Transitioning to the first team

Every season, the Knappenschmiede academy successfully sees talented young footballers make the transition to the FC Schalke 04 first team. And its work is nowhere near done, with more players following in the footsteps of previous Knappenschmiede products every year. The following players have made the jump to the Schalke first team since 1999:

2017

Luke Hemmerich

Weston McKennie

Haji Wright

2016

Joshua Bitter

Thilo Kehrer

Phil Neuman

Fabian Reese

Bernhard Tekpetey

2015

Felix Platte

Leroy Sane

2014

Donis Avdijaj

Marvin Friedrich

Pascal Itter

Timon Wellenreuther

2013

Kaan Ayhan

Max Meyer

2012

Philipp Hofmann

Sead Kolasinac

2011

Julian Draxler

Andreas Wiegel

2010

Lars Unnerstall

2009

Danny Latza

David Loheider

Joel Matip

Christoph Moritz

Marvin Pachan

Lukas Schmitz

Predrag Stevanovic

2008

Mohamed Amsif

Levan Kenia

Carlos Zambrano

2007

Ralf Fährmann

Benedikt Höwedes

2006

Sebastian Boenisch

Timo Kunert

Mesut Özil

2005

Niko Bungert

Markus Heppke

Manuel Neuer

2004

Alexander Baumjohann

Tim Hoogland

Kai Hesse

2003

Michael Delura

Christian Petereit

Charles Takyi

2002

Mike Hanke

Fabian Lamotte

Christian Pander

Volkan Ünlü

2001

Christofer Heimeroth

Filip Trojan

Benjamin Wingerter

2000

Benjamin Koch

Christian Mikolajczak

1999

Tamas Hajnal

Sergio Pinto

Krisztian Szollar

Toni Tapalovic