Since its inception in 1963, the Bundesliga has been home to some of European football's best goalscorers.
Whether it be heavyweights Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund, or others such as Schalke 04, Werder Bremen and Hamburg, clinical strikers have led Germany's biggest clubs.
Former Chelsea forward Claudio Pizarro and Bayer Leverkusen legend Ulf Kirsten are amongst the names who narrowly miss out on a place in the top five.
But who makes the cut? Let's find out!
All stats are taken from footballdatabase.eu to ensure consistency.
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5. Manfred Burgsmuller - 197 goals
Burgsmuller didn't score a goal in the Bundesliga until the age of 24. However, as soon as he found his shooting boots amongst Germany's elite, he never lost them.
His first steps in the German top flight came at Rot-Weiss Essen, netting 32 goals in 64 games for a side that has spent just seven seasons in Bundesliga in their entire history.
That was enough to attract the interest of Dortmund, where he became a club legend, scoring at least 20 league goals in four different campaigns. He departed the Schwarzgelben with 135 strikes in 224 games, joining Nurnberg and then Bremen, where he won the league title in 1987/88.
4. Jupp Heynckes - 220 goals
Younger football supporters will know Heynckes only as a top-class manager, but those from bygone eras will be aware that the former Bayern Munich boss was a fine player too.
Besides a three-year spell with Hannover 96, where he netted a respectable 26 goals in 85 league games, he spent his whole career with his boyhood club, Borussia Monchengladbach.
He is one of the greatest players in Die Fohlen's history, scoring 195 of his 220 top-flight goals for the club. Those strikes contributed to four Bundesliga titles, with Heynckes winning the Golden Boot in two separate seasons before managing Monchengladbach for 12 years.
3. Klaus Fischer - 268 goals
Fischer is Schalke's record marksman and the third-highest goalscorer in the history of the Bundesliga. Had it not been for a one-season ban for his involvement in a betting scandal during the 1970-71 campaign, he would have probably ended with an even bigger tally than his eventual 268.
After starting his career with 1860 Munich, he switched to the Konigsblauen in 1969. From that point, he was lethal, netting 182 times in 295 league games for the Ruhr-based outfit, including 29 in 34 outings during the 1975/76 campaign, when he led the division's scoring charts.
Spells at Koln and VfL Bochum ensued before he hung up his boots in 1988.
2. Robert Lewandowski - 312 goals
For over a decade, Lewandowski dominated German football, setting a whole host of scoring records - particularly during his time at Bayern Munich.
His first steps in the Bundesliga came with Borussia Dortmund, where he found the back of the net 74 times in 131 league games. That was enough to win one Golden Boot and two league titles.
He broke Dortmund hearts when he exited for Bavaria in the summer of 2014, and he hit new heights with Die Roten. He hit the 30-goal mark on five occasions, and scored 41 during the 2020/21 season, breaking Gerd Muller's record for the most strikes in a single Bundesliga campaign in the process. All in all, he bagged a barely-believable 238 Bundesliga goals in 253 games for Bayern before seeking pastures new in Spain with Barcelona.
1. Gerd Muller - 365 goals
Der Bomber is one of the true greats of German football, and one of the greatest goalscorers to ever grace the game. He was destined for greatness at Bayern from the moment he made his debut in 1964, when the record German champions were still playing their football outside the top tier.
He scored 365 times in 427 league fixtures, a haul that is unlikely to ever be surpassed. There were many who doubted his technical ability but, when you are that good in the 18-yard box, it doesn't really matter how many tricks you have up your sleeve.
He won the Bundesliga's Golden Boot award seven times, although, surprisingly, he only got his hands on four league winner's medals - Bayern were nowhere near as dominant domestically back in the 1960s and 1970s.
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