTC+8) 13:35 CEST (UTC+2)		Report		Stadium: Century Lotus Stadium Referee: Hei Xiaohu (China)
	Penalties
	Dianzuo Feng Pengfei Zepeng Ruibao		Naldo Geis Di Santo Riether Sam

13 July 2016 Friendly	Eintracht Rheine	1–9	Schalke 04	Rheine, Germany
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Woltering  32'	Report	Aogo  15', 17' Choupo-Moting  40', 65', 84' Meyer  42' Huntelaar  57' Ademoglu  63' Sam  77'	Stadium: OBI Arena Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Lennert Brüggemann

16 July 2016 Friendly	Luzern	4–2	Schalke 04	Lucerne, Switzerland
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Neumayr  2' (pen.) M. Schneuwly  47', 54' Oliveira  89'	Report	Huntelaar  66' Nastasić  76'	Stadium: swissporarena Attendance: 5,191 Referee: Alain Bieri

19 July 2016 Friendly	DSC Wanne-Eickel	0–13	Schalke 04	Herne, Germany
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)		Report	Riether  18' Di Santo  37', 40' Sam  39', 42' Tekpetey  48', 65' Embolo  55', 71', 79' Huntelaar  61', 68', 73' (pen.)	Stadium: Mondpalast-Arena Attendance: 4,923 Referee: Fabian Maibaum

22 July 2016 Friendly	Holstein Kiel	1–2	Schalke 04	Kiel, Germany
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Salem  18' (pen.)	Report	Meyer  10' Huntelaar  34'	Stadium: Holstein-Stadion Attendance: 6,663 Referee: Robert Schroder

4 August 2016 Friendly	Bologna	1–2	Schalke 04	Mittersill, Austria
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Brienza  68'	Report	Di Santo  10' Tekpetey  81'	Stadium: Waldstadion Mittersill Attendance: 1,500 Referee: Wolfram Aufschnaiter (Austria)

7 August 2016 Friendly	Fiorentina	1–3	Schalke 04	Zell am See, Austria
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Kalinić  29'	Report	Choupo-Moting  5', 84' Naldo  70'	Stadium: Alois Latini Stadion Attendance: 2,000 Referee: Michael Achleitner (Austria)

14 August 2016 Friendly	Schalke 04	3–2	Athletic Bilbao	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Naldo  15' Huntelaar  19' Geis  82'	Report	San José  58' Aduriz  90+1'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 42,404 Referee: Guido Winkmann

10 January 2017 Friendly	Schalke 04	2–1	KV Oostende	Benidorm, Spain
17:00 CET (UTC+1)	Goretzka  40' Konoplyanka  46'	Report	Pedersen  21' El Ghanassy  30'	Stadium: Estadio Municipal Guillermo Amor Attendance: 1,000 Referee: Lajara (Spain)

14 January 2017 Friendly	Chemnitzer FC	2–1	Schalke 04	Chemnitz, Germany
14:00 CET (UTC+1)	Fink  13' Mast  23'	Report	Naldo  74'	Stadium: community4you ARENA Attendance: 8,504 Referee: Eugen Ostrin (Germany)

23 March 2017 Friendly	Hannover 96	3–1	Schalke 04	Hanover, Germany
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Füllkrug  13' Prib  60' Sobiech  70'	Report	Coke  56'	Stadium: HDI-Arena Attendance: 6,500 Referee: Bibiana Steinhaus (Germany)

Competitions

  Win   Draw   Loss

Overview

Competition	First match	Last match	Starting round	Final position	Record
					Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Bundesliga	27 August 2016	20 May 2017	Matchday 1	10th	34	11	10	13	45	40	+5	032.35
DFB-Pokal	20 August 2016	1 March 2017	First round	Quarter-finals	4	3	0	1	11	7	+4	075.00
Europa League	15 September 2016	20 April 2017	Group stage	Quarter-finals	12	7	3	2	19	11	+8	058.33
Total					50	21	13	16	75	58	+17	042.00

