List of FC Bayern Munich players

Below is a list of FC Bayern Munich players who have played 40 or more games in the Bundesliga for Bayern Munich. For all Bayern Munich players with an article, see Category:FC Bayern Munich footballers, and for the current squad see the main club article. Appearances are up to date as of 30 June 2024.

List of players

  Spent their entire professional career with Bayern Munich.
  Part of the Bayern Munich hall of fame.

Franz Beckenbauer was the captain of Bayern's successful side of the 1970s

Oliver Kahn was Bayern's goalkeeper from 1994 to 2008, and captain from 2002

Goalkeeper Sepp Maier made 473 Bundesliga appearances between 1962 and 1980, more than any other Bayern player

Lothar Matthäus was a star player in two separate spells for Bayern, as a midfielder and later as a sweeper

Gerd Müller's 365 goals in 427 games is a Bundesliga record

Franz Roth made 322 Bundesliga appearances, and scored in three European finals

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge made 310 appearances for Bayern between 1974 and 1984, and is now the club chairman

Manuel Neuer is the current captain of Bayern Munich since 2017. He won IFFHS World's Best Goalkeeper award five times, of which four were consecutive. (2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2020)

Name	Position	Nationality	Bayern career	League apps	League goals	Notes
David Alaba	Defender	Austria	2010–2021	281	22
Xabi Alonso	Midfielder	Spain	2014–2017	79	5
Hamit Altıntop	Midfielder	Turkey	2007–2011	63	7
Björn Andersson	Defender	Sweden	1974–1977	47	1
Klaus Augenthaler	Defender	Germany	1976–1991	404	52	Captain from 1984–1991.
Raimond Aumann	Goalkeeper	Germany	1982–1994	216	0	Captain from 1991–1994.
Markus Babbel	Defender	Germany	1991–2000	182	5
Holger Badstuber	Defender	Germany	2009–2017	119	1
Michael Ballack	Midfielder	Germany	2002–2006	107	44
Mario Basler	Midfielder	Germany	1996–1999	78	18
Franz Beckenbauer	Defender	West Germany	1963–1977	396	44	Captain from 1970–1977. President from 1994–2009. Coach during 1994 and 1996.
Bertram Beierlorzer	Defender	West Germany	1981–1986	73	0
Manfred Bender	Midfielder	Germany	1989–1992	77	9
Juan Bernat	Midfielder	Spain	2014–2018	76	3
Jérôme Boateng	Defender	Germany	2011–2021	229	5
Andreas Brehme	Defender	West Germany	1986–1988	59	7
Paul Breitner	Midfielder	West Germany	1970–1974 1978–1983	255	83	Captain from 1980–1983.
Dieter Brenninger	Forward	West Germany	1962–1971	190	59
Hans-Jörg Butt	Goalkeeper	Germany	2008–2012	63	0
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting	Forward	Cameroon	2020–2024	88	19
Kingsley Coman	Midfielder	France	2015–	199	41
Diego Contento	Defender	Germany	2010–2014	49	0
Douglas Costa	Forward	Brazil	2015–2018	50	8
Dante	Defender	Brazil	2012–2015	86	3
Alphonso Davies	Defender	Canada	2019–	135	8
Sebastian Deisler	Midfielder	Germany	2002–2007	62	8
Kalle Del'Haye	Forward	West Germany	1980–1985	74	7
Martín Demichelis	Defender	Argentina	2003–2011	174	13
Matthijs de Ligt	Defender	Netherlands	2022–2024	53	5
Hans Dorfner	Midfielder	Germany	1983–1991	111	17
Wolfgang Dremmler	Defender	West Germany	1979–1986	172	6
Bernd Dürnberger	Midfielder	West Germany	1972–1985	375	38
Stefan Effenberg	Midfielder	Germany	1990–1992 1998–2002	160	35	Captain from 1999–2002.
Norbert Eder	Defender	West Germany	1984–1988	132	6
Giovane Élber	Forward	Brazil	1997–2003	169	92
Thorsten Fink	Midfielder	Germany	1997–2004	122	4
Hansi Flick	Midfielder	West Germany	1985–1990	104	5	Coach from 2019–2021.
Serge Gnabry	Midfielder	Germany	2017–	166	63
Mario Gómez	Forward	Germany	2009–2013	115	75
