2012–13 Fc Schalke 04 Season

In 2012–13 the club plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It is the clubs 22nd consecutive season in this league, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1991.

Schalke 04

2012–13 season
President	Clemens Tönnies
Head coach	Huub Stevens (until 16 December 2012) Jens Keller (from 17 December 2012)
Stadium	Veltins-Arena, Gelsenkirchen, NRW
Bundesliga	4th
DFB-Pokal	Round 3
UEFA Champions League	Round of 16
Top goalscorer	League: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (10) Julian Draxler (10) All: Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (16)
Home colours Away colours Third colours
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The club also takes part in the 2012–13 edition of the DFB-Pokal, where it reached the second round and will face 2. Bundesliga side SV Sandhausen next.

In Europe the club has qualified for the 2012–13 edition of the Champions League where it will play Olympiacos, Montpellier and Arsenal in Group B of the group stage.

Huub Stevens was sacked as head coach on 16 December 2012. Jens Keller replaced Stevens as head coach.

Legend

  Win   Draw   Loss   Postponed

Friendly matches

Schalke 04 v ERGO-Nationalelf

11 July 2012 (2012-07-11) Friendly	Schalke 04	6–0	ERGO-Nationalelf	Recklinghausen
18:30	Barnetta   22' Holtby   45' Edu   46', 76' Klingenburg   63' Pukki   78'	Report		Stadium: Hohenhorst Stadium Attendance: 2,504

