Bayern Munich's Canadian 'Roadrunner' Alphonso Davies and Borussia Dortmund's Karim Adeyemi have both previously held the distinction as the fastest player ever recorded in the Bundesliga, but who's the speedster to have pipped them?
bundesliga.com lists the 10 fastest players ever clocked in the German top flight since records began in 2011/12…
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1) Sirlord Conteh - 22.79 mph (36.67 km/h)
Heidenheim's summer signing set the speed alert alarm ringing late in his team's 4-0 win over Augsburg in the second game of 2024/25 as he chased down a clearance for an attempted break. The Hamburg-born winger of Ghanaian parents just pipped Adeyemi's previous record as the fastest player ever clocked in Germany's top flight.
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2) Karim Adeyemi - 22.77 mph (36.65 km/h)
Dortmund's German forward turned on the after-burners in his side's 5-1 win over Freiburg early in the second half of the 2022/23 season to set a new Bundesliga speed record at the time. He hit 22.77 mph and used his pace to good effect to plunder a goal in Dortmund's win.
3) Jeremiah St. Juste – 22.76 mph (36.63 km/h)
The appearance of a centre-back near the top of this list may be a shock, but former Mainz man St. Juste is quick - very quick. The Dutchman completes the podium with a fastest speed of 22.76 mph recorded in Mainz’s encounter with Union Berlin on Matchday 7 of 2021/22.
4) Sheraldo Becker – 22.72 mph (36.57 km/h)
Former Union man Becker - another Dutchman - has been ousted from the top three with his top speed of 22.72 mph, achieved late on in the 2022/23 season, when he completed 1,113 sprints. He improved on his previous best of 22.61 mph set midway through the first half of Die Eisernen’s home game against VfB Stuttgart on Matchday 26 of the 2021/22 campaign.
5) Alphonso Davies – 22.69 mph (36.51 km/h)
The 2019/20 season will be one that nobody at Bayern ever forgets, especially Davies. It was his breakthrough campaign at the club following his January 2019 arrival from the Vancouver Whitecaps, almost breaking through the sound barrier on Matchday 32 against Werder Bremen in the game where the Bavarians secured the Bundesliga title - the first of six trophies in 2020 - when he was recorded at a blistering 22.69 mph. He’s the fifth-fastest player in Bundesliga history, only sitting ahead of Diaby by 0.006 mph (0.01 km/h).
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6) Moussa Diaby – 22.69 mph (36.52 km/h)
Diaby first broke the magic 36 km/h mark at the back end of the 2019/20 season and held the record for the fastest player in the 2022/23 campaign until surpassed by Adeyemi when caught at 22.69 mph (36.52 km/h) late in the second half of Bayer Leverkusen’s draw with Wolfsburg on Matchday 11.
7) Achraf Hakimi – 22.67 mph (36.49 km/h)
The record Davies broke in 2020 had previously, for a few months, belonged to Dortmund's Hakimi after the speed gun caught him at 22.67 mph on Matchday 20 of 2019/20 as BVB thumped Union Berlin 5-0. He'd also broken the record four games earlier when he reached 22.49 mph against RB Leipzig.
8) Leon Bailey – 22.62 mph (36.40 km/h)
You can't be a slouch when you count Usain Bolt among your friends - and nobody could accuse Bailey of being one of them. Leverkusen’s former Jamaican winger set the third-fastest speed since records began in the Bundesliga at the time when he reached 22.62 mph on Matchday 33 of 2019/20 against Hertha Berlin. He’s now down to fifth.
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9) Kevin Schade – 22.60 mph (36.37 km/h)
Freiburg have enjoyed mixing it with the big boys of late and are doing so again on this list with one of their own. Schade was an established member of the senior squad team but didn't really break through into the first XI, despite his blistering pace. The Germany U21 international registered the ninth-fastest speed in Bundesliga history in the first half of the 3-1 win at home to Greuther Fürth on Matchday 10 of 2021/22.
10) Micky van de Ven - 22.58 mph (36.35 km/h)
The fourth defender in this all-time top 10, Dutch youngster Van de Ven clocked his personal best time on Matchday 23 of the 2022/23 season in Wolfburg's 2-2 draw at home to Eintracht Frankfurt. It means he keeps Erling Haaland out of the top 10 by 0.02 mph (0.05 km/h).
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