Extended data, the kind Opta and Statsbomb provide, are not available for the women’s Bundesliga. Even assists can be difficult to research. However, some data is available – and Miasanrot had a close look.

Goal scorers

Last season’s top scorer is Pernille Harder from league winners VfL Wolfsburg with a total of 17 goals. Her follow-ups weren’t even close: Linda Dallmann (Essen) and new Bayern player Lina Magull (Freiburg) both scored 12. To compare: in the season before last, Mandy Islacker had scored 17 from open play and 2 penalties for FFC Frankfurt, followed by Vivianne Miedema (14, Bayern) and Hasret Kayikçi (12, Freiburg). Last season, Islacker – now playing for Bayern – managed only 6 goals.

However, Bayern managed to reduce their reliance on top scorer Miedema, who was responsible for almost 40% of all goals in 2016/17. Fridolina Rolfö scored 9 goals, Sara Däbritz 8, Nicole Rolser, Jill Roord, and Islacker all had 6 each. Even Lucie Voňková, who only played 568 minutes and usually started from the bench, hit the back of the net four times – as many as midfield strategists Simone Laudehr and Melanie Behringer, who both scored half their goals from the penalty spot.



Jokers

These numbers make Voňková a perfect “joker” – coming off the bench and scoring. Even better than her at fulfilling that role were Lise Munk of Frankfurt, Zsanett Jakabfi of Wolfsburg, and Nora Clausen of Werder Bremen, whose statistics look even better for goals per 90 minutes. The following list shows only players who scored at least three times and got subbed in at least as many times.

Player, Team Subbed-in Goals incl. Pe­nal­ties Mi­nu­tes Goals/90 excl. Pe­nal­ties Lise Munk, 1. FFC Frankfurt 15 5 425 1.06 Zsanett Jakabfi, VfL Wolfsburg 8 9 786 1.03 Nora Clausen, Werder Bremen 11 3 331 0.82 Lucie Vonková, Bayern München 11 4 568 0.63 Lena Petermann, SC Freiburg 8 7 1075 0.59 Nicole Rolser, Bayern München 8 6 938 0.58 Mandy Islacker, Bayern München 8 6 1061 0.51 Ella Masar McLeod, VfL Wolfsburg 3 3 538 0.50 Jill Roord, Bayern München 5 6 1078 0.50 Milena Nikolic, SC Sand 6 5 910 0.49 Alexandra Popp, VfL Wolfsburg 3 7 1446 0.44 Tabea Waßmuth, 1899 Hoffenheim 10 3 650 0.42 Lea Schüller, SGS Essen 3 7 1611 0.39 Hasret Kayikci, SC Freiburg 3 6 1479 0.37 Ewa Pajor, VfL Wolfsburg 4 4 999 0.36 Genoveva Añonma, MSV Duisburg 3 3 831 0.32 Sarah Freutel, SGS Essen 13 3 1049 0.26 Nicole Billa, 1899 Hoffenheim 3 3 1069 0.25 Nina Lührßen, Werder Bremen 6 3 1149 0.23 Lisa Seiler, FF USV Jena 8 3 1172 0.23 Sylvia Arnold, SC Sand 5 3 1242 0.22 Carolin Schiewe, SC Freiburg 6 3 925 0.19 Felicitas Rauch, Turbine Potsdam 3 4 1487 0.18 Melanie Behringer, Bayern München 3 4 1300 0.14

Goal scorers per 90 minutes (min. 500 minutes)

But good “per-90 rates” aren’t just granted to the super-subs. To be able to assert how many goals a player is good for in open play (above all without penalties), we have looked at the rate for all players who played at least 500 minutes. Emily van Egmond, for example, played only one game, or rather 20 minutes, for VfL Wolfsburg last season. She scored one goal in doing so. However, it can’t be expected that she will repeat that feat every 20 minutes because otherwise, we could expect 4.5 goals per game from her.

Scoring more goals in 90 minutes than golden boot winner Pernille Harder of Wolfsburg was her team-mate Zsanett Jakabfi. She needed only 786 minutes on the pitch for her nine goals.

Champions League vs. relegation in the last five seasons

Obviously, more points are won at the top of the table and more goals are scored than conceded, while it’s the other way around at the bottom. But it’s more interesting that the number of players used doesn’t assert anything about the quality of the squad. While Frankfurt selected from only 19 players in 2013/14, Bayern in 2016/17 used ten more with 29. Both teams came out second in the table in their respective years. This value should be treated with caution. Short appearances in added time count just as much here as games over 90 minutes as a key player. It doesn’t assert anything about rotation and the quality on the bench.

