UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2016/17 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Arena AufSchalke - Gelsenkirchen Thursday 9 March 2017 21.05CET (21.05 local time) FC Schalke 04 VfL Borussia Round of 16, First leg Mönchengladbach Previous meetings 2 Match background 4 Team facts 5 Squad list 7 Fixtures and results 9 Match-by-match lineups 13 Match officials 16 Legend 18 1 FC Schalke 04 - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Thursday 9 March 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams FC Schalke 04 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kremers 51; FC Schalke 04 - 1. FC 1-3 02/11/1977 R2 Gelsenkirchen Pommerenke 15, 49, Magdeburg agg: 3-7 Steinbach 20 Sparwasser 18, 45, 1. FC Magdeburg - FC Schalke 64, Steinbach 76; 19/10/1977 R2 4-2 Magdeburg 04 Demange 51, Abramczik 55 VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 Pinkall 66, Matthäus 30/09/1981 R1 Monchengladbach - 1. FC Magdeburg agg: 3-3 ag 84 Hoffmann 39, 1. FC Magdeburg - VfL Borussia 16/09/1981 R1 3-1 Magdeburg Streich 42; Mill 51, Mönchengladbach Mewes 57 (og) UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - VfL 1-0 21/05/1980 F Frankfurt am Main Schaub 81 Borussia Mönchengladbach agg: 3-3 ag Kulik 45, 88, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 07/05/1980 F 3-2 Monchengladbach Matthäus 77; Karger - Eintracht Frankfurt 37, Hölzenbein 71 VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 Matthäus 23, 22/04/1980 SF Monchengladbach - VfB Stuttgart agg: 3-2 Schäfer 68 VfB Stuttgart - VfL Borussia Ohlicher 85, Volkert 09/04/1980 SF 2-1 Stuttgart Mönchengladbach 89 (P); Nickel 73 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Simonsen 43, 55, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 4-1 24/04/1979 SF Monchengladbach Kulik 47, Lienen 81; - MSV Duisburg agg: 6-3 Büssers 70 Worm 48, Fruck 64; MSV Duisburg - VfL Borussia 10/04/1979 SF 2-2 Duisburg Simonsen 63, Mönchengladbach Lausen 77 2 FC Schalke 04 - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Thursday 9 March 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-0 23/04/1975 SF Monchengladbach Danner 48 - 1. FC Köln agg: 4-1 1. FC Köln - VfL Borussia Löhr 52; Simonsen 09/04/1975 SF 1-3 Cologne Mönchengladbach 23, 60, Danner 35 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Jensen 7, 85, Netzer 42, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 7-1 20/03/1973 QF Monchengladbach Heynckes 53 (P), - 1. FC Kaiserslautern agg: 9-2 60, 82, Danner 90 (P); Seel 26 Toppmöller 22; 1. FC Kaiserslautern - VfL 06/03/1973 QF 1-2 Kaiserslautern Danner 14, Jensen Borussia Mönchengladbach 26 Kulik 6, Vogts 35, VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 5-0 13/12/1972 R3 Monchengladbach Jensen 64, 79, - 1. FC Köln agg: 5-0 Rupp 66 1. FC Köln - VfL Borussia 28/11/1972 R3 0-0 Cologne Mönchengladbach Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Schalke 04 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 2 3 7 VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 6 6 0 0 6 2 2 2 2 1 0 1 14 9 2 3 33 14 3 FC Schalke 04 - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Thursday 9 March 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Match background Five days after meeting for the 100th time, in the Bundesliga, Schalke and Mönchengladbach will contest even higher stakes in the first leg of their UEFA Europa League round of 16 tie. Previous meetings • The sides are meeting for the first time in UEFA competition, but are frequent opponents in German football. Ahead of their 4 March meeting, Gladbach had the better of their 99 meetings: W39 D28 L32. • Schalke lost their only all-German UEFA tie to Magdeburg (then representing East Germany) in the second round of the 1977/78 UEFA Cup, going down 4-2 away and 3-1 at home. • Gladbach have taken on German opponents in 14 UEFA games with the record W9 D2 L3, including wins in all seven of their home matches. • There have already been 48 games played between German clubs in UEFA men's senior competition, most recently the 2013 UEFA Champions League final between Dortmund and Bayern. Form guide • Schalke are unbeaten at home this season in Europe (W3 D1), a 1-1 draw with PAOK ending a three-game UEFA winning streak at the Arena AufSchalke. • Gladbach have experienced extreme swings of fortune in their last six European away games (W3 L3), alternating defeats in which they conceded four goals with wins by two-goal margins: 2-4, 3-1, 0-4, 2-0, 0-4, 4-2. Should that pattern continue, they are due to concede four in Gelsenkirchen. • UEFA Cup winners in 1997, Schalke last reached the quarter-finals in 2011/12, when they lost out to Athletic Club. • Two-time UEFA Cup winners, Gladbach have made it to the last 16 of the UEFA Europa League for the first time. They have