Where do you even begin? Sixteen games without a win to start the 2020/21 season — a Bundesliga negative record for the start of a campaign. Thirty league games without victory in total — the all-time Bundesliga negative record.
Relegation in 2021. Immediate relegation again in 2023 as bottom side with a miserable 18 points. The coaching carousel spun without pause: Baum, Gross, Grammozis, Kramer, Buskens, Reis, Geraerts and others through to 2026. For Schalke’s enemies, this phase was a feast — for Schalke fans, a nightmare.