Lewandowski to Barcelona: Bayern great leaves Germany as Bundesliga´s best

Robert Lewandowski’s time at Bayern Munich has come to an end.

Barcelona have struck a deal in principle with the Bundesliga champions to sign the star forward, who expressed his desire to leave Munich at the end of last season.

Lewandowski scored 50 goals across all competitions in the 2021-22 campaign, continuing his remarkable form across his eight-year spell in Bavaria.

Before his move to Bayern in 2014, Lewandowski was brilliant for Borussia Dortmund, and he leaves Germany as one of the Bundesliga’s greatest performers, having scored 344 goals and contributing 57 assists.

Here are the 33-year-old’s best figures and records from his stint in Germany’s top tier.
 

Bossing the Bundesliga

312 – Lewandowski has scored 312 Bundesliga goals, the second most scored by any player in the history of the competition behind the great Gerd Muller’s tally of 365.

128 – Of those 312 goals, 128 have come on the road, which is the most by any Bundesliga player.

7 – Lewandowski finished as the Bundesliga’s top scorer in seven different seasons, equalling the record set by Bayern legend Muller.

41 – He also broke Muller’s long-standing record of scoring 40 goals in a single Bundesliga season when he netted 41 in the 2020-21 campaign.

5 – The Poland forward has finished as the league’s top scorer in the last five seasons, with no other player managing such a long streak in the competition’s history.
 

A king in Europe

86 – Lewandowski has scored 86 Champions League goals, with only Cristiano Ronaldo (140) and Lionel Messi (125) having scored more, while his tally is matched by Real Madrid star Karim Benzema.

106 -Yet no other player has needed fewer Champions League appearances to reach 86 goals (Lewandowski 106, Messi 107, Ronaldo 121, Benzema 141).

23 – In the 2021-22 season, Lewandowski scored three goals within the first 23 minutes against RB Salzburg in the last 16. That is the quickest hat-trick in Champions League history.

5 – Lewandowski has scored three or more goals in a Champions League game on five occasions, with only Ronaldo and Messi (both eight) doing so more times.

1 – He is the only player to score four goals in a Champions League semi-final tie, having done so for Dortmund against Madrid in 2013.