Schalke 04 Basketball is a German professional

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team club in

Gelsenkirchen Gelsenkirchen (, , ; wep, Gelsenkiärken) is the 25th most populous city of Germany and the 11th most populous in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia with 262,528 (2016) inhabitants. On the Emscher River (a tributary of the Rhine), it lies ...

. The team currently plays in the ProA, the German national second division. It is the basketball section of

FC Schalke 04 Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhi ...

. The

department of FC Schalke 04 played in the 1988–89 season in the National Basketball League

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and from 2004 for several seasons in the ProA, the second highest basketball league in Germany. 2009 saw the Schalke 04 voluntary withdrawal of Schalke 04 from the ProA. Following the 2017-18 season, the team was promoted to the national second-tier ProA, after Scanplus Baskets resigned its promotion position.

Honours

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*Champions (3): 1977, 1982, 1984 1. Regionalliga West *Champions (4): 1975, 1987, 1995, 2016

Season by season

Roster

Notable players

:To appear in this section a player must have either: - Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.

References

{{ProA Basketball teams established in 1974 Basketball clubs in North Rhine-Westphalia FC Schalke 04