Harry Kane is chasing a record set by Erling Haaland, Leverkusen and Stuttgart are off to record starts – here are the best numbers for the 6th matchday.
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1 – Leverkusen replaced Bayern as leaders again and were top of the table after three of the six matchdays of this Bundesliga season.
1 – Borussia Mönchengladbach celebrated their long-awaited first win of the season with a 3-1 win in Bochum.
1 – Niclas Füllkrug scored his first Bundesliga goal for Borussia Dortmund in the 3-1 away win at Hoffenheim.
1 – Mario Götze saw the first traffic light card of his Bundesliga career in the 2-0 defeat against Wolfsburg. Previously he had only been sent off once with a straight red (2011 for Dortmund against Leverkusen)
2 – German striker Deniz Undav scored his first Bundesliga brace in the 2-0 win in Cologne – at the age of 27. In Germany he had not played higher than the third division before this season.
2 – Jonas Wind also missed his second Bundeslifa penalty against Frankfurt. But both found their way into the goal in the follow-up shot. In April 2023 Luca Waldschmidt (against Bochum), this time he scored himself.
2,9 – The goal with the lowest probability of scoring on the match day (2.9 percent) was scored by Beste.
3 – FC Bayern slipped to third place due to the 2-2 draw in Leipzig, which is the champions’ weakest position this Bundesliga season.
3 – Jonas Hofmann is on a roll. The national player scored in the third competitive game in a row.
3 – Marco Reus scored in his third Bundesliga game in a row. The last time he achieved such a series was in the 2020/21 season.
4 – Jan-Niklas Beste once again proved to be a set-piece expert and also scored a direct free kick in the 1-0 win over Union Berlin. Beste and Grimaldo are responsible for all four direct free-kick goals in the Bundesliga season so far.
4 – Cologne recently lost four Bundesliga home games in a row for the first time under Steffen Baumgart, and FC have only had a longer negative streak in home games once (5 lost games in the 2001/02 season).
4 – Union Berlin lost their last four Bundesliga games, meaning the Eisernen set the club’s negative record (previously only in 2019/20).
4 – FC Bayern has not won any of the last four competitive games against Leipzig, but remains ahead of the Saxons in the table.
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5 – Sebastian Hoeneß has won all of his five Bundesliga duels against Cologne (once with Stuttgart, four times with Hoffenheim). As a coach, he celebrated so many victories against no other club.
7 – Wind set a new club record with his first goal against Frankfurt. A VfL Wolfsburg player has never scored six goals in the first six match days. With the 2-0 win he extended this record to seven goals.
7 – The home teams only scored seven goals, almost half as many as the visiting teams (13 goals) on this match day.
8 – Only Erling Haaland scored more goals in his first six Bundesliga games (9) than Harry Kane (8).
8 – Mats Hummels took a penalty for the eighth time in the Bundesliga, no other active player more often.
11 – Harry Kane is now tied with Serhou Guirassy as the top scorer in the Bundesliga (8 goals, 3 assists).
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14 – BVB has been unbeaten in 14 Bundesliga games (9 wins, 5 draws), longer than any other team currently.
15 – With 15 points after six matchdays, VfB Stuttgart had its second-best start to a Bundesliga season; Only in 1996/97 was the balance under Joachim Löw even better (at that time even 16 points).
16 – Leipzig now has 16 goals this season, setting a new club record after six matchdays.
16 – With 16 points after six matchdays, Bayer Leverkusen set a new club record – the Werkself had never started a season so well.
19 – Stuttgart have 19 goals to their name after six matchdays, more than ever before at this point in the season.
20 – The Werkself scored an outstanding 20 goals of the season on the first six matchdays – a new starting record for Leverkusen. Never before have they scored so often on the first six matchdays.
23 – After 23 goalless Bundesliga games, Alassane Pléa scored again in the Bundesliga and ended up with his first brace since January 2020.
27 – On his 27th birthday, Alexander Nübel kept a clean sheet for the third time this Bundesliga season with VfB Stuttgart; The Swabians have remained without conceding a goal more often in 2023/24 than in the entire last season (only twice).
35,6 – Alphonso Davies delivered the highest top speed of the matchday so far (35.6 km/h).
37 – At 37 years and 204 days, Anthony Losilla became the oldest goalscorer in the current Bundesliga season. He already maintained this top value in the previous season.
48 – Bochum and Gladbach set off real offensive fireworks. With 48 shots on goal (23 Bochum, 25 Gladbach), it was the game with the most shots of the young Bundesliga season.
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100 – Jan-Niklas Beste scored the 100th home goal of this Bundesliga season.
100 – Julian Ryerson scored in his 100th Bundesliga game to make it 3-1 against Hoffenheim.
100 – VfB captain Waldemar Anton was on the field for the Swabians for the 100th time in the Bundesliga (69 more games for Hannover). Pascal Stenzel will also make his 100th appearance for VfB, but in competitive games and not just in the Bundesliga.
133 – In the last 133 Bundesliga games with BVB participation, at least one goal was scored. This is both the current record and the Bundesliga record.
206 – Mats Hummels celebrated his 206th win in the BVB jersey and equaled Michael Zorc’s Dortmund club record.
276 – With his brace, Undav became the 276th different goalscorer in Stuttgart history. This puts VfB at the top of the reigning Bundesliga teams – only the current second division club FC Schalke 04 has more different goalscorers (280) in the upper house.
947 – The game between 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 and 1. FC Union Berlin was the 947th different pairing in Bundesliga history. At the same time, the two youngest Bundesliga newcomers met each other. Union was promoted for the first time in 2019, Heidenheim in 2023.
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