Bundesliga's top scorers in 2021

The Bundesliga is a professional association football league in Germany. At the top of the German football league system, the Bundesliga is Germany's primary football competition.

The Bundesliga comprises 18 teams and operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the 2. Bundesliga. Seasons run from August to May.

Most games are played on Saturdays and Sundays, with a few games played on weekdays. All of the Bundesliga clubs qualify for the DFB-Pokal. The winner of the Bundesliga qualifies for the DFL-Supercup.

Up until the thirty first day of matches during the German 2021/2022 Bundesliga season,

(Bayern Munich) scored the most goals so far, scoring 16 goals.

Followed by

(Bayern Leverkusen) who scored 14 goals. Erling Haaland (Borussia Dortmund) came in third, scoring 11 goals.

Bundesliga's top scorers in 2021:

Bundesliga 2021-22

has a total of 18 participating teams in the league where they are set for the fixtures of the season.

The top goal scorer list of the league is out now for season 2021-22 of the football tournament. Check out the top goal scorer of the Bundesliga in 2021.

Robert Lewandowski

• Full name: Robert Lewandowski

• Date of birth: 21 August 1988 (age 33)

• Place of birth: Warsaw, Poland

• Height: 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

• Position(s): Striker

• Current team: Bayern Munich

The first on the list of the

Bundesliga's top scorers in 2021

is Robert Lewandowski who topped the Bundesliga scoring chart last season with an astonishing 41 goals.

Lewandowski scored twice in

's 4-1 win at home to Greuther Fürth on Matchday 23. The FIFA Best Men's Player has scored as many times as at the same juncture last season, when he went on to hit a record 41 single-season goals.

This season he has played 23 games and has scored 28 goals. He scored 71 minutes per goal this season.

Robert Lewandowski (born 21 August 1988) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and is the captain of the

.

Recognized for his positioning, technique and finishing, Lewandowski is considered one of the best strikers of all time, as well as one of the most successful players in Bundesliga history. He has scored over 600 senior career goals for club and country.

Lewandowski was born in Warsaw and grew up in Leszno, Warsaw West County. He took his first steps in football as an unregistered player for the local club, Partyzant Leszno. In 1997, he joined MKS Varsovia Warsaw, where as a teen he played for seven years.

The following year he moved to 4th tier side Delta Warsaw, where he finally managed to play in the first team, scoring four goals at the end of the season.

In 2006–07 Lewandowski was the Polish third division's top goal scorer with 15 goals, helping Znicz Pruszkow win the promotion. The next season, he was the top scorer in the Polish second highest division with 21 goals.

After being the top scorer in the third and second tiers of Polish football with Znicz Pruszków, Lewandowski moved to top-flight Lech Poznań, helping the team win the 2009–10 Ekstraklasa.

In 2010, he transferred to Borussia Dortmund, where he won honors including two consecutive Bundesliga titles and the league's top goal scorer award. In 2013, he also featured with Dortmund in the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final.

Prior to the start of the 2014–15 season, Lewandowski agreed to join Dortmund's domestic rivals, Bayern Munich, on a free transfer. In Munich, he has won the Bundesliga title in each of his first seven seasons.

In a strange way, Robert Lewandowski’s five goals in nine minutes for Bayern Munich against Wolfsburg in 2015 feels like an underappreciated moment.

With his Bayern side trailing 1-0 at half-time, Pep Guardiola brought Lewandowski on for

, and what followed would earn him no fewer than four Guinness World Records.

He netted in the 51st, 52nd, 55th, 57th and 60th minute, scoring the most goals by a Bundesliga substitute (5), as well as the quickest three-goal (3'22"), four-goal (5'42") and five-goal (8'59") hauls in league history.

It was one of two career-defining performances for Lewandowski, following his virtuoso display for Dortmund against

in April 2013, when he became the first player to score four times in a UEFA Champions League semi-final and truly announced himself on the world stage.

