Union Berlin's Oliver Burke surpasses Alan McInally to set Bundesliga goalscoring record

Oliver Burke scored his ninth, 10th and 11th Bundesliga goals for Union Berlin against Eintracht Frankfurt on Matchday 4, making him the highest-scoring Scotsman in Bundesliga history.

The record was previously held by Alan McInally, who scored 10 league goals for Bayern Munich in the 1989/90 season, with Hamburg’s Mark McGhee ranked third with seven goals in 30 games between August 1984 and October 1985.

In Union’s 4-3 win over Frankfurt, Burke not only became only the third Union player to score three goals in a single Bundesliga match, but became the first to do it away from home. He’s also the first Scottish player to score a hat-trick in Germany’s top flight.

Watch: Burke scores a hat-trick in Union's 4-3 win in Frankfurt

Joining RB Leipzig from Nottingham Forest in August 2016, Burke scored his first Bundesliga goal on Matchday 5 of the 2016/17 season in a 1-1 draw against Cologne, becoming the first Scottish player to score in the Bundesliga since November 1999 when Brian O'Neil netted for Wolfsburg in their defeat against Hertha Berlin.

Paul Lambert, Scott Booth, Murdo MacLeod, O’Neil, McGhee, McInally and Burke all follow in the footsteps of Vince Mennie, who was the first Scot to play and score in the Bundesliga, appearing 29 times in Germany’s top flight for Cologne between 1983 and 1985.

McInally won the 1989/90 Bundesliga title with Bayern. - imago images / Sven Simon

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No Scotsman has played more games in the Bundesliga than Burke, who has made 75 appearances for Leipzig, Werder Bremen and Union combined.

Goals are not the only way Burke has made his mark on the Bundesliga this season - with the attacker clocking a faster speed than any other player in the division of 22.38 mph (36.01 kmph) going into the November international break.

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