SG Sonnenhof Großaspach v Schalke 04

Friendly	SG Sonnenhof Großaspach	2–4	Schalke 04
			Edu     Jurado   Pukki

Schalke 04 v   Milan

24 July 2012 Friendly	Schalke 04	0–1	Milan
		[1]	Emanuelson   62'

1. FC Magdeburg v Schalke 04

Friendly	1. FC Magdeburg	0–5	Schalke 04
			Edu       Farfán   Pukki

Udinese   v Schalke 04

5 August 2012 Friendly	Udinese	0–0	Schalke 04	Klagenfurt, Austria
15:30 (UTC+02)				Stadium: Wörtherseestadion

Bundesliga

League results

Match	Date	Time	Venue	City	Opponent	Result1	Attendance	Schalke 04 goalscorers	Source
1	26 August 2012 (2012-08-26)	17:30	AWD-Arena	Hanover	Hannover 96	2–2	49,000	Huntelaar   52' Holtby   64'
2	1 September 2012 (2012-09-01)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	FC Augsburg	3–1	60,582	Papadopoulos   33' Jones   46' Huntelaar   72'
3	15 September 2012 (2012-09-15)	18:30	Trolli Arena	Fürth	Greuther Fürth	2–0	18,000	Draxler   48' Holtby   88'
4	22 September 2012 (2012-09-22)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Bayern Munich	0–2	61,673	—
5	25 September 2012 (2012-09-25)	20:00	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Mainz 05	3–0	59,116	Farfán   21' (pen.) Holtby   81' Pukki   89'
6	28 September 2012 (2012-09-28)	20:30	Esprit Arena	Düsseldorf	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–2	54,600	Huntelaar   13' Matip   20'
7	6 October 2012 (2012-10-06)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	VfL Wolfsburg	3–0	60,671	Farfán   33' Afellay   46' Neustädter   58'
8	20 October 2012 (2012-10-20)	15:30	Signal Iduna Park	Dortmund	Borussia Dortmund	2–1	80,645	Afellay   14' Höger   48'
9	27 October 2012 (2012-10-27)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	1. FC Nürnberg	1–0	61,673	Farfán   77'
10	3 November 2012 (2012-11-03)	15:30	Rhein-Neckar Arena	Sinsheim	1899 Hoffenheim	2–3	30,150	Neustädter   37' Uchida   82'
11	10 November 2012 (2012-11-10)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Werder Bremen	2–1	61,673	Neustädter   59' Draxler   69'
12	17 November 2012 (2012-11-17)	18:30	BayArena	Leverkusen	Bayer Leverkusen	0–2	29,808	—
13	24 November 2012 (2012-11-24)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Eintracht Frankfurt	1–1	61,673	Huntelaar   11'
14	27 November 2012 (2012-11-27)	20:00	Imtech-Arena	Hamburg	Hamburger SV	1–3	47,127	Huntelaar   80'
15	1 December 2012 (2012-12-01)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Borussia M'gladbach	1–1	61,673	Draxler   85'
16	8 December 2012 (2012-12-08)	15:30	Mercedes-Benz Arena	Stuttgart	VfB Stuttgart	1–3	55,880	Marica   12'
17	15 December 2012 (2012-12-15)	18:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	SC Freiburg	1–3	60,620	Farfán   20'
18	18 January 2013 (2013-01-18)	20:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Hannover 96	5–4	60,811	Farfán   44' Draxler   49' Höger   64' Marica   67' Holtby   89'
19	26 January 2013 (2013-01-26)	15:30	SGL arena	Augsburg	FC Augsburg	0–0	28,553	—
20	2 February 2013 (2013-02-02)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Greuther Fürth	1–2	60,693	Bastos   47'
21	9 February 2013 (2013-02-09)	18:30	Allianz Arena	Munich	Bayern Munich	0–4	71,000	—
22	16 February 2013 (2013-02-16)	15:30	Coface Arena	Mainz	Mainz 05	2–2	34,000	Bastos   41', 82'
23	23 February 2013 (2013-02-23)	18:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Fortuna Düsseldorf	2–1	61,673	Matip   29', 82'
24	2 March 2013 (2013-03-02)	15:30	Volkswagen Arena	Wolfsburg	VfL Wolfsburg	4–1	29,326	Draxler   33', 63' Farfán   79' Huntelaar   86'
25	9 March 2013 (2013-03-09)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Borussia Dortmund	2–1	61,673	Draxler   12' Huntelaar   35'
26	16 March 2013 (2013-03-16)	15:30	Stadion Nürnberg	Nürnberg	1. FC Nürnberg	0–3	45,000	—
27	30 March 2013 (2013-03-30)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	1899 Hoffenheim	3–0	60,743	Höger   71' Raffael   79' Pukki   83'
28	6 April 2013 (2013-04-06)	15:30	Weserstadion	Bremen	Werder Bremen	2–0	42,100	Draxler   51' Marica   69'
29	13 April 2013 (2013-04-13)	18:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Bayer Leverkusen	2–2	61,619	Pukki   71' Raffael   87'
30	20 April 2013 (2013-04-20)	15:30	Commerzbank-Arena	Frankfurt	Eintracht Frankfurt	0–1	51,500	—
31	28 April 2013 (2013-04-28)	17:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Hamburger SV	4–1	61,673	Bastos   9' Huntelaar   20', 58', 66'
32	3 May 2013 (2013-05-03)	20:30	Borussia Park	Mönchengladbach	Borussia M'gladbach	1–0	54,010	Draxler   82'
33	11 May 2013 (2013-05-11)	15:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	VfB Stuttgart	1–2	61,673	Niedermeier (o.g.)   92'
34	18 May 2013 (2013-05-18)	15:30	Mage Solar Stadion	Freiburg	SC Freiburg	2–1	24,000	Draxler   20' Schuster (o.g.)   58'

Final league table

DFB-Pokal

Round	Date	Time	Venue	City	Opponent	Result1	Attendance	Schalke 04 goalscorers	Source
1	19 August 2012 (2012-08-19)	16:00	Ludwigsparkstadion	Saarbrücken	1. FC Saarbrücken	5–0	28,000	Papadopoulos   23' Draxler   27', 57' Marica   65', 72'
2	30 October 2012 (2012-10-30)	20:30	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	SV Sandhausen	3–0	52,970	Afellay   11' Marica   62' Huntelaar   79'
3	18 December 2012 (2012-12-18)	19:00	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen	Mainz 05	1–2	54,202	Huntelaar   75'