“I am very satisfied, that was incredible, I just wanted to shoot, I didn’t really think what will happen afterwards. Having been one down, we knew that we must improve and score twice at least. But five goals, that’s incredible.” Lewandowski told Sky at full-time, per ESPN.

Lewandowski was integral in Bayern's UEFA Champions League win in 2019–20 as part of a treble. He is one of only two players, alongside

, to achieve the European treble, while being the highest goal scorer in all three competitions, and first to do it as the sole top scorer.

A full international for Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has earned over 120 caps and was a member of their team at UEFA Euro 2012, Euro 2016, the 2018 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2020. With 74 international goals, Lewandowski is the all-time top scorer for Poland.

He won IFFHS World's Best International Goal Scorer Award in 2015 and 2021, IFFHS World's Best Top Goal Scorer Award in 2020 and 2021, and IFFHS World's Best Top Division Goal Scorer Award in 2021.

He also won the IFFHS World's Best Player in 2020 and 2021 and the European Golden Shoe for the 2020–21 season. Moreover, Lewandowski has been named the Polish Footballer of the Year a record nine times and the Polish Sports Personality of the Year three times.

In 2020, Lewandowski won the Best FIFA Men's Player Award (retained in 2021) and the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award. He has been named to the UEFA Team of the Year twice and the UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season four times, and is the third-highest goal scorer in the history of the competition.

Lewandowski has been named the VDV Bundesliga Player of the Season a record five times. He has scored over 300 goals in the Bundesliga (second-highest goal scorer of all time in Bundesliga, behind only Gerd Müller's 365 Bundesliga goals), having reached the century mark quicker than any other foreign player, and is the league's all-time leading foreign goal scorer.

Moreover, he has won the

Bundesliga Top Scorer Award

in six seasons, most prominently in the 2020–21 Bundesliga where he scored 41 goals in a single campaign, breaking

's previous Bundesliga record of 40 goals, set in 1971–72. On 30 November 2021, he finished second in the Ballon d'Or, just 33 points behind the winner

.

Patrik Schick

• Full name: Patrik Schick

• Date of birth: 24 January 1996 (age 26)

• Place of birth: Prague, Czech Republic

• Height: 1.9 m (6 ft 3 in)

• Position(s): Forward

• Current team: Bayer Leverkusen

No Leverkusen player has ever had so many goals after 23 matchdays as Schick, who scored in successive games against VfB Stuttgart and Mainz following a two-game lean spell. He played 20 games this season and scored 20 goals with overall 78 minutes per goal.

The second on the list of the

Bundesliga's top scorers in 2021

is Patrik Schick (born 24 January 1996), who is a Czech professional footballer. He plays as a forward for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the Czech Republic national team.

Born in Prague, Schick began his career with local club Sparta Prague, rising through their youth ranks, before making his senior debut as a teenager. In 2016, at the age of 20, he earned a move to Sampdoria in Italy after an impressive spell with Bohemians 1905.

After an impressive debut season in Italy, he moved to Roma in 2017 for a reported club-record fee. In 2019, Schick moved to Germany to join RB Leipzig on a season-long loan before moving to Bundesliga rivals

on a permanent basis in September 2020.

Formerly an international at under-16, under-17, under-18, under-19, and under-21 levels, Schick made his debut for the Czech Republic in May 2016 at the age of 22. He has made over 30 caps for his country and helped the national team reach the quarter-finals of the European Championship in 2020, where he won both the Goal of the Tournament and the Silver Boot as the second-highest goal scorer of the tournament.

The Prague-born player was spotted by Sparta Prague when he was 11 years old. He made his top-flight debut for Sparta on 3 May 2014 in a 3–1 away loss at Teplice. Sparta would win the domestic double that campaign but four appearances over two campaigns meant Schick crossed town to join Bohemians 1905 on loan for the 2015–16 season.

He scored 8 goals in 27 outings for Bohemians during a relegation battle. Schick returned to Sparta and was expected to feature prominently for the club during the 2016–17 season, but David Lafata was preferred and when Sparta offered Schick a new contract, his agent turned it down.

