List of the top scorer in the Bundesliga

Robert Lewandowski , current top scorer

This list includes all of the top scorer in the Bundesliga since it was founded in the 1963/64 season . In the further part, the most successful players and most successful clubs are named. The top scorer is the player who scores the most goals in a Bundesliga season. Since the 1965/66 season the top scorer from is kicker sports magazine with the top scorer award. In the 57 Bundesliga seasons to date, a total of 45 different players have been top scorer. They scored an average of 25 goals. The current top scorer is Robert Lewandowski from FC Bayern Munich.

The record top scorer is Robert Lewandowski with 41 goals from the 2020/21 season. Gerd Müller has been the top scorer seven times, making it the most frequent. After Müller, Robert Lewandowski is the most successful player with six awards. The first foreign top scorer in 1990 was Norwegian Jørn Andersen . The oldest top scorer in 2002 was Martin Max at the age of 33, while Gerd Müller was the youngest in 1967 at the age of 21. Two players shared the title a total of ten times. The most successful club is FC Bayern Munich, which has been the top scorer a total of 18 times. The top scorer in the Bundesliga came from the championship team 19 times .

In almost all seasons, the Bundesliga consisted of 18 teams, each of which played 34 season games. Only in the first two were there 16 teams with 30 match days, and in 1991/92 20 teams played in the course of German reunification, each playing 38 games.

List of top scorers

Uwe Seeler, first top scorer (2006)

Gerd Müller, seven-time and youngest top scorer (2006)

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, three-time top scorer (2008)

Klaus Allofs, two-time top scorer and the first to receive the award at two different clubs (2009)

Ulf Kirsten, three-time top scorer and the only one who also played in the GDR Oberliga (approx. 1997)

Martin Max, two-time and oldest top scorer (1996)

Legend at the bottom of the table

season	Player 1	society	Goals 2	Age 3
1963/64	Uwe Seeler	Hamburger SV	30th	28
1964/65	Rudolf Brunnenmeier	TSV 1860 Munich	24	24
1965/66	Lothar Emmerich	Borussia Dortmund	31	24
1966/67	Lothar Emmerich	Borussia Dortmund	28	25th
	Gerd Müller	FC Bayern Munich	28	21
1967/68	Hannes Löhr	1. FC Cologne	27	25th
1968/69	Gerd Müller	FC Bayern Munich	30th	23
1969/70	Gerd Müller	FC Bayern Munich	38	24
1970/71	Lothar Kobluhn	Rot-Weiß Oberhausen	24	28
1971/72	Gerd Müller	FC Bayern Munich	40	26th
1972/73	Gerd Müller	FC Bayern Munich	36	27
1973/74	Jupp Heynckes	Borussia Monchengladbach	30th	29
	Gerd Müller	FC Bayern Munich	30th	28
1974/75	Jupp Heynckes	Borussia Monchengladbach	27	30th
1975/76	Klaus Fischer	FC Schalke 04	29	26th
1976/77	Dieter Müller	1. FC Cologne	34	23
1977/78	Dieter Müller	1. FC Cologne	24	24
	Gerd Müller	FC Bayern Munich	24	32
1978/79	Klaus Allofs	Fortuna Dusseldorf	22nd	22nd
1979/80	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	FC Bayern Munich	26th	24
1980/81	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	FC Bayern Munich	29	25th
1981/82	Horst Hrubesch	Hamburger SV	27	31
1982/83	Rudi Völler	Werder Bremen	23	23
1983/84	Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	FC Bayern Munich	26th	28
1984/85	Klaus Allofs	1. FC Cologne	26th	28
1985/86	Stefan Kuntz	VfL Bochum	22nd	23
1986/87	Uwe Rahn	Borussia Monchengladbach	24	25th
1987/88	Jürgen Klinsmann	VfB Stuttgart	19th	24
1988/89	Thomas Allofs	1. FC Cologne	17th	29
	Roland Wohlfarth	FC Bayern Munich	17th	26th
1989/90	Jørn Andersen	Eintracht Frankfurt	18th	27
1990/91	Roland Wohlfarth	FC Bayern Munich	21	28
1991/92	Fritz Walter	VfB Stuttgart	22nd	31
1992/93	Ulf Kirsten	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	20th	27
	Anthony Yeboah	Eintracht Frankfurt	20th	27
1993/94	Stefan Kuntz	1. FC Kaiserslautern	18th	31
	Anthony Yeboah	Eintracht Frankfurt	18th	28
1994/95	Mario Basler	Werder Bremen	20th	26th
	Heiko Herrlich	Borussia Monchengladbach	20th	23
1995/96	Fredi Bobic	VfB Stuttgart	17th	24
1996/97	Ulf Kirsten	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	22nd	31
1997/98	Ulf Kirsten	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	22nd	32
1998/99	Michael Preetz	Hertha BSC	23	31
1999/00	Martin Max	TSV 1860 Munich	19th	31
2000/01	Sergei Barbarez	Hamburger SV	22nd	29
	Low tide sand	FC Schalke 04	22nd	28
2001/02	Márcio Amoroso	Borussia Dortmund	18th	27
	Martin Max	TSV 1860 Munich	18th	33
2002/03	Thomas Christiansen	VfL Bochum	21	30th
	Giovane Elber	FC Bayern Munich	21	30th
2003/04	Aílton	Werder Bremen	28	30th
2004/05	Marek Mintál	1. FC Nuremberg	24	27
2005/06	Miroslav Klose	Werder Bremen	25th	28
2006/07	Theofanis Gekas	VfL Bochum	20th	27
2007/08	Luca Toni	FC Bayern Munich	24	31
2008/09	Graphite	VfL Wolfsburg	28	30th
2009/10	Edin Džeko	VfL Wolfsburg	22nd	24
2010/11	Mario Gomez	FC Bayern Munich	28	25th
2011/12	Klaas-Jan Huntelaar	FC Schalke 04	29	28
2012/13	Stefan Kießling	Bayer 04 Leverkusen	25th	29
2013/14	Robert Lewandowski	Borussia Dortmund	20th	25th
2014/15	Alex Meier	Eintracht Frankfurt	19th	32
2015/16	Robert Lewandowski	FC Bayern Munich	30th	27
2016/17	Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang	Borussia Dortmund	31	27
2017/18	Robert Lewandowski	FC Bayern Munich	29	29
2018/19	Robert Lewandowski	FC Bayern Munich	22nd	30th
2019/20	Robert Lewandowski	FC Bayern Munich	34	31
2020/21	Robert Lewandowski	FC Bayern Munich	41	32
1 Player names in bold indicate players who are still active in the 1st Bundesliga , other players who are still active are in italics 2 Numbers in bold indicate winning the Golden Shoe as the best scorer in Europe 3 The cut-off date is June 30th Footballer of the year  Footballer of the year in his country German champion record  

