List of the most successful goal scorers in the 2nd Bundesliga

The list of the most successful goal scorers in the 2nd Bundesliga includes all football players who have scored 100 or more goals since the second top German division was introduced in 1974. It is broken down for all players how many goals they have scored for which club and these are arranged according to their number. The most successful goalscorer is Dieter Schatzschneider , who scored for Hannover 96 and SC Fortuna Köln .

The list contains 16 players, one of whom is currently active in the 2nd Bundesliga .

Note: Any player who was in the squad of a second division team on at least one match day of the current 2018/19 season is considered to be "active" for the purposes of this list .

List of goalscorers with at least 100 goals

As of November 13, 2019

rank	player	Gates	Games	Goals / game	for clubs	Period
01.	Dieter Schatzschneider	154	201	0.77	Hannover 96 (132 goals) Fortuna Cologne (22)	1978-1987
02.	Karl-Heinz Mödrath	150	272	0.55	Fortuna Cologne (143) Alemannia Aachen (7)	1974-1983
03.	Theo Gries	122	293	0.42	Hertha BSC (67) Alemannia Aachen (47) Hannover 96 (8)	1985-1994
04th	Sven Demandt	121	317	0.38	1. FSV Mainz 05 (55) Fortuna Düsseldorf (49) Hertha BSC (17)	1987-2001
05.	Walter Krause	120	273	0.44	Kickers Offenbach (97) Wattenscheid 09 (13) Rot-Weiß Oberhausen (9)	1974-1983
6th	Simon Terodde **	118	220	0.54	1. FC Cologne (29) VfL Bochum (41) Union Berlin (23) VfB Stuttgart (25)	2007-2019
7th0	Daniel Jurgeleit	117	393	0.30	Union Solingen (59) FC Homburg-Saar (34) VfB Lübeck (24)	1982-1997
8th.	Gerd-Volker shock	116	242	0.48	VfL Osnabrück (95) Arminia Bielefeld (21)	1974-1984
9.	Franz Gerber	115	213	0.54	FC St. Pauli (42) ESV Ingolstadt-Ringsee (23) 1860 Munich (19) Wuppertaler SV (19) Hannover 96 (12)	1975-1987
10.	Paul Linz	115	233	0.49	VfL Osnabrück (52) Freiburg FC (36) Waldhof Mannheim (16) OSC Bremerhaven (11)	1979-1988
11.	Peter Cestonaro	111	245	0.45	SV Darmstadt 98 (68) KSV Hessen Kassel (43)	1976-1986
12.	Otmar Ludwig	107	261	0.41	Fortuna Cologne (49) FC Homburg-Saar (21) KSV Hessen Kassel (15) SC Freiburg (12) Freiburg FC (12)	1974-1983
13.	Uwe Sommerer	106	256	0.41	SpVgg Bayreuth (106)	1974-1986
14th	Marius Ebbers	102	273	0.37	FC St. Pauli (43) MSV Duisburg (32) Alemannia Aachen (18) 1. FC Cologne (9)	2000-2013
15th	Bruno Labbadia	100	229	0.44	SV Darmstadt 98 (43) Arminia Bielefeld (39) Karlsruher SC (18)	1984-2003

* Player active in the 2nd Bundesliga

** Player active

Active goal scorers

This list contains all players currently active in the 2nd Bundesliga who can score at least 50 goals.

Status: July 3, 2020

rank	player	Gates	Games	Goals / game	for clubs	active since	Current club
41.	Fabian Klos	79	193	0.41	Arminia Bielefeld (79)	2013	Arminia Bielefeld

Foreign goal scorers

This list shows all players who do not have German citizenship and who have at least 50 hits. Dual citizenship players will not be listed.

As of November 13, 2019

rank	player	Gates	Games	Goals / game	for clubs	Period
1.	Edmond Kapllani	73	214	0.34	FSV Frankfurt (36) Karlsruher SC (24) SC Paderborn 07 (8) TuS Koblenz (5)	2004-2016
2.	Mohamadou Idrissou	68	164	0.41	1. FC Kaiserslautern (30) SC Freiburg (16) Eintracht Frankfurt (14) MSV Duisburg (8)	2006-2014
3.	Souleymane Sané	65	152	0.43	SC Freiburg (56) Wattenscheid 09 (9)	1985-1999
4th	Giovanni Federico	56	161	0.35	Karlsruher SC (33) Arminia Bielefeld (12) VfL Bochum (11)	2005–2012
5.	Ranko Petkovic	52	161	0.32	Prussia Münster (31) Red-White Lüdenscheid (20)	1976-1981
6th	Jan Mattsson	51	78	0.65	KFC Uerdingen 05 (51)	1976-1979
7th	Radek Drulák	50	100	0.50	VfB Oldenburg (50)	1990-1993
8th.	Goran Šukalo	50	302	0.17	MSV Duisburg (15) TuS Koblenz (14) Greuther Fürth (11) SpVgg Unterhaching (8) Alemannia Aachen (2)	2002-2017

The youngest goal scorers

This list contains the five youngest scorers in the 2nd Bundesliga. There is no currently active player in the top 50.