Schick signed for Sampdoria in June 2016 for a reported fee of €4 million. In his first season in Italy, he appeared in 32 league matches and scored 11 goals for Sampdoria. He started 14 times and was able to find the back of the net once every 137 minutes.

In May 2017, he refused to extend his contract, expecting a transfer to another club. In June 2017, Juventus triggered the release clause of a reported €30 million on Schick's contract. Schick failed two separate medicals and Juventus backed out of the deal on 18 July.

On 29 August 2017 Schick joined Roma on a temporary deal for a loan fee of €5 million with a conditional obligation to buy the player once certain sporting objectives had been achieved, rising to €40 million, a club record fee. Schick spent most of his spell at Roma playing out on the right wing or left up front by himself and he scored only 8 times in 58 games.

On 2 September 2019,

announced the signing of Schick on a season-long loan deal with an option to buy him permanently. Alongside Timo Werner, Schick rekindled his form with 10 goals in 28 games for Leipzig as the club finished in third place in the Bundesliga and reached the semi-finals of the Champions League.

On 8 September 2020, Schick joined Bayer Leverkusen on a five-year deal for a reported fee of €26.5 million plus bonuses. Schick scored his first goal in a UEFA competition on 26 November 2020, coming in a 4–1 win over Israeli side Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the group stage of the Europa League.

Schick was the preferred center-forward for much of the 2020–21 campaign at the BayArena and finished with 9 strikes across 29 league games

On 4 December 2021, Schick scored four goals, all in the second half, in a 7–1 win over Greuther Fürth. Schick continued his good form in Leverkusen's next two league games, scoring a brace in each match against

and Hoffenheim respectively.

Schick was called up to the Czech Republic senior side for the first time at their pre-UEFA Euro 2016 training camp. He earned his first cap for the nation in their tournament warm-up game against Malta on 27 May 2016. Schick scored his first goal for the national team in the same match, rounding out the scoring in a 6–0 win.

On 3 July, he scored in a 2–1 defeat against Denmark in the quarter-finals, to equal Milan Baros record of five goals for the Czech Republic in a European Championship tournament. Alongside

, he was the UEFA Euro 2020 joint top scorer with 5 goals, with the higher of number of goals scored from an open play.

On 25 May 2021, Schick was included in the Czech Republic's final 26-man squad for the postponed UEFA Euro 2020 tournament. In the first group stage match against Scotland on 14 June at Hampden Park in Glasgow, Schick scored both goals as the Czech Republic won 2–0. The second strike from the halfway line was the longest-recorded goal at the Euros since 1980 at 45 meters.

The goal was later voted as the "goal of the tournament", and was nominated for the FIFA Puskás Award. He became the first Czech player since Tomáš Rosický at the 2006 FIFA World Cup to score a brace at a major tournament and the first since Milan Baroš in 2004 to do so at the European Championships.

Erling Haaland

• Full name: Erling Braut Haaland

• Date of birth: 21 July 2000 (age 21)

• Place of birth: Leeds, England

• Height  1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)

• Position(s): Striker

• Current team: Borussia Dortmund

Despite sitting out seven matches through injury,

has scored 16 times at a clip of one goal every 72 minutes. The Norwegian scoring machine's latest strike came in BVB's 3-2 win at Hoffenheim.

Erling Braut Haaland (born 21 July 2000) is among the

Bundesliga's top scorers in 2021

. He is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a striker for German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Norway national team.

A prolific goal scorer, Haaland is recognized for his pace, athleticism and finishing ability. He is considered one of the best strikers in world football.

Haaland was born in Leeds, England, as his father Alf-Inge Haaland was playing for Leeds United in the Premier League at the time. In 2004, at the age of three, he moved to Bryne, his parents' hometown in Norway.

Along with playing football from an early age, Haaland partook in various other sports as a child, including handball, golf, and track and field. He also reportedly achieved a world record in his age category for the standing long jump when he was five, with a recorded distance of 1.63 meters in 2006.