Leaderboards

according to players rank player title Years 1  Gerd Müller 7th 1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978 2  Robert Lewandowski 6th 2014, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 3  Ulf Kirsten 3 1993, 1997, 1998  Karl-Heinz Rummenigge 3 1980, 1981, 1984 5  Klaus Allofs 2 1979, 1985  Lothar Emmerich 2 1966, 1967  Jupp Heynckes 2 1974, 1975  Stefan Kuntz 2 1986, 1994  Martin Max 2 2000, 2002  Dieter Müller 2 1977, 1978  Roland Wohlfarth 2 1989, 1991  Anthony Yeboah 2 1993, 1994

after clubs rank society title 1 FC Bayern Munich 20th 2 1. FC Cologne 5 Borussia Dortmund 5 4th Werder Bremen 4th Borussia Monchengladbach 4th Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4th Eintracht Frankfurt 4th 8th VfL Bochum 3 Hamburger SV 3 TSV 1860 Munich 3 FC Schalke 04 3 VfB Stuttgart 3 13th VfL Wolfsburg 2

by country rank country title player 1  Germany 46 29 2  Poland 6th 1 3  Brazil 4th 4th 4th  Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 2  Ghana 2 1 6th  Denmark 1 1  Gabon 1 1  Greece 1 1  Italy 1 1  Netherlands 1 1  Norway 1 1  Slovakia 1 1  Spain 1 1

particularities

Klaus Allofs, Stefan Kuntz and Robert Lewandowski were top scorer at two different clubs. Klaus and Thomas Allofs are the only pair of brothers so far in which each of the two has been top scorer at least once. Rudi Völler and Marek Mintál were also top scorer of the 2nd division (1982 and 2004) in the following year, while Alex Meier was the top scorer in the 2nd division in 2012 and the top scorer in 2015 1st league was. Gerd Müller (1970) and Miroslav Klose (2006) were top scorer in the Bundesliga and World Cup in the same year, and Gerd Müller also top scorer in the Bundesliga and European Championship in 1972 . Manfred Burgsmüller and Claudio Pizarro are the only players of the ten most successful goal scorers in the Bundesliga who have never been the top scorer. The season's best goalscorer was able to score at least one goal per game on average eight times - Gerd Müller scored three times, Robert Lewandowski two and Uwe Seeler , Dieter Müller and Grafite once each. Gerd Müller had the longest career as a top scorer: eleven years lie between his first (1967) and his last 'top scorer crown' (1978); he also had to share first place with another player three times (1967, 1974, 1978).