Last updated: 27 May 2017

Source: Competitions

Bundesliga

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
8	Werder Bremen	34	13	6	15	61	64	−3	45
9	Borussia Mönchengladbach	34	12	9	13	45	49	−4	45
10	Schalke 04	34	11	10	13	45	40	+5	43
11	Eintracht Frankfurt	34	11	9	14	36	43	−7	42
12	Bayer Leverkusen	34	11	8	15	53	55	−2	41

Source: DFB
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head away goals scored; 7) Away goals scored; 8) Play-off.[29]

Results summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
34	11	10	13	45	40	+5	43	8	5	4	29	15	+14	3	5	9	16	25	−9

Last updated: 27 May 2017.
Source: Bundesliga

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A
Result	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	L	D	L	W	L	D	W	D	D	L	W	W	D	L	W	L	D	W	L	D	D
Position	15	17	17	17	18	16	16	14	12	12	11	8	8	10	11	11	10	11	12	11	10	12	13	11	9	9	12	10	11	11	10	10	10	10

Updated to match(es) played on 27 May 2017. Source: Bundesliga
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

27 August 2016 1	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–0	Schalke 04	Frankfurt
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Meier  13' Hector  79' Varela  87' Mascarell  88'	Report	Júnior Caiçara  67' Geis  89'	Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena Attendance: 47,000 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

9 September 2016 2	Schalke 04	0–2	Bayern Munich	Gelsenkirchen
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Höwedes  38' Baba  90+1'	Report	Hummels  17' Sanches  69' Vidal  71' Lewandowski  81' Thiago  90+1' Kimmich  90+2'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 62,271 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

18 September 2016 3	Hertha BSC	2–0	Schalke 04	Berlin
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Pekarík  63' Weiser  64' Stocker  74'	Report	Fährmann  63'	Stadium: Olympiastadion Berlin Attendance: 49,251 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

21 September 2016 4	Schalke 04	1–3	1. FC Köln	Gelsenkirchen
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Huntelaar  36' Geis  68' Bentaleb  84'	Report	Jojić  33' Osako  38' Modeste  77' Zoller  83'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 60,876 Referee: Robert Hartmann

25 September 2016 5	1899 Hoffenheim	2–1	Schalke 04	Sinsheim
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Kramarić  17' Bičakčić  26' Rupp  41'	Report	Choupo-Moting  4' Di Santo  90+6'	Stadium: WIRSOL Rhein-Neckar-Arena Attendance: 29,288 Referee: Tobias Welz

2 October 2016 6	Schalke 04	4–0	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Gelsenkirchen
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Choupo-Moting  52' (pen.) Embolo  56', 83' Goretzka  58'	Report		Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 62,271 Referee: Sascha Stegemann

15 October 2016 7	FC Augsburg	1–1	Schalke 04	Augsburg
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Stafylidis  21' Altıntop  39' Baier  77'	Report	Geis  27' Höwedes  55' Bentaleb  65' Konoplyanka  87'	Stadium: WWK ARENA Attendance: 30,660 Referee: Tobias Stieler

23 October 2016 8	Schalke 04	3–0	Mainz 05	Gelsenkirchen
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Bentaleb  23', 61' Meyer  48' Höwedes  72' Kolašinac  77'	Report	Balogun  21' Córdoba  41' Bell  82'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 59,357 Referee: Daniel Siebert

29 October 2016 9	Borussia Dortmund	0–0	Schalke 04	Dortmund
18:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Kagawa  7' Weigl  12' Dembélé  41' Papastathopoulos  64'	Report	Nastasić  34' Bentaleb  36' Kolašinac  76' Goretzka  90'	Stadium: SIGNAL IDUNA PARK Attendance: 80,179 Referee: Felix Brych

6 November 2016 10	Schalke 04	3–1	Werder Bremen	Gelsenkirchen
17:30 CET (UTC+1)	Schöpf  35', 63' Bentaleb  38',  54' Stambouli  84'	Report	Veljković  37' Gnabry  42' (pen.) Petsos  43' S. García  68'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 61,263 Referee: Günter Perl

