Top 5 records created by Robert Lewandowski in his 10 Bundesliga seasons

Robert Lewandowski arrived in Germany in the summer of 2010-11, when the then 21-year-old Polish international was signed by Borussia Dortmund.

After four goal-rich seasons, Lewandowski became the 10th Dortmund player to score 100 goals in all competitions. He then joined Bavarian giants Bayern Munich right before the 2014-15 season.

At Bayern, Lewandowski scaled new heights. The prolific Pole became the highest scoring foreign player in Bundesliga history and moved into the top 2 of the all-time scorers list for the legendary Munich team.

One of only two players to score 50 goals for club and country in 2019, Lewandowski is the top-scorer of the calendar year. He is also the first player in 2019-20 to score 30 goals across competitions.

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The only player to score four goals in a Champions League semi-final game, Lewandowski has scaled many a formidable record and also created new ground during his decade in the German top-flight. Let us have a look at the 5 most prominent ones.

#5 Most goals in a game by a substitute player

Coming on as a second-half substitute in a 2015-16 Bundesliga game for Bayern Munich, Lewandowski scored a stunning five goals in a nine-minute blitz to break a series of records.

The Polish striker registered the fastest hat-trick (3 minute 22 seconds), quadruple (5 minute 42 seconds), and five-goal haul (8 minute 59 seconds) in Bundesliga history. He also created a new record for most goals scored by a substitute player in the German top-flight.

Trailing 0-1 at the break, Pep Guardiola summoned the services of the Polish striker, who made a devastating impact on the game. Wolfsburg didn't know what had struck them.

#4 Fastest non-German player to score 100 Bundesliga goals

Robert Lewandowski

In the 2015-16 season, during Bayern's 5-1 win over Wolfsburg, Lewandowski notched up his 100th Bundesliga goal (74 for Borussia Dortmund, 26 for Bayern).

In the process, the Polish forward reached a century of German top-flight goals quicker than any non-German player.

#3 Becomes the most prolific non-German player in the Bundesliga

Robert Lewandowski

By scoring a brace in Bayern's 6-0 win over Wolfsburg in a 2018-19 Bundesliga game, Lewandowski overtook Claudio Pizzarro to become the most prolific non-German scorer in German top-flight history.

In the process, the Poland striker moved to 197 Bundesliga goals (74 for Dortmund, 123 for Bayern) in 281 appearances for Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich.

#2 First player to score in each of the first 11 games of a Bundesliga season

Robert Lewandowski

On Matchday 9 of the 2019-20 season, Lewandowski scored in a 2-1 home win over newly promoted Union Berlin to become the first player to score in each of the first nine games of a Bundesliga season.

Lewandowski would extend his scoring record to 11 before Dusseldorf became the first Bundesliga team in 2019-20 to not concede against the prolific marksman.

#1 Becomes the 3rd highest scorer in Bundesliga history

Robert Lewandowski

Lewandowski scored Bayern's opener in the Bavarian side's 3-1 win over Freiburg on Matchday 15 of the 2019-20 Bundesliga season to create more Bundesliga history.

The prolific marksman overtook former coach Jupp Heynckes' tally of 220 Bundesliga goals to take the outright third spot in the all-time scoring list in German top-flight history.

Next in Lewandowski's sight is Klaus Fischer's mark of 268 Bundesliga goals, which is the most in the history of the competition behind top-scorer Gerd Muller's tally of 365 goals.

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