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Jamal Musiala’s goal for Germany against Curaçao was the 80th scored by a Bayern Munich player at the finals of the FIFA World Cup. No other club in the world can match that total, which you would expect to rise further during 2026’s tournament in Canada, Mexico and the USA.
Jamal Musiala is at his second World Cup but drew a blank at the 2022 edition in Qatar as Germany went out in the group stage. The Bayern playmaker has now finally opened his World Cup account as Julian Nagelsmann’s men saw off the Caribbean debutants in their opening Group E fixture in Houston.
From a Bayern perspective, it was the 80th goal one of their players had scored across the 23 tournaments since its inception in 1930. Their closest rivals (following the completion of fixtures on 15 June) are Spanish duo Real Madrid and Barcelona with 76 goals each. The next best Bundesliga club is Cologne with 30 goals, ahead of Borussia Dortmund and Werder Bremen (both 18).
It’s an even more remarkable achievement when you consider that nobody from the red side of Munich scored at a World Cup until 1966. Five players had been in previous squads, including Hans Bauer in 1954’s triumphant tournament, but none registered a goal until a 20-year-old Franz Beckenbauer announced himself on the world stage by netting four in England. He got another four years later before captaining the team to glory in 1974, when he didn’t score.
Miroslav Klose is the World Cup’s record goalscorer with 16 strikes, helping Germany to another record of 239 World Cup goals (Brazil: 238, as of 15 June 2026), but he got only four of those in Bayern colours at the 2010 edition in South Africa.
That was the same tournament where a 20-year-old Thomas Müller made his name by scoring five times to win the Golden Boot. Bayern's record appearance holder got another five in 2014’s triumph, one shy of Golden Boot winner James Rodríguez. The Colombian later had a two-year spell in Munich across 2017/18 and 2018/19 but didn’t score in Russia in 2018.
Thomas’s 10 World Cup goals for Bayern can only be topped by namesake and fellow club legend Gerd Müller, who plundered 14 while with his boyhood club across just 13 games at the 1970 and 1974 tournaments, including the winner against the Netherlands in the final of the latter on home soil in Munich.
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Of course, one of the most famous World Cup goals of the modern era was netted by a Bayern player when Mario Götze scored against Argentina at the Maracana to win Germany their fourth world title in 2014. The current Eintracht Frankfurt playmaker’s only other World Cup goal came in the group stage of that edition against Ghana. He joins Toni Kroos, Bastian Schweinsteiger and Lothar Matthäus on two World Cup goals in Bayern colours.
The most by a non-German Bayern player is Arjen Robben with five for the Netherlands, while Alphonso Davies is also on that list after his historic goal for Canada in 2022.
Although French players, including the likes of Kingsley Coman and Franck Ribéry, have played more games for Bayern than any other nationality (apart from German), Bixente Lizarazu’s single goal in 1998 remains the only French/Bayern goal at a World Cup. But could that well change with Michael Olise in 2026?
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As well as the six German players in North America this summer, you also wouldn’t bet against England’s Harry Kane or Luis Díaz of Colombia adding to the Bundesliga giants’ record total during this tournament. Bayern have 17 players at this World Cup, second only to Manchester City (19). A total of 92 players have played at a World Cup while under contract in Munich. Dortmund rank second for Bundesliga clubs with 48.
Bayern Munich goalscorers at the World Cup:
*as of 15 June 2026
14 – Gerd Müller
10 – Thomas Müller
8 – Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
5 – Franz Beckenbauer, Arjen Robben (Netherlands)
4 – Miroslav Klose, Paul Breitner
3 – Xherdan Shaqiri (Switzerland)
2 – Toni Kroos, Mario Götze, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Lothar Matthäus, Mario Mandžukić (Croatia), Adolfo Valencia (Colombia)
1 – Jamal Musiala, Serge Gnabry, Philipp Lahm, Carsten Jancker, Thomas Linke, Uli Hoeneß, Martín Demichelis (Argentina), Zé Roberto (Brazil), Søren Lerby (Denmark), Bixente Lizarazu (France), Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (Cameroon), Alphonso Davies (Canada), Roque Santa Cruz (Paraguay), Conny Torstensson (Sweden), Julian Green (USA)