Leon Goretzka	Midfielder	Germany	2018–	154	31
Mario Götze	Midfielder	Germany	2013–2016	73	22
Roland Grahammer	Defender	Germany	1988–1994	102	2
Wolfgang Grobe	Midfielder	West Germany	1982–1986	58	10
Peter Gruber	Defender	West Germany	1976–1980	41	2
Luiz Gustavo	Midfielder	Brazil	2011–2013	64	6
Dietmar Hamann	Midfielder	Germany	1993–1998	106	6
Johnny Hansen	Defender	Denmark	1970–1976	164	7
Owen Hargreaves	Midfielder	England	2000–2007	145	5
Thomas Helmer	Defender	Germany	1992–1999	191	24	Captain from 1997–1999.
Lucas Hernandez	Defender	France	2019–2023	74	0
Dieter Hoeneß	Forward	West Germany	1979–1987	224	102
Uli Hoeneß	Midfielder	West Germany	1970–1979	239	86	General Manager from 1979–2009; President from 2009–2014 and 2016–2019.
Wilhelm Hoffmann	Forward	West Germany	1971–1974	55	14
Udo Horsmann	Defender	West Germany	1975–1983	242	20
Mats Hummels	Defender	Germany	2007–2009 2016–2018	75	3
Carsten Jancker	Forward	Germany	1996–2002	143	48
Norbert Janzon	Forward	West Germany	1977–1981	84	20
Jens Jeremies	Midfielder	Germany	1998–2006	163	6
Jorginho	Defender	Brazil	1992–1995	67	6
Walter Junghans	Goalkeeper	West Germany	1977–1982	67	0
Oliver Kahn	Goalkeeper	Germany	1994–2008	429	0	Captain from 2002–2008; Honorary captain.
Harry Kane	Forward	England	2023–	40	45
Jupp Kapellmann	Midfielder	West Germany	1973–1979	165	17
Joshua Kimmich	Defender	Germany	2015–	262	26
Jürgen Klinsmann	Forward	Germany	1995–1997	65	31	Coach from 2008–2009.
Miroslav Klose	Forward	Germany	2007–2011	98	24
Ludwig Kögl	Midfielder	West Germany	1984–1990	149	8
Jürgen Kohler	Defender	Germany	1989–1991	55	6
Herwart Koppenhöfer	Defender	West Germany	1969–1972	71	0
Dieter Koulmann	Midfielder	West Germany	1963–1968	99	15
Wolfgang Kraus	Midfielder	West Germany	1979–1984	138	17
Franz Krauthausen	Midfielder	West Germany	1971–1973	57	9
Robert Kovač	Defender	Croatia	2001–2005	100	0
Oliver Kreuzer	Defender	Germany	1991–1997	153	8
Toni Kroos	Midfielder	Germany	2007–2014	130	13
Samuel Osei Kuffour	Defender	Ghana	1994–2005	175	7
Peter Kupferschmidt	Defender	West Germany	1960–1971	135	4
Bruno Labbadia	Forward	Germany	1991–1994	82	28
Philipp Lahm	Defender	Germany	2002–2017	332	12	Captain from 2011–2017.
Brian Laudrup	Forward	Denmark	1990–1992	53	11
Christian Lell	Defender	Germany	2003–2010	65	1
Søren Lerby	Midfielder	Denmark	1983–1986	89	22	Coach from 1991–1992.
Robert Lewandowski	Forward	Poland	2014–2022	253	238
Thomas Linke	Defender	Germany	1998–2005	165	2
Bixente Lizarazu	Defender	France	1997–2004 2005–2006	182	7
Lúcio	Defender	Brazil	2004–2009	145	7
Sepp Maier	Goalkeeper	West Germany	1962–1980	473	0	Captain from 1977–1979.
Roy Makaay	Forward	Netherlands	2003–2007	129	78
Mario Mandžukić	Forward	Croatia	2012–2014	54	33
Javi Martínez	Midfielder	Spain	2012–2021	165	9
Reinhold Mathy	Forward	West Germany	1980–1987	100	21
Lothar Matthäus	Midfielder	Germany	1984–1988 1992–2000	302	85	Captain from 1994–1997.
Mazinho	Forward	Brazil	1991–1994	49	11
Alan McInally	Forward	Scotland	1989–1992	40	10
Karl-Heinz Mrosko	Forward	West Germany	1969–1971	50	13
Gerd Müller	Forward	West Germany	1964–1979	427	365	Captain during 1979.
Manfred Müller	Goalkeeper	West Germany	1980–1984	43	0
Thomas Müller	Forward	Germany	2008–	473	149
Markus Münch	Defender	Germany	1990–1997	49	0
Jamal Musiala	Midfielder	Germany	2020–	114	33
Norbert Nachtweih	Midfielder	East Germany	1982–1989	202	20
Rudolf Nafziger	Forward	West Germany	1964–1968	89	10
Christian Nerlinger	Midfielder	Germany	1992–1998	156	28
Manuel Neuer	Goalkeeper	Germany	2011–	345	0	Captain since 2017.
