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For Schalke fans, the case is clear, Saturday’s Revierderby is the biggest game of the first half of the season.
This has always been the case, regardless of the situation the opponents find themselves in.
They are not allowed to lose the game, around 80 ultras made this clear to the players last Sunday.
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Relegation and bankruptcy threaten
However, there is another reason and it comes from the realm of statistics: even if there is a draw, there is a risk of disaster, it would be the 21st consecutive Bundesliga game without a win.
And with such a series everyone was relegated and everyone had to declare bankruptcy.
Four teams have “succeeded” at something like this so far. SPORT1 gives an overview:
1. Tasmania Berlin (31 games from August 21, 1965 to May 14, 1966)
The spanking boy in Bundesliga history, last on the everlasting table since his one-off guest appearance in 1965/66, surpassed them all.
The Berliners, who rose overnight only thanks to a failure of the sports field as representatives of the Hertha that had descended, won their first match against Karlsruher SC (2-0) against 81,500 at the Olympic Stadium, but then things were making their way.
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With the second victory they took their time until the last home game. They had been descending for some time when Borussia Neunkirchen reached Berlin on matchday 33.
Saarland’s penultimate was still struggling to survive and offered Tasmania, which had a better day, at halftime, according to goalkeeper Heinz Rohloff, DM 500 per capita for a loss, but the Berliners refused (“There must be more”) and He started Neunkirchen with the 2-1 victory into the abyss.
They remained the worst team of all time, with 8:60 points and 15:10 goals. Later they went bankrupt and came back as Tasmania 73. Today they play the 5th league (NOFV-Oberliga Nordost-Nord, leader of the table!)
2. Blau-Weiß Berlin (21 games, September 3, 1986 – April 21, 1987)
The second serial offender also came from Berlin and played empty at the Olympic Stadium. The Blue and Whites had a noble fan in Götz George, but they did not achieve that qualification for the Bundesliga. He stayed that season.
On matchday three, the first victory against Borussia Mönchengladbach was achieved thanks to two wild card goals from one Karl-Heinz Riedle (3-2). The second was on matchday 32 against Waldhof Mannheim (4: 1) in front of only 8,700 spectators.
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Given that they were still tied from time to time and with Fortuna Düsseldorf and FC Homburg, two teams only slightly better, they could at least wait a week for their inevitable relegation.
Notable: Coach Bernd Hoss survived the season in office. In 1992 the club was relegated from the 2nd division and declared bankruptcy, disbanded and started over. Today they play Tasmania in the Berlin, Northeast-North Oberliga.
3. Dynamo Dresden (21 games, October 22, 1994 – May 11, 1995)
With Hansa Rostock, the Saxons were one of the first eastern clubs to play in the Bundesliga after reunification. Things went well for three years, but in 1994/95 they could not get out of the vortex in which they ripped apart internal disputes, financial problems and unfortunate personal data.
Three coaches are responsible for the horror series. Under Siggi Held there were three more victories in the preliminary round, but after the last one (1-0 against Kaiserslautern), the 1966 world runner-up moved to Japan.
On Matchday 15, 1980 European Champion Horst Hrubesch took over and did not win a match. Despite his guarantee of work until the end of the season, he was sent off again on the 19th matchday.
Club legend Ralf Minge took over the direction of the sinking ship, but the unrest at the indebted club (18 million DM) was too great. As license revocation became more likely, there weren’t too many reasons for players to get trashed.
It was only when the Dynamo could not save themselves sportingly or financially that they won the long-lost victory; After all, 10,500 undaunted saw the 2-1 win against Schalke.
The Dynamo had to go directly to the regional league, because there was no license for the second division either. He didn’t appear there until ten years later and he never returned to the Bundesliga. From this season the Dynamo is again third class.
4. 1. FC Kaiserslautern (21 games, October 30, 2011 – April 14, 2012)
The Red Devils, still champions in 1998, became an elevator team in the 21st century.
After four years in the second division in 2010, they finally returned to first class and became an excellent example of correcting the thesis of a “difficult second year” for climbers. In 2011 they missed the UEFA Cup in seventh place, but in the following season, almost nothing worked.
FCK only managed four wins in 2011/12, just two at the previously feared Betzenberg. On matchday 10 they beat Freiburg 1-0 and even managed to afford a missed penalty, after which the thread broke and promotion coach Marko Kurz had to leave after matchday 26 and only 20 points.
The next victory, some seven months later at Hertha BSC (2-1), was the only one for successor Krassimir Balakov and, curiously, sealed the relegation. The Palatinate has not recovered from that, it is currently in the relegation zone in the Third Division.
On October 29, two days before Fritz Walter’s centenary, creditors will vote on whether the planned insolvency requested by the FCK can be terminated.
Four examples that should scare Schalke, which is in debt with around 200 million euros. But they can raise an objection: their series is the only one that is distributed in two seasons. Still, it’s time to put an end to it.
