Ranking Bayern Munich's All-Time Top 10 Strikers

Two Bundesliga games played, four goals scored, one assist: so reads Robert Lewandowski's balance sheet a matter of weeks into the 2016-17 season.

The Poland captain fired Bayern Munich to a record fourth consecutive Bundesliga title last season, scoring 30 times to win the Torjagerkanone—the German trophy awarded to the campaign's top goalscorer.

Already off the mark with an opening-day hat-trick against Werder Bremen before Friday's goal and assist against Schalke, the 28-year-old shows little sign of slowing down.

Where, though, does Lewandowski rank among all the forwards to have pulled on the red shirt of Bayern Munich?

10. Rainer Ohlhauser

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Bayern only won a single Bundesliga title in the 1960s—the decade that Ohlhauser was at his most prolific.

Only Gerd Muller and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge have bettered Rainer Ohlhauser's all-time tally of 215 goals for Bayern Munich.

The primary goalscorer for Bayern following his arrival from Sandhausen in 1958, Ohlhauser might have featured more prominently on this list had he broken through a decade later.

Ohlhauser nonetheless played nearly 300 games for the Bavarians, and he won the 1967 Cup Winners Cup and the Bundesliga in 1969—alongside Franz Beckenbauer, Sepp Maier et al—two years later.

Ohlhauser won a single international cap, but at club level, few have represented Bayern more prolifically.

9. Jurgen Kinsmann

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Klinsmann enjoyed a trophy-laden spell at Bayern between 1995 and 1997.

One of the greatest goalscorers of his generation, Jurgen Klinsmann didn't even play for Bayern Munich until after his 30th birthday, having featured prominently for VfB Stuttgart, Inter Milan, Monaco and Tottenham Hotspur.

Affectionately known as "the Baker's son from Botnang," Klinsmann's positional ability in the opposition's box and knack for shooting early to catch goalkeepers off-guard nonetheless saw him end both the 1995-96 and 1996-97 seasons as Bayern's top goalscorer.

He plundered a tournament-high 15 goals as Bayern won the UEFA Cup in 1996—a record that stood until 2011 when Radamel Falcao scored 17 times for winners Porto—and is fondly remembered on the terraces of the Allianz Arena.

8. Carsten Jancker

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Jancker (l.) scored double figures in three of his six Bayern seasons, and was equaly as dangerous creating chances for others.

Standing at a hulking 6'4" tall, Carsten Jancker was a deceptive player, whose frame belied the fact that he had a sublime touch with his back to goal and an ability to create space for his team-mates.

Jancker's career looked destined for mediocrity when first club Cologne loaned him to Rapid Vienna, with whom he only managed seven goals in 27 appearances in 1995-96.

However, after moving to Bayern 1996, his partnership with Brazilian tyro Giovane Elber became one of the great strike pairs in the late 1990s and early 2000s—when 4-4-2 was the de facto formation for most of world football.

Jancker won four Bundesliga titles between 1996 and 2002 and was part of the side that won the 2001 Champions League final, beating Valencia on penalties to end a 25-year drought for Bayern in the competition.

7. Mario Gomez

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Gomez averaged a goal every 138 minutes for Bayern between 2009 and 2013.

Mario Gomez was signed from Stuttgart in 2009 for a reported €35 million Euros, making him the most expensive Bundesliga transfer until Mario Gotze joined the Bavarians from Borussia Dortmund in 2013.

After a stuttering maiden season at the Allianz with a return of 10 goals in 29 league appearances, the Germany international blossomed the next year, scoring a league-high 28 goals as Bayern took the title in 2011.

Something of a fox in the box despite his imposing physique, Gomez scored 12 goals—second only to Lionel Messi's 14 for Barcelona—as Bayern made it to the final of 2011-12 UEFA Champions League, before losing out to Chelsea on penalties in the final in Munich.

6. Luca Toni

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Toni (l.) completed the domestic treble in his maiden Bayern campaign, a season on from winning the World Cup with Italy.

Luca Toni arrived in Bavaria from Fiorentina in 2007 and quickly set about capturing the imagination of the Allianz Arena faithful.

A FIFA World Cup winner with Italy in 2006, Toni scored the "perfect hat-trick" in a 3-0 win over Hannover 96 in December 2008, scoring with each foot and his head, and concluded the season with a league-high 24 goals as the club secured the domestic treble.

