FC Schalke 04 Esports is the esports division of German sports club FC Schalke 04.

History [ edit ]

FC Schalke 04 Esports was announced on May 16, 2016, having purchased the EU LCS Summer 2016 seed and roster of Elements.[1] Their roster included Steve, Gilius, MrRalleZ, and sprattel from Elements's Spring Season lineup, with Fox from Unicorns of Love replacing Eika. With the acquisition, FC Schalke 04 became the second professional sports organization to sign a League of Legends team, after Beşiktaş acquired Aces High in 2015.

2016 Season [ edit ]

Although Schalke began the summer split with a respectable 3-5-2 match record, in fourth place, they had slid to eighth by the split's end and were required to compete in the 2017 Spring Promotion tournament. There, they lost 1-3 to Team ROCCAT and 1-3 to Misfits, becoming the only 2016 Summer EU LCS team to be relegated. By the end of the year, all the team's players had departed.

2017 Season [ edit ]

Starting from scratch in the new year, FC Schalke signed Smittyj, loulex, SELFIE, Upset, and VandeR.[2] With the exception of the rookie Upset, each of the team's players had at least a full split of LCS experience. Now competing in the 2017 Challenger Series, Schalke became the first ever European team to go undefeated throughout an entire CS regular season, posting a 5-0-0 series record. In their playoff series however they were upset by Misfits Academy and did not qualify for promotion back to EU LCS.

After this failure they replaced loulex, Selfie and VandeR with Memento, Caedrel and Norskeren. With this roster they stayed once again undefeated in regular season of the Challenger Series Summer Split with a 3-2-0 record and managed to beat Red Bulls 3-1 in playoffs to qualify for EU LCS 2018 Spring Promotion. After beating Mysterious Monkeys in round 1 they lost the first qualifying round against Giants in a close 2-3 series. In the second qualifying round they faced off against Ninjas in Pyjamas and swept them 3-0 to qualify for the EU LCS.

2018 Season [ edit ]

For their second attempt in the EU LCS Schalke 04 rebuilt their roster by signing Vizicsacsi from UOL, Pridestalker from Giants, nukeduck and VandeR from Team Vitality to play alongside AD Carry prospect Upset and bringing in Boris from Splyce and Guilhoto from Giants as new coaches. The team struggled in their first split and missed playoffs with a 8th place finish at 7-11.

Going into Summer Split they brought in jungle veteran Amazing who helped the team to perform more consistently and lead the roster to finish Regular Season in a 3-way-tie for 2nd which saw them go into playoffs as 3rd seed after losing against Team Vitality and beating G2 Esports. Fighting their way past Splyce and Vitality into their first EU LCS final against Fnatic they had hopes of upsetting them but ultimately were not good enough and lost 1-3. Therefore they went into Regional Finals as 1st seed and favorites as they could watch their opponent play but ended up disappointing everyone's expectations and lost convincingly 1-3 missing out on representing Europe at the 2018 Season World Championship.

2019 Season [ edit ]

On November 20, Riot Games announced Schalke 04 as one of the ten partner teams for the LEC 2019 Spring Split.[3]

They ended up once again rebuilding their roster around Upset and picked up Odoamne from Splyce, Memento from Team ROCCAT, IgNar who returned from LCK team bbq Olivers and rookie Abbedagge. They started off well in the first round of Spring Split looking like a top 3 team but could not keep it up and dropped throughout the second half of the split ending in 7th place after losing a tiebreaker game for 6th against SK Gaming.

Before Summer Split started Schalke announced the signing of Trick as their new jungler. Trick directly made an impact on the team with his experience and lead the team to consistent performances and a 4th place in regular season. Because Splyce chose Rogue as opponents Schalke had to go up against Vitality in Round 1 of playoffs. After a great start they dominated game 1 and came out ahead in a fight-heavy series to win 3-1 and face Rogue in Round 2. There they should have been with their backs against the wall but due to a mistake from their opponents they came back from an open nexus and also found the victory in game 4 to close out the series 3-1 and secure a ticket to Athens as well as at least a place in gauntlet. In semifinals against Fnatic it became clear that there is still quite a gap between top 2 and the rest of the LEC as Schalke 04 were clean swept. Despite that they went as 1st seed and favorite into gauntlet were they faced Splyce who had just about beaten Origen the day before. Similarly to one year before Schalke 04 were again favoured but did not show up on the day and were clearly beaten and denied their first Worlds appearance once again.

2020 Season [ edit ]

During the off-season Trick, Upset and IgNar left the team and Gilius, Forg1ven and Dreams were signed as their replacements. Following a 0-4 start to Spring Split they tried out Lurox from their academy team for week 3 and after yet another 0-2 week they decided to also promote Innaxe and bench Forg1ven who subsequently decided to leave the team. With this change they managed to upset G2 in week 4 and continued to get better throughout the rest of the split beating most of the bottom half of the league to work themselves up to a 6-12 record and 8th place.

Timeline [ edit ]

Player Roster [ edit ]

Active [ edit ]

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Player Name Role Joined EU

Odoamne Andrei Pascu

Top Laner EU

Gilius Erberk Demir

Jungler EU

Lurox Lukas Thoma

Jungler EU

Abbedagge Felix Braun

Mid Laner EU

FORG1VEN Konstantinos-Napoleon Tzortziou (Κωνσταντίνος-Ναπολέων Τζωρτζίου)

Bot Laner (+) (–) Inactive EU

Innaxe Nihat Aliev (Нихат Алиев)

Bot Laner EU

Neon Matúš Jakubčík

Bot Laner KR

Dreams Han Min-kook (한민국)

Support EU

Nukes Risto Luuri

Support EU

Kamito Gabriel Scholtz

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Note: Teams are free to switch players between their LEC and Academy rosters as long as their roster for each game complies with the rules outlined in their respective ERL. Therefore, more players are eligible to start than are listed on this page - we will only list those that do play.

Former [ edit ]

Players are shown for the entire duration of their tenure on the team, with the role and substitute/trainee status they had upon their departure.

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October 2016 Scouting [ edit ]

Player League Participation [ edit ]

Organization [ edit ]

Current [ edit ]

C ID Name Position Burke Tim Reichert Chief Gaming Officer & Managing Director Atomium Nicolas Farnir Business Operations Manager Darius Matuschak Senior Content Manager Mert Mert Tanrıverdi 80 Team Manager Dylan Falco Dylan Falco 80 Head Coach rLT Rodrigo Oliveira Head Analyst

Former [ edit ]

Tournaments [ edit ]

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Media [ edit ]

See Also [ edit ]

Images [ edit ]

FC Schalke 04 Esports' 2016 EU LCS Summer Roster

FC Schalke 04 Esports' 2018 LEC Spring Roster Week 1 with Vander as ADC and Boris as starting support

FC Schalke 04 2018 LEC Spring Roster

FC Schalke 04 Esports' 2019 LEC Spring Roster

FC Schalke 04 Esports' 2020 LEC Spring Roster