not reached a European quarter-final since losing out to Feyenoord in the 1995/96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup. Links and trivia • Gelsenkirchen is around 60km away from Monchengladbach. • Former team-mates Yann Sommer (Gladbach) & Breel Embolo (Schalke) – Basel, 2014 Jannick Vestergaard (Gladbach) & Franco Di Santo (Schalke) – Werder Bremen, 2015 Timothée Kolodziejczak (Gladbach) & Yevhen Konoplyanka and Coke (Schalke) – Sevilla, 2015–16 • Gladbach's Brazilian midfielder Raffael played for Schalke – on loan from Dynamo Kyiv – in spring 2013, scoring twice in 16 Bundesliga games. • Schalke's Klaas-Jan Huntelaar has scored 34 UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League goals, and needs six more to match Henrik Larsson's competition record of 40. • Gladbach (1975 & 1979) and Schalke (1997), are among four former UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League winners in the round of 16 along with Anderlecht (1983) and Ajax (1992). • Lars Stindl's 12-minute hat-trick in Gladbach's 4-2 comeback win at Fiorentina in the round of 32 second leg was the second fastest in UEFA Europa League history (a few seconds slower than Claudiu Keşerü for Steaua against AaB in September 2014). • One of 12 Swedish players still involved in the round of 16, Gladbach's Oscar Wendt is dreaming of playing in the UEFA Europa League final in his nation's capital, Stockholm. • The round of 16 second leg will be Gladbach's 100th UEFA Cup and UEFA Europa League game. The coaches • Schalke coach Markus Weinzierl progressed to last season's UEFA Europa League round of 32 with Augsburg, whom he had led since 2012. His playing career peaked when he spent a season with the first-team squad at Bayern München in 1998/99, though he never played a senior match. • Dieter Hecking took command at Gladbach in December 2016, replacing André Schubert. He started his playing career as a midfielder at the club. He has coached in the Bundesliga with Alemannia Aachen, Hannover, Nürnberg and most recently Wolfsburg, from December 2012 to October 2016. 4 FC Schalke 04 - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Thursday 9 March 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen Team facts FC Schalke 04 Formed: 1904 Nickname: S04, Die Königsblauen (The Royal Blues), Die Knappen (The Miners) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • UEFA Cup: 1997 • UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2003, 2004 Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 7 (1958) German Cup: 5 (2011) Ten-year European record (UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup unless indicated otherwise) 2015/16: round of 32 2014/15: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2013/14: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2012/13: UEFA Champions League round of 16 2011/12: quarter-finals 2010/11: UEFA Champions League semi-finals 2009/10: did not take part in UEFA club competition 2008/09: group stage (having transferred from UEFA Champions League third qualifying round) 2007/08: UEFA Champions League quarter-finals 2006/07: first round Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 6-1: Schalke v HJK Helsinki 25/08/11, UEFA Europa League play-off second leg 5-0: Schalke v Vardar 17/07/04, UEFA Intertoto Cup third round first leg • Biggest away win 0-5: AEK Larnaca v Schalke 20/10/11, UEFA Europa League group stage • Heaviest home defeat 1-6: Schalke v Real Madrid 26/02/14, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg 0-5: Schalke v Chelsea 25/11/14, UEFA Champions League group stage • Heaviest away defeat 5-1: Manchester City v Schalke 15/04/70, European Cup Winners' Cup semi-final second leg 4-0: Atlético Madrid v Schalke 27/08/08, UEFA Champions League third qualifying round second leg UEFA Europa League/UEFA Cup • Biggest home win 6-1: Schalke v HJK Helsinki (see above) • Biggest away win 0-5: AEK Larnaca v Schalke (see above) • Heaviest home defeat 1-4: Schalke v Wisła Kraków 10/12/02, third round second leg 0-3: Schalke v Shakhtar Donetsk 25/02/16, round of 32 second leg • Heaviest away defeat 4-2: Magdeburg v Schalke 02/11/77, second round first leg 5 FC Schalke 04 - VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Thursday 9 March 2017 - 21.05CET (21.05 local time) Match press kit Arena AufSchalke, Gelsenkirchen 3-1: Nancy v Schalke 28/09/06, first round second leg 2-0: HJK Helsinki v Schalke 18/08/11, play-off first leg VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach Formed: 1900 Nickname: Die Fohlen (The Foals) UEFA club competition honours (runners-up in brackets) • European Champion Clubs' Cup: (1977) • UEFA Cup: 2 (1973), 1975, 1979, (1980) • European/South American Cup: (1977) Domestic honours (most recent triumph in brackets) League title: 5 (1977) German Cup: 3