Haaland started his career at his hometown club Bryne in 2016, and moved to Molde the following year; he spent two seasons with the club before signing with Austrian side Red Bull Salzburg in January 2019. At

, he won two Austrian Bundesliga titles and one Austrian Cup.

Haaland became the first teenager to score in five consecutive UEFA Champions League matches during the 2019–20 season. In December 2019, he completed a transfer to Borussia Dortmund for a fee reported to be in the region of €20 million.

Haaland also won the 2020 Golden Boy award. In 2020–21, he was integral in Dortmund's DFB-Pokal win, won the Bundesliga Player of the Season award and finished as the top scorer of the Champions League.

On 19 August 2018, Austrian Bundesliga champions Red Bull Salzburg announced that Haaland would join the club on 1 January 2019, signing a five-year contract. The Athletic's Phil Hay would later reveal that prior to his move to Salzburg, Haaland was also subject of an offer from his father's former club Leeds United.

He made his debut for the club on 17 February, the 2018–19 Austrian Cup quarter-finals against Wiener Neustädter, and scored his first goal on 12 May in the Austrian Bundesliga 2–1 win over LASK.

On 19 July, he scored his first hat-trick for the club in a 7–1 Austrian Cup win against SC-ESV Parndorf, and followed this up with his first hat-trick in the league on 10 August, scoring three in a 5–2 victory against Wolfsberger AC.

He got a third hat-trick for Salzburg on 14 September in a 7–2 victory over TSV Hartberg; this was the sixth consecutive league game Haaland had scored in, with eleven total goals during this timeframe.

Three days later, Haaland made his debut in the UEFA Champions League against Genk, where he scored three goals in the first half of an eventual 6–2 victory, his fourth overall hat-trick for Salzburg.

In his next two matches of the Champions League season, Haaland recorded a goal against Liverpool at Anfield and a further two against Napoli, becoming only the second teenager after

in the history of the competition to score in each of his first three appearances.

His six goals were also the most scored by any player in their first three Champions League matches. After converting a penalty in Salzburg's reverse fixture against Napoli, Haaland became the first teenager to score in his first four matches in the competition, and only the fourth player of any age to achieve this feat, following Zé Carlos, Alessandro Del Piero and Diego Costa.

He then scored all three goals in Salzburg's 3–0 victory at Wolfsberger AC on 10 November, recording his fifth hat-trick of the season and his second against Wolfsburg.

On 27 November, Haaland came off the bench to score another goal against Genk, joining Del Piero, Serhii Rebrov,

, Cristiano Ronaldo and Robert Lewandowski as the only players to score in the first five matches of a Champions League group stage, and becoming the first teenager to score in five consecutive matches in the competition.

However, he would fail to find the net in Salzburg's final group match against Liverpool, as his side lost 2–0 and were eliminated from the competition. This would prove to be Haaland's final game for the club; he departed Salzburg having recorded 29 goals, with 28 of these coming in only 22 appearances made during the 2019–20 season.

Despite being a reported target of Manchester United and

, German Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund confirmed the signing of Haaland on 29 December 2019, three days before the winter transfer window opened, for a fee reported to be in the region of €20 million, signing a four-and-a-half-year contract.

Haaland represented Norway at various youth levels. In the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup, Haaland won the tournament's Golden Boot, after scoring a record nine goals in a single match. He made his senior international debut in September 2019.

Anthony Modeste

• Full name: Anthony Mbu Agogo Modeste

• Date of birth: 14April 1988 (age 33)

• Place of birth: Cannes, France

• Height: 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)

• Position(s): Striker

• Current team: 1. FC Köln

Drawing a line under a four-game barren run with a bang, Modeste scored four goals in successive wins over Wolfsburg, VfB Stuttgart and Hertha Berlin before the Matchday 19 loss against Bayern.

He made it three in three appearances again and took his total to 15 with the winner from the bench against Eintracht Frankfurt on Matchday 23.

Another

top goal scorer in 2021

is Modeste who started his career as a teenager at French club Nice. He showed glimpses of his huge potential when he played for

, with several very impressive performances for one so young. During the 2009–2010 season, Modeste was loaned out to Angers.

