Bundesliga Top Scorers by Season (1963-64 to 2025-26)

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Since the Bundesliga kicked off in 1963-64, the league's leading marksman has been crowned Torschützenkönig — and from 1966 onward handed the Kicker Torjägerkanone, the miniature cannon trophy that remains German football's most coveted individual prize for a striker. This table tracks every winner across more than six decades, from Uwe Seeler's opening-season 30 goals to Harry Kane's back-to-back cannons in Bavaria.

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1. As of 2026, who is Bayer Leverkusen's all-time top scorer?

   AStefan KießlingBSchusterCUlf KirstenDKai Havertz

   Kirsten joined from Dynamo Dresden in 1990 and stayed until 2003, three times finishing as the Bundesliga's top scorer — one of the few players capped by both East Germany and reunified Germany.

2. Which German striker holds the record for most Bundesliga goals of all time with 365 goals?

   AKlaus FischerBGerd MüllerCKarl-Heinz RummeniggeDJupp Heynckes

   He scored all his Bundesliga goals for Bayern Munich between 1965 and 1979.

3. Which legendary German striker scored 40 goals in the Bundesliga season of 1971-72 — a record that stood for 49 years?

   AJürgen KlinsmannBUwe SeelerCGerd MüllerDKarl-Heinz Rummenigge

   Müller's 40-goal haul for Bayern was finally broken by Lewandowski's 41 in 2020-21.

4. Who scored a record 41 Bundesliga goals in the 2020-21 season — breaking Gerd Müller's 49-year-old mark of 40?

   AKaneBLewandowskiCHaalandDThomas Müller

   Lewandowski scored his 41st goal with the last kick of the final matchday against Augsburg in May 2021.

5. Which Bayern player broke Gerd Muller's single-season Bundesliga goals record, netting 41 goals in the 2020-21 season?

   AComanBMullerCGnabryDLewandowski

   Robert Lewandowski scored 41 Bundesliga goals in 2020-21, breaking Gerd Muller's 49-year-old record of 40 in a season.

Two names tower over the rest. Gerd Müller bagged the award seven times for Bayern Munich, including a staggering 40-goal haul in 1971-72 that stood as the single-season record for nearly half a century. Robert Lewandowski matched Müller's seven titles and finally broke that record with 41 goals in 2020-21, capping a run of five straight cannons that no one had managed before.

Ties are part of the story too: several seasons ended with two players sharing top billing, from Lothar Emmerich and a young Gerd Müller in 1966-67 to Niclas Füllkrug and Christopher Nkunku splitting the honour in a low-scoring 2022-23. Every shared crown is listed below exactly as the record stands.

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