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Brazilian left winger Leonardo de Dios Santos (322 appearances) played for Dortmund from 1998 to 2011. The number 17 was very popular among Dortmund fans. With the club, he won the title of German champion in 2002 and 2011. Leonardo de Dios Santos is nicknamed “The German” in Brazil because of his punctuality.

Danish striker Ole Bjornmoz (323 games) joined the Bundesliga in 1966, where he spent eleven years. After five seasons at Bremen, he moved to Hamburg in 1971, with whom he won the DFB Cup in 1976 and the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1977. Until 2008, two years after his death, Bjornmos remained the most capped foreign player Bundesliga match.

Bosnian Sergej Barbarez (330 games) played from 1996 to 2008 for four Bundesliga teams. After Rostock and Dortmund, Barbaris moved to Hamburg in 2000. It was only a short time before he became a fan favorite. In 2001, he was declared the best scorer with 22 goals. After his contract with Hamburg was not renewed, he moved to Leverkusen in 2006, where he ended his playing career in 2008.

The Brazilian Ravenna (332 games) attracted the attention of European clubs at the Under-20 World Championship in the Netherlands in 2005. In the same year, he moved to Schalke. Five years later he moved to Italy, but a year later he returned to the Bundesliga. With Bayern Munich, he was champion seven times, cup winner four times, and in 2013, the European Champions League.

The player Lukasz Pishchik (332 games) was a right back at Borussia Dortmund between 2010 and 2021. The Pole also played for Hertha Berlin, but was relegated to the second division with the main club before moving to Dortmund. With Dortmund, he won the league championship twice and the German FA Cup three times.

Brazilian Zé Roberto (336 games) came to Bayer Leverkusen in 1998 from Real Madrid. In 2002, he moved to Bayern Munich and won a number of titles with him. In 2009, when she was 35 years old, she got a two-year contract to play with Hamburg.

The start of Bosnian Widad Ibisevic (344 games) in the German league was in 2006 in the jersey of the club from Aachen. He later played for Hoffenheim, Stuttgart and Hertha Berlin. He scored 127 goals in the Bundesliga. His career at Germany’s Schalke ended infamously in November 2020: after an argument with the assistant coach.

Georgian Levan Kobiashvili (351 games) played for FC Freiburg under coach Volker Fink. He later moved on to play for Schalke and Hertha. The Bundesliga player has the longest suspension in league history. In 2012, he was suspended for seven and a half months for punching a referee.

Turkish national team member Halil Altintop (351 matches) was born in 1982 and has both Turkish and German citizenship. From 2003 to 2017, he played for Kaiserslautern, Schalke 04, Frankfurt and Augsburg and scored a total of 67 goals in the Bundesliga. His brother Hamid was also a professional footballer until 2018.

Japanese midfielder Makoto Hasebe (357 appearances) is one of the few professionals still excelling in the Bundesliga. Although he did not play for Bayern or Dortmund, he won the German championship in 2009 in his second season with Wolfsburg. In 2014, he moved to Nürnberg, and after a year in their ranks, he changed his destination to Eintracht Frankfurt, with whom he won the Cup in 2018.

Midfielder Daniel Caligiuri (358 appearances) was born and raised in southern Germany and holds dual Italian and German citizenship. He started with Freiburg, where he entered the world of professionalism in the German league in 2007. After spending several seasons in Wolfsburg and Schalke 04, he moved to Augsburg in 2020.

The Polish star Lewandowski (383 games) became, along with top scorer Gerd Müller, one of the greatest scorers in the history of the German Bundesliga. In 2010, Lewandowski moved from the Polish club Boznania to Borussia Dortmund, and after four years he changed his destination to Bayern Munich. Due to the failure of the transfer to Real Madrid, Lewandowski became an important part of Bundesliga history.

Claudio Pizarro, who comes from Peru, played 490 games from 1999 to 2020 for Werder Bremen, Bayern Munich and Cologne. He scored 197 goals in the Bundesliga. He won the German championship six times and the German FA Cup six times. With Munich, he won the championship and the cup five times, and once a triple (championship, cup and Europa League). And he ended his career at Werder Bremen in the summer of 2020. Writer: Andreas Stein Simmons