19 November 2016 11	VfL Wolfsburg	0–1	Schalke 04	Wolfsburg
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Bruma  38' Seguin  69'	Report	Höwedes  77' Goretzka  82' Kolašinac  85'	Stadium: VOLKSWAGEN ARENA Attendance: 30,000 Referee: Felix Zwayer

27 November 2016 12	Schalke 04	3–1	Darmstadt 98	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Kolašinac  26' Choupo-Moting  60' Schöpf  90'	Report	Heller  6' Fedetskyi  39' Sirigu  50'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 58,703 Referee: Frank Willenborg

3 December 2016 13	RB Leipzig	2–1	Schalke 04	Leipzig
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Werner  2' (pen.) Kolašinac  47' (o.g.) Halstenberg  73'	Report	Fährmann  1' Kolašinac  31' Nastasić  39' Schöpf  49' Höwedes  51' Bentaleb  80'	Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 42,558 Referee: Bastian Dankert

11 December 2016 14	Schalke 04	0–1	Bayer Leverkusen	Gelsenkirchen
17:30 CET (UTC+1)	Naldo  4' Meyer  13' Baba  81' Kehrer  88'	Report	Toprak  13' Baumgartlinger  38' Kießling  89' Havertz  90+3'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 60,821 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

17 December 2016 15	Schalke 04	1–1	SC Freiburg	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Geis  42' Konoplyanka  74'	Report	Niederlechner  64'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 60,445 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

20 December 2016 16	Hamburger SV	2–1	Schalke 04	Hamburg
20:00 CET (UTC+1)	Jung  41' Müller  60' Wood  82' Mathenia  90'	Report	Meyer  26' Schöpf  42' Kehrer  75' Bentaleb  78' Avdijaj  89'	Stadium: Volksparkstadion Attendance: 49,789 Referee: Jochen Drees

21 January 2017 17	Schalke 04	1–0	FC Ingolstadt	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Nastasić  79' Burgstaller  90+2'	Report		Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 58,004 Referee: Harm Osmers

27 January 2017 18	Schalke 04	0–1	Eintracht Frankfurt	Gelsenkirchen
20:30 CET (UTC+1)	Bentaleb  77' Kolašinac  86'	Report	Meier  33' Oczipka  48'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 60,885 Referee: Robert Hartmann

4 February 2017 19	Bayern Munich	1–1	Schalke 04	Munich
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Lewandowski  9' Martínez  77'	Report	Naldo  13' Bentaleb  61'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Marco Fritz

11 February 2017 20	Schalke 04	2–0	Hertha BSC	Gelsenkirchen
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Burgstaller  41' Goretzka  62' Bentaleb  85'	Report	Haraguchi  54' Ibišević  60'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 61,981 Referee: Markus Schmidt

19 February 2017 21	1. FC Köln	1–1	Schalke 04	Cologne
17:30 CET (UTC+1)	Subotić  21' Modeste  43' Sørensen  72'	Report	Schöpf  2',  81' Stambouli  51' Naldo  59'	Stadium: RheinEnergieSTADION Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Tobias Stieler

26 February 2017 22	Schalke 04	1–1	1899 Hoffenheim	Gelsenkirchen
17:30 CET (UTC+1)	Schöpf  5'	Report	Süle  67' Hübner  69' Rudy  79'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 58,839 Referee: Deniz Aytekin

4 March 2017 23	Borussia Mönchengladbach	4–2	Schalke 04	Mönchengladbach
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Johnson  28', 64' Wendt  67' Raffael  76'	Report	Nastasić  18' Bentaleb  38' (pen.) Goretzka  82' Kehrer  85' Huntelaar  88' Di Santo  90+2'	Stadium: BORUSSIA-PARK Attendance: 54,014 Referee: Manuel Gräfe

12 March 2017 24	Schalke 04	3–0	FC Augsburg	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Burgstaller  4', 29' Höwedes  31' Caligiuri  34' Bentaleb  57' Aogo  78'	Report		Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 59,481 Referee: Robert Kampka

