Gerd Müller

Gerd Müller

Personal information
Full name	Gerhard Müller
Date of birth	3 November 1945 (1945-11-03)
Place of birth	Nördlingen, Germany
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Striker (retired)
Youth career
1960-1963	Nördlingen
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1963-1964 1964-1978 1979-1981	Nördlingen Bayern Munich Fort Lauderdale Strikers
National team
1966-1974	Germany
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Gerd Müller (born November 3, 1945 in Nördlingen) is a former football player. He played for FC Bayern München and the Germany national team. He was the best striker at his times and still owns many scoring records.

Career

Club career

He started playing football for TSV 1861 Nördlingen, where he scored in the 1962/63 season 180 out of 204 goals. From 1964 he played for FC Bayern München. In his first season for Bayern München he scored in 26 matches 33 goals. From 1965 till 1979 he scored in 427 Bundesliga matches and scored 365 goals. This record is still existing. From 1979 till 1982 he played in the US-professional league for Ford Lauderdale Strikers and Smiths Brothers Lounge.

International

He started his international career on 12 October 1966 in Ankara versus Turkey. In his second match versus Albania he scored his first four of his 68 goals in the national team. He was member of the 1970 FIFA World Cup team. With ten goals he was the best scorer in this tournament. 1972 Germany won the European Championship and Müller was again the best scorer of this tournament. 1974 he won with Germany the FIFA World Cup where he scored the second goal in the 2:1 victory over the Netherlands. After this tournament he resigned from the team.

Records

• Müller scored 68 goals in 62 matches for Germany. He was the best scorer of the team until Miroslav Klose broke his record in 2014.
• During two World Cups (1970 and 1974) he scored 14 goals. This record was broken by Ronaldo during the World Cup 2006.

Honors

Titles with Bayern Munich

• Intercontinental Cup: 1976
• European Champions’ Cup: 1974, 1975, 1976
• European Cup Winners’ Cup: 1967
• Bundesliga: 1969, 1972, 1973, 1974
• German Cup: 1966, 1967, 1969, 1971
• Regionalliga Süd: 1965

International

• World Cup: 1974, Third-Place: 1970
• European Championship: 1972

Personal honours

• European Footballer of the Year: 1970
• German Footballer of the Year: 1967, 1969
• Voted best Player 40 Years Bundesliga 1963–2003
• European top scorer: 1970, 1972
• German top scorer: 1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1978
• World Cup top scorer: 1970
• European Championship top scorer: 1972
• European Cup top scorer: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1977
• World Football's Greatest Goalscorer of All Time (awarded in 2000)
• Named to FIFA 100

Club career statistics

Club performance			League		Cup		Continental		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Germany			League		DFB-Pokal		Europe		Total
1964/65	Bayern Munich	Regionalliga	26	33	-		-		26	33
1965/66		Bundesliga	33	15	6	1	-		39	16
1966/67			32	28	4	7	9	8	45	43
1967/68			34	19	4	4	8	7	46	30
1968/69			30	30	5	7	-		35	37
1969/70			33	38	3	4	2	0	38	42
1970/71			32	22	7	10	8	7	47	39
1971/72			34	40	6	5	8	5	48	50
1972/73			33	36	5	7	6	12	44	55
1973/74			34	30	4	5	10	8	48	43
1974/75			33	23	3	2	7	5	43	30
1975/76			22	23	6	7	6	5	34	35
1976/77			25	28	4	11	4	5	33	44
1977/78			33	24	3	4	6	4	42	32
1978/79			19	9	2	4	-		21	13
United States			League		Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup		North America		Total
1979	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	NASL	27	19	-		-		27	19
1980			36	16	-		-		36	16
1981			17	5	-		-		17	5
Country	Germany		453	398	62	78	74	66	589	542
	United States		80	40	-		-		80	40
Total			533	438	62	78	74	66	669	582

International career statistics

Germany national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1966	1	0
1967	4	6
1968	3	2
1969	7	9
1970	12	13
1971	8	12
1972	7	13
1973	8	7
1974	12	6
Total	62	68

Other websites

• Portrait of Gerd Müller at FIFA.com
• Statistics on Müller's matches and goals at RSSSF.com