Fans of Berlin's Tasmania football club love its record as Bundesliga losers
Just one game stands between Schalke and history - but it's not the kind of history that Schalke are looking to write.
If they fail to beat Hoffenheim this Saturday, they will equal the Bundesliga's longest ever winless run of 31 games, a record that Tasmania Berlin have held since 1966. Given that their star striker would frequently turn up to training drunk, it's some achievement by Schalke.
It's almost a year since Schalke's last league victory, a 2-0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach on January 17, 2020. Since then they've plunged into financial crisis, sold their best players, fired their technical director, got through four coaches and have a locker room full of players whose confidence is at rock bottom.