19 March 2017 25	Mainz 05	0–1	Schalke 04	Mainz
15:30 CET (UTC+1)	Jairo  25' Bungert  63'	Report	Burgstaller  28' Kolašinac  50' Badstuber  69' Schöpf  82' Choupo-Moting  90+4'	Stadium: OPEL ARENA Attendance: 30,847 Referee: Wolfgang Stark

1 April 2017 26	Schalke 04	1–1	Borussia Dortmund	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Kehrer  77' Bentaleb  90+1'	Report	Aubameyang  53',  54' Papastathopoulos  90+1'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 62,271 Referee: Felix Zwayer

4 April 2017 27	Werder Bremen	3–0	Schalke 04	Bremen
20:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Gebre Selassie  24' Kruse  76' (pen.) M. Eggestein  80'	Report	Goretzka  73' Fährmann  80'	Stadium: Weser-Stadion Attendance: 42,100 Referee: Robert Hartmann

8 April 2017 28	Schalke 04	4–1	VfL Wolfsburg	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Burgstaller  6', 77' Goretzka  23' Caligiuri  48' Nastasić  58'	Report	Arnold  2' Gómez  79' (pen.) Bazoer  86'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 61,298 Referee: Benjamin Brand

16 April 2017 29	Darmstadt 98	2–1	Schalke 04	Darmstadt
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Vrančić  11' Sirigu  39' Altıntop  54' Holland  63' Banggaard  83' Esser  89' Gondorf  90+3'	Report	Kehrer  69'  81' Meyer  72' Coke  75'	Stadium: Jonathan-Heimes-Stadion am Böllenfalltor Attendance: 17,400 Referee: Patrick Ittrich

23 April 2017 30	Schalke 04	1–1	RB Leipzig	Gelsenkirchen
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Stambouli  29' Coke  43' Huntelaar  46' Meyer  78'	Report	Werner  14' Halstenberg  40' Keïta  73'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 60,916 Referee: Günter Perl

28 April 2017 31	Bayer Leverkusen	1–4	Schalke 04	Leverkusen
20:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Hilbert  25' Kampl  49' Kießling  69' Bellarabi  70'	Report	Burgstaller  6', 50' Höwedes  10' Schöpf  18'	Stadium: BayArena Attendance: 30,210 Referee: Marco Fritz

7 May 2017 32	SC Freiburg	2–0	Schalke 04	Freiburg im Breisgau
17:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Niederlechner  22', 31' (pen.)	Report	Höwedes  46' Avdijaj  63'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 24,000 Referee: Robert Kampka

13 May 2017 33	Schalke 04	1–1	Hamburger SV	Gelsenkirchen
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Nastasić  8' Burgstaller  25' Kolašinac  55' Bentaleb  69'	Report	Diekmeier  49' Lasogga  90+2'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 62,271 Referee: Markus Schmidt

20 May 2017 34	FC Ingolstadt	1–1	Schalke 04	Ingolstadt
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Groß  41' (pen.) Lezcano  47'	Report	Avdijaj  2' Stambouli  63' Tekpetey  90+2'	Stadium: Audi Sportpark Attendance: 15,200 Referee: Frank Willenborg

DFB-Pokal

20 August 2016 First round	FC 08 Villingen	1–4	Schalke 04	Freiburg im Breisgau
15:30 CEST (UTC+2)	Reho  44' Geng  49' Ketterer  90',  90'	Report	Aogo  10' Embolo  19' Geis  75' Huntelaar  86'	Stadium: Schwarzwald-Stadion Attendance: 14,400 Referee: Patrick Alt

26 October 2016 Second round	1. FC Nürnberg	2–3	Schalke 04	Nuremberg
20:45 CEST (UTC+2)	Petrák  41' Burgstaller  49' Brečko  55' Baba  59' (o.g.) Kempe  68' (pen.) Kammerbauer  90'	Report	Konoplyanka  20', 45' Huntelaar  31' Bentaleb  43' Júnior Caiçara  67' Schöpf  85'	Stadium: Stadion Nürnberg Attendance: 28,281 Referee: Frank Willenborg

