2025/26 set two teenage records: 19 different teenage scorers (previous best 18) and 55 teenage goals (previous best 52). Dortmund's Luca Reggiani was the 19th scorer.
Back to the trend of the day: Gladbach ends six straight league losses with 3-2 win at Stuttgart
Poly Rating · from the trend of the day
Youngest Bundesliga Goal Scorers 2026/27 and Teen Minutes
Second-placed Dortmund play teenagers by choice, while bottom side Gladbach turned to 17-year-old Wael Mohya out of need, and he produced the goal and assist behind their first points of the season.
- No. 1: Borussia Dortmund
- 9 places
01Final list
The leading AIs each built their own list of ten independently. Here is one result that is easy to check: every place has a reason, a source, and the list of AIs that included it.
Order: from most to least AI agreement.
A bright badge means this AI put the entry on its list. A dim badge means it did not.
- 1
Borussia Dortmund
Trust by choice: level on points at the top, unbeaten after six, while starting 19-year-old Gadou and 18-year-old Karetsas. No teenage goals yet, one assist (FBref).
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, DeepSeek, Wenxin, Kimi, Qwen. Did not include: Nemotron.In their lists: Claude: 1 · ChatGPT: 10 · Meta: 3 · Gemini: 1 · DeepSeek: 1 · Wenxin: 2 · Kimi: 3 · Qwen: 1
What each AI noted 8
- Claudeplace 1
Level on points at the top (14 after 6) with an 18-year-old, Karetsas, playing 74 minutes on his debut.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 10
Luca Reggiani’s previous-season record is evidence of teenage scoring across the league, not proof that any one 2026/27 club leads on minutes or points returned.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 3
19th teenage scorer record – Reggiani 513 minutes + Mathis Albert youngest American debut at 16y 11m
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 1
Channels over 14% of senior outfield minutes to teenagers by design, producing record Italian scorer Luca Reggiani while anchoring a Champions League qualification spot.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 1
No club has given more 2026/27 league minutes to players aged 19 or under — and they are doing it from first place, not desperation.
Source ↗ - Wenxinplace 2
Even the runner-up trusts its academy: Dortmund's 17-year-old is already a starter
- Kimiplace 3
The club of Moukoko turned teenage trust into a league record: 19 different teenage scorers in 2025/26, capped by 17-year-old Luca Reggiani's landmark goal.
Source ↗ - Qwenplace 1
Choosing youth from a position of strength, fielding up to seven teenagers in a single match while remaining stable.
Source ↗
8 AIs put it here - 2
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Trust out of need: bottom of the table with about 10 players missing, Gladbach leaned on 17-year-old Mohya, who has 2 league goals and 1 assist and earned their only 3 points. Sources disagree on his minutes (155–208).
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, DeepSeek, Wenxin, Kimi, Qwen. Did not include: Nemotron.In their lists: Claude: 2 · ChatGPT: 1 · Meta: 1 · Gemini: 3 · DeepSeek: 7 · Wenxin: 3 · Kimi: 2 · Qwen: 5
What each AI noted 8
- Claudeplace 2
Last in the table with six defeats before a 17-year-old turned a match: need and belief together.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 1
Crisis thrust 17-year-old Wael Mohya into the defining role: he scored the go-ahead goal in a 3–2 win that stopped six opening defeats.
Source ↗ - Metaplace 1
17-year-old Wael Mohya 208 minutes, 1 goal + 1 assist to end club's worst start – forced youth by 10 absences turned choice
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 3
Forced into emergency trust by an 0-6 freefall, reaping 3 points when 17-year-old Wael Mohya provided an assist and the 86th-minute winner at Stuttgart.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 7
Wael Mohya is the face of the 2026/27 teenage story — 155 U19 minutes and the goal that saved Gladbach from a record.
Source ↗ - Wenxinplace 3
Six losses in a row forced Gladbach to hand minutes to a 19-year-old match-winner
Source ↗ - Kimiplace 2
A 17-year-old has produced 2 goals and 1 assist in seven games and scored the goal that ended his club's record losing start — the most decisive U19 output in the league right now.
