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