8 February 2017 Round of 16	SV Sandhausen	1–4	Schalke 04	Sandhausen
18:30 CET (UTC+1)	Höler  34' Wooten  64' Pledl  74'	Report	Stambouli  35' Schöpf  38' Caligiuri  43' Naldo  45+1' Konoplyanka  71',  78'	Stadium: Hardtwaldstadion Attendance: 14,500 Referee: Benjamin Brand

1 March 2017 Quarter-finals	Bayern Munich	3–0	Schalke 04	Munich
20:45 CET (UTC+1)	Lewandowski  3', 29' Thiago  16' Ribéry  31'	Report	Badstuber  74'  77'	Stadium: Allianz Arena Attendance: 75,000 Referee: Daniel Siebert

UEFA Europa League

Group stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Schalke 04	6	5	0	1	9	3	+6	15	Advance to knockout phase
2	Krasnodar	6	2	1	3	8	8	0	7
3	Red Bull Salzburg	6	2	1	3	6	6	0	7
4	Nice	6	2	0	4	5	11	−6	6

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

15 September 2016 1	Nice	0–1	Schalke 04	Nice, France
21:05 CEST (UTC+2)	Seri  72' Balotelli  90'	Report	Baba  32',  75' Stambouli  44'	Stadium: Allianz Riviera Attendance: 21,378[30] Referee: Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain)

29 September 2016 2	Schalke 04	3–1	Red Bull Salzburg	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Goretzka  15' Ćaleta-Car  47' (o.g.) Höwedes  58'	Report	Laimer  25' Upamecano  33' Soriano  72',  90+1' Ćaleta-Car  76'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 48,374[31] Referee: Serdar Gözübüyük (Netherlands)

20 October 2016 3	Krasnodar	0–1	Schalke 04	Krasnodar, Russia
20:00 MSK (UTC+3) 19:00 CEST (UTC+2)	Gazinsky  90+3'	Report	Konoplyanka  11' Naldo  70' Di Santo  85'	Stadium: Krasnodar Stadium Attendance: 33,550[32] Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

3 November 2016 4	Schalke 04	2–0	Krasnodar	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
21:05 CET (UTC+1)	Baba  18' Júnior Caiçara  25' Bentaleb  28' Höwedes  33' Nastasić  45+1'	Report	Laborde  53' Eboue  73'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 42,210[33] Referee: Slavko Vinčić (Slovenia)

24 November 2016 5	Schalke 04	2–0	Nice	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
19:00 CET (UTC+1)	Konoplyanka  14' Tekpetey  50'  90+3' Kehrer  67' Aogo  80' (pen.)	Report	Dalbert  28' Dante  47' Boscagli  62' Cardinale  90+4'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 51,504[34] Referee: Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijan)

8 December 2016 6	Red Bull Salzburg	2–0	Schalke 04	Wals-Siezenheim, Austria
21:05 CET (UTC+1)	Schlager  22' Radosevic  90+4'	Report		Stadium: Red Bull Arena Attendance: 23,133[35] Referee: Radu Petrescu (Romania)

Knockout phase

Round of 32

16 February 2017 First leg	PAOK	0–3	Schalke 04	Thessaloniki, Greece
22:05 EET (UTC+2) 21:05 CET (UTC+1)	Leovac  34' Léo Matos  57' Varela  89'	Report	Schöpf  7' Burgstaller  27' Goretzka  50' Kolašinac  57' Nastasić  67' Meyer  81' Huntelaar  89'	Stadium: Toumba Stadium Attendance: 25,593[36] Referee: Xavier Estrada Fernández (Spain)

