FC Schalke 04’s badge is a blue-and-white circular crest with a thick blue outer ring and a white inner field. The centre combines a large stylized “S” with “04,” while the right side forms a geometric “G” shape within the roundel.

The “S” stands for Schalke, and “04” refers to 1904, the year the club was founded. The “G” shape points to Gelsenkirchen, the city where the club is based, making the badge a compact monogram of club, year and place.

Schalke was founded in 1904 as Westfalia Schalke and later adopted the FC Schalke 04 name. The club became closely associated with the Ruhr mining community, which helped shape its working-class identity and the nickname “Die Knappen.”

The current badge style developed from post-war Schalke designs and has been used in its modern form since the mid-1990s, keeping the same core blue-and-white S04 identity.

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