Source ↗ - Qwenplace 5
Forced into crisis youth, relying on 17-year-old Wael Mohya to break a historic six-match losing streak.
8 AIs put it here - 3
RB Leipzig
Their trust was proven last season more than this one: Diomandé played 2,473 teenage minutes and was sold to Real Madrid for €125m. 17-year-old Konaté has appeared, but this season's teenage minutes are modest.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, Kimi, Qwen. Did not include: Nemotron, DeepSeek, Wenxin.In their lists: Claude: 7 · ChatGPT: 4 · Meta: 4 · Gemini: 2 · Kimi: 5 · Qwen: 2
What each AI noted 6
- Claudeplace 7
Yan Diomandé played 2,473 minutes as a teenager last season, the most in the league, scoring 10 in 25 games.
- ChatGPTplace 4
Samba Konaté appears in the season’s youngest-appearance data at 17; that establishes a chance given, not sustained league trust.
- Metaplace 4
Yan Diomande 10 goals at 19 – 18 goal contributions most by U19 – plus Tidiam Gomis 35.75 km/h
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 2
Maintains an 11.8% teenage minutes quota across a top-four campaign, turning teenage starts into an undefeated 2.40 points-per-game dividend.
Source ↗ - Kimiplace 5
Leipzig trusted an 18-year-old with 2,473 league minutes and 20 goal contributions last season — then sold him to Real Madrid for up to €140m, the ultimate proof the pipeline works.
Source ↗ - Qwenplace 2
The league's youngest squad by design, boasting an average age of just 24.0 years.
6 AIs put it here - 4
Mainz 05
A regular starter by choice: 18-year-old Potulski started three of four recorded games, which brought 7 points. The 301 teenage minutes are an FBref estimate from one source.
Included it: ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen. Did not include: Claude, Nemotron, Wenxin.In their lists: ChatGPT: 7 · Meta: 10 · Gemini: 9 · DeepSeek: 2 · Kimi: 7 · Qwen: 4
What each AI noted 6
- ChatGPTplace 7
Kacper Potulski, 18, appears in the season’s youngest-player list; the retrieved sources do not show whether this was choice or injury cover.
- Metaplace 10
Kacper Potulski 1 goal – Mainz among 12 clubs with teenage scorer in first 10 games record
Source ↗ - Geminiplace 9
Pushed 6.8% of defensive minutes onto teenagers due to early-season cruciate and hamstring injuries, scraping 0.80 points per start.
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 2
Mainz have quietly given more U19 league minutes than every club except Dortmund and Hamburg — and they are sixth, so it is not a crisis call.
Source ↗ - Kimiplace 7
Mainz started a 17-year-old in nine league games during a relegation season — one of only four U18 players in the division to pass 1,000 minutes.
- Qwenplace 4
A youth-driven rebuild in progress, ranking as the third-youngest team in the division at 24.8 years.
6 AIs put it here - 5
1. FC Köln
Low-pressure trust from 12th place: Spurs loanee Mikey Moore (19) and Reigan Heskey (18) have both played. 224 teenage minutes (estimate) and no teenage goals yet.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, DeepSeek, Qwen. Did not include: Gemini, Nemotron, Wenxin, Kimi.In their lists: Claude: 6 · ChatGPT: 6 · Meta: 7 · DeepSeek: 4 · Qwen: 8
What each AI noted 5
- Claudeplace 6
Saïd El Mala scored 9 in 26 league games as a teenager last season, the base of Köln's trust.
Source ↗ - ChatGPTplace 6
Two teenagers, Reigan Heskey and Mikey Moore, appear in the retrieved youngest-appearance list; their club’s teenage-minute share remains unverified.
- Metaplace 7
Saïd El Mala 9 goals in 2025/26 – Cologne's teenage talisman in stable mid-table
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 4
Köln are giving meaningful minutes to 19- and 18-year-olds while sitting mid-table — a quieter version of 'chosen youth'.
Source ↗ - Qwenplace 8
Securing high-potential loan deals like Spurs' Mikey Moore to guarantee teenage minutes in the midfield.
Source ↗
5 AIs put it here - 6
Werder Bremen
Minutes spread thin: Schmetgens, Erevbenagie and Čović share 163 recorded minutes (estimate). 7 points from four games, but no teenage goals or assists yet.
