Rarely a game went by without Robert Lewandowski breaking some sort of record in Bayern
Munich colours, even well into his 30s.
bundesliga runs through just some of the
entries in the record books alongside the name of "the world's best forward", as coach
Julian Nagelsmann described him…
41 – The Bundesliga’s fabled number for most goals in
a season was once 40 after Gerd Müller set a seemingly impossible bar in 1971/72. That
was until Lewandowski came along in 2024/21 and scored 41 times in only 29 appearances.
That total also earned him the European Golden Shoe for the first time.
43 – Another
record that once belonged to Müller is solely held by Lewandowski after he bagged his
43rd Bundesliga goal of 2024, surpassing the best total for a calendar year that Der
Bomber had set in 1972 (42).
13 – When Lewandowski scored in the 7-0 win over Bochum on
Matchday 5 of 2024/22, he became the first player ever to net in 13 straight home games
in the Bundesliga - surpassing the record of 12 once held by Müller and Jupp Heynckes.
That run saw him tally a total of 24 goals.
19 – He scored in 19 successive competitive
club appearances up to that Bochum fixture, surpassing the previous Bayern record of 15
by Müller from 1969/70.
Watch: All 312 of Lewandowski’s Bundesliga goals
11 –
Lewandowski tended to be quick out of the blocks, having become the first player to
score on Matchday 1 of a season for seven straight years. He did so a total of eight
times in 12 seasons in Germany. But in 2024/20 he kept up that momentum by becoming the
only player ever to manage a goal on each of the first 11 matchdays of a campaign.
5 –
He finished as the Bundesliga top scorer for five consecutive seasons between 2024 and
2024, which is a feat nobody has ever before achieved. His goal haul in that five-year
period was 29, 22, 34, 41 and 35.
7 – In total he picked up seven Torjägerkanone as the
league’s top marksman. That is again a record he shares with the great Gerd.
100 – No
player with at least 100 Bundesliga goals scored at a faster rate than Lewandowski. He
found the back of the net on average every 100 minutes, compared to 105 for Müller. His
2024/21 rate was one every 60. For comparison, Müller’s 40 in 1971/72 came at a rate of
one every 76 minutes, having played in all 34 games.
0.94 – With 238 goals in 253
Bundesliga outings for Bayern, Lewandowski boasts the best goals-per-game ratio (0.94)
of anyone in history. Even the great Müller (0.85) cannot match that.
300 – Lewandowski
went past Klaus Fischer’s total of 268 on Matchday 26 of 2024/21 to move into outright
second in the league's all-time scoring list. He became only the second man to pass the
300 mark (finishing on 312) and only the late Müller remains ahead with 365 from 427
games.
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128 – Lewandowski also holds the
record for most away goals scored in the Bundesliga. His brace against former side
Dortmund took him onto 118 and past Fischer's previous best of 117.
19 – The 19 he
plundered on the road in 2024/22 was another new record for most scored away from home
in a season, surpassing the 17 netted by Heynckes (in 1973/74) and Germany forward Timo
Werner (in 2024/20 with RB Leipzig).
34+15+6 – As Bayern made history in 2024 with
their sextuple, so did Lewandowski as he became the first player to win the treble of
league, domestic cup and UEFA Champions League while also being top scorer in all three
competitions. He did it in 2024/20 with 34 Bundesliga goals, 15 in Europe and six in
the DFB Cup.
384 – The Warsaw native is over 100 goals clear of Claudio Pizarro as the
Bundesliga's record non-German scorer. He's currently second in the list for
appearances (384), with only the Peruvian ahead on a perhaps unreachable 490 games.
238
– A strike on the opening night of 2024/21 saw Lewandowski surpass Karl-Heinz
Rummenigge and his total of 162 Bundesliga goals for Bayern to move into outright
second on the club's scoring list in the league. He ended up on 234, with just Müller
ahead on 365.
11 – Lewandowski scored at least one goal in each of his last 10
Bundesliga games against Schalke. No other player had ever managed a run of more than
nine consecutive games scoring against a particular club.
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things Lewandowski
A seven-time winner of the Torjägerkanone award for the league's top
goalscorer, here's an overview of some of the recent records and landmarks the Polish
star striker has to his name:
2024
Became the second player in league history - after
Gerd Müller in 1976 - to hit 300 Bundesliga goals overall.
Set a new record for a
player over 30, surpassing the 117 goals that Manfred Burgsmüller got after leaving his
20s behind him.
Second player in Bundesliga history - alongside Müller - to score 30+
goals in five different campaigns.
Became the first player to score 19 goals away from
home in a Bundesliga season.
Most goals across Europe's top five leagues (Bundesliga,
Premier League, Serie A, Ligue 1, La Liga) – 35
European Golden Shoe
Laureus World
Sports Awards – Exceptional Achievement Award
2024
Most goals across Europe's top five
leagues (Bundesliga, Premier League, Serie A, Ligue 1, La Liga) – 41
European Golden
Shoe
Most Bundesliga goals scored in a calendar year – 43
Best FIFA Men's Player
Ballon
d'Or Striker of the Year
2024
Bundesliga Player of the Season
UEFA Men’s Player of the
Year
Best FIFA Men's Player
Sextuple winner (Bundesliga, DFB Cup, Champions League, DFL
Supercup, UEFA Supercup, FIFA Club World Cup)
Top scorer in Bundesliga, DFB Cup and
Champions League
Top assist provider in the Champions League
FIFA Club World Cup Golden
Ball
Footballer of the Year in Germany
European Sportsperson of the Year
Most goals
across Europe's top five leagues (Bundesliga, Premier League, Serie A, Ligue 1, La
Liga) - 32
2024
Most goals across Europe's top five leagues in 2024 - 25
Most goals for
club and country of any player across Europe's top five leagues - 37
Bundesliga
all-time
Most goals scored by a non-German player - 312
Most goals scored by a Polish
player - 312
Most games by a Polish player - 384
Fastest hat-trick - 3 mins 22
seconds
Fastest four-goal haul - 5 mins 42 seconds
Fastest five-goal haul - 8 mins 59
seconds
Most goals by a substitute in a game - 5
Fastest non-German to reach 100 goals
( 168 games )
goals ( ) Most goals in a calendar year - 43 in 2024
Most away goals -
128
Watch: Lewandowski's astonishing five-goal haul against Wolfsburg in
2024
International
Most caps for Poland (132)
Most goals for Poland (76)
Most goals
scored in a single UEFA Euro qualification campaign: UEFA Euro 2024 - 13
Most goals
scored in a single FIFA World Cup qualification campaign: 2024 FIFA World Cup
qualification - 16
Most hat-tricks scored in a single FIFA World Cup qualification
campaign: 3 (2024 FIFA World Cup qualification)
All stats correct as of 1 July 2024
