Older Than deck / Places, institutions and traditions
Schalke 04
Founded as Westfalia Schalke
1904
By club tradition; no founding document survives.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“1904 Der S04 wird im Gelsenkirchener Stadtteil Schalke”FC Schalke 04: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
“im Jahre 1904 gegründet wurde”Deutschlandfunk / Helmut Böttiger: source, retrieved 2026-10-26; quote re-found by the server check
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