Bundesliga sets new goalscoring record and leads Europe’s top five leagues
The Bundesliga has made history with 172 goals scored across the opening five matchdays of 2026/27, while Germany’s top flight is also leading Europe’s top five leagues for goals per game.
If there's one thing the Bundesliga hasn't been short of so far this season, it is goals. The most recent matchday delivered another flurry, with plenty of drama, shocks and stunning individual displays to match.
Matchday 5 provided another 35 goals, with RB Leipzig's emphatic 6-0 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen's thrilling 4-3 win against Mainz among the standout results.
Such has been the volume of goals scored since the opening weekend of the season, that a long-standing record has - finally - been broken.
Watch: Top 5 goals from Matchday 5
So far in the 2026/27 campaign, 172 goals have been scored across the opening five matchdays - more than at the same stage of any previous season in the competition’s history.
The remarkable tally surpasses the previous record of 170, set during the 1984/85 campaign, with the Bundesliga’s 45 matches so far producing an astonishing average of 3.82 goals per game.
That figure is also the highest across Europe’s top five leagues this season, putting Germany’s top flight firmly ahead of the competition when it comes to goalscoring action. Spain's La Liga follows with 3.04 across 69 matches (as of the morning of 12 October).
Bayern Munich have led the charge with 16 strikes, closely followed by Leipzig on 15, while Leverkusen and Freiburg have each found the net 14 times to date. Leverkusen have also provided the league's top individual scorer this term in striker Patrik Schick, who has five in five games. The likes of Michael Olise, Christopher Nkunku and Niclas Füllkrug are all just one goal behind.
And with the Bundesliga currently averaging more goals per game than the record 3.58 achieved across the entirety of the 1983/84 season, the 2026/27 campaign could yet go down as the most prolific in the competition’s history.
If the opening five matchdays are anything to go by, there’s plenty more entertainment to come in the months ahead.