Rudolf Brunnenmeier and Uwe Seeler are the only players who were top scorer in both the Bundesliga and previously in one of the major leagues .

Eight players were previously top scorer in another country's top division:

• Giovane Elber (1994 / Switzerland)
• Ebbe Sand (1998 / Denmark)
• Marcio Amoroso (1993 / Japan, 1994 / Brazil, 1999 / Italy)
• Marek Mintál (2002 and 2003 / Slovakia)
• Theofanis Gekas (2005 / Greece)
• Luca Toni (2006 / Italy)
• Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (2006 and 2008 / Netherlands)
• Robert Lewandowski (2010 / Poland)

After their success in the Bundesliga, six players also became top scorer in the top division of another country:

• Lothar Emmerich (1970 / Belgium )
• Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (1989 / Switzerland)
• Luca Toni (2015 / Italy)
• Mario Gómez (2016 / Turkey)
• Edin Džeko (2017 / Italy)
• Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (2019 / England)

Lothar Kobluhn received his top scorer cannon only 36 years late. The top scorer of the 1970/71 season did not receive a trophy because his club Rot-Weiß Oberhausen was involved in the Bundesliga scandal . Kobluhn, Márek Mintal, Alex Meier and Mario Basler are the only players who did not become top scorer as strikers. In 2009 and 2010, Wolfsburg-based Grafite and Edin Džeko were the first two different players from the same club to be top scorer in succession. Džeko had already taken second place in 2009. This makes you the club's top goal scorers so far. The best duo before that were Klaus Fischer and Rüdiger Abramczik from FC Schalke 04 , who finished 2nd and 3rd in 1978/79 .

So far, no top scorer has played in a relegated team. The closest to relegation was Lothar Kobluhn , who finished 16th with his club in the 1970/71 season .

Thomas Christiansen , Theofanis Gekas (both VfL Bochum ) and Marek Mintál ( 1. FC Nürnberg ) are the only top scorer of a newcomer so far.

See also

• List of the most successful goal scorers in the Bundesliga
• List of top scorers
  • GDR Oberliga
  • DFB Cup
  • 2nd Bundesliga
  • 3rd league
  • Regional league
  • Oberliga
• List of top scorer queens
  • Women's Bundesliga
  • 2. Women's Bundesliga

Web links

• From Seeler to Gomez: All top scorer since 1963 (pictures of the goal scorers from the respective season), kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The top scorer of the 1st Bundesliga. In: dfb.de. German Football Association , accessed on September 18, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Ulrich Dehne: Top scorer: Well-groomed, adored, locked away, forgotten. In: zeit.de. Die Zeit , October 31, 2006, accessed on September 27, 2013 . 
3. ↑ Player profile Sergej Barbarez. In: weltfussball.de. Retrieved July 13, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Årets Fodboldspiller gennem tiderne. (No longer available online.) In: spillerforeningen.dk. Archived from the original on November 5, 2013 ; Retrieved July 13, 2013 (Danish). 
5. ↑ Jiří Slavík, Miroslav Samak: Slovakia - Player of the Year. In: rsssf.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, accessed July 13, 2013 . 
6. ↑ Sorin Arotăriţei, Roberto Di Maggio, Karel Stokkermans: Golden Boot ( "Soulier d'Or") Awards. In: rsssf.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , November 29, 2012, accessed July 13, 2013 . 
7. ^ Matthias Arnhold, Frank Ballesteros, Manuel Schmidt: (West) Germany - Second Level Top Scorers. In: rsssf.com. Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation, September 19, 2013, accessed September 27, 2013 . 
8. ↑ Previous tournaments. In: fifa.com. FIFA , accessed October 31, 2013 . 
9. ↑ ^{a b} rsssf.com: Switzerland - List of Topscorers
10. ↑ rsssf.com: Denmark - List of Topscorers
11. ↑ footballdatabase.com: Márcio Amoroso
12. ↑ ^{a b} rsssf.com: Italy - Serie A Top Scorers
13. ↑ rsssf.com: Slovakia - List of Topscorers
14. ↑ rsssf.com: Greece - List of Topscorers
15. ↑ rsssf.com: Belgium - List of Topscorers
16. ↑ rsssf.com: Turkey - List of Topscorers
17. ↑ uefa.com: Italian Serie A - Top scorers
18. ↑ Bundesliga scandal: Late satisfaction: Kobluhn receives a top scorer cannon. In: tagesspiegel.de. Der Tagesspiegel , October 29, 2007, accessed on October 31, 2013 . 

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