22 February 2017 Second leg	Schalke 04	1–1 (4–1 agg.)	PAOK	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
18:00 CET (UTC+1)	Schöpf  23' Goretzka  61' Geis  64' Huntelaar  77'	Report	Nastasić  25' (o.g.) Henrique  81' Biseswar  88'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 50,619[37] Referee: Luca Banti (Italy)

Round of 16

9 March 2017 First leg	Schalke 04	1–1	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
21:05 CET (UTC+1)	Kehrer  10' Geis  14' Burgstaller  25'	Report	Strobl  3' Hofmann  15' Jantschke  38'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 52,412[38] Referee: Björn Kuipers (Netherlands)

16 March 2017 Second leg	Borussia Mönchengladbach	2–2 (3–3a agg.)	Schalke 04	Mönchengladbach, Germany
21:05 CET (UTC+1)	Christensen  26' Raffael  29' Dahoud  45+2' Jantschke  53' Vestergaard  59' Wendt  90+3'	Report	Goretzka  54' Bentaleb  68' (pen.) Caligiuri  77' Choupo-Moting  89' Fährmann  90+1'	Stadium: BORUSSIA-PARK Attendance: 46,283[39] Referee: Mark Clattenburg (England)

Quarter-finals

13 April 2017 First leg	Ajax	2–0	Schalke 04	Amsterdam, Netherlands
21:05 CEST (UTC+2)	Klaassen  23' (pen.), 52',  49' Neres  89'	Report	Kehrer  87' Stambouli  87'	Stadium: Amsterdam ArenA Attendance: 52,384[40] Referee: Sergei Karasev (Russia)

20 April 2017 Second leg	Schalke 04	3–2 (a.e.t.) (3–4 agg.)	Ajax	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
21:05 CEST (UTC+2)	Goretzka  53' Burgstaller  56',  60' Kolašinac  68' Nastasić  86' Caligiuri  101'	Report	Veltman  72'  80' Viergever  90',  111' Ziyech  90+5' Younes  120'	Stadium: VELTINS-Arena Attendance: 53,701[41] Referee: Ovidiu Hațegan (Romania)

