The top scorers of the past Bundesliga seasons: 2021/22 Robert Lewandowski (35 goals), 2020/21 Robert Lewandowski (41), 2019/20 Robert Lewandowski (34), 2018/19 Robert Lewandowski (22), 2017/18 Robert Lewandowski (29), 2016/17 (Attention!) Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (31), 2015/16 Robert Lewandowski (30), 2014/15 Alexander Meier (19), 2013/14 Robert Lewandowski (20).
It can be said that Robert Lewandowski, who appears here for the last time in this relatively uniform text, now plays for FC Barcelona, which makes it difficult for him to become a top scorer in the Bundesliga. And that Meier from Frankfurt at the time was not the Bundesliga top scorer with the fewest goals, but Fredi Bobic (VfB Stuttgart, 1995/1996, 17 goals).
And so to the present: After the departure of Robert… um, well, the long-time Bayern striker, the Bundesliga is without an adequate successor. Werder Bremen international Niclas Füllkrug leads the rankings with 15 goals, including five penalties. In the penalty-adjusted table, Gladbach’s Marcus Thuram is in first place with just 12 goals.
How much happier is the second division: Heidenheim striker Tim Kleindienst has 19 goals from 23 appearances without a single penalty. In second place is Robert…, um, Glatzel from Hamburger SV, who scored 16 goals and even missed a penalty. The third club from the top trio, Darmstadt 98, did not want to be inferior and signed a certain Filip Stojilkovic from FC Sion from Switzerland in winter, who scored twice in the 2-0 win against Kaiserslautern on Saturday.
Many fans consider the second league to be more attractive than the first because 1. FC Nürnberg, 1. FC Kaiserslautern and FC St. Pauli play there and not RB Leipzig, TSG Hoffenheim and FC Augsburg. So now she also has the more exciting strikers. The only hope for the upper house: Kleindienst and Stojilkovic will be there soon, and maybe even Glatzel.
