As a consequence, their original UEFA Cup spot earned through league placement was transferred to sixth-placed Schalke 04.
Karlsruhe and Hertha BSC were eventually joined in demotion by relegation/promotion play-off participant FC Schalke 04, who lost on aggregate against Bayer 05 Uerdingen.
2Head-to-head was used as a tie-breaker between Schalke 04 and Frankfurt.
Before the last round of matches, Bayern Munich lead Schalke 04 by three points, but with an inferior goal difference.
Besides there is every year a big charity race day called "Schalke hilft!" in corporation with the world famous local football club FC Schalke 04.
FC Schalke 04 had a surprise title tilt at Bundesliga, in spite of a poor start to the season and the resultant dismissal of manager Jupp Heynckes.
Carvajal was selected as one of the three best right-backs at the end of his first and only season, behind FC Bayern Munich's Phillip Lahm and FC Schalke 04's Atsuto Uchida.
In 1998, he joined the German club Schalke 04 for DM7 million (€3.5 million), but remained there for one year only.
While at Kamen Ingrad, he also played in both of the club's two UEFA Cup matches against famous German club FC Schalke 04 in 2003, where they narrowly lost 1–0 on aggregate, conceding the only goal 14 minutes before the end of the second leg played in Gelsenkirchen.
Finally, on 30 January 2010, Tagoe made his debut for the club, coming on as an 82nd minute substitute for Boris Vukčević, in a league match versus FC Schalke 04.
Böhm went through his youth playing for various German sides, including the youth departments of KFC Uerdingen 05, Borussia Mönchengladbach and Schalke 04.
In the 2007 summer, several clubs showed interested in Amorim's services, but he insisted on not leaving, with Belenenses also rejecting bids from S.L. Benfica, Sporting de Braga, F.C. Porto, FC Schalke 04, Tottenham Hotspur and Toulouse FC.
Abramczik, whose younger brother Volker later became also a professional footballer for FC Schalke 04, joined the ranks of the city's biggest club, Schalke 04, from native SV Erle 08 at the age of ten after former German international Bernhard Klodt spotted him.
The stadium's greatest moment came when it hosted a 2003-04 UEFA Cup first round match between Kamen Ingrad and German side Schalke 04 (the result was a 0:0 draw in Velika, while the away leg in Gelsenkirchen ended 1:0 in Schalke's favour).
On 30 March 2006, Batkov caused controversy when in the post-match interview following Levski Sofia's 1-3 home defeat against German side FC Schalke 04, he said that English people referee Mike Riley was a "British homosexual who broke the game!" (Bulgarian: "Този британски педераст развали мача!"), referring to the red card Riley gave to Sofia midfielder Cédric Bardon.