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Squad Season 2016–17
No	NAT	Player	Age	Contract ends	All A					BL A	BL				Cup A	Cup				EL A	EL
Goalkeepers
1		Ralf Fährmann	32	30.06.2019	49 (0)	0	4	0	0	34 (0)	0	3	0	0	4 (0)	0	0	0	0	11 (0)	0	1	0	0
30		Timon Wellenreuther	25	30.06.2017	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0
34		Fabian Giefer	30	30.06.2018	1 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	1 (0)	0	0	0	0
35		Alexander Nübel	24	30.06.2018	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0
Defenders
3		Júnior Caiçara	31	30.06.2018	7 (2)	1	2	0	0	1 (2)	0	1	0	0	2 (0)	0	1	0	0	4 (0)	1	0	0	0
4		Benedikt Höwedes (C)	32	30.06.2020	46 (0)	2	8	0	0	31 (0)	1	7	0	0	4 (0)	0	0	0	0	11 (0)	1	1	0	0
6		Sead Kolašinac	27	30.06.2017	33 (3)	3	7	0	0	24 (1)	3	5	0	0	3 (0)	0	0	0	0	6 (2)	0	2	0	0
14		Baba Rahman	26	30.06.2017	14 (7)	1	4	0	0	7 (6)	0	2	0	0	2 (0)	0	0	0	0	5 (1)	1	2	0	0
15		Dennis Aogo	34	30.06.2017	9 (5)	2	1	0	0	3 (4)	0	1	0	0	1 (1)	1	0	0	0	5 (0)	1	0	0	0
20		Thilo Kehrer	24	30.06.2019	17 (8)	1	6	0	1	12 (4)	1	3	0	1	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	5 (3)	0	3	0	0
22		Atsuto Uchida	32	30.06.2018	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0
23		Coke	33	30.06.2019	7 (1)	1	1	0	0	7 (1)	1	1	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0
24		Holger Badstuber	31	30.06.2017	11 (1)	0	1	1	0	10 (0)	0	1	0	0	1 (0)	0	0	1	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0
27		Sascha Riether	37	30.06.2017	6 (3)	0	0	0	0	3 (2)	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	3 (0)	0	0	0	0
28		Joshua Bitter	24	30.06.2019	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0
29		Naldo	38	30.06.2018	29 (0)	2	2	0	1	19 (0)	1	1	0	1	3 (0)	1	0	0	0	7 (0)	0	1	0	0
31		Matija Nastasić	27	30.06.2019	34 (1)	0	9	0	0	21 (1)	0	6	0	0	3 (0)	0	0	0	0	10 (0)	0	3	0	0
Midfielders
2		Weston McKennie[42]	22	-	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0
5		Johannes Geis	27	30.06.2019	22 (2)	1	6	0	0	17 (1)	0	4	0	0	1 (0)	1	0	0	0	4 (1)	0	2	0	0
7		Max Meyer	25	30.06.2018	27 (11)	2	4	0	0	18 (10)	1	4	0	0	2 (1)	0	0	0	0	7 (2)	1	0	0	0
8		Leon Goretzka	26	30.06.2018	39 (2)	8	4	0	0	30 (0)	5	2	0	0	2 (0)	0	0	0	0	7 (2)	3	2	0	0
10		Nabil Bentaleb	26	30.06.2017	38 (6)	7	12	0	0	28 (4)	5	11	0	0	3 (0)	0	1	0	0	7 (2)	2	0	0	0
11		Yevhen Konoplyanka	31	30.06.2017	10 (17)	6	2	0	0	5 (12)	1	1	0	0	1 (1)	3	1	0	0	4 (4)	2	0	0	0
17		Benjamin Stambouli	30	30.06.2020	26 (11)	0	6	0	1	15 (8)	0	3	0	1	3 (0)	0	1	0	0	8 (3)	0	2	0	0
18/2[43]		Daniel Caligiuri	33	30.06.2020	20 (3)	4	1	0	0	14 (2)	2	0	0	0	1 (1)	1	0	0	0	5 (0)	1	1	0	0
18		Sidney Sam	33	30.06.2018	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0
21		Alessandro Schöpf	27	30.06.2019	30 (12)	8	6	0	0	22 (6)	6	4	0	0	3 (2)	1	1	0	0	6 (4)	1	1	0	0
Forwards
9		Franco Di Santo	31	30.06.2019	5 (10)	0	3	0	0	3 (9)	0	2	0	0	1 (0)	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	1	0	0
13		Eric M. Choupo-Moting	31	30.06.2017	23 (7)	3	2	0	0	19 (4)	3	1	0	0	0 (2)	0	0	0	0	4 (1)	0	1	0	0
16		Fabian Reese	23	30.06.2019	2 (4)	0	0	0	0	1 (2)	0	0	0	0	0 (1)	0	0	0	0	1 (1)	0	0	0	0
19		Guido Burgstaller	31	30.06.2020	24 (1)	12	2	0	0	17 (1)	9	1	0	0	2 (0)	0	0	0	0	5 (0)	3	1	0	0
25		Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	37	30.06.2017	10 (14)	5	2	0	0	7 (9)	2	1	0	0	2 (1)	2	0	0	0	1 (4)	1	1	0	0
32		Bernard Tekpetey	23	30.06.2018	1 (2)	0	1	1	0	0 (2)	0	1	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	1 (0)	0	0	1	0
33		Donis Avdijaj	24	30.06.2019	3 (9)	2	1	0	0	2 (6)	2	1	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	1 (3)	0	0	0	0
36		Breel Embolo	23	30.06.2021	7 (3)	3	0	0	0	4 (3)	2	0	0	0	1 (0)	1	0	0	0	2 (0)	0	0	0	0
—		Felix Schröter	25	30.06.2018	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0	0 (0)	0	0	0	0
Total					—	74	97	2	3	—	45	67	0	3	—	11	5	1	0	—	18	25	1	0
Last updated: 17 May 2017

Players in white left the club during the season.

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