Official | Scotland’s Oliver Burke becomes second fastest player in Bundesliga history with 22.99 mph clock | OneFootball

Scottish striker Oliver Burke of Union Berlin has moved up to second place on the all-time Bundesliga top-ten fastest player chart after being clocked at 37 km/h (22.99 mph) this weekend. Burke’s clocked speed in the Easter Sunday 1-1 draw with St. Pauli makes him the first player to crack the top-ten in the current 2025/26 campaign. 

As noted in a previous Get German Football News piece, the current Bundesliga season – despite seeing some impressive speed measurements by notoriously fast players such as St. Pauli’s Ricky Jade Jones and RB Leipzig’s Yan Diomande – hasn’t featured any new top ten entrants. Last year, five players totally shook up the top-ten list. 

Burke becomes the first 2025/26 Bundesliga footballer to alter the list.

The top ten fastest-ever Bundesliga players

10. Nathan Ngoumou (Borussia Mönchengladbach)

36.53 km/hr (22.69 mph) on September 21st, 2024.

9. Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich)

-36.53 km/hr (22.69 mph) on April 8th, 2023.

8. Sheraldo Becker (Union Berlin)

36.57 km/hr (22.72 mph) on May 13th, 2023.

7. Jeremiah St. Juste (Mainz)

36.63 km/hr (22.76 mph) on October 3rd, 2021.

6. Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund)

36.65 km/hr (22.77 mph) on February 4th, 2023.

5. Gerrit Holtmann (Bochum)

36.74 km/hr (22.83 mph) on November 2nd, 2024.

4. Sirlord Conteh (Heidenheim)

36.83 km/hr (22.88 mph) on December 7th, 2024.

3. Loïs Openda (RB Leipzig)

36.84 km/hr (22.89 mph) on May 3rd, 2025.

2. Oliver Burke (Union Berlin)

37.0 km/hr (22.99 mph) on April 5th, 2026.

1. Jean-Matteo Bahoya (Eintracht Frankfurt)

37.16 km/hr (23.09 mph) on March 15th, 2025.

GGFN | Peter Weis