Joshua

Kimmich

Joshua Kimmich history

Joshua Kimmich was born on 8 February 1995 in Rottweil and plays for FC Bayern München. He played for VfB Bösingen from 2006-2007, for VfB Stuttgart from 2007-2013, for RB Leipzig from 2013-2015 and has played for FC Bayern München since 2015.

Current season 2024/25

With five assists, he currently has the ninth-most in the league together with Loïs Openda (RB Leipzig) and Mitchell Weiser (SV Werder Bremen). With 44 passes to a shot, the player with the shirt number 6 presently has the second-most in the league. He was in the starting line-up in all previous 18 games of the season. Of these, he won 14 games with his club.

His pass success rate amounts to 92.68 per cent. This result enables Joshua Kimmich to occupy sixth place in the league ranking for this category. His tackle success rate amounts to 57.36 per cent. With this, he occupies fourth place in the team-internal statistics. With 2,288 individual ball possessions so far, he has more than any other player in the league. With 221 km run, he has run the longest distance on the pitch, making him the best runner in the league statistics.

Last game

Joshua Kimmich played his last game on the 18th matchday of the 2024/25 season (18 January 2025). He was victorious over VfL Wolfsburg while playing for FC Bayern München with a score of 3-2. He played as a midfielder throughout this entire game. Here, the 29-year-old provided one assist. In terms of total touches, he had 112 individual ball possessions, which is the highest amount of any player in the game. Furthermore, he had 12 tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win seven. Joshua Kimmich was additionally able to make 85 successful passes. During his total playing time in this game, he ran 12.7 km and thus covered a longer distance than all other players in the game. In doing so, he had a total of 12 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Joshua Kimmich has played 280 matches throughout the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won 203. He has played all the matches of his career in the Bundesliga as a member of FC Bayern München. Here, he has put a total of 27 balls in the net. Joshua Kimmich took the German championship title in 2015/16, 2016/17, 2017/18, 2018/19, 2019/20, 2020/21, 2021/22 and 2022/23 while playing for FC Bayern München. With a total of eight trophies until this point in his career, he currently takes eighth place for the most German championship titles won, along with Kingsley Coman, Oliver Kahn, Philipp Lahm, Arjen Robben, Mehmet Scholl and Bastian Schweinsteiger. With a total of 280 matches played throughout the course of his career in the Bundesliga, Joshua Kimmich presently has played the 16th-most career matches.

International appointments

Up to now, Joshua Kimmich has played 97 international matches for Germany. He scored a total of seven goals in these games. He claimed the Confederations Cup with Germany in 2017. Joshua Kimmich won the Champions League while playing for FC Bayern München in 2019/20. He won the DFB-Pokal in 2015/16, 2018/19 and 2019/20 with FC Bayern München. He won the Supercup in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021 and 2022 with FC Bayern München.