{"id":9154,"date":"2026-05-16T15:01:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9154"},"modified":"2026-05-16T15:01:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T15:01:58","slug":"the-most-assists-in-a-season-in-europes-top-five-leagues-this-century-as-record-chasing-olise-hits-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/?p=9154","title":{"rendered":"The most assists in a season in Europe&#8217;s top-five leagues this century as record-chasing Olise hits 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-blocks\">\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\"><b>Michael Olise has reached the latest landmark of his phenomenal campaign with Bayern Munich after recording his 30th assist of the campaign across all competitions.<\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">The Frenchman has been the creative hub of Vincent Kompany&#8217;s free-scoring side, who have obliterated the Bundesliga&#8217;s goal record on route to another German title.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Bayern have scored 117 goals in 33 games ahead of their season finale against K\u00f6ln today, with Olise having notched up 19 assists in the league alone. No player across Europe&#8217;s top-five leagues has created more league goals than the 24-year-old.<\/div>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Olise&#8217;s assists in the Bundesliga have come from only 23 starts, averaging an assist every 120 minutes in the league this season.<\/div>\n<p>Olise has also now passed 30 assists across all competitions, becoming only the fourth player to achieve that feat this century.<\/p>\n<div style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"first:font-bold md:text-lg text-base paragraph-content\">Lionel Messi twice surpassed 30 assists at Barcelona (2011\/12 and 2014\/15), while Manchester City&#8217;s Kevin De Bruyne (2022\/23) and Borussia Dortmund&#8217;s Henrikh Mkhitaryan (2015\/16) have also achieved the feat.<\/div>\n<p>Each of that trio recorded 31 assists in a single campaign and Olise will be out to break that record before the season&#8217;s end. <\/p>\n<p>After facing K\u00f6ln on the Bundesliga&#8217;s final day, Olise and Bayern face Stuttgart in the DFB-Pokal final on May 23rd. Victory in that game will hand the German champions a domestic double.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"word-break:break-word\" class=\"heading-content\" id=\"heading-1\">The most assists in a season in Europe&#8217;s top-five leagues this century (across all competitions)<\/h2>\n<ol class=\"&#10;          list-content list-outside pl-10&#10;          list-decimal&#10;        \">\n<li class=\"(&amp;&gt;a):text-primary dark:(&amp;&gt;a):text-white (&amp;&gt;a):underline md:text-lg text-base\"><b>Lionel Messi &#8211; 31, Barcelona (2011\/12)<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"(&amp;&gt;a):text-primary dark:(&amp;&gt;a):text-white (&amp;&gt;a):underline md:text-lg text-base\"><b>Lionel Messi &#8211; 31, Barcelona (2014\/15)<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"(&amp;&gt;a):text-primary dark:(&amp;&gt;a):text-white (&amp;&gt;a):underline md:text-lg text-base\"><b>Kevin De Bruyne &#8211; 31, Manchester City (2022\/23)<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"(&amp;&gt;a):text-primary dark:(&amp;&gt;a):text-white (&amp;&gt;a):underline md:text-lg text-base\"><b>Henrikh Mkhitaryan &#8211; 31, Borussia Dortund (2015\/16)<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"(&amp;&gt;a):text-primary dark:(&amp;&gt;a):text-white (&amp;&gt;a):underline md:text-lg text-base\"><b>Michael Olise &#8211; 30*, Bayern Munich (2025\/26)<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"(&amp;&gt;a):text-primary dark:(&amp;&gt;a):text-white (&amp;&gt;a):underline md:text-lg text-base\"><b>Mesut Ozil &#8211; 29, Real Madrid (2010\/11)<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"(&amp;&gt;a):text-primary dark:(&amp;&gt;a):text-white (&amp;&gt;a):underline md:text-lg text-base\"><b>Mesut Ozil &#8211; 29, Werder Bremen (2009\/10)<\/b><\/li>\n<li class=\"(&amp;&gt;a):text-primary dark:(&amp;&gt;a):text-white (&amp;&gt;a):underline md:text-lg text-base\"><b>Juan Mata &#8211; 29, Chelsea (2011\/12)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Olise has reached the latest landmark of his phenomenal campaign with Bayern Munich after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chelsea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/playball.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}