{"id":2880,"date":"2022-11-24T23:13:17","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T23:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/?p=2880"},"modified":"2023-08-02T12:30:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T12:30:31","slug":"thomas-muller-career-achievements-records-and-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/blog\/thomas-muller-career-achievements-records-and-stats","title":{"rendered":"Thomas M\u00fcller Career Achievements, Records and Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thomas M\u00fcller has enjoyed team and individual success with club and country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Debuting for the Bayern first team in 2008, M\u00fcller has become a household name, adapting his position and role to numerous different managers and enjoying a late-career renaissance over the last few seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An incredibly intelligent and hard-working player, M\u00fcller\u2019s engine has often been identified as his most important attribute, but he really does a bit of everything.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has even proven to be an impactful playmaker of late.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here\u2019s a run through M\u00fcller\u2019s greatest career achievements and records.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"thomas-muller-s-bayern-munich-achievements\">Thomas M\u00fcller\u2019s Bayern Munich Achievements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>M\u00fcller has made 641 appearances for Bayern Munich, and his 140 in European competition is the most in club history.<\/li><li>Only Sepp Maier has more Bayern appearances than M\u00fcller.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller has won the Bundesliga 11 times (a record for any player) and has lifted the Champions League on two occasions (2012-13 and 2019-20).<\/li><li>Of those 11 titles, Bayern are on a run of 10 in a row, which is the joint-record for a player by M\u00fcller and Manuel Neuer.<\/li><li>A tally of 302 Bundesliga wins for Bayern is the most by any player for one club.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller has made 12 appearances in the German Supercup, more than anyone else in Bayern history, and only one player has scored more goals in the German Supercup.<\/li><li>Only six players (Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Robert Lewandowski, Karim Benzema, Raul, Ruud van Nistelrooy) have scored more Champions League goals than M\u00fcller\u2019s tally of 53 in 138 matches.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller is eighth on the list of Champions League appearances ahead of Sergio Ramos, Toni Kroos and long-time teammate Neuer.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller has 230 goals for Bayern in all competitions \u2013 only Gerd M\u00fcller and Robert Lewandowski can better that mark.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller has the most Bundesliga assists with 152 and his record of 21 in 2021-22 is the most by any player in league history.<\/li><li>He has been named to the Bundesliga Team of the Season on three occasions (2017-18, 2019-20, 2020-21).<\/li><li>M\u00fcller was named Bundesliga Player of the Season in 2021-22.<\/li><li>He was named the Bravo Award winner in 2010, and was also crowned World Soccer\u2019s Young Player of the Year.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller is part of a six-way tie for second in the list of most DFB-Pokal wins with six, just one behind Bastian Schweinsteiger.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller was named to the Champions League Squad of the Season in 2019-20 after becoming a European champion for a second time.<\/li><li>Even with his role changing throughout his career, M\u00fcller has had 11 seasons with 10 or more goals, with 32 in 2015-16 being his most productive.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"thomas-muller-s-germany-achievements\">Thomas M\u00fcller\u2019s Germany Achievements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>M\u00fcller has 118 caps for Germany since debuting in 2010.<\/li><li>Only four players have more appearances for Die Mannschaft.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller has 44 goals at international level, which places seventh all-time among Germans, just ahead of Uwe Seeler and Michael Ballack.<\/li><li>Including a prolific World Cup campaign, 2014 was M\u00fcller\u2019s highest-scoring year for Germany, scoring 10 times in 15 caps.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller did not register a cap in 2019 or 2020, but has returned to the fray with 18 caps and six goals since the start of 2021.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller scored his first goal for Germany in the group stage of the 2010 World Cup against Australia.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller scored nine times in UEFA qualification for Euro 2016, which was the second-most of any player behind Robert Lewandowski.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"thomas-muller-s-world-cup-records-and-achievements\">Thomas M\u00fcller\u2019s World Cup Records and Achievements<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>M\u00fcller won the 2014 World Cup, and scored the opener in the 7-1 drubbing of Brazil in the semi-final.<\/li><li>Ahead of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, M\u00fcller has 10 World Cup goals in 16 appearances.<\/li><li>Only seven players have scored more World Cup goals than M\u00fcller.<\/li><li>All 10 of his goals were scored across the 2010 and 2014 tournaments, with M\u00fcller winning the Golden Boot in 2010 and the Silver Boot four years later.<\/li><li>He was named Best Young Player in 2010, as well as earning a spot in the All-Star Team.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller was again in the All-Star Team in Brazil in 2014, which was accompanied by the Silver Ball.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller\u2019s first five goals at international level were scored at the 2010 World Cup.<\/li><li>M\u00fcller is one of only four Germans to place in the top four in World Cup Golden Ball voting after Oliver Kahn, Harald Schumacher and Lothar Matth\u00e4us.<\/li><li>Miroslav Klose is the only other Germany international to have two top three finishes in the World Cup goalscoring charts.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas M\u00fcller has enjoyed team and individual success with club and country. Debuting for the Bayern first team in 2008, M\u00fcller has become a household name, adapting his position and role to numerous different managers and enjoying a late-career renaissance over the last few seasons. An incredibly intelligent and hard-working player, M\u00fcller\u2019s engine has often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":2879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[638],"tags":[643],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2881,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2880\/revisions\/2881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betting.com\/gb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}