At only 21 years of age, Modeste proved to be a huge success at Angers, scoring 20 league goals during that season and also being named in the League's team of the season. His eye-catching performances during his loan spell at Angers attracted the interest of several big French and English clubs.

On 9 July 2013, Modeste signed with 1899 Hoffenheim on a three-year contract. Modeste made his club debut in the DFB-Pokal at fifth-tier SG Aumund-Vegesack on 3 August, scoring two goals and assisting one.

Modeste's Bundesliga debut came on 10 August against Nürnberg, scoring a goal in the 2–2 draw. The following weekend at Hamburg, Modeste scored a brace in the 1–5 victory, en route to scoring six goals in his first seven games in the Bundesliga with Hoffenheim.

On 26 June 2015, Modeste joined fellow German club 1. FC Köln for an undisclosed fee, signing a four-year deal. On 8 August 2015, Modeste marked his competitive debut by scoring a hat-trick in a 4–0 win at SV Meppen in the first round of the

.

His first goal came after just 45 seconds, making it the fastest DFB-Pokal cup goal in the history of 1. FC Köln. In his Bundesliga debut with Köln on 16 August, Modeste converted a penalty, which he earned himself after being fouled by goalkeeper Przemysław Tytoń, for a winner at Stuttgart, while later assisting Yuya Osako for the final goal in a 1–3 victory.

Modeste scored in 7 of his first 9 matches in all competitions, highlighted by a penalty which he again earned himself against Hamburg on 29 August for the winner in a 2–1 victory, and a second half winner in a 1–0 victory against rivals Mönchengladbach on 19 September.

Christopher Nkunku

• Full name: Christopher Alan Nkunku

• Date of birth: 14 November 1997 (age 24)

• Place of birth: Lagny-sur-Marne, France

• Height  1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

• Position(s): Midfielder

• Current team: RB Leipzig

is Leipzig's top scorer this season, producing career-best numbers for a single campaign. The Frenchman has found the net in five of Leipzig's six Bundesliga games in 2022.He scored 13 goals in 23 games.

Another Bundesliga top scorer is Christopher Alan Nkunku (born 14 November 1997), who is a French professional footballer. He plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig.

Nkunku made his professional debut on 8 December 2015 in the UEFA Champions League against

, replacing Lucas Moura after 87 minutes in a 2–0 home win. He scored his first professional goal in a 7–0 home win against Bastia in the Coupe de France on 7 January 2017.

On 17 July 2019, RB Leipzig announced Nkunku's signing on a five-year deal.

On 15 September 2021, Nkunku scored a hat-trick for Leipzig in their 6-3 defeat against Manchester City in a UEFA Champions League Group A Matchday 1 match.

Nkunku was born in France and is of Congolese descent. He is a youth international for France. Because of Nkunku's impressive performances for PSG, there had been calls for him to be called up to the senior national team.

Serge Gnabry

• Full name: Serge David Gnabry

• Date of birth: 14 July 1995 (age 26)

• Place of birth: Stuttgart, Germany

• Height: 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)

• Position(s): Winger

• Current team: Bayern Munich

Gnabry scored his first goals since Matchday 9 with a hat-trick against boyhood club VfB Stuttgart on Matchday 16. He's the highest-scoring midfielder in this season's Bundesliga. He scored 10 goals in 23 games (16 starts) for Bayern Munich this season.

(born 14 July 1995) is a German professional footballer who plays as a winger for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the Germany national team.

Gnabry started his career in England with Arsenal in the Premier League, making his professional debut in September 2012. He also had a brief spell on loan with West Bromwich Albion before moving back to Germany to join Werder Bremen in 2016.

In 2017, he signed for Bayern Munich before being loaned to 1899 Hoffenheim for the 2017–18 season. In 2018–19, his first season with Bayern Munich, he won the Bundesliga title and was named their Player of the Season. The following season, Gnabry scored 23 goals as Bayern sealed a continental treble consisting of the Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and UEFA Champions League.

