Manuel Neuer equals Oliver Kahn's record for most Bundesliga wins

Neuer, 35, brought up the record number as Bayern Munich beat RB Leipzig 3-2 on Matchday 21 of 2021/22 - the nine-time champion's 458th appearance in Germany's top flight. For reference, Leipzig as a club have won 100 times in the Bundesliga.

The first 77 of those wins came in 156 games for boyhood club Schalke, before Neuer went on to cement his position as the world's greatest ever goalkeeper in a decade-defining spell at Bayern, where he has now left the pitch triumphant in 233 out of 302 Bundesliga matches.

He has equalled Kahn's record in blistering time. The current Bayern CEO and Neuer's predecessor as goalkeeper and captain brought up his 310th and final victory in his 557th game by beating Hertha Berlin 4-1 in the last matchday of 2007/08, before hanging up his gloves.

As Robert Lewandowski is now doing to Gerd Müller's historic goalscoring records, Neuer has been pinching them off Kahn.

The current Germany No.1 took Kahn's Bundesliga record for clean sheets (204 for Karlsruhe and Bayern) at the start of this season - again in well over 100 games fewer - and is now moving clear out in front on 211.

Kahn was 38 when he retired, but was recently quoted in Abendzeitung as saying 35-year-old Neuer could play even beyond that. He also stated that an extension to the Bayern captain's contract, which expires in 2023, is high on the priority list, while joking that he'd told Neuer to leave him some records before he's done.

The eight-time Bundesliga winner - itself another total Neuer has surpassed - can at least cling onto joint-top spot for games won for another week, but he looks set to slip back to second imminently. And he could be as low as third come the end of 2021/22, with Thomas Müller not far behind on 298 wins.