UEFA Champions League

Group stage

Match	Date	Time	Venue	City	Opponent	Result1	Attendance	Schalke 04 goalscorers	Source
1	18 September 2012 (2012-09-18)	20:45	Karaiskakis Stadium	Piraeus, Greece	Olympiacos	2–1	30,922	Höwedes   41' Huntelaar   59'
2	3 October 2012 (2012-10-03)	20:45	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen, Germany	Montpellier	2–2	50,004	Draxler   26' Huntelaar   52' (pen.)
3	24 October 2012 (2012-10-24)	20:45	Emirates Stadium	London, England	Arsenal	2–0	60,049	Huntelaar   76' Afellay   86'
4	6 November 2012 (2012-11-06)	20:45	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen, Germany	Arsenal	2–2	54,142	Huntelaar   45+2' Farfán   67'
5	21 November 2012 (2012-11-21)	20:45	Veltins-Arena	Gelsenkirchen, Germany	Olympiacos	1–0	52,254	Fuchs   77'
6	4 December 2012 (2012-12-04)	20:45	Stade de la Mosson	Montpellier, France	Montpellier	1–1	23,142	Höwedes   56'

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Schalke 04	6	3	3	0	10	6	+4	12	Advance to knockout phase
2	Arsenal	6	3	1	2	10	8	+2	10
3	Olympiacos	6	3	0	3	9	9	0	9	Transfer to Europa League
4	Montpellier	6	0	2	4	6	12	−6	2

Knockout phase

Round of 16

  Galatasaray v Schalke 04

20 February 2013 (2013-02-20) First leg	Galatasaray	1–1	Schalke 04	Istanbul, Turkey
20:45 CET	Yilmaz   12'		Jones   45'	Stadium: Türk Telekom Arena Attendance: 45,000 Referee: Willie Collum (Scotland)

Schalke 04 v Galatasaray  

12 March 2013 (2013-03-12) Second leg	Schalke 04	2–3 (3–4 agg.)	Galatasaray	Gelsenkirchen, Germany
20:45 CET	Neustädter   17' Bastos   63'		Altıntop   37' Yılmaz   42' Bulut   95'	Stadium: Veltins-Arena Attendance: 54,142 Referee: Jonas Eriksson (Sweden)

Squad and statistics

As of 18 May 2013^[update]

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Bundesliga		DFB-Pokal		Champions League
				Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	GER	Ralf Fährmann	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	DF	ESP	Sergio Escudero	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	DF	GER	Benedikt Höwedes	43	2	32	0	3	0	8	2
8	FW	ROU	Ciprian Marica	19	6	13	3	3	3	3	0
9	MF	BRA	Michel Bastos	16	5	14	4	0	0	2	1
10	MF	GER	Lewis Holtby	27	4	19	4	2	0	6	0
11	MF	NED	Ibrahim Afellay	15	4	10	2	1	1	4	1
12	MF	GER	Marco Höger	30	3	22	3	2	0	6	0
13	MF	USA	Jermaine Jones	33	2	25	1	2	0	6	1
14	DF	GRE	Kyriakos Papadopoulos	16	2	10	1	2	1	4	0
16	FW	BRA	Edu	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	0
17	FW	PER	Jefferson Farfán	35	7	27	6	1	0	7	1
18	MF	BRA	Raffael	16	2	16	2	0	0	0	0
19	FW	NGA	Chinedu Obasi	7	0	4	0	1	0	2	0
20	FW	FIN	Teemu Pukki	24	3	17	3	2	0	5	0
21	DF	GER	Christoph Metzelder	7	0	4	0	2	0	1	0
22	DF	JPN	Atsuto Uchida	30	1	24	1	1	0	5	0
23	DF	AUT	Christian Fuchs	37	1	29	0	2	0	6	1
25	FW	NED	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	35	16	26	10	2	2	7	4
27	MF	SUI	Tranquillo Barnetta	31	0	21	0	3	0	7	0
28	MF	GER	Christoph Moritz	7	0	6	0	1	0	0	0
29	MF	GER	Max Meyer	6	0	5	0	0	0	1	0
30	MF	GER	René Klingenburg	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	FW	GER	Julian Draxler	39	13	30	10	3	2	6	1
32	DF	CMR	Joël Matip	39	3	32	3	1	0	6	0
33	MF	RUS	Roman Neustädter	41	4	31	3	2	0	8	1
34	GK	GER	Timo Hildebrand	27	0	21	0	3	0	3	0
35	DF	BIH	Sead Kolašinac	20	0	16	0	1	0	3	0
36	GK	GER	Lars Unnerstall	18	0	13	0	0	0	5	0

- transfers during the season. (blue) - transfers during the season (away). (red)