After appearing for Germany at various youth levels, Gnabry made his senior international debut in November 2016 in a 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification match against San Marino, scoring a hat-trick in an 8–0 win. He represented Germany at UEFA Euro 2020.

Gnabry's former club VfB Stuttgart agreed to a £100,000 deal with Premier League club Arsenal in 2010, but he had to wait until 2011, when he was 16, to join. Gnabry officially joined Arsenal for the 2011–12 season.

On 7 August 2015, Gnabry joined West Bromwich Albion on a season-long loan to gain first-team experience.

On 31 August 2016, Gnabry signed for Bundesliga club Werder Bremen for a reported transfer fee of £5 million. In his single season at the club, he made 27 league appearances scoring 11 goals while Werder Bremen finished 8th in the Bundesliga.

On 11 June 2017, Bayern Munich announced the signing of Gnabry on a three-year deal for €8 million after activating a clause in his contract with Werder Bremen.

He scored 10 goals in his 22 appearances in the season helping Hoffenheim to finish third in the league table and secured a Champions League spot for the next season. He finished the 2017–18 season with 10 goals in 26 appearances.

On 2 July 2018, Gnabry was presented as a Bayern Munich player. Gnabry was assigned the jersey number 22.

Gnabry started the 2020–21 season by acquiring the No. 7 shirt, after

who had worn it for eleven years left. In the first match of the season, Gnabry scored a hat-trick in an 8–0 win over Schalke, to be his first ever Bundesliga hat-trick.

Moussa Diaby

• Full name: Moussa Diaby

• Date of birth: 7 July 1999 (age 22)

• Place of birth: Paris, France

• Height: 1.70m (5 ft 7 in)

• Position(s): Winger

• Current team: Bayer Leverkusen

Diaby notched his 10th of the season in the Matchday 22 success over VfB Stuttgart. He has scored 10 goals in 21 games for Bayer Leverkusen this season.

Moussa Diaby (born 7 July 1999) is a French professional footballer who plays as a winger for Bundesliga club Bayer Leverkusen and the France national team.

Diaby is a product of the Paris Saint-Germain Youth Academy. He joined the club when he was 13 and began playing for the B team in 2017. Diaby was the recipient of the 2016 Titi d’Or as the most promising and best talent in the Paris Saint-Germain academy.

On 14 June 2019, it was announced that Diaby would join Bayer Leverkusen on a five-year deal. Diaby scored his first Bundesliga goal for Leverkusen in his first competitive start on 23 November 2019 in the club's 1–1 draw with SC Freiburg.

Diaby is a France youth international having represented the country at U18, U19, U20, and U21 levels.

Taiwo Awoniyi

• Full name: Taiwo Micheal Awoniyi

• Date of birth: 12 August 1997 (age 24)

• Place of birth: Ilorin, Nigeria

• Height  1.83m (6 ft 0 in)

• Position(s): Forward

• Current team: Union Berlin

The ex-Liverpool striker found career-best form during the first half of 2021/22, even if it has tailed off recently. His latest strike came in Union's 2-1 win over RB Leipzig on Matchday 14.

Taiwo Micheal Awoniyi (born 12 August 1997) is a Nigerian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club Union Berlin and the Nigeria national team.

In 2010, Awoniyi was voted the Most Valuable Player at a Coca-Cola football competition in London. His performance at the competition was spotted by Seyi Olofinjana who invited him to join the Imperial Soccer Academy.

On 31 August 2015, Awoniyi signed for English club Liverpool for a fee of around £400,000 but was immediately loaned out to German team FSV Frankfurt.

On 20 July 2021, Awoniyi rejoined Union Berlin, this time on a permanent basis. The German club reportedly paid £6.5 million for the forward.

have also negotiated a 10% sell-on clause in this deal.

Andre Silva

• Full name: André Miguel Valente da Silva

• Date of birth: 6November 1995 (age 26)

• Place of birth: Baguim do Monte, Portugal

• Height: 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)

• Position(s): Striker

• Current team: RB Leipzig

Last year's second-highest scorer in the division as an Eintracht Frankfurt player, Silva started life slowly at Leipzig before finding his rhythm once again. The Portuguese striker brought his tally for the campaign up to nine with a close-range finish against Bayern on Matchday 21. He scored 9 goals in 23 games (17 starts) for RB Leipzig this season.