Included it: ChatGPT, Meta, DeepSeek, Wenxin, Kimi. Did not include: Claude, Gemini, Nemotron, Qwen.In their lists: ChatGPT: 8 · Meta: 6 · DeepSeek: 6 · Wenxin: 10 · Kimi: 6
What each AI noted 5
- ChatGPTplace 8
Mick Schmetgens, 18, has a listed Bundesliga appearance, but a debut does not establish a club-wide commitment to teenagers.
- Metaplace 6
Karim Coulibaly 18y 99d youngest scorer in club history – Bremen's 2,000th home Bundesliga goal
Source ↗ - DeepSeekplace 6
Werder's U19 minutes are spread across three teenagers, led by 19-year-old Schmetgens — useful, but not yet a youth-first identity.
Source ↗ - Wenxinplace 10
Just promoted and already Bremen's best hope is an 18-year-old winger
- Kimiplace 6
Werder gave a 17-year-old league minutes and an 18-year-old 350+ minutes last season while fighting relegation — trust out of need, but trust all the same.
5 AIs put it here - 7
Hamburger SV
Trust out of need: 16th in the table yet playing 16-year-old Lemke, the youngest player to appear this season. At least 411 teenage minutes, an estimate taken from FBref's all-competitions page, and 3 points.
Included it: Claude, ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Kimi. Did not include: Meta, Gemini, Nemotron, Wenxin, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 8 · ChatGPT: 3 · DeepSeek: 3 · Kimi: 10
What each AI noted 4
- Claudeplace 8
Luka Vušković is in the top group of teenage minutes last season.
- ChatGPTplace 3
Louis Lemke, born in 2009, appears among the season’s youngest Bundesliga debutants; the source reports his debut appearance, not a minutes share.
- DeepSeekplace 3
Hamburg have the second-most U19 minutes in the league, but they are 16th — this is need, not a youth project.
Source ↗ - Kimiplace 10
Hamburg gave a 15-year-old his Bundesliga bow — tied as the youngest player in the league last season — in a deliberate show of faith in the academy.
4 AIs put it here - 8
FC Augsburg
Sources clash. One AI credits teenage goals to Ibrahimović and Kade in the 3-0 v Schalke; FBref shows 0 goals by players aged 19 or under. Banks started twice and Augsburg took 6 points.
Included it: DeepSeek, Wenxin, Kimi, Qwen. Did not include: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, Nemotron.In their lists: DeepSeek: 5 · Wenxin: 5 · Kimi: 8 · Qwen: 10
What each AI noted 4
- DeepSeekplace 5
Noahkai Banks (19) started two of Augsburg's first four games and the club took six points — a small sample but a real return.
Source ↗ - Wenxinplace 5
Augsburg hand minutes to 18-year-olds because the alternative is worse
- Kimiplace 8
Augsburg ran an 18-year-old American out for 20 league starts last season — 1,725 minutes, more than any other U19 player in the division.
- Qwenplace 10
Routinely giving debuts to academy graduates, contributing to the record 19 teenage scorers seen across the league recently.
Source ↗
4 AIs put it here - 9
Union Berlin
Symbolic trust out of need: 17th on 5 points, Union again used 16-year-old Linus Güther, the second-youngest Bundesliga debutant ever, in a 0-0 with Dortmund.
Included it: Claude, Wenxin, Kimi. Did not include: ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, Nemotron, DeepSeek, Qwen.In their lists: Claude: 3 · Wenxin: 8 · Kimi: 4
What each AI noted 3
- Claudeplace 3
Gave a 16-year-old (Linus Güther) a Bundesliga debut three days after his 16th birthday, then played him again at 5 points from 6.
Source ↗ - Wenxinplace 8
Union's injuries mean two 19-year-olds are starting every week — no choice
- Kimiplace 4
Union handed a 16-year-old his debut in a relegation fight — the second-youngest player in Bundesliga history, two days older than Moukoko.
Source ↗
3 AIs put it here
02Worth knowing
What the AIs noticed while building the list.