Transfers

In

No.	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving from	Type	Transfer window	Ends	Transfer fee	Source
9	MF		Michel Bastos	29	EU	Lyon	Loan	Winter	2014	€2,000,000
18	MF		Raffael	27	Non-EU	Dynamo Kyiv	Loan	Winter	2013	€1,000,000
29	MF		Max Meyer	17	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	2015	N/A
30	DF		René Klingenburg	18	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Winter	2015	N/A
16	FW		Edu	31	Non-EU	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Return from Loan	Winter	2013	N/A
35	DF		Sead Kolašinac	19	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Summer	2015	N/A
29	FW		Philipp Hofmann	19	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Summer	2014	N/A
33	MF		Roman Neustädter	24	EU	Borussia Mönchengladbach	Transfer	Summer	2016	free
19	FW		Chinedu Obasi	26	Non-EU	1899 Hoffenheim	Transfer	Summer	2015	€4,000,000
27	MF		Tranquillo Barnetta	27	EU	Bayer Leverkusen	Transfer	Summer	2015	free
11	MF		Ibrahim Afellay	26	EU	Barcelona	Loan	Summer	2013	€500,000
25	DF		Carlos Zambrano	22	Non-EU	FC St. Pauli	Return from Loan	Summer		N/A
20	DF		Vasileios Pliatsikas	24	EU	MSV Duisburg	Return from Loan	Summer	2013	N/A
22	FW		Mario Gavranović	22	Non-EU	Mainz 05	Return from Loan	Summer	?	N/A
16	MF		Jan Morávek	22	EU	FC Augsburg	Return from Loan	Summer	?	N/A
26	MF		Ciprian Deac	26	EU	Rapid București	Return from Loan	Summer		N/A
40	MF		Anthony Annan	25	Non-EU	Vitesse Arnhem	Return from Loan	Summer	2014	N/A
16	FW		Edu	30	Non-EU	Beşiktaş	Return from Loan	Summer	2013	N/A

Out

N	Pos.	Nat.	Name	Age	EU	Moving to	Type	Transfer window	Transfer fee	Source
16	FW		Edu	31	Non-EU	Liaoning Whowin	Transfer	Winter	free
23	MF		Lewis Holtby	22	EU	Tottenham Hotspur	Transfer	Winter	€1,750,000
16	DF		Sergio Escudero	23	EU	Getafe	Loan	Winter	€200,000
2	DF		Carlos Zambrano	22	Non-EU	Eintracht Frankfurt	Transfer	Summer	€750,000
14	MF		Jan Morávek	22	EU	FC Augsburg	Transfer	Summer	€700,000
7	MF		Ciprian Deac	26	EU	CFR Cluj	Transfer	Summer	€700,000
24	MF		Peer Kluge	31	EU	Hertha BSC	Transfer	Summer	€250,000
7	FW		Raúl	35	EU	Al Sadd	Transfer	Summer	free
7	FW		Mario Gavranović	22	EU	Zürich	Transfer	Summer	free
9	MF		Alexander Baumjohann	25	EU	1. FC Kaiserslautern	Transfer	Summer	free
20	MF		Levan Kenia	21	Non-EU	Karpaty Lviv	Transfer	Summer	free
19	FW		Andreas Wiegel	21	EU	Erzgebirge Aue	Transfer	Summer	free
19	MF		José Manuel Jurado	26	EU	Spartak Moscow	Loan	Summer	€1,500,000
11	MF		Anthony Annan	26	Non-EU	Osasuna	Loan	Summer	€300,000
9	FW		Philipp Hofmann	19	EU	SC Paderborn	Loan	Summer	€100,000
23	DF		Tim Hoogland	27	EU	VfB Stuttgart	Loan	Summer	€300,000
16	FW		Edu	30	Non-EU	SpVgg Greuther Fürth	Loan	Summer	€300,000
11	MF		Vasileios Pliatsikas	24	EU	Youth system	Promoted	Summer	N/A
33	GK		Mathias Schober	36	EU		End of career	Summer	N/A
2	DF		Hans Sarpei	36	EU		End of career	Summer	N/A
19	FW		Chinedu Obasi	26	Non-EU	1899 Hoffenheim	End of loan	Summer	N/A

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