2015–16 FC Schalke 04 season
The 2015–16 FC Schalke 04 season was the 112th season in the club's football history. In 2015–16 the club plays in the Bundesliga, the top tier of German football. It is the club's 23rd consecutive season in the Bundesliga, having been promoted from the 2. Bundesliga in 1991.
Transfers
In
| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | NAT | Moving from | Type | Transfer Window | Contract ends | Transfer fee | Sources |
| 21 | MF | Alessandro Schöpf | 1. FC Nürnberg | Transfer | Winter | 2019 | €5,000,000 | |||
| 11 | MF | Younès Belhanda | Dynamo Kyiv | Loan | Winter | 2016 | Free | |||
| 16 | FW | Fabian Reese | Schalke 04 U19 | Promoted | Winter | 2019 | — | |||
| 20 | DF | Thilo Kehrer | Schalke 04 II | Promoted | Winter | 2019 | — | |||
| FW | Felix Schröter | 1. FC Heidenheim | End of Loan | Winter | 2018 | — | ||||
| 5 | MF | Johannes Geis | Mainz 05 | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | €12,000,000 | |||
| 31 | DF | Matija Nastasić | Manchester City | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | €9,500,000 | |||
| 9 | FW | Franco Di Santo | Werder Bremen | Transfer | Summer | 2019 | €6,000,000 | |||
| 3 | DF | Júnior Caiçara | Ludogorets Razgrad | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | €4,500,000 | |||
| 35 | GK | Alexander Nübel | SC Paderborn | Transfer | Summer | 2018 | €200,000 | |||
| 27 | DF | Sascha Riether | SC Freiburg | Transfer | Summer | 2016 | Free | |||
| 23 | MF | Pierre-Emile Højbjerg | Bayern Munich | Loan | Summer | 2016 | €1,000,000 | |||
| 30 | GK | Michael Gspurning | Schalke 04 II | Promoted | Summer | 2016 | — | |||
| — | FW | Felix Schröter | Schalke 04 II | Promoted | Summer | 2018 | — | |||
| 36 | FW | Felix Platte | Schalke 04 U19 | Promoted | Summer | 2018 | — | |||
| 19 | MF | Leroy Sané | Schalke 04 U19 | Promoted | Summer | 2017 | — | |||
| 14 | DF | Kyriakos Papadopoulos | Bayer Leverkusen | End of Loan | Summer | 2016 | — | — | ||
| 28 | DF | Felipe Santana | Olympiacos | End of Loan | Summer | 2016 | — | — |
Out
| No. | Pos. | Name | Age | NAT | Moving to | Type | Transfer Window | Transfer fee | Sources |
| 28 | DF | Felipe Santana | Kuban Krasnodar | Transfer | Winter | Free | |||
| — | MF | Kevin-Prince Boateng | Milan | Transfer | Winter | Free | |||
| 36 | FW | Felix Platte | Darmstadt 98 | Loan | Winter | Free | |||
| 24 | DF | Kaan Ayhan | Eintracht Frankfurt | Loan | Winter | Free | |||
| 10 | MF | Julian Draxler | VfL Wolfsburg | Transfer | Summer | €36,000,000 | |||
| 17 | MF | Jefferson Farfán | Al-Jazira | Transfer | Summer | €7,000,000 | |||
| 14 | DF | Kyriakos Papadopoulos | Bayer Leverkusen | Transfer | Summer | €6,500,000 | |||
| 27 | MF | Tranquillo Barnetta | Philadelphia Union | Transfer | Summer | Free | |||
| 23 | DF | Christian Fuchs | Leicester City | Transfer | Summer | Free | |||
| 37 | DF | Pascal Itter | SV Grödig | Transfer | Summer | Free | |||
| 20 | FW | Chinedu Obasi | Free agent | End of contract | Summer | Free | |||
| — | FW | Felix Schröter | 1. FC Heidenheim | Loan | Summer | Free | |||
| 40 | GK | Timon Wellenreuther | Mallorca | Loan | Summer | Free | |||
| 28 | GK | Christian Wetklo | Schalke 04 II | Intern | Summer | — | |||
| 3 | MF | Jan Kirchhoff | Bayern Munich | End of Loan | Summer | — | — | ||
| 31 | DF | Matija Nastasić | Manchester City | End of Loan | Summer | — | — |
Kit
Supplier: Adidas / Sponsor: GazpromKit information
continues its supply of the Schalke 04 kit, a relationship dating back to the 1975–76 season. Gazprom is the current sponsor, dating back to the middle of the 2006–07 season.- Home: Previous season's blue home shirt, white shorts and blue socks confirmed as the current home kit with white three Adidas stripes due to Schalke 04's two-season home kit tradition.
- Home alternate: Same as home but including blue alternate shorts.
- Away: The away kit features a Marseille-inspired traditional home kit with light grey hoop, aqua blue three Adidas stripes, aqua blue shorts with white three Adidas stripes and white socks.
- Away alternate: Same as away kit but including white shorts with aqua blue three Adidas stripes and white socks.
- Away alternate 2: Same as away kit but including aqua blue shorts with white three Adidas stripes and aqua blue socks.
- Third: The third kit with white three Adidas stripes features a gradiented-hoop pattern, running from dark green to green, with black sleeve, all black back panel and all black shorts.
- Third alternate: Same as third kit but including green shorts with white three Adidas stripes and green socks.
Kit usage
| Kit | Description | Usage |
| Home | Blue body with white shorts and blue socks. | Used in all home Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal, UEFA Europa League, friendly matches, away Bundesliga matches against Bayern Munich, Borussia Dortmund, Mainz 05, FC Ingolstadt and away friendly matches against Wolfsberger AC. |
| Home alt. | Blue body with blue shorts and blue socks. | Used in away matches against VfB Stuttgart, FC Augsburg, 1. FC Köln, VfL Wolfsburg, Borussia Mönchengladbach and friendly match against Lechia Gdańsk. |
| Away | White-light grey hoop with aqua shorts and white socks. | Used in away matches against Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt, UEFA Europa League away match against Shakhtar Donetsk and friendly matches against VfL Osnabrück, Udinese. |
| Away alt. I | White-light grey hoop body with white shorts and socks. | Used in away matches against Werder Bremen, Darmstadt 98, Hannover 96. |
| Away alt. II | White-light grey hoop with aqua shorts and aqua socks. | Used in UEFA Europa League away match against Sparta Prague. |
| Third | Dark green to green gradient hoop body with black sleeve, back panel, shorts and socks. | Used in away matches against Hamburger SV, 1899 Hoffenheim, friendly matches against Austria Klagenfurt, Porto, all-DFB Pokal opponent's white-blue, sky blue and yellow-blue home kit away matches and UEFA Europa League away matches against APOEL and Asteras Tripoli. |
| Third alt. | Dark green to green gradient hoop body with black sleeve and back panel, green shorts and socks. | Used in away match against Hertha BSC. |