The top 10 youngest goalscorers in Bundesliga history
The German top flight has always been a hotbed for talented teenagers keen to announce their arrival on the world stage. Many such rookies like Florian Wirtz, Jamal Musiala and Youssoufa Moukoko did so in the best possible way – by getting on the scoresheet.
Here's the 10 youngest goalscorers in Bundesliga history…
Age: 16 years and 28 days
Moukoko absolutely smashed the record for the youngest scorer in Bundesliga history when he netted only 28 days after his 16th birthday. It came in a losing cause as Borussia Dortmund were beaten 2-1 at Union Berlin on Matchday 13 of 2020/21, but after smashing scoring records at youth level, it was no surprise when the prodigious BVB striker then did the same for the senior side. He ended his first campaign with the first team on three Bundesliga goals – of course making him the youngest to reach that total.
Watch: Moukoko becomes the youngest scorer in Bundesliga history
Age: 17 years and 34 days
Wirtz became the then youngest goalscorer in Bundesliga history when he steered in his first goal for Bayer Leverkusen at the age of 17 years and 34 days on Matchday 30 of the 2020/21 season. A half-time substitute, and making only his fourth Bundesliga appearance having dislodged Kai Havertz as Leverkusen's youngest-ever debutant at the age of 17 years and 16 days, Wirtz curled a memorable goal past Bayern Munich and Germany No.1 Manuel Neuer.
3) Wael Mohya
Age: 17 years and 65 days
Mohya was just shy of his 17th birthday when he made his Bundesliga debut for Borussia Mönchengladbach in December 2025's 3-1 loss to Wolfsburg. The teenager was then handed his first start against Union Berlin at the end of February. Although on the bench again the following week, the forward's first game against Bayern proved to be incredibly memorable as he came on and bagged a late consolation in a 4-1 loss to become the first 17-year-old ever to score a Bundesliga goal for Gladbach and take third place on the league's all-time list.
Watch: Mohya made history with a late consolation goal in Munich
4) Nuri Şahin
Age: 17 years and 82 days
Previous number one Şahin had already created history when he was still 16, as in 2005 he became the youngest player ever in the Bundesliga at the time. The future Turkey international set another benchmark in November the same year, firing home what proved the crucial second goal for Dortmund in their 2-1 victory at Nuremberg. Şahin went on to win the league with BVB in 2011 before also lining up for Real Madrid and Liverpool. After spells with Werder Bremen and Antalyaspor, he took over as coach at the latter before a short six-month tenure in charge of Dortmund in 2024/25.
5) Mathys Tel
Age: 17 years and 136 days
Tel wrote his name into the Bayern history books when he scored on his first start for the club in the 5-0 DFB Cup win over Viktoria Cologne, doing so 126 days after his 17th birthday and knocking Musiala off top spot. He did the same in the Bundesliga on Matchday 6 of 2022/23 when netting against VfB Stuttgart – in fact in the same game as Musiala, meaning both goalscorers that day were teenagers – to again usurp the Germany international in the club standings and now sit fifth in the all-time Bundesliga chart.
6) Tom Rothe
Age: 17 years and 169 days
Former St. Pauli youngster Rothe was enjoying a solid debut season with the Dortmund U19s when he was parachuted into the senior fold for the 2021/22 Bundesliga Matchday 30 meeting with Wolfsburg. With less than 25 minutes on the clock, the 6'2" left-back flicked in a Julian Brandt corner to pave the way for a resounding 6-1 triumph. In doing so, Rothe became the youngest ever goalscoring debutant in Bundesliga history, and only the third 17-year-old to hit the back of the net on his top-flight bow.
7) Ibrahim Maza
Age: 17 years and 184 days
Now of Leverkusen, it was at boyhood club Hertha Berlin that Maza first made his name. He made his Bundesliga bow on Matchday 30 of 2022/23 away at Bayern as the capital club's second-youngest debutant in the top flight. One month later he made history as their youngest goalscorer when he came off the bench to equalise in a 2-1 win over Wolfsburg for already relegated Hertha on the final day of the season.
Age: 17 years and 193 days
Draxler grew up watching Schalke from the stands, and he became the youngest player in the club’s history when he made his debut in January 2011. The realisation of childhood dreams continued in April of that year, when he came off the bench to seal a 2-0 win at St. Pauli. The teenager later added to his place in Royal Blue folklore by scoring the opening goal in the 2010/11 DFB Cup final win over Duisburg, and finished his spell at the club with 30 goals in 170 appearances. A FIFA World Cup and Confederations Cup winner with Germany, Draxler left for an 18-month spell at Wolfsburg in 2015 and has since filled up his trophy cabinet while with Paris Saint-Germain before a 2023 move to Qatar.
9) Timo Werner
Age: 17 years and 200 days
Lethal at RB Leipzig, Werner first gave notice of his talent at VfB Stuttgart. Shortly after becoming the youngest player to feature for his hometown club, the striker opened his account in professional football with a headed equaliser in a 1-1 home draw with Eintracht Frankfurt on 22 September 2013. Once the youngest player to reach 50 Bundesliga appearances, the forward is the only player to score over 100 goals for Die Roten Bullen, most during his first spell between 2016 and 2020 before moves to Chelsea, back to Leipzig, a loan to Tottenham Hotspur and now playing for the San Jose Earthquakes.
Watch: How Werner did his scoring for Leipzig
10) Jamal Musiala
Age: 17 years and 205 days
Musiala became Bayern's youngest ever player in the Bundesliga at just 17 years and 115 days old when he featured against Freiburg on the penultimate weekend of the 2019/20 season. He followed that by becoming the Bavarian club's all-time youngest goalscorer at the time, smashing the record set by an 18-year-old Roque Santa Cruz, with the eighth goal in an 8-0 demolition of Schalke on the opening day of 2020/21. The Germany international has since gone on to set the Bundesliga and world football alight with his silky skills with well over 200 appearances for Bayern.
Watch: Musiala's best skills
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