Robert Lewandowski features in Bundesliga’s all-time top 10 goalscorers List.
Since its Inauguration in 1963, the Bundesliga has been home to some of football’s greatest goalscorers. Gerd Müller is the league's most successful ever in that regard with a seemingly unassailable 365 goals, but Robert Lewandowski is into the top three and by no means done yet.
Here are the Bundesliga’s all-time top 10 goalscorers:
1) Gerd Müller
Club: Bayern Munich
Goals: 365
Games: 427
Minutes per goal: 105.
In 1971/72, he set the record for goals in a single season by netting 40 times – despite missing three penalties!
2) Klaus Fischer
Club: 1860 Munich, Schalke, Cologne, Bochum
Goals: 268
Games: 535
Minutes per goal: 173
Fischer greatest hour was when he scored four in a famous 7-0 win for Schalke over Bayern.
3) Robert Lewandowski
Club: Borussia Dortmund, Bayern Munich
Goals: 259
Games: 338
Minutes per goal: 105
The Polish international already has more goals than any other non-German player in Bundesliga history and is on track to become the first to land four successive top scorer's cannons.
4) Jupp Heynckes
Club: Borussia Mönchengladbach, Hannover
Goals: 220
Games: 369
Minutes per goal: 147
Known now as one of German football’s greatest ever coaches after leading Bayern to the treble in 2013. Heynckes was a key element in Gladbach’s golden age, winning four Bundesliga titles during the 1970s.
5) Manfred Burgsmüller
Club: Rot-Weiß Essen, Borussia Dortmund, Nuremberg, Werder Bremen
Goals: 213
Games: 447
Minutes per goal: 168
For over 30 years he sat fourth on the all-time scoring chart before Lewandowski drew level. He remains to this date Dortmund’s all-time top scorer in the Bundesliga (135 goals).
6) Claudio Pizarro
Club: Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich, Cologne
Goals: 197
Games: 490
Minutes per goal: 156
The Peruvian, spanned 20 years at Bundesliga, has found the back of the net in the German top flight in every calendar year since 1999 when he was first signed by Bremen.
7) Ulf Kirsten
Club: Bayer Leverkusen
Goals: 182
Games: 350
Minutes per goal: 152
He finished as top scorer in the Bundesliga three times (1992/93, 1996/97, 1997/98)...
8) Stefan Kuntz
Club: Bochum, Uerdingen, Kaiserslautern, Arminia Bielefeld
Goals: 179
Games: 449
Minutes per goal: 213
The current Germany U21 coach finished as top scorer in 1985/86 and 1993/94, and he sensationally won the league with Kaiserslautern in 1990/91.
9) Dieter Müller
Club: Kickers Offenbach, Cologne, VfB Stuttgart, Saarbrücken
Goals: 177
Games: 303
Minutes per goal: 147
He was a league’s top scorer in 1976/77, netting 34 times, & won the title in 1978. That season he became the first and so far only player to score six goals in a single Bundesliga game as Cologne hammered Bremen 7-2.
10) Klaus Allofs
Club: Fortuna Düsseldorf, Cologne, Werder Bremen
Goals: 177
Games: 424
Minutes per goal: 195
In 1982/83 became the first person to finish as top scorer for two different clubs, for Fortuna Düsseldorf and Cologne...
Source: Thanks to Bundesliga.com
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