André Miguel Valente da Silva (born 6 November 1995) is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Portugal national team.

An academy graduate of

, he impressed during his time with the reserve side before making his debut with the first team in 2015. He ultimately made over 50 appearances for the club, scoring 24 goals before joining AC Milan in 2017.

He went on to represent Sevilla and Eintracht Frankfurt on loan, signing a permanent contract with the latter in 2020. Following a club record-breaking campaign, in which he scored 28 times, he moved to RB Leipzig also in the Bundesliga for a reported fee of €23 million.

Silva made his competitive debut for Porto first team on 29 December 2015, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–3 home loss against Marítimo in the Taça da Liga. His maiden appearance in the Premiere Liga occurred four days later, as he replaced Vincent Aboubakar for the last 20 minutes of the 2–0 defeat at Sporting CP.

On 12 June 2017, Silva moved to A.C. Milan on a five-year contract for a fee of €38 million.

In 11 August 2018, Silva joined Spanish club

on a season-long loan with the option to purchase for €35 million. On 2 September 2019, Silva moved to Eintracht Frankfurt on a two-year loan deal, with Ante Rebić heading in the opposite direction.

He made his Bundesliga debut 12 days later, playing the entire 2–1 defeat at Augsburg and partnering compatriot and former Porto teammate Goncalo Paciência up front. He scored his first goal in the competition on 22 September, netting the first in a 2–2 home draw against Borussia Dortmund.

Silva joined RB Leipzig on 2 July 2021, on a five-year contract. On 20 August, he scored his first goal in a 4–0 win over VfB Stuttgart. His first in the Champions League came on 19 October, in a 3–2 away loss against Paris Saint-Germain in the group stage.

Silva represented Portugal at various youth levels, and was part of the squad which came second at the 2014 European Under-19 Championship. His senior international debut followed two years later, and he featured at the 2017 Confederations Cup where his team came third, also being selected for the 2018 World Cup and Euro 2020.

Marco Reus

• Full name: Marco Reus

• Date of birth: 31 May 1989 (age 32)

• Place of birth: Dortmund, West Germany

• Height: 1.80m (5 ft 11 in)

• Position(s): Forward

• Current team: Borussia Dortmund

After a slow start to the season in terms of goals, Reus has really started to hit his straps in 2022, registering five goals in six appearances, most recently a double in the thumping win over Borussia Mönchengladbach on Matchday 23.

The last but not the list on the list of the

Bundesliga's top scorers in 2021

is

(born 31 May 1989). He is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for and captains Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund and the Germany national team.

Reus spent his youth career at Borussia Dortmund, prior to leaving for Rot Weiss Ahlen. He joined Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2009, and had his most successful season in 2012, scoring 18 goals and providing 12 assists in the Bundesliga to help Borussia Mönchengladbach secure a place in the following season's UEFA Champions League.

Reus returned to his hometown club Borussia Dortmund at the end of that season, helping the club reach the 2013 UEFA Champions League Final in his first season. With Dortmund, Reus won three DFL-Supercups (in 2013, 2014 and 2019), and the DFB-Pokal in 2017 and 2021, and he has scored over 150 goals for the club. He has been named Bundesliga Player of the Season on three occasions.

Reus was born in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia. He began to play football for his hometown club Post SV Dortmund in 1994 and joined the youth ranks of Borussia Dortmund in 1996.

On 25 May 2009, Reus signed a four-year contract with Bundesliga club

. On 28 August, he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a game against Mainz 05 after a 50-metre solo run, and since then became a prolific goal scorer for his club under Lucien Favre.

With the Germany national team, Reus has only 48 caps, due to his recurring injuries in recent years. He missed the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which Germany won, but played in UEFA Euro 2012 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

READ MORE:

Follow 

 for the