Robert Lewandowski has won the Bundesliga top scorer award for the fifth consecutive season and the seventh overall.
Lewandowski, 33, scored 35 goals for Bayern Munich in their 34-game season, averaging one goal every 82 minutes. Patrik Schick of Bayer Leverkusen was his closest rival with 24 goals. Erling Haaland of Borussia Dortmund was third in the final scoring rankings with 22 points.
Lewandowski is the first player in Bundesliga history to win five consecutive top scorer’s cannons and seven overall. Gerd Müller also won the accolade seven times, however he shared it three times.
Bayern’s No.9 scored two hat-tricks and seven braces in 34 games, failing to score only 10 times.
Between Matchdays 16 and 19, he had two five-game scoring streaks totaling seven goals, as well as a four-game explosion with the same number. The two-time FIFA Men’s Player of the Year also set a Bundesliga record for most away goals in a single season (19).
As a Bayern player, Lewandowski has claimed six of his top scorer’s trophies, with the other coming at the end of his final season with Dortmund. He has previously won the award in the seasons 2013/14 (20), 2015/16 (30), 2017/18 (29), 2018/19 (22), 2019/20 (34) and 2020/21 (a single-season record 41), and is currently ranked second all-time.
With 312 goals in 384 Bundesliga games, he is well ahead of Klaus Fischer (268 goals) in third place, with only Müller ahead of him.
Between 1964 and 1979, the late Bayern Munich attacker scored 365 goals in 427 Bundesliga games for Bayern, but Lewandowski has the higher strike rate. Müller scores every 105 minutes, while the Pole scores every 100 minutes.
Lewandowski has been with Bayern since the summer of 2014 and is now under contract until June 30, 2023.