As of March 19, 2019

rank	player	Age	Date of birth	Date of the hit	for club
01.	Gunther Reeg	16.9	07/05/1968	06/09/1985	SV Darmstadt 98
02.	Ralf Obermann	17.2	05/23/1963	08/29/1980	Freiburg FC
03.	Maximilian Heidenreich	17.3	05/09/1967	08/26/1984	Hannover 96
04th	Paul Jaschke	17.3	04/18/1966	08/20/1983	VfL Osnabrück
05.	Olaf Thon	17.3	05/01/1966	09/09/1983	FC Schalke 04

The oldest goal scorers

This list contains the five oldest goalscorers in the 2nd Bundesliga. There is no currently active player in the top 50.

As of March 19, 2019

rank	player	Age	Date of birth	Date of the hit	for club
01.	Helmut Haller	39.6	07/21/1939	02/25/1979	FC Augsburg
02.	Rudi Bommer	39.2	08/19/1957	11/02/1996	Eintracht Frankfurt
03.	Karl-Heinz Bente	39.1	09/13/1941	10/25/1980	Sc freiburg
04th	Bernhard Trares	38.7	08/18/1965	05/16/2004	Karlsruher SC
05.	Wolfgang Steinbach	38.6	09/21/1954	05/22/1993	VfB Oldenburg

Goalscorers with the most goals in a season

This list contains the 10 most successful goal scorers within a season of the 2. Bundesliga.

rank	player	Gates	season	for club
01.	Horst Hrubesch	41	1977/78	Red and white food
02.	Frank Mill	40	1980/81	Red and white food
03.	Rudi Völler	37	1981/82	TSV 1860 Munich
04th	Christian Sackewitz	35	1979/80	Arminia Bielefeld
	Sven Demandt	35	1988/89	Fortuna Dusseldorf
6th	Dieter Schatzschneider	34	1979/80	Hannover 96
	Dieter Schatzschneider	34	1981/82	Hannover 96
8th.	Eduard Kirschner	33	1978/79	Greuther Fuerth
9.	Dieter Schatzschneider	31	1982/83	Hannover 96 Fortuna Cologne
10.	Emanuel Günther	30th	1983/84	Karlsruher SC
	Roland Wohlfarth	30th	1983/84	MSV Duisburg

* Player active

Most successful multiple goal scorers

This table shows players who have scored more than one goal in at least one game. The three most successful shooters in the 2nd Bundesliga are listed for each category, along with the three most successful current players in each category to the right.

Status: end of season 2014/15

category	rank	player	number
Six goals in one game	1.	Ottmar Hitzfeld	1
Five goals in one game	1.	Volker Graul	1
		Dieter Gutzler	1
		Horst Hrubesch	1
		Wilfried Klinge	1
		Rolf Kucharski	1
		Pure Künkel	1
		Otmar Ludwig	1
		Frank Mill	1
		Ronald Worm	1
Four goals in one game	1.	Frank Mill	3
	2.	Franz Gerber	2
		Werner Lenz	2
		Rudi Völler	2
Three goals in one game	1.	Dieter Schatzschneider	11
	2.	Karl-Heinz Mödrath	8th
	3.	Radek Drulák	5
		Gerd-Volker shock	5
		Uwe Sommerer	5
		Winfried Stradt	5
Two goals in one game	1.	Karl-Heinz Mödrath	28
	2.	Dieter Schatzschneider	26th
	3.	Emanuel Günther	25th

Most successful joker

This table contains the five most successful shooters from Joker goals in the 2nd Bundesliga.

Status: end of season 2014/15

rank	player	Wild gates
1.	Hans-Peter Knecht	14th
	Markus Sailer	14th
3.	Cidimar	12
	Uwe Kuhl	12
	Matthias Scherz	12

Most successful penalty takers

This table contains the five most successful penalty takers in the 2nd Bundesliga.

As of January 29, 2020

rank	player	Penalty goals
1.	Günter Sebert	35
2.	Manfred Großler	28
3.	Walter Bechtold	23
4th	Jens Langeneke	20th
	Dieter Schatzschneider	20th

Goal scorers of the current second division teams

This table shows the three most successful second division goalscorers for each of the clubs currently represented in the 2nd Bundesliga, current players are highlighted in bold. If there is no player in the current team, the best current player is also entered.

