Miroslav Votava has made the most career appearances by a midfielder in Bundesliga, with 546 appearances.

	NAME	M	MIN	START	G	G/M	A	G+A	PK
1	Miroslav Votava M. Votava	546	47,314	528	43	0.08			0
2	Michael Lameck M. Lameck	518	46,210	514	38	0.07			13
3	Stefan Reuter S. Reuter	502	43,411	496	25	0.05			8
4	Rainer Geye R. Geye	485	42,473	478	113	0.23			6
5	Lothar Matthäus L. Matthäus	464	39,814	461	121	0.26			30
6	Michael Zorc M. Zorc	463	38,164	427	131	0.28			49
7	Olaf Thon O. Thon	443	36,439	426	82	0.19			13
8	Johannes Riedl J. Riedl	441	35,340	399	49	0.11			7
9	Jürgen Grabowski J. Grabowski	441	39,238	441	109	0.25			15
10	Christian Gentner C. Gentner	430	31,893	366	46	0.11	38	84	1
11	Andreas Möller A. Möller	429	36,082	414	110	0.26			8
12	Bernd Nickel B. Nickel	426	36,159	408	141	0.33			9
13	Gonzalo Castro G. Castro	421	31,494	363	38	0.09	62	100	1
14	Heinz Simmet H. Simmet	419	36,864	411	55	0.13			0
15	Rudolf Bommer R. Bommer	417	33,459	371	54	0.13			7
16	Marcel Witeczek M. Witeczek	410	28,507	315	50	0.12			0
17	Wolfgang Overath W. Overath	409	36,110	407	83	0.20			10
18	Pierre Littbarski P. Littbarski	406	34,738	391	116	0.29			14
19	Winfried Anton Schäfer W. Anton Schäfer	403	33,067	371	46	0.11			0
20	Torsten Frings T. Frings	402	33,022	374	50	0.12	6	56	12
21	Thomas Häßler T. Häßler	400	32,000	359	68	0.17			16
22	Klaus Zaczyk K. Zaczyk	400	34,528	387	61	0.15			5
23	Mehmet Scholl M. Scholl	392	25,418	269	98	0.25			11
24	Dieter Eilts D. Eilts	390	32,922	381	7	0.02			0
25	Maximilian Arnold M. Arnold	385	31,100	352	44	0.11	43	87	3