FC Schalke 04 has been relegated to the 2nd division. But they will still be able to rely on their fans. They are already looking for season tickets in the 2nd league.

FC Schalke 04 will be able to rely on its fans in the coming second division season.

Not only the fact that the 8,000 or so S04 supporters present in Leipzig saw their team off with applause and encouraging chants after the 2:4 and the certainty of relegation is encouraging.

The Knappen fans seem to be embracing the 2nd division without reservation in the coming series. This is evidenced by almost 50 season ticket requests from Schalke fans nationwide on kleinanzeigen.de, which have been posted there since the final whistle in Leipzig alone. The first of these were already posted a few minutes after the end of the game. In total, there are even more.

The background: There are long waiting lists, especially for the low-priced seat tickets and the standing-room tickets in the northern curve. In some cases, spectators wait several years until they can take over one of the few season tickets that become available.

This season, Schalke had already ended the sale of season tickets two months before the start with 40,000 tickets sold. By comparison, the Knappen had sold 36,000 season tickets for the 2nd division. And that in the face of the threat of ghost games due to the Corona pandemic.

Similar things are likely to happen again next season. The cancellation period for FC Schalke 04 season ticket holders for the new year ran until yesterday. If the club had remained in the Bundesliga, the Königsblauen would have moderately increased the prices for the coming season, staggered by category.

Due to relegation to the 2nd league, the prices will remain at this season’s level. The only difference is that the opponents will no longer be Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, but St. Pauli and 1. FC Nürnberg. But that shouldn’t deter most Schalke fans. Especially since after this relegation it is a completely different starting position than in the summer of 2021, when a bunch of listless and overrated professionals were under contract.