Status: 05/22/2021 5:30 p.m.
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Robert Lewandowski did it: With 41 goals now, he is the new record scorer in the Bundesliga. A look at the history of the top scorer shows how special this brand is.
Needs one more goal to break the 40-goal mark: Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski.
Image: Peter Kneffel / dpa-Pool / dpa
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“I thought Gerd Müller’s record, which he set before the Stone Age, would never be broken,” said Karl-Heinz Rummenigge a week ago after the Munich 6-0 win against Mönchengladbach.
Former Bayern legends also praise the new record holder. “He has such a gigantic quality and on top of that a greed that I only knew from Gerd in five decades,” said Müller’s former teammate Paul Breitner in the FC Bayern club magazine. “If he could, Gerd would sit in the stands today and click his tongue at every Lewandowski goal.” The dementia sufferer Müller (75) unfortunately does not get the hype about his record and the possible successor.
“The most complete striker in the world”
For former Bayern striker Mario Gomez, Lewandowski is “the most complete striker in the world”. The former Munich Champions League winner Giovane Elber (48) is impressed by the repertoire of the Bayern goalgetters of the present: “There are no really typical Lewandowski goals – because he can do everything!”
After Seeler’s debut it got more difficult
How special Lewandowski’s performance is becomes clear when you take a look back at the Bundesliga top scorer. The first king of strikers in the Bundesliga was Uwe Seeler, who scored 30 goals for Hamburger SV in 1963/64.
After that, however, it became more difficult – the forwards were marked harder by the defenders, and overall the game was at times considerably more defensive. In 1988/89 Thomas Allofs (1. FC Cologne) and Roland Wohlfarth (Bayern Munich) each achieved 17 goals to share the crown of the season. Fredi Bobic also won this trophy for VfB Stuttgart in 1995/96 with 17 goals.
The top scorer with the most hits:
Gerd Müller (Bayern Munich), 1971/72: 40 goals
Gerd Müller (l) in the game against Borussia Dortmund 1971
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It has been almost 49 years since Gerd Müller scored his legendary 40-goal mark in the 1971/72 season. The “Bomber”, who also scored reliably for the DFB selection and scored the decisive goal to win the 1974 World Cup, was the top scorer in the Bundesliga six times.
Dieter Müller (1. FC Cologne), 1976/77: 34 goals
Dieter Müller (r) from 1. FC Cologne 1977 with the top scorer cannon
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The former striker of 1. FC Köln scored a whopping 34 goals in the league in the 1976/77 season and an incredible 14 in eight cup games. A year later, when Müller won the double with his club, he shared the top scorer’s crown with namesake Gerd – both scored 24 times.
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Bor. Dortmund), 2016/17: 31 goals
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyan celebrating the goal in the game against Eintracht Frankfurt 2017
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In the 2016/17 season, Aubameyang was the top scorer in the Bundesliga with 31 goals this season and scored the decisive goal to win the DFB Cup against Eintracht Frankfurt. On January 31, 2018, Aubameyang moved to the Premier League for Arsenal FC. With a transfer fee of 63.75 million euros, it became the most expensive new addition in the history of the club.
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Schalke 04), 2011/12:29 Tore
Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (l) in the game against 1. FC Nürnberg 2012
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Klaas-Jan Huntelaar from Schalke 04 became the first Dutch top scorer in the Bundesliga. The vice-world champion scored his 28th and 29th goals of the season at Werder Bremen on matchday 34 and distanced Mario Gomez (Bayern Munich) by three goals. He thus set Klaus Fischer’s Schalke League record from 1975/76. Huntelaar, the first top scorer of the “Royal Blues” since Ebbe Sand 2001, also set a Schalke record with 48 goals in 48 competitive games.
Ailton (Werder Bremen), 2003/04: 28 goals
Ailton after winning the German Championship in 2004
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Werder Bremen has never been as popular in Germany as it was in the 2003/04 season. The team of coach Thomas Schaaf enthusiastic fans and neutral football gourmets and in the end became highly deserved German champions. The heart of the Bremen championship team was the midfield, in which Micoud excellently pulled the strings. And then Ailton, who moved to Werder in 1998, also showed a sensational explosion of performance.
Those: sportschau.de
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