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FC Schalke 04–Union Berlin is a Bundesliga matchup with two contrasting faces. Across meetings from 2019 to 2023, draws appeared often and margins were usually narrow, yet Union’s 6–1 victory in 2022 stands apart. The contrast is striking: Schalke have won narrowly with a late deciding goal, several games have ended level, and one afternoon in Gelsenkirchen ended with Union scoring six times.
Past matches, FC Schalke 04 vs Union Berlin
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Starting eleven
Substitutes Union Berlin
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24M
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21M
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13M
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31G
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27F
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19M
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49F
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28D
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4D
FC Schalke 04 Substitutes
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D
39
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D
43
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M
14
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D
33
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M
29
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F
10
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F
7
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G
22
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M
38
Match events
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21'Junior Dina Ebimbe Dejan Ljubičić
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25'⚽Robin Gosens Normal Goal
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45'Aljoscha Kemlein Yellow Card
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45'András Schäfer Aljoscha Kemlein
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45'Marin Ljubičić Livan Burcu
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46'⚽Adil Aouchiche Normal Goal (Asst: Junior Chukwubuike Adamu)
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46'Adil Aouchiche Goal confirmed
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74'Marin Ljubičić Yellow Card
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76'Tim Skarke Emmanuel Latte Lath
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78'Felix Uduokhai Yellow Card
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80'Maximilian Wöber Robin Gosens
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80'Edin Džeko Kenan Karaman
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80'Hwang Hee-Chan Junior Chukwubuike Adamu
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85'Janik Haberer Michel Aebischer
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90' +1Robert Skov Woo-Yeong Jeong
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90' +4Janik Bachmann Adil Aouchiche
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90' +6⚽Tim Skarke Normal Goal (Asst: Tom Rothe)
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90' +9Loris Karius Yellow Card
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90' +13⚽Maximilian Wöber Normal Goal (Asst: Hwang Hee-Chan)
Stats for this game
Matchup FC Schalke 04 VS Union Berlin
Close contests and shared points
Between 2019 and 2023, these Bundesliga meetings repeatedly stayed close, with draws forming a prominent part of the picture. The November 2019 meeting in Gelsenkirchen showed how narrow the margins could be: Benito Raman put Schalke ahead, Marcus Ingvartsen equalised from the penalty spot for Union, and Suat Serdar scored the late winner for a 2–1 home victory. The result turned on a single late goal after the sides had traded scores.
Union’s emphatic exception
Union’s 6–1 win at Schalke in August 2022 supplied a radically different scoreline. Morten Thorsby opened early, Marius Bülter replied with a penalty, and Union then scored through Sheraldo Becker, Janik Haberer and Sven Michel. Becker struck again just after half-time, while Michel added two late goals, completing an emphatic victory after Schalke had briefly drawn level. The goals either side of halftime gave the game a very different shape from their narrow contest in 2019.
The February 2023 return in Berlin offered the clearest counterpoint, ending 0–0. Set beside Schalke’s narrow 2019 win and Union’s five-goal margin in 2022, the draw completed a period in which both clubs had won, but neither had strung together victories against the other. The appeal lies in this contrast: the same pairing has produced repeated draws and fine margins, a late Schalke winner after a penalty equaliser, and an explosive Union performance that broke sharply from the established pattern.