Kurt Niedermayer	Defender	West Germany	1977–1982	145	32
Branko Oblak	Midfielder	Yugoslavia	1977–1980	71	5
Rainer Ohlhauser	Forward	West Germany	1961–1970	160	64
Ivica Olić	Forward	Croatia	2009–2012	55	13
Werner Olk	Defender	West Germany	1960–1970	144	2	Captain from 1965–1970.
Andreas Ottl	Midfielder	Germany	2005–2011	92	5
Benjamin Pavard	Defender	France	2019–2023	111	8
Claudio Pizarro	Forward	Peru	2001–2007 2012–2015	224	87
Hans Pflügler	Defender	Germany	1981–1992 1995	277	36
Lukas Podolski	Forward	Germany	2006–2009	71	15
Peter Pumm	Defender	Austria	1968–1971	84	2
Jean-Marie Pfaff	Goalkeeper	Belgium	1982–1988	156	0
Danijel Pranjić	Midfielder	Croatia	2009–2012	55	1
Rafinha	Defender	Brazil	2011–2019	179	5
Wolfgang Rausch	Defender	West Germany	1977–1979	51	3
Michael Rensing	Goalkeeper	Germany	2003–2010	53	0
Stefan Reuter	Defender	Germany	1988–1991	95	4
Franck Ribéry	Midfielder	France	2007–2019	273	86
Ruggiero Rizzitelli	Forward	Italy	1996–1998	45	12
Arjen Robben	Midfielder	Netherlands	2009–2019	201	99
James Rodríguez	Midfielder	Colombia	2017–2019	43	14
Franz Roth	Midfielder	West Germany	1966–1978	322	72
Karl-Heinz Rummenigge	Forward	West Germany	1974–1984	310	162	Captain from 1983–1984. Vice-president from 1991–2002. Chairman from 2002–2021.
Michael Rummenigge	Forward	West Germany	1982–1988	152	44
Marcel Sabitzer	Midfielder	Austria	2021–2023	40	2
Willy Sagnol	Defender	France	2000–2009	184	7
Hasan Salihamidžić	Midfielder	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1998–2007	234	30
Roque Santa Cruz	Forward	Paraguay	1999–2007	155	31
Leroy Sané	Forward	Germany	2020–	123	29
Helmut Schmidt	Midfielder	West Germany	1967–1970	49	2
Edgar Schneider	Forward	West Germany	1970–1974	66	7
Mehmet Scholl	Midfielder	Germany	1992–2007	334	87
Markus Schupp	Midfielder	Germany	1992–1995	91	12
Manfred Schwabl	Midfielder	Germany	1984–1986 1989–1993	87	4
Georg Schwarzenbeck	Defender	West Germany	1966–1981	416	21	Captain from 1979–1980.
Bastian Schweinsteiger	Midfielder	Germany	2002–2015	342	45
Paulo Sergio	Forward	Brazil	1999–2002	77	21
Ciriaco Sforza	Midfielder	Switzerland	1995–1996 2000–2002	65	3
Xherdan Shaqiri	Midfielder	Switzerland	2012–2015	81	17
Michael Sternkopf	Midfielder	Germany	1990–1995	94	4
Thomas Strunz	Midfielder	Germany	1989–1992 1995–2001	156	24
Niklas Süle	Defender	Germany	2017–2022	114	6
Michael Tarnat	Midfielder	Germany	1997–2003	122	8
Mathys Tel	Forward	France	2022–	52	12
Thiago	Midfielder	Spain	2013–2020	150	17
Olaf Thon	Defender	Germany	1988–1994	148	30
Corentin Tolisso	Midfielder	France	2017–2022	72	11
Luca Toni	Forward	Italy	2007–2010	60	38
Conny Torstensson	Forward	Sweden	1973–1977	81	11
Anatoliy Tymoshchuk	Midfielder	Ukraine	2009–2013	70	3
Sven Ulreich	Goalkeeper	Germany	2015–2020 2021–	65	0
Dayot Upamecano	Defender	France	2021–	82	2
Mark van Bommel	Midfielder	Netherlands	2006–2011	123	11	Captain from 2008–2011.
Daniel Van Buyten	Defender	Belgium	2006–2014	158	20
Arturo Vidal	Midfielder	Chile	2015–2018	79	14
Jürgen Wegmann	Forward	West Germany	1987–1989	58	26
Hans Weiner	Defender	West Germany	1979–1982	91	2
Holger Willmer	Defender	West Germany	1984–1987	58	5
Helmut Winklhofer	Defender	West Germany	1981–1982 1985–1990	50	3
Marcel Witeczek	Forward	Germany	1993–1997	97	9
Roland Wohlfarth	Forward	Germany	1984–1993	254	119
Jan Wouters	Midfielder	Netherlands	1991–1994	66	6
Klaus Wunder	Forward	West Germany	1974–1975	43	7
Zé Roberto	Midfielder	Brazil	2002–2006 2007–2009	169	14
Christian Ziege	Midfielder	Germany	1990–1997	185	38
Alexander Zickler	Forward	Germany	1993–2005	214	51
Rainer Zobel	Midfielder	West Germany	1970–1976	180	19