On average, the champions in the last five years won 55.6 points. That’s 84.24% of all possible points. For comparison: in the men’s Bundesliga, it was just about 83%, meaning an average of 84.6 of a possible 102 points. The winners in the men’s and women’s game, then, achieve a very similar points yield.

In the 2014/15 season, both Bayern and Wolfsburg managed something extraordinary. Bayern scored 49 goals more than they conceded, becoming German champions with a goal-ratio of 8 (goals scored divided by goals conceded – 56/7). Wolfsburg, however, scored eleven more goals and conceded three fewer, with a ratio of 16.75. It was only enough for second place, though. In the most recent season, a ratio of 7.00 was enough to win the title.

At the other end of the table, Köln in 2015/16 and Cloppenburg in 2013/14 put in astounding performances. Both teams had five different goal-scorers – not much less than many a champion – hit the net 20 and 34 times respectively, and won a respectable number of points. In spite of that, relegation to the 2. Liga followed.

It has already been described above that Bayern managed to make themselves less dependent on one top goal-scorer and to spread the burden of goal-scoring across several shoulders. In doing so, they even managed to score many more goals in total than in the previous year – more than 1.7 times as many. They went from 36 goals to 62. The number of goals conceded remained consistent at 15 – rather more than in the two title-winning years, where only 7 and 8 goals were let in respectively.

Bayern’s top scorer, as you know, scored 9 of 62 goals, and as such scored around 15% of Bayern’s goals. Pernille Harder, meanwhile, had two times as large a share of her team’s goals. She scored 30% of all VfL’s Bundesliga goals.



Sea­son Team Table Po­si­tion Points Goals shot Goals con­ce­ded Goal Ratio No. Goal­sco­rers Pla­yers with Mi­nu­tes 2013/2014 VfL Sindelfingen 12 2 4 123 0.03 2 26 2017/2018 1. FC Köln 11 11 8 78 0.10 2 27 2016/2017 Bor. Mönchengladbach 12 6 8 66 0.12 2 26 2014/2015 Herforder SV 12 5 18 89 0.20 4 22 2017/2018 FF USV Jena 12 10 12 56 0.21 4 23 2016/2017 Bayer Leverkusen 11 9 16 53 0.30 4 24 2015/2016 Werder Bremen 11 13 17 53 0.32 3 25 2015/2016 1. FC Köln 12 12 20 60 0.33 5 25 2014/2015 MSV Duisburg 11 17 18 49 0.37 3 21 2013/2014 BV Cloppenburg 11 17 34 60 0.57 5 22 2016/2017 Bayern München 2 52 36 15 2.40 5 29 2015/2016 VfL Wolfsburg 2 47 56 22 2.55 6 23 2016/2017 VfL Wolfsburg 1 54 56 14 4.00 7 24 2017/2018 Bayern München 2 53 62 15 4.13 6 24 2013/2014 VfL Wolfsburg 1 55 68 16 4.25 8 24 2013/2014 1. FFC Frankfurt 2 53 80 15 5.33 8 19 2015/2016 Bayern München 1 57 47 8 5.88 6 24 2017/2018 VfL Wolfsburg 1 56 56 8 7.00 7 25 2014/2015 Bayern München 1 56 56 7 8.00 9 23 2014/2015 VfL Wolfsburg 2 55 67 4 16.75 8 22

FC Bayern München Women 2017/18 vs. 2016/17

Below, Bayern’s appearance numbers, goals, substitutions etc. from last season can be compared with the previous one. For example, Gina Lewandowski played a smaller role in comparison to previous years. The 33-year-old was on the pitch for 94% of all minutes in 2016/17, but only 63% in 2017/18. In spite of that, with 17 sub appearances and 13 starts she was a key player and the backbone of Bayern’s game.