Tables differ on age bands. The CIES/Transfermarkt table counts players up to 21, so Leipzig lead it (20.6%), while Dortmund lead the stricter count of players aged 19 or under.
Bayern fielded 10 teenagers in 2025/26, more than any club in Bundesliga history.
Teenage minutes can turn into transfer money: Leipzig sold Diomandé to Real Madrid for €125m (up to €140m) after giving him 2,473 league minutes as a teenager.
From 2026/27 the DFL runs a U21 competition, so young players left out of matchday squads still get games.
03How we counted
In plain words, no formulas.
1The question
Top 10 Bundesliga Clubs That Trust Teenagers Most: Minutes Given vs. Goals and Points Returned
2Why this topic
Youth minutes, results and each club's situation sit side by side, so readers see which clubs back teenagers by choice and which turn to them only when results go bad.
3Where it applies
German Bundesliga, 2026/27 season
4What we looked at
- Share of league minutes played by players aged 19 or under
- Goals and assists by teenagers
- Points the club earned in matches a teenager started
- Whether the club played teenagers by choice (stable table position) or out of need (crisis, injuries)
- FBref squad pages 2026/27 — Minutes, starts, goals and assists by players aged 19 or under. Pages were not all updated to the same matchday, so these are lower bounds
- Statbunker youngest appearances 2026/27 — Youngest players to appear this season and their age at that appearance; not minutes played
- StatMuse youngest players — League minutes and goal contributions by the youngest players in 2025/26
- Bundesliga.com teenage-scorer record — 19 teenage scorers and 55 teenage goals in 2025/26, both league records
5Who ranked
The leading AIs, each building its own list of ten independently and naming a source for every place: Claude, ChatGPT, Meta, Gemini, Nemotron, DeepSeek, Wenxin, Kimi, Qwen.
6How the places were set
The same entry written differently by different AIs was counted as one. The more AIs put an entry on their list, and the higher they put it, the higher its place. "AI agreement" shows how many of the AIs had it on their own list. Sources are only those the AIs found themselves; nothing was added by hand.
04Each AI's own list
🇺🇸 Claude10 places · 3 notes
The same question, answered by Claude alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Borussia Dortmund
Level on points at the top (14 after 6) with an 18-year-old, Karetsas, playing 74 minutes on his debut.
Source ↗ - 2Borussia Mönchengladbach
Last in the table with six defeats before a 17-year-old turned a match: need and belief together.
Source ↗ - 3Union Berlin
Gave a 16-year-old (Linus Güther) a Bundesliga debut three days after his 16th birthday, then played him again at 5 points from 6.
Source ↗ - 4Bayer Leverkusen
Signed 17-year-old Kennet Eichhorn after 19 games for Hertha, and sit fourth on 13 points.
Source ↗ - 5SV Elversberg
The league's smallest ground (10,000) and a September Rookie of the Month winner, Maurice Krattenmacher.
Source ↗ - 61. FC Köln
Saïd El Mala scored 9 in 26 league games as a teenager last season, the base of Köln's trust.
Source ↗ - 7RB Leipzig
Yan Diomandé played 2,473 minutes as a teenager last season, the most in the league, scoring 10 in 25 games.
- 8Hamburger SV
Luka Vušković is in the top group of teenage minutes last season.
- 9TSG Hoffenheim
Bazoumana Touré is in the same top-seven teenage-minutes list.
- 10Bayern Munich
Leaders on goal difference, but its 17-year-old Wisdom Mike had just 36 minutes across five senior appearances last season.
Source ↗
What Claude noticed
2025/26 set two teenage records: 19 teenage scorers (previous 18 in 2021/22) and 55 teenage goals (previous 52 in 2018/19), marked by Dortmund's Luca Reggiani, then 18.
Wael Mohya is third on the all-time list of youngest scorers (17 years 65 days), behind Moukoko and Wirtz, and Gladbach's youngest ever.
The DFL added a U21 competition from 2026/27 so young players who are not in the matchday squad still get minutes.
🇺🇸 ChatGPT10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by ChatGPT alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Borussia Mönchengladbach (Germany, 2026/27)
Crisis thrust 17-year-old Wael Mohya into the defining role: he scored the go-ahead goal in a 3–2 win that stopped six opening defeats.
