Bayern Munich thrashed FC St. Pauli 5-0 on Saturday to break a 54-year Bundesliga goalscoring record and move closer to a 35th league title.
Leon Goretzka’s 53rd-minute strike—Bayern’s second—took their league tally to 102 goals this season, surpassing the club’s previous record set in the 1971–72 campaign. The Bavarians extended the record to 105 goals by full-time.
Despite leaving top scorer Harry Kane on the bench, Bayern dominated, with Jamal Musiala, Michael Olise, Nicolas Jackson, and Raphael Guerreiro all getting on the scoresheet.
The win moved Bayern 12 points clear of Borussia Dortmund, who suffered a 1-0 defeat to Bayer Leverkusen. With five matches remaining, Bayern could seal the title as early as next week against VfB Stuttgart.
Manager rotation ahead of the UEFA Champions League quarter-final second leg against Real Madrid saw Kane, Luis Diaz, Dayot Upamecano and Jonathan Tah start on the bench.
Musiala opened scoring with a header inside nine minutes, before Goretzka doubled the lead early in the second half to break the long-standing record set by a Bayern side featuring legends Franz Beckenbauer and Gerd Muller. Olise struck shortly after, while Jackson and Guerreiro completed the rout.
Elsewhere, Robert Andrich scored the winner as Leverkusen beat Dortmund, ending the latter’s four-game winning run, though Dortmund remain second.
RB Leipzig boosted their top-four hopes with a 1-0 win over Borussia Monchengladbach, thanks to an 81st-minute goal from Yan Diomande—his 11th of an impressive debut Bundesliga season.
At the other end of the table, VfL Wolfsburg fell 2-1 at home to Eintracht Frankfurt, leaving them second-bottom and six points from safety. Meanwhile, kept survival hopes alive with a 3-1 win over Union Berlin.
