Season trivia for Bundesliga 2017/2018
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2017/2018 Bundesliga season in Germany.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Thomas Müller and Robert Lewandowski. Together they were behind 7 goals for Bayern München in the 2017/2018 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2017/2018 season:
Fastest hat-trick
All of these players managed to score a hat-trick, that is, three goals in the same match, within 17 minutes:
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2017/2018 was 6 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (Borussia Dortmund) - September 2017
Nils Petersen (Freiburg) - December 2017
Robert Lewandowski (Bayern München) - March 2018
Most braces by player
Robert Lewandowski in Bayern München scored (at least) two goals in a match 6 times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2017/2018 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2017/2018 season was Michael Gregoritsch in Augsburg, in total he did it 7 times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Robert Lewandowski in Bayern München during the 2017/2018 season, in total he did this 9 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2017/2018 season was Robert Lewandowski, in total he scored 6 penalties for his Bayern München.
Most penalty goals by team
Schalke 04 was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2017/2018 season, in total they scored 10 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
Alfred Finnbogason was the player who scored the most stoppage time goals during the 2017/2018 season, in total he scored 4 stoppage time goals for his Augsburg.
Most stoppage time goals by team
The highest number of goals in added time by a team was 4 goals, which 3 teams managed to do, and these were Hoffenheim, Eintracht Frankfurt and Augsburg.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2017/2018 season was Niklas Süle, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Bundesliga, which he did 3 times.
Most own goals by team
Freiburg scored 4 own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2017/2018 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
There were 2 players who scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2017/2018 season, and the players who achieved this were Robert Lewandowski (Bayern München) and Andrej Kramaric (Hoffenheim).
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
It was Mark Uth in Hoffenheim who had the longest streak of matches in a row with at least one assist, achieving this in 4 consecutive matches.
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Kevin Volland in Bayer Leverkusen scored or assisted in 6 consecutive matches during the 2017/2018 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Robert Lewandowski in Bayern München who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 11 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Robert Lewandowski in Bayern München scored a total of 18 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Bundesliga during the 2017/2018 season.
Most consecutive wins
Bayern München was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2017/2018 season, with a total of 10 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Bayern München were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2017/2018 season, playing 13 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2017/2018 season, there were 3 teams that had 5 consecutive losses, and those teams were Freiburg, Köln and Hannover 96.
Most matches in a row without a win
Köln managed the feat of not winning a single match in 16 consecutive matches during the 2017/2018 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Bayern München were best at during the 2017/2018 season, they came back to win 6 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Köln have managed this in 5 matches during the 2017/2018 season, more than any other team in Bundesliga.
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