Robert Lewandowski

Robert Lewandowski

Lewandowski with Bayern Munich in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Robert Lewandowski[1]
Date of birth	(1988-08-21) 21 August 1988 (age 36)[2]
Place of birth	Warsaw, Poland
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[3]
Position(s)	Striker
Club information
Current team	Barcelona
Number	9
Youth career
1996–1997	Partyzant Leszno
1997–2005	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	2	(6)
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	43	(28)
National team‡
2007	Poland U19	1	(0)
2008	Poland U21	3	(0)
2008–	Poland	153	(84)
Signature
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:15, 28 October 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 5 September 2024

Robert Lewandowski (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrɔbɛrt lɛvanˈdɔfskʲi] (listen); born 21 August 1988) is a Polish footballer. He plays as a striker for La Liga club Barcelona and the Poland national team.

He began his career with Znicz Pruszków in 2005, then continuously moved up the Polish tiers until he made it to the first-tier club Lech Poznań in 2008.

A full international for Poland since 2008, Lewandowski has earned over 100 caps and was a member of their team at Euro 2012, Euro 2016 and 2018 FIFA World Cup. With 60 international goals, Lewandowski is the all-time top scorer for Poland. In 2015, he was voted Polish Sportspersonality of the Year and in 2016 he claimed fourth place at the 2015 FIFA Ballon d'Or Awards.

He has been named the Polish Player of the Year a record seven times. The Guardian has ranked him as the fifth-best footballer on the planet in 2015.^[4]

Likely one of Lewandowski's most famous records is scoring 5 goals in 9 minutes (8:59).^[5] For achieving this, Robert Lewandowski was awarded 4 Guinness World Records.^[6]

1. ↑ "FIFA World Cup Russia 2018: List of Players: Poland" (PDF). FIFA. 15 July 2018. p. 22. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 June 2019.
2. ↑ "Robert Lewandowski". ESPN. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
3. ↑ "Robert Lewandowski". FC Barcelona. Retrieved 1 March 2023.
4. ↑ "The 100 best footballers in the world 2015 – interactive". The Guardian. 21 December 2015. Archived from the original on 6 January 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
5. ↑ "Bundesliga | Watch: Robert Lewandowski's 5 goals in 9 minutes in FULL!". www.bundesliga.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2021. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
6. ↑ "Bayern Munich hotshot Robert Lewandowski nets four Guinness World Records titles for goal scoring spree". Guinness World Records. 30 November 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2021.