As of January 29, 2020

society		scorer	Gates
FC Erzgebirge Aue	1. 2. 3.	Jan Hochscheidt Andrzej Juskowiak Jakub Sylvestr	34 33 23
Arminia Bielefeld	1. 2. 3.	Fabian Klos Norbert Eilenfeldt Christian Sackewitz	72 59 49
VfL Bochum	1. 2. 3. 8th.	Simon Terodde Lukas Hinterseer Peter Peschel Silvère Ganvoula	41 32 28 15th
SV Darmstadt 98	1. 2. 3. 9.	Uwe Kuhl Peter Cestonaro Walter Bechtold Tobias Kempe	73 68 46 28
Dynamo Dresden	1. 2. 3.	Moussa Koné Mickaël Poté Zlatko Dedic	22nd 21 19
SpVgg Greuther Fürth	1. 2. 3.  26.	Klaus Heinlein Eduard Kirschner Erich Unger Daniel Keita-Ruel	55 48 42 16
Hamburger SV	1. 2. 3.	Pierre-Michel Lasogga Sonny Kittel Aaron Hunt Khaled Narey	13 9 8 8th
Hannover 96	1. 2. 3. 68.	Dieter Schatzschneider Frank Hartmann Peter Hayduk Hendrik Weydandt	132 46 38 6th
1. FC Heidenheim	1. 2. 3.	Marc Schnatterer Robert Leipertz Robert Glatzel	48 25 17
Holstein Kiel	1. 2. 6th	Manfred Jochimiak Marvin Ducksch Kingsley Schindler Janni Serra	23 18 18 16
Karlsruher SC	1. 2. 3. 22nd	Emanuel Günther Raimund Krauth Karl-Heinz Struth Anton Fink	98 40 39 14th
1. FC Nuremberg	1. 2. 3. 7th	Hand Walitza Dieter Nüssing Marek Mintál Hanno Behrens	71 39 34 24
VfL Osnabrück	1. 2. 3. 45.	Gerd-Volker shock Heikko Glöde Ralf Lehmann Marcos Álvarez	95 55 54 8th
Jahn Regensburg	1. 2. 3.	Marco Grüttner Herfried Ruh's Sargis Adamyan	31 21 20
SV Sandhausen	1. 2. 3.	Andrew Wooten Aziz Bouhaddouz Lucas Höler	48 24 13
FC St. Pauli	1. 2. 3.  22.	Rüdiger Wenzel Marius Ebbers Franz Gerber Christopher Buchtmann	59 43 42 17
VfB Stuttgart	1. 2. 3. 14	Ottmar Hitzfeld Hermann Ohlicher Simon Terodde Hamadi Al Ghaddioui	33 30 25 5
SV Wehen Wiesbaden	1. 2. 3.	Ronny King Manuel Schäffler Bakary Diakité	16 12 8th

More facts

As of May 21, 2019

• The first player to score 100 goals was Gerd-Volker Schock , who was successful on October 26, 1979 against SG Wattenscheid 09 .
• The youngest player to score 100 goals is Dieter Schatzschneider , who scored 98 to 100 against Wormatia Worms on November 14, 1981 (age: 23 years and 202 days) . He also needed the fewest second division appearances up to his 100th goal (121 games).
• 60 goals in away games mean a record for Dieter Schatzschneider, but in home games Karl-Heinz Mödrath struck five times more often than the record shooter with 99 goals.
• Schatzschneider also has the best goal rate of all players with at least 50 hits with 0.77 goals per game. The most successful goalscorer of all players with a better rate than Schatzschneider is Horst Hrubesch , who scored 42 goals in 35 games (1.20 goals per game).
• The only player who was able to score at least 100 goals in both the Bundesliga and the 2nd Bundesliga is Bruno Labbadia (BL: 103 goals, 2nd BL: 101 goals)
• Most goals in a game were scored by the later master coach Ottmar Hitzfeld , who scored six times on May 13, 1977 in an 8-0 win against SSV Jahn Regensburg in Stuttgart .
• Theo Gries scored the most goals since the introduction of the single-track 2. Bundesliga in the 1981/82 season (122 goals).
• Simon Terodde (3 clubs) got the most top scorer cannons with various clubs , who played at VfL Bochum (2015/16, 25 goals), VfB Stuttgart (2016/17, 25 goals) and 1.FC Köln (2018/19, 29 Goals) became the top scorer.
• The most successful striker duo in the single-track 2nd Bundesliga came from 1. FC Köln in the 2018/19 season . Simon Terodde (29 hits) and Jhon Córdoba (20 hits) were successful for the club a total of 49 times.
• Ansgar Brinkmann was the only player in the 2nd Bundesliga to be successful for eight different clubs (he scored a total of 34 second division goals). Sascha Rösler (a total of 86 second division goals ), Karsten Hutwelker (34) and Alexander Löbe (29) met for seven different second division clubs .

References and comments

1. ↑ vmLOGIC - Volker Mallmann: The football studio
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The list is sorted in descending order according to the number of goals and, if they are equal, also in descending order according to the number of goals (goals / game).
3. ↑ ^{a b c} The order of the clubs depends on the number of goals.
4. ↑ ^{a b} The period from the first to the last second division appearance of the player is given.
5. ↑ 2. Bundesliga - record scorer. Retrieved May 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ The year of the first second division is given.
7. ↑ VfL Osnabrück (10 goals), 1. FSV Mainz 05 (7), Arminia Bielefeld (5), Dynamo Dresden (4), Eintracht Frankfurt (3), Prussia Münster (2), FC Gütersloh (2), Tennis Borussia Berlin (1)

See also

• List of top scorer in the 2nd Bundesliga
• List of players with the most appearances in the 2nd Bundesliga
• List of the most successful goal scorers in the Bundesliga