Robert Lewandowski
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Lewandowski with Bayern Munich in 2019 | ||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||
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| Full name | Robert Lewandowski[1] | |||||||
| Date of birth | 21 August 1988[1] | |||||||
| Place of birth | Warsaw, Poland | |||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[2] | |||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | |||||||
| Team information | ||||||||
Current team | Barcelona | |||||||
| Number | 9 | |||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||
| 1996–1997 | Partyzant Leszno | |||||||
| 1997–2004 | MKS Varsovia Warsaw | |||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||
| 2005 | Delta Warsaw | 17 | (4) | |||||
| 2005–2006 | Legia Warsaw II | 13 | (2) | |||||
| 2006 | Znicz Pruszków II | 4 | (8) | |||||
| 2006–2008 | Znicz Pruszków | 59 | (36) | |||||
| 2008–2010 | Lech Poznań | 58 | (32) | |||||
| 2010–2014 | Borussia Dortmund | 131 | (74) | |||||
| 2014–2022 | Bayern Munich | 253 | (238) | |||||
| 2022– | Barcelona | 106 | (71) | |||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||
| 2007 | Poland U19 | 1 | (0) | |||||
| 2008 | Poland U21 | 3 | (0) | |||||
| 2008– | Poland[3] | 160 | (86) | |||||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:55, 14 September 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 7 September 2025 | ||||||||
Robert Lewandowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrt lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi] ⓘ; born 21 August 1988) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for La Liga club Barcelona and captains the Poland national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time, he is one of only five players to have scored 100 goals with three different clubs,[a] ranks third for the all-time top goalscorers in the UEFA Champions League (only behind Messi and Ronaldo) with 105 goals,[4] and ranks third for the all-time European men's top goal scorers in international football (85). He has scored over 700 senior career goals for club and country.
Beginning his career in the third and second tiers of Polish football with Znicz Pruszków, Lewandowski moved to top-flight Lech Poznań, helping the team win the 2009–10 Ekstraklasa. In 2010, he transferred to Borussia Dortmund, where he won two consecutive Bundesliga titles and the league's top goalscorer award. In 2013, he also featured with Dortmund in the 2013 UEFA Champions League final. Ahead of the 2014–15 season, Lewandowski joined Dortmund's domestic rivals, Bayern Munich, on a free transfer. In Munich, he won the Bundesliga title in all of his eight seasons at the club and was integral in their Champions League win in 2019–20 as part of a treble. Lewandowski was widely expected to win the 2020 Ballon d'Or, but it was not awarded due to the impact of COVID-19. In 2022, he moved to Barcelona, where he has since won two La Liga titles, the Copa del Rey, and the Pichichi Trophy; his Pichichi Trophy win made him the joint-record holder for most top scorer awards in Europe's top five leagues with eight.[5]
A full international for Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has earned 160 caps, and was a member of their team at the UEFA European Championship in 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024, and the FIFA World Cup in 2018 and 2022. Having captained the national team since 2014, he briefly retired in 2025, before returning and being reinstated as captain later the same year. With 86 international goals, Lewandowski is the all-time top scorer for Poland.[6] Lewandowski has been named the Polish Footballer of the Year a record twelve times and the Polish Sports Personality of the Year three times.
Lewandowski won the Best FIFA Men's Player Award in 2020 and 2021. Further awards include the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award in 2020, the IFFHS World's Best Player in 2020 and 2021, the European Golden Shoe for the 2020–21 and 2021–22 seasons, and the Gerd Müller Trophy in 2021 and 2022. He was runner-up for the Ballon d'Or in 2021. He is one of the most successful players in Bundesliga and Bayern history, being named the VDV Bundesliga Player of the Season a record five times and winning the Bundesliga Top Scorer Award in a joint-record seven seasons, among other records.
- ^ a b "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ – Squad List: Poland (POL)" (PDF). FIFA. 18 December 2022. p. 21. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 December 2022. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Robert Lewandowski". FC Barcelona. Retrieved 16 September 2025.
- ^ "National Teams – National Team A – Squad". PZPN.pl. PZPN. Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ UEFA.com. "All-time Player | Top goalscorers Stats | UEFA Champions League". UEFA.com. Retrieved 3 August 2025.
- ^ Gajdek, Michał (17 July 2023). "Sport: Rekordowe wyzwanie Roberta Lewandowskiego". FCBarca (in Polish). Retrieved 23 January 2024.
- ^ "Europe's top international scorers: Cristiano Ronaldo out in front". UEFA. 13 June 2022. Archived from the original on 14 July 2022. Retrieved 14 July 2022.
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