Standing 6'4", Toni's intimidating stature belied a quick touch in the final third, and his tournament-high 10 goals helped the Reds to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup that same season.

Toni may have left under a cloud after falling out with then-coach Louis van Gaal in 2010, but it remains the case that few players have improved a team so dramatically upon their arrival.

5. Claudio Pizarro

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Pizarro (r.) overtook Elber as the top scoring foreign-born player in Bundesliga history in 2010.

Not many players have had a bigger impact on Bayern's recent history than Claudio Pizarro. The evergreen Peruvian scored 87 goals in 224 games combined between 2001 and 2007 and then 2012 and 2015.

Pizarro picked up 17 major titles at Bayern including six Bundesliga triumphs and the UEFA Champions League in 2013.

The top-scoring foreign player in Bundesliga history with 190 goals, Pizarro's ability to find the target with his head and either foot saw him score double figures in each of his first six seasons at the club.

4. Giovane Elber

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Elber fired Bayern to the Bundesliga title in consecutive seasons between 1999 and 2001.

Giovane Elber joined Bayern from VfB Stuttgart in 1997 as an already-established goalscoring force in German football, with 41 goals in 87 games in his time at the Swabians.

The effervescent Brazilian settled into the Bayern team in double-quick time and was the club's top scorer for all but one of the six seasons he led the line for them.

Instrumental in four Bundesliga triumphs between 1999 and 2003, Elber would surely have enjoyed more than 15 caps for Brazil had he not been unfortunate enough to be born in the same generation as a certain Ronaldo.

Elber won the Torjagerkanone in 2002-03 with 21 goals, and he started as Bayern won their first European Cup/Champions League in a quarter of a century with victory over Valencia in Milan 2001.

3. Robert Lewandowski

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Lewandowski has already scored four and assisted one in the 2016/17 Bundesliga season.

Robert Lewandowski has already pulled himself into the upper echelons of strikers to have graced the Allianz Arena and the Olympic Stadium before that, despite only joining Bayern from Borussia Dortmund in 2014.

No Bayern player has ever needed fewer games than Lewandowski's 64 to tally 50 times for the Bavarian giants, which was a landmark the striker surpassed on the opening day of this season, with his hat-trick in the 6-0 destruction of Werder.

Gerd Muller has scored a club-record 564 goals for Bayern, but he needed 83 games to reach the half-century—19 games more than Lewandowski.

A two-time Bundesliga champion, Lewandowski helped his team complete the domestic treble of Bundesliga, DFB-Pokal and DFL-Supercup last term.

His five goals in nine minutes in last September's 5-1 in over VfL Wolfsburg were the quickest any striker had ever managed three, four and five goals in the Bundesliga.

2 Karl-Heinz Rummenigge

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Rummenigge (r.) and Paul Breitner (l.) were cornerstones of the Bayern team of the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Karl-Heinz Rummenigge scored an incredible 162 goals in 310 games for Bayern after making his first-team debut in 1974 as an academy graduate.

Unlike many on this list who play or played on the shoulder of the last defender, Rummenigge was just as happy to drop deep and wide in order to see more of the ball in the team's build-up play.

His 10 years at Bayern saw eight major titles, with two European Cup wins in the 1970s matched by the same number of Bundesliga triumphs in the 1980s.

Rummenigge won the German Footballer of the Year award in 1980 and the European equivalent the following year, and he spent the twilight of his career with Inter Milan and Servette before returning to Bayern as CEO in 1992.

1. Gerd Muller

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Muller's (r.) record of 85 goals in a single calendar year (1972) was only surpassed by Lionel Messi some 40 years later.

No list of Bayern's greatest forwards would be compete without Gerd Muller.

Arguably the greatest goalscorer in the history of the sport, Muller plundered 398 league goals in 453 games for Bayern, and he stands at the top of the club's all-time scoring charts some 236 goals clear of second-placed Karl-Heinz Rummenigge.

"Der Bomber" scored 66 goals in 74 European Cup games with the club, helping the Bavarians to three consecutive European Cups between 1974 and 1976.

Although he was just 5'7" tall, Muller's leap made him a feared aerial adversary, and he also picked up four Bundesliga titles with Bayern.

At international level, Muller scored four goals at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, including the winner for Germany against the Netherlands in the final, and was the top all-time scorer in the competition until Brazil's Ronaldo overtook him in 2006.