Huub Stevens: the “Coach of the Century”. Signed in 1996 from Dutch club Roda Kerkrade as a virtual nobody in Germany, the blunt and straight-talking Stevens became a coaching idol at Schalke. In his first season he delivered the greatest triumph in the club’s history by winning the UEFA Cup.\n\nA few seconds were all that separated him from becoming Schalke’s first Bundesliga-era title-winning coach in 2001. The cup wins of 2001 and 2002 made him immortal in Gelsenkirchen.
He later returned twice more, in 2011/12 after Rangnick’s illness and in 2019 as an interim replacement for Domenico Tedesco. In a vote of more than 10,000 supporters, he was chosen Schalke’s Coach of the Century in 1999.