Source ↗ - 2Borussia Dortmund (Germany, 2026/27)
Three Dortmund teenagers feature in the retrieved youngest-appearance list, but appearances alone cannot show how much league time the club has entrusted to them.
- 3Hamburger SV (Germany, 2026/27)
Louis Lemke, born in 2009, appears among the season’s youngest Bundesliga debutants; the source reports his debut appearance, not a minutes share.
- 4RB Leipzig (Germany, 2026/27)
Samba Konaté appears in the season’s youngest-appearance data at 17; that establishes a chance given, not sustained league trust.
- 5FC Bayern München (Germany, 2026/27)
Lennart Karl is in the youngest-appearance table at 18, but no retrieved measure ties his starts to points returned.
- 61. FC Köln (Germany, 2026/27)
Two teenagers, Reigan Heskey and Mikey Moore, appear in the retrieved youngest-appearance list; their club’s teenage-minute share remains unverified.
- 71. FSV Mainz 05 (Germany, 2026/27)
Kacper Potulski, 18, appears in the season’s youngest-player list; the retrieved sources do not show whether this was choice or injury cover.
- 8Werder Bremen (Germany, 2026/27)
Mick Schmetgens, 18, has a listed Bundesliga appearance, but a debut does not establish a club-wide commitment to teenagers.
- 9VfB Stuttgart (Germany, 2026/27)
Yanik Spalt’s listed appearance lasted one minute, a reminder that an appearance count can exaggerate actual youth involvement.
- 10Borussia Dortmund (Germany, 2026/27)
Luca Reggiani’s previous-season record is evidence of teenage scoring across the league, not proof that any one 2026/27 club leads on minutes or points returned.
Source ↗
What ChatGPT noticed
The 2025/26 season had a record 19 teenage goalscorers, according to Bundesliga.com; that is a league-wide count and does not indicate which clubs relied on them most.
Mohya’s official profile and the Stuttgart match report document a teenager scoring in Gladbach’s first win after six losses, a clear example of youth minutes arriving under pressure.
🇺🇸 Meta10 places · 3 notes
The same question, answered by Meta alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Borussia Mönchengladbach 2026/27
17-year-old Wael Mohya 208 minutes, 1 goal + 1 assist to end club's worst start – forced youth by 10 absences turned choice
Source ↗ - 2Bayern Munich 2026/27
10 teenagers fielded – all-time Bundesliga record – Lennart Karl 24 games, 5 goals 4 assists before 18
Source ↗ - 3Borussia Dortmund 2026/27
19th teenage scorer record – Reggiani 513 minutes + Mathis Albert youngest American debut at 16y 11m
Source ↗ - 4RB Leipzig 2026/27
Yan Diomande 10 goals at 19 – 18 goal contributions most by U19 – plus Tidiam Gomis 35.75 km/h
Source ↗ - 5Eintracht Frankfurt 2026/27
Can Uzun first teenager to score in first five matchdays – 6 goals before turning 20
Source ↗ - 6Werder Bremen 2026/27
Karim Coulibaly 18y 99d youngest scorer in club history – Bremen's 2,000th home Bundesliga goal
Source ↗ - 71. FC Köln 2026/27
Saïd El Mala 9 goals in 2025/26 – Cologne's teenage talisman in stable mid-table
Source ↗ - 8Bayer Leverkusen 2026/27
Christian Kofane 5 goals + Ibrahim Maza 2 – Leverkusen trusts teens while top-four
Source ↗ - 9TSG Hoffenheim 2026/27
Bazoumana Touré 2 goals and Max Moerstedt 2 – double teenage return from choice, not injury crisis
Source ↗ - 10FSV Mainz 05 2026/27
Kacper Potulski 1 goal – Mainz among 12 clubs with teenage scorer in first 10 games record
Source ↗
What Meta noticed
2025/26 set new Bundesliga record: 19 different teenagers scored, 55 total teenage goals – previous records 18 scorers 2021/22 and 52 goals since 2018/19
24 of 289 goals in first 10 matchdays 2025/26 were by teenagers – highest tally ever at that stage of a campaign
Bayern Munich fielded 10 teenagers in 2025/26 – all-time Bundesliga record, more than any club, with Lennart Karl playing 20 games before 18
🇺🇸 Gemini10 places · 2 notes
The same question, answered by Gemini alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Borussia Dortmund
Channels over 14% of senior outfield minutes to teenagers by design, producing record Italian scorer Luca Reggiani while anchoring a Champions League qualification spot.
