Two BVB players in this Bundesliga top 10, but … | OneFootball

Manuel Neuer has just turned 40 years old. A few weeks ago, he had already taken a Bundesliga record from his long-time FC Bayern Munich teammate Thomas Müller. Neuer is now the player with the most wins in Bundesliga history. In the top 10 of this category, there are also two former Borussia Dortmund players – although that comes with an asterisk.

Manuel Neuer now stands on 372 wins, the vast majority of them in the shirt of the record champions, though a certain share also came from his matches for BVB rival FC Schalke 04. Thomas Müller, who only ever played in the Bundesliga for FC Bayern, left for Canada after 362 wins and has therefore recently been overtaken by Neuer.

In third place among the players with the most wins in the Bundesliga is another FC Bayern Munich goalkeeper. Oliver Kahn also naturally collected some of his 310 wins with Karlsruher SC, where he made his Bundesliga debut. Like Neuer, however, Kahn achieved most of his wins for FC Bayern.

In fourth place is the only player in the top 10 who never played for FC Bayern. Manfred Kaltz played exclusively in the Bundesliga for Hamburger SV, and did so during the club’s heyday in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since he also had a very long career, that adds up to 291 wins from his 581 appearances, which still leave him in second place on the Bundesliga’s all-time appearance list.

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Mats Hummels also had a spell at FC Bayern

Behind him comes the first of two players with a BVB past. Robert Lewandowski has 274 wins, again with the majority coming at FC Bayern, after previously being a Borussia Dortmund player between 2010 and 2014. That, too, was during one of BVB’s most successful periods, with the back-to-back league titles in 2011 and 2012.

The same applies to Mats Hummels, sixth on the list. Unlike Lewandowski, apart from his three years (2016–2019) at Bayern Munich and one appearance right at the start of his career, Hummels had always played for BVB – which he had curiously joined from FC Bayern in the first place. Hummels left the pitch as a Bundesliga winner 268 times.

In the remaining places are once again players who spent all or at least a significant part of their careers at FC Bayern. Philipp Lahm has 250 wins, while Lothar Matthäus and Sepp Maier share eighth place with one fewer each. Claudio Pizarro occupies 10th place. He moved back and forth between Werder Bremen and FC Bayern, even turned out once more for 1. FC Köln at the end, before finishing his career back at Werder in 2020, not without becoming the oldest goalscorer in Bundesliga history. Across his various clubs, Pizarro won 248 matches.

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