Bayern Munich top club chart for most World Cup goals
Harry Kane's brace and Luis Díaz's first FIFA World Cup strike now mean Bayern Munich players have scored 83 goals throughout the history of the global tournament. No other club in the world can match that total, which you would expect to rise even further during the rest of 2026’s edition in Canada, Mexico and the USA.
Kane followed his record-breaking 61-goal 2025/26 season for Bayern by striking twice as England kicked off their tournament with an entertaining 4-2 victory over Croatia in Dallas. A few hours later in Mexico City, Díaz marked his debut in the World Cup finals with a goal (and assist) of his own in a 3-1 win against Uzbekistan.
They follow Jamal Musiala, who finally opened his World Cup account in his second tournament as Julian Nagelsmann’s men saw off Curaçao 7-1 in their opening Group E fixture in Houston.
From a Bayern perspective, it's now 83 goals scored by one of their players across the 23 tournaments since its inception in 1930. Their closest rivals (following the completion of fixtures on 22 June) are Spanish duo Real Madrid (82) and Barcelona (77). The next best Bundesliga club is Cologne with 30 goals, ahead of Werder Bremen (19) and Borussia Dortmund (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 was the World Cup’s record goalscorer with 16 strikes before being overtaken by Lionel Messi, helping Germany to another record of 241 World Cup goals (tied with Brazil, as of 22 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 Kane or Díaz of Colombia adding even more to their personal tally and the Bundesliga giants’ record total during this tournament. Bayern have 17 players at this World Cup, second only to Manchester City (19).
Bayern Munich goalscorers at the World Cup:
*as of 22 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), Harry Kane (England)
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), Luis Díaz (Colombia)