Source ↗ - 2RB Leipzig
Maintains an 11.8% teenage minutes quota across a top-four campaign, turning teenage starts into an undefeated 2.40 points-per-game dividend.
Source ↗ - 3Borussia Mönchengladbach
Forced into emergency trust by an 0-6 freefall, reaping 3 points when 17-year-old Wael Mohya provided an assist and the 86th-minute winner at Stuttgart.
Source ↗ - 4VfB Stuttgart
Integrates teenagers for 8.6% of league minutes under Sebastian Hoeneß, balancing Champions League midweek demands with high domestic youth exposure.
Source ↗ - 5Eintracht Frankfurt
Gives 8.1% of league minutes to young international recruits, turning teenage starts into 7 points from 4 matches in European contention.
Source ↗ - 6FC Bayern Munich
Limits teenager minutes to 5.2% but extracts a perfect 2.67 points per match and 3 goal contributions in lopsided league victories.
- 7SC Freiburg
Commits 7.5% of game time to academy teenagers with no drop in tactical cohesion, collecting 1.60 points per game when youth starts.
Source ↗ - 8Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Caps teenage involvement at 4.9% but leverages youthful legs for tactical pressing late in fixtures to seal 2.25 points per appearance.
Source ↗ - 91. FSV Mainz 05
Pushed 6.8% of defensive minutes onto teenagers due to early-season cruciate and hamstring injuries, scraping 0.80 points per start.
Source ↗ - 10FC St. Pauli
Relies on teenage loan reinforcements for 5.7% of playing time in a fierce survival campaign, converting youth starts into 1.00 points per game.
Source ↗
What Gemini noticed
The 2025/26 Bundesliga season set an all-time record with 19 distinct teenage goalscorers across the league, capped by Borussia Dortmund's Luca Reggiani becoming the youngest Italian scorer in Bundesliga history at 18 years and 64 days.
Youssoufa Moukoko remains the youngest goalscorer in Bundesliga history (16 years, 28 days for Dortmund vs Union Berlin in December 2020), establishing an era of top clubs lowering the debut threshold for prodigies.
🇨🇳 DeepSeek10 places · 4 notes
The same question, answered by DeepSeek alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Borussia Dortmund
No club has given more 2026/27 league minutes to players aged 19 or under — and they are doing it from first place, not desperation.
Source ↗ - 21. FSV Mainz 05
Mainz have quietly given more U19 league minutes than every club except Dortmund and Hamburg — and they are sixth, so it is not a crisis call.
Source ↗ - 3Hamburger SV
Hamburg have the second-most U19 minutes in the league, but they are 16th — this is need, not a youth project.
Source ↗ - 41. FC Köln
Köln are giving meaningful minutes to 19- and 18-year-olds while sitting mid-table — a quieter version of 'chosen youth'.
Source ↗ - 5FC Augsburg
Noahkai Banks (19) started two of Augsburg's first four games and the club took six points — a small sample but a real return.
Source ↗ - 6SV Werder Bremen
Werder's U19 minutes are spread across three teenagers, led by 19-year-old Schmetgens — useful, but not yet a youth-first identity.
Source ↗ - 7Borussia Mönchengladbach
Wael Mohya is the face of the 2026/27 teenage story — 155 U19 minutes and the goal that saved Gladbach from a record.
Source ↗ - 8FC Bayern Munich
Bayern have the luxury of using Lennart Karl (18) selectively — 127 U19 minutes and one goal while sitting second.
Source ↗ - 9VfB Stuttgart
Stuttgart have used 19-year-old Yanik Spalt for 57 league minutes — a small but deliberate first-team pathway.
Source ↗ - 10Eintracht Frankfurt
Frankfurt's U19 minutes are tiny but unusually young: 15-year-old Niko Iličević and 17-year-old Malik Pimpong have already featured.
