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With a 1-0 win at Burnley last Sunday, Liverpool extended their lead over third-placed Chelsea to seven points in the Premier League. Fabinho’s winning goal in the 40th minute also marked the Reds’ 100th competitive goal of the current season – A look at the TM statistics shows: If you take Europe’s top 15 leagues as a basis, goals were scored in the 2021/ 22 so far only two teams more often.
One of them can be found in the Bundesliga. FC Bayern Munich has already steered the ball over the opposing goal line 107 times this season. With a total of 31 games across all competitions, this corresponds to an average of 3.4 goals per game.
Teams with most goals in a season since 2000/2001
FC Bayern again on record course: New Bundesliga record?
The most valuable offensive in the league around Robert Lewandowski and Co. has already celebrated 70 times in the German upper house alone – never has a team scored more often after 22 match days.
The Munich team is once again on course for a record in the Bundesliga, and a new record would require at least 32 goals from the remaining 12 games. An average of 2.6 goals, which does not seem impossible given the offensive power of the record champions.
The previous record for the most goals per season is 101 within the league and dates back to 1972, also set by FC Bayern. In the past two seasons, the club missed this house number by just one (19/20 season, 100 goals) or two goals (20/21, 99 goals).
FC Bayern in an international comparison ahead of Ajax Amsterdam
In an international comparison, the average of 3.4 goals per game resulting from 107 goals from 31 competitive games has catapulted Julian Nagelsmann’s team to the top to date – although Ajax Amsterdam are currently scoring 107 goals across all competitions, which is what the total of 32 games corresponds to a goal average of 3.3.
While FC Bayern is the only German representative in the top 10 ranking of teams with the most goals this season, another team from the Netherlands joins Ajax there.
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From all first leagues worldwideThe most in-form teams at a glance
Second in the national table, PSV Eindhoven are in ninth place with 87 goals (average 2.2), but could increase their odds further during the week in the upcoming UEFA Conference League intermediate round match against Maccabi Tel Aviv. The same applies to Bayern, Ajax and third-placed Liverpool FC (100 goals) for the teams Celtic Glasgow (97 goals, 4th place), Manchester City (96 goals, 5th place), Chelsea (93 goals, 6th place). ) and Benfica Lisbon (88 goals, 7th place).
FC Basel (88 goals, 7th place) only gets back into action in the Conference League after the second round, while RSC Anderlecht (86 goals, 10th place) is only active at national level.
Most goals of the season since 2000/01: Barcelona clearly in the lead
However, in order to break the previous record of the most goals for a team since the 2000/01 season, both FC Bayern Munich and Ajax Amsterdam would have to stretch themselves in the remaining competitive games: With 190 goals (average: 2.9) FC is Barcelona of the 2011/12 season in this leaderboard of undisputed leaders.
The squad around the then 73-time goalscorer Lionel Messi, Cesc Fàbregas or today’s coach Xavi dominated both the national and international competition under Pep Guardiola during that period, winning a total of four titles. RB Salzburg (181 goals in 2013/14) and Ajax Amsterdam (179 goals in 2018/19) follow in second place. FC Bayern is the only German team to be in the top 20 twice (see gallery above).
With Kruse, Reus & Co.: The top scorers in the Bundesliga since 2000
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