🔢 Bundesliga keeper reaches 500 games, only 13 beat him to it | OneFootball

When Oliver Baumann faced Mainz 05 away with his Hoffenheim team yesterday, it was a special match for the current number one in the national goal: He played his 500th Bundesliga game. That is an impressive number – and only 13 players have achieved this since 1963.

At 35 years and just over five months, Baumann is, according to ‘transfermarkt.de’, the fourth youngest player to reach his 500th Bundesliga match. He made his debut more than 15 years ago as a 19-year-old for SC Freiburg. He stayed there until 2014 when he moved to Sinsheim – and since then, he has guarded the goal for TSG several hundred times.

Who achieved this before him?

The most recent milestone breaker is Thomas Müller. Before his move to the USA, he broke the record - that was about half a year ago.

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Then we have former Bayern player Stefan Reuter, who has 502 Bundesliga games to his name – still within reach for Baumann, while Müller is unlikely to increase his number further.

Also, position twin and HSV legend Uli Stein reached the 500-game mark in his career, as did Michael Lameck (who played 518 Bundesliga games for Bochum), DFB Cup winner Willi Neuberger, goalkeeper Eike Immel, former national player Klaus Fischer, and defensive midfielder Miroslav Votava, who ended his career at 41.

Incidentally, Manuel Neuer is, alongside Baumann and Müller, the only active player in this list. He has also broken the record and continues to work on increasing this number.

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One of Baumann's idols - Oliver Kahn - also broke the mark, as did Manfred “Manni” Kaltz and Klaus Fichtel, who played for Schalke and Bremen.

At the top is Karl-Heinz Körbel. With 602 Bundesliga appearances for Eintracht Frankfurt, he has been the Bundesliga record player since 1990.

There's more to come

A rather prominent collection of names that Oliver Baumann joined last night – and he has the potential to climb even higher than 14th place. The TSG keeper has a contract until 2028 and can imagine standing between the posts until his 40th birthday – at least that's what ‘transfermarkt.de’ reports. Ideally, this should happen in Sinsheim until the end. We can be curious about how many appearances will follow these first 500.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.

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