Bayern 2017/18

Player Games Mi­nu­tes Share of Mi­nu­tes Star­ting Ele­ven Subbed-in Subbed-out Goals/90 excl. Pe­nal­ties Goals incl. Pe­nal­ties Share of Goals Mandy Islacker 20 1061 0.54 12 8 8 0.51 6 0.10 Carina Wenninger 20 1787 0.90 20 0 1 0.10 2 0.03 Manuela Zinsberger 20 1800 0.91 20 0 0 0 0 0 Nicole Rolser 19 938 0.47 11 8 10 0.58 6 0.10 Fridolina Rolfö 19 1510 0.76 18 1 7 0.54 9 0.15 Melanie Leupolz 19 1458 0.74 18 1 9 0 0 0 Melanie Behringer 18 1300 0.66 15 3 6 0.14 4 0.06 Leonie Maier 18 1599 0.81 18 0 3 0.11 2 0.03 Dominika Škorvánková 18 1047 0.53 10 8 4 0.09 1 0.02 Jill Roord 17 1078 0.54 12 5 4 0.50 6 0.10 Gina Lewandowski 17 1239 0.63 13 4 0 0.15 2 0.03 Verena Faißt 17 1493 0.75 17 0 1 0 0 0 Lucie Vonková 16 5.68 0.29 5 11 5 0.63 4 0.06 Sara Däbritz 16 1287 0.65 14 2 2 0.56 8 0.13 Kristin Demann 14 1260 0.64 14 0 0 0.14 2 0.03 Simone Laudehr 13 1063 0.54 12 1 1 0.17 4 0.06 Lineth Beerensteyn 10 315 0.16 3 7 2 0.57 2 0.03 Verena Wieder 6 188 0.09 1 5 1 0 0 0 Jovana Damnjanović 3 126 0.06 1 2 0 1.43 2 0.03 Viktoria Schnaderbeck 3 270 0.14 3 0 0 0 0 0 Tinja-Riikka Korpela 2 180 0.09 2 0 0 0 0 0 Sydney Lohmann 1 40 0.02 1 0 1 2.25 1 0.02 Laura Georges 1 90 0.05 1 0 0 0 0 0 Leah Galton 1 72 0.04 1 0 1 0 0 0

Bayern 2016/17

Play­er Games Mi­nu­tes Share of Mi­nu­tes Star­ting Ele­ven Subbed-in Subbed-out Goals/90 excl. Pe­nal­ties Goals incl. Pe­nal­ties Share of Goals Anna Gerhardt 9 291 0.15 2 7 1 0.31 1 0.03 Barbara Brecht 1 16 0.01 0 1 0 0 0 0 Carina Wenninger 19 1296 0.65 14 5 1 0.07 1 0.03 Caroline Abbé 15 957 0.48 10 5 0 0.19 2 0.06 Fridolina Rolfö 5 280 0.14 3 2 3 0 0 0 Gina Lewandowski 21 1870 0.94 21 0 1 0.10 2 0.06 Ivana Slipcevic 1 83 0.04 1 0 1 0 0 0 Katharina Baunach 12 561 0.28 6 6 3 0.16 1 0.03 Lena Lotzen 2 98 0.05 1 1 0 0.92 1 0.03 Leonie Maier 17 1282 0.65 15 2 4 0 0 0 Lisa Evans 15 1046 0.53 13 2 10 0 0 0 Mana Iwabuchi 3 132 0.07 2 1 2 0 0 0 Manuela Zinsberger 10 900 0.45 10 0 0 0 0 0 Melanie Behringer 20 1675 0.85 20 0 5 0.16 5 0.14 Melanie Leupolz 10 530 0.27 5 5 1 0 0 0 Melike Pekel 1 13 0.01 0 1 0 0 0 0 Nicole Rolser 16 982 0.50 10 6 6 0.37 4 0.11 Nora Holstad Berge 15 1141 0.58 13 2 2 0.08 1 0.03 Sara Däbritz 22 1865 0.94 21 1 4 0.05 1 0.03 Sarah Romert 3 37 0.02 0 3 0 0 0 0 Simone Laudehr 7 531 0.27 6 1 3 0.17 1 0.03 Stefanie van der Gragt 9 765 0.39 9 0 3 0 0 0 Sydney Lohmann 3 213 0.11 2 1 1 0 0 0 Tinja-Riikka Korpela 12 1080 0.55 12 0 0 0 0 0 Vanessa Bürki 7 288 0.15 3 4 1 0.31 1 0.03 Verena Faißt 11 923 0.47 10 1 0 0 0 0 Verena Wieder 2 38 0.02 0 2 0 0 0 0 Viktoria Schnaderbeck 12 1080 0.55 12 0 0 0 0 0 Vivianne Miedema 22 1805 0.91 21 1 8 0.70 14 0.39

Special thanks go to our number digger, Lukas.

Translators: Bettina and Sam.