How Bayern smashed the all-time Bundesliga goals record
How Bayern smashed the all-time Bundesliga goals record It fell to Leon Goretzka to finally break the magic barrier. The midfielder scored in the 53rd minute to make it 2-0 at FC St. Pauli and enter himself into the annuls of German football.
It was the Reds’ 102nd league goal of the season, breaking a Bundesliga record that’s stood for 54 years. In the 1971/72 campaign, the great Bayern team of Gerd Müller , Franz Beckenbauer , Uli Hoeneß and Co hit 101 goals. That long-held record tumbled on 11 April 2026 – and still with five matchdays left.
Read here how it happened: Such an extraordinary achievement is of course a team effort. No fewer than xx different players from the current squad have got on the scoresheet for Bayern this season – more than any other team. On top of that, three players have unwittingly contributed to the record with own goals: Leverkusen’s Loïc Badé (in the 3-0 home win in November) and Wolfsburg duo Moritz Jenz and Kilian Fischer (both in the 8-1 win in January).
However, the lion’s share has come from the magical attacking trio of Harry Kane (31 goals), Luis Díaz (15) and Michael Olise (11), who between them account for 56 percent. It’s not always been as easy in front of goal as it was for Lennart Karl in the 1-0 win against Mainz in mid-December. After a fine assist from Serge Gnabry , all he had to do was tap the ball over the line from about four meters out.
According to data from the statistics experts at Opta, no other FCB goal had such a high xG value (0. 94) – the kind of goal where you’d say: “Even my grandma could have scored that! ” By that measure, however, Harry Kane’s 5-0 goal in the season opener against Leipzig, with an xG of 0.