Serge Gnabry scored the first Bundesliga goal of the season on Friday as the eighth professional of the triple winner Bayern Munich in a row. The national player scored at the start of the 58th Bundesliga season against Schalke 04 in the fourth minute in the Allianz Arena.
A total of 16 Bayern professionals have already scored the first goal of a Bundesliga season, Thomas Müller three times alone: Rainer Ohlhauser (1968), Gerd Müller (1969), Bernd Dürnberger (1979), Ze Roberto (2003), Owen Hargreaves (2005), Roy Makaay (2006), Bastian Schweinsteiger (2008), Thomas Müller (2010, 2014 and 2018), Arjen Robben (2013), Medhi Benatia (2015), Xabi Alonso (2016), Niklas Süle (2017), Robert Lewandowski (2019) and Gnabry (2020).
Dortmund’s Timo Konietzka scored the first ever goal in Bundesliga history. At the start of the 1963/64 season on August 24, 1963, he scored against Werder Bremen after 50 seconds. – The list of the first goals of the season in the Bundesliga:
1963/64: Timo Konietzka (Borussia Dortmund) 1. Minute
1964/65: Josef Marx (Karlsruher SC) 2.
1965/66: Timo Konietzka (1860 Munich) 1.
1966/67: Willi Reitgassl (1. FC Kaiserslautern) 3.
1967/68: Djordje Pavlic (MSV Duisburg) 19.
1968/69: Rainer Ohlhauser (Bayern Munich) 7.
1969/70: Gerd Müller (Bayern Munich) 2.
1970/71: Otto Rehhagel (1. FC Kaiserslautern) 5.
1971/72: Theo Bücker (Borussia Dortmund) 7.
1972/73: Klaus Budde (Fortuna Düsseldorf) 3.
1973/74: Hans Walitza (VfL Bochum) 3.
1974/75: Ludwig Bründl (Eintracht Braunschweig) 2.
1975/76: Henning Jensen (Bor. Mönchengladbach) 8.
1976/77: Rudi Bommer (Fortuna Düsseldorf) 3.
1977/78: Holger Willmer (1. FC Cologne) 3.
1978/79: Ronald Worm (MSV Duisburg) 40.
1979/80: Bernd Dürnberger (Bayern Munich) 3.
1980/81: Atli Edvaldsson (Borussia Dortmund) 6.
1981/82: Ilija Zavisic (Eintracht Braunschweig) 6.
1982/83: Siegfried Bönighausen (Bo. Dortmund) 24.
1983/84: Jan Svensson (Eintracht Frankfurt) 39.
1984/85: Klaus Fischer (VfL Bochum) 1.
1985/86: Rudi Völler (Werder Bremen) 32.
1986/87: Guido Buchwald (VfB Stuttgart) 11.
1987/88: Christian Schreier (Bayer Leverkusen) 38.
1988/89: Rainer Zietsch (VfB Stuttgart) 16.
1989/90: Stefan Kuntz (1. FC Kaiserslautern) 1.
1990/91: Fritz Walter (VfB Stuttgart) 38.
1991/92: Michael Tönnies (MSV Duisburg) 29.
1992/93: Andreas Thom (Bayer Leverkusen) 13.
1993/94: Sergio Zarate (1. FC Nürnberg) 3.
1994/95: Andreas Müller (Schalke 04) 12.
1995/96: Richard Cyron (Fortuna Düsseldorf) 2.
1996/97: Martin Driller (FC St. Pauli) 19.
1997/98: Ulf Kirsten (Bayer Leverkusen) 10.
1998/99: Uwe Spies (MSV Duisburg) 17th
1999/00: Claus Thomsen (VfL Wolfsburg) 17th, own goal
2000/01: Heiko Herrlich (Borussia Dortmund) 61.
2001/02: Marcio Amoroso (Borussia Dortmund) 12.
2002/03: Bart Goor (Hertha BSC Berlin) 1.
2003/04: Ze Roberto (Bayern Munich) 16.
2004/05: Nelson Valdez (Werder Bremen) 83.
2005/06: Owen Hargreaves (Bayern Munich) 28.
2006/07: Roy Makaay (Bayern Munich) 24.
2007/08: Levan Kobiaschwili (Schalke 04) 25.
2008/09: Bastian Schweinsteiger (Bayern Munich) 12.
2009/10: Zvjezdan Misimovic (VfL Wolfsburg) 71.
2010/11: Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich) 9.
2011/12: Kevin Großkreutz (Borussia Dortmund) 17.
2012/13: Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund) 11.
2013/14: Arjen Robben (Bayern Munich) 12.
2014/15: Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich) 37.
2015/16: Medhi Benatia (Bayern Munich) 27.
2016/17: Xabi Alonso (Bayern Munich) 9.
2017/18: Niklas Süle (Bayern Munich) 9.
2018/19: Thomas Müller (Bayern Munich) 23.
2019/20: Robert Lewandowski (Bayern Munich) 24.
2020/21: Serge Gnabry (Bayern Munich) 4.
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