World Cup winners

The following players won the FIFA World Cup while playing at Bayern Munich

• Hans Bauer (Switzerland 1954)
• Sepp Maier (West Germany 1974)
• Paul Breitner (West Germany 1974)
• Hans-Georg Schwarzenbeck (West Germany 1974)
• Franz Beckenbauer (West Germany 1974)
• Gerd Müller (West Germany 1974)
• Uli Hoeneß (West Germany 1974)
• Jupp Kapellmann (West Germany 1974)
• Stefan Reuter (Italy 1990)
• Jürgen Kohler (Italy 1990)
• Klaus Augenthaler (Italy 1990)
• Raimond Aumann (Italy 1990)
• Hans Pflügler (Italy 1990)
• Olaf Thon (Italy 1990)
• Jorginho (United States 1994)
• Bixente Lizarazu (France 1998)
• Manuel Neuer (Brazil 2014)
• Bastian Schweinsteiger (Brazil 2014)
• Thomas Müller (Brazil 2014)
• Philipp Lahm (Brazil 2014)
• Toni Kroos (Brazil 2014)
• Mario Götze (Brazil 2014)
• Jérôme Boateng (Brazil 2014)
• Corentin Tolisso (Russia 2018)

External links

• Kicker Sportmagazin. Kicker Edition: 40 Jahre Bundesliga (in German).
• "Hall of Fame". The official FC Bayern Munich Website. 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008.
• "FC Bayern München - Fussballdaten". fussballdaten.de. 2008. Retrieved 8 October 2008.