Robert Lewandowski

Robert Lewandowski (born 21 August 1988) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a striker for Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire and captains the Poland national team. Widely regarded as one of the greatest strikers of all time, he is one of the few players to have scored 100 goals for three different clubs, has scored more than 750 senior goals for club and country, and ranks third on the all-time UEFA Champions League scoring list with 109 goals.

He began his career in the lower tiers of Polish football with Znicz Pruszków before joining top-flight Lech Poznań, helping them win the 2009–10 Ekstraklasa. In 2010 he moved to Borussia Dortmund in Germany, winning two consecutive Bundesliga titles and the league's top scorer award, and in 2013 he played for Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League final. Ahead of the 2014–15 season he joined Dortmund's domestic rivals Bayern Munich on a free transfer, winning the Bundesliga in each of his eight seasons there and playing a key part in the 2019–20 treble, which included the Champions League. Against Wolfsburg in 2015 he came off the bench to score five goals in 8 minutes and 59 seconds, the fastest in Bundesliga history, a feat recognised with four Guinness World Records certificates. In 2022 he moved to Barcelona, winning three La Liga titles, the Copa del Rey and the Pichichi Trophy, and after leaving at the end of the 2025–26 season he joined Chicago Fire in June 2026.

A Poland international since 2008 and captain since 2014, he is the country's all-time top scorer with 92 goals and played at the UEFA European Championship in 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 and the FIFA World Cup in 2018 and 2022. He briefly retired from the national team in 2025 before returning later that year and being reinstated as captain.

His individual honours include the Best FIFA Men's Player award in 2020 and 2021, the UEFA Men's Player of the Year Award in 2020, the European Golden Shoe for 2020–21 and 2021–22, and the Gerd Müller Trophy in 2021 and 2022, and he won the Bundesliga top scorer award in a joint-record seven seasons. He was widely expected to win the 2020 Ballon d'Or, but the award was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic; in 2021 he finished second.