Karl-Heinz Körbel has made the most career appearances by a German in Europe's top five leagues, with 602 appearances in Bundesliga.

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Karl-Heinz Körbel K. Körbel	602	53,355	600	45	0.07			12
2	Manfred Kaltz M. Kaltz	594	52,770	586	77	0.13			53
3	Lothar Matthäus L. Matthäus	579	49,965	576	161	0.28			47
4	Eike Immel E. Immel	572	51,293	572	0	0.00			0
5	Oliver Kahn O. Kahn	557	49,383	555	0	0.00			0
6	Klaus Fichtel K. Fichtel	552	48,113	545	14	0.03			4
7	Jens Lehmann J. Lehmann	547	48,974	546	2	0.00			1
8	Klaus Fischer K. Fischer	535	46,268	525	268	0.50			11
9	Manuel Neuer M. Neuer	534	47,900	533	0	0.00	2	2	0
10	Stefan Reuter S. Reuter	530	45,913	524	25	0.05			8
11	Thomas Häßler T. Häßler	520	42,274	479	80	0.15			18
12	Willi Neuberger W. Neuberger	520	45,684	513	63	0.12			1
13	Michael Lameck M. Lameck	518	46,210	514	38	0.07			13
14	Klaus Allofs K. Allofs	515	42,412	467	211	0.41			10
15	Ulrich Stein U. Stein	512	45,939	512	0	0.00			0
16	Thomas Müller T. Müller	503	35,832	415	150	0.30	175	325	14
17	Oliver Baumann O. Baumann	501	45,090	501	0	0.00	3	3	0
18	Jürgen Kohler J. Kohler	500	43,471	492	36	0.07			0
19	Christian Wörns C. Wörns	497	42,929	485	29	0.06			1
20	Bernard Dietz B. Dietz	495	42,607	480	77	0.16			6
21	Ditmar Jakobs D. Jakobs	493	43,765	493	45	0.09			0
22	Andreas Möller A. Möller	485	40,645	469	129	0.27			8
23	Rainer Geye R. Geye	485	42,473	478	113	0.23			6
24	Toni Kroos T. Kroos	479	35,634	407	45	0.09	104	149	0
25	Dieter Burdenski D. Burdenski	478	42,931	477	1	0.00			1