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Robert Lewandowski

Striker, FC Barcelona & Poland

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Why they shine

Robert Lewandowski's 2019-20 season is the closest thing the modern game has to a statistical monument. He scored 47 goals in 47 appearances for Bayern Munich, 55 in all competitions, and won the Bundesliga, German Cup, Champions League, European Super Cup and German Super Cup, becoming the first player to top the scoring charts of league, cup and Europe in the same season. The Ballon d'Or that should have followed was cancelled; a year later he finished 33 points behind Messi. He was named The Best FIFA Men's Player in both 2020 and 2021, and has won two European Golden Shoes, with 41 and 35 goals.

Full name: Robert Lewandowski
Nationality: Poland
Club (2026): FC Barcelona
Position: Striker
European Golden Shoe: Two — 2020-21 and 2021-22 seasons
Ballon d'Or: Runner-up in 2021 — the 2020 edition was cancelled

Record

Honor record

Gerd Müller Trophy

2021 · Nov 29, 2021

Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris

No trophy: France Football cancelled the 2020 Ballon d'Or on 20 July 2020, the only time in the award's 70-year history that no edition was given, because a pandemic-ravaged season could not be judged. Lewandowski had scored 47 goals in 47 matches and won five trophies, and was named The Best FIFA Men's Player on 17 December instead.

Gerd Müller Trophy

2022 · Nov 29, 2021

Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris

Second place, 33 points adrift: Messi took 613 points to Lewandowski's 580 in a vote of 170 journalists. Lewandowski had scored 53 goals in all competitions for Bayern and was handed a new award, Striker of the Year, at the same ceremony, the closest he came to the trophy France Football had already cancelled the year before.

European Golden Shoe

2020 · Sep 21, 2021

FC Bayern Museum, Allianz Arena, Munich

The 2020-21 European Golden Shoe, presented in September 2021 in the first ceremony ever televised live, after 41 Bundesliga goals that broke Gerd Müller's record of 40 from 1971-72 and stood as Europe's highest since Cristiano Ronaldo's 48 in 2014-15. Messi, on 30, and Ronaldo, on 29, finished behind him, and it was the first Golden Shoe for a Polish player.

European Golden Shoe

2021 · Nov 9, 2022

Estrella Damm Old Brewery, Barcelona

Retained the award for 2021-22 with 35 Bundesliga goals, seven clear of Kylian Mbappé, and collected the boot in Barcelona at the gala organised by European Sports Media and Marca. It was his second Golden Shoe in successive seasons and his seventh Bundesliga top-scorer crown.

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