Official | Scotland’s Oliver Burke of becomes second fastest player in Bundesliga history with 22.99 mph clock

Scottish striker Oliver Burke of 1. FC Union Berlin has moved up to second place on the all-time Bundesliga top-ten fastest player chart after being clocked at 37 km/h (22.99 mph) this weekend. Burke’s clocked speed in the Easter Sunday 1-1 draw with St. Pauli makes him the first player to crack the top-ten in the current 2025/26 Bundesliga campaign. 

As noted in a previous Get German Football News piece, the current Bundesliga season – despite seeing some impressive speed measurements by notoriously fast players such as St. Pauli’s Ricky Jade Jones and RB Leipzig’s Yan Diomande – hasn’t featured any new top ten entrants. Last year, five players totally shook up the top-ten list. 

Burke becomes the first 2025/26 Bundesliga footballer to alter the list.

Here’s the current state of the list:

The top ten fastest-ever Bundesliga players

10. Nathan Ngoumou (Borussia Mönchengladbach)

36.53 km/hr (22.69 mph) on September 21st, 2024.

9. Alphonso Davies (Bayern Munich)

-36.53 km/hr (22.69 mph) on April 8th, 2023.

8. Sheraldo Becker (Union Berlin)

36.57 km/hr (22.72 mph) on May 13th, 2023.

7. Jeremiah St. Juste (FSV Mainz 05)

36.63 km/hr (22.76 mph) on October 3rd, 2021.

6. Karim Adeyemi (Borussia Dortmund)

36.65 km/hr (22.77 mph) on February 4th, 2023.

5. Gerrit Holtmann (VfL Bochum)

36.74 km/hr (22.83 mph) on November 2nd, 2024.

4. Sirlord Conteh (FC Heidenheim)

36.83 km/hr (22.88 mph) on December 7th, 2024.

3. Loïs Openda (RB Leipzig)

36.84 km/hr (22.89 mph) on May 3rd, 2025.

2. Oliver Burke (Union Berlin)

37.0 km/hr (22.99 mph) on April 5th, 2026.

1. Jean-Matteo Bahoya (Eintracht Frankfurt)

37.16 km/hr (23.09 mph) on March 15th, 2025.