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 four assists, he currently has the 10th-most in the league together with Tim Kleindienst (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Franck Honorat (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Loïs Openda (RB Leipzig), Ansgar Knauff (Eintracht Frankfurt), Julian Brandt (Borussia Dortmund), Ramy Bensebaini (Borussia Dortmund), Maximilian Mittelstädt (VfB Stuttgart), Jackson Irvine (FC St. Pauli) and Exequiel Palacios (Bayer 04 Leverkusen). With 31 passes to a shot, the 29-year-old presently occupies sixth place in the league statistics together with Franck Honorat (Borussia Mönchengladbach) and Maximilian Mittelstädt (VfB Stuttgart). The player with the shirt number 6 was in the starting line-up in all previous 15 games of the season. Of these, he won 11 games with his club.

His pass success rate amounts to 92.89 per cent. This result enables Joshua Kimmich to occupy fifth place in the league ranking for this category. His tackle success rate amounts to 56.79 per cent. With this, he occupies fifth place in the team-internal statistics. With 1,926 individual ball possessions so far, he has more than any other player in the league. Few players have covered a greater distance in this season than Joshua Kimmich. He is currently the second-best runner with 182 km run on the pitch.

Last game

Joshua Kimmich played his last game on the 15th matchday of the 2024/25 season (20 December 2024). He was victorious over RB Leipzig while playing for FC Bayern München with a score of 5-1. He played as a midfielder throughout this entire game. There, he scored one goal and provided one assist. In terms of total touches, he had 106 individual ball possessions. Furthermore, Joshua Kimmich had nine tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win five. He was additionally able to make 81 successful passes. During his total playing time in this game, Joshua Kimmich ran 12.2 km and thus covered a longer distance than all other players in the game. In doing so, he had a total of 24 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Joshua Kimmich has played 277 matches in the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won 200. 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 presently 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 277 matches played throughout the course of his career in the Bundesliga, Joshua Kimmich currently has played the 16th-most career matches.

International appointments

So far, 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.