Source ↗
What DeepSeek noticed
Dortmund's U19 minutes are not a charity project: they are top of the table and still giving 19-year-old Kouakou Gadou every league start, which is the clearest 'chosen youth' case in the division.
The Bundesliga-wide U21 minute share is only 12.9% at Dortmund and lower at most clubs; the league talks about youth but the actual minutes are concentrated in a handful of clubs.
Gladbach's teenage hero is also a forced-youth story: Wael Mohya started because of injuries and a crisis, not because the club had the luxury of easing him in.
In 2025/26 the Bundesliga set a record with 19 different teenage goalscorers and 55 teenage goals; that surge is the backdrop for the 2026/27 minutes debate.
🇨🇳 Wenxin10 places · 3 notes
The same question, answered by Wenxin alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Bayer Leverkusen 2026/27 — teenage trust by choice
Champions by choice: Leverkusen give the youngest minutes share in the top four
- 2Borussia Dortmund 2026/27 — youth factory with purpose
Even the runner-up trusts its academy: Dortmund's 17-year-old is already a starter
- 3Borussia Mönchengladbach 2026/27 — forced into youth by crisis
Six losses in a row forced Gladbach to hand minutes to a 19-year-old match-winner
Source ↗ - 4VfB Stuttgart 2026/27 — academy-driven, mid-table stable
Stuttgart's under-19s share 7% of minutes — and the club is happy about it
- 5FC Augsburg 2026/27 — youth from necessity in relegation scrap
Augsburg hand minutes to 18-year-olds because the alternative is worse
- 6SC Freiburg 2026/27 — tradition of trust, even when it costs
Freiburg keep trusting 17-year-olds even in a patchy start — tradition over table
- 7VfL Wolfsburg 2026/27 — new manager's youth experiment
Wolfsburg's new coach is betting on 18-year-olds — and so far it's paying off
- 8FC Union Berlin 2026/27 — crisis youth: 19-year-olds hold the line
Union's injuries mean two 19-year-olds are starting every week — no choice
- 9TSG Hoffenheim 2026/27 — academy output finally gets minutes
Hoffenheim's youth academy produces three teenage starters — a club first
- 10Werder Bremen 2026/27 — promoted but already relying on 18s
Just promoted and already Bremen's best hope is an 18-year-old winger
What Wenxin noticed
The 2026/27 season has seen a record 19 teenage goal-scorers in the Bundesliga as of Matchday 9, surpassing the previous record of 17 set in 2025/26 — Luca Reggiani's goal in 2025/26 is the individual benchmark.
Gladbach's teenage minutes share (~12%) is the third-highest in the league but nearly all of it is 'forced' youth — they earn just 3 points from matches a teenager started, the worst ratio among the top-10 in this list.
Leverkusen and Dortmund — the two clubs closest to the top of the 2026/27 table — are also the two most willing to give teenagers meaningful minutes, suggesting a positive correlation between table security and youth trust in this season.
🇨🇳 Kimi10 places · 4 notes
The same question, answered by Kimi alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1FC Bayern Munich — Lennart Karl (18) and the 16-year-old pipeline
A 17-year-old played 1,280 league minutes — with 5 goals and 5 assists — for the reigning champions, and Bayern still found time to blood 15- and 16-year-olds in the same season.
Source ↗ - 2Borussia Mönchengladbach — Wael Mohya (17), the teenager carrying a crisis
A 17-year-old has produced 2 goals and 1 assist in seven games and scored the goal that ended his club's record losing start — the most decisive U19 output in the league right now.
Source ↗ - 3Borussia Dortmund — Reggiani (18), Inácio (18), Albert (16)
The club of Moukoko turned teenage trust into a league record: 19 different teenage scorers in 2025/26, capped by 17-year-old Luca Reggiani's landmark goal.
Source ↗ - 41. FC Union Berlin — Linus Güther (16)
Union handed a 16-year-old his debut in a relegation fight — the second-youngest player in Bundesliga history, two days older than Moukoko.
Source ↗ - 5RB Leipzig — the teen-trust model that just banked €125m (Konaté, 17)
Leipzig trusted an 18-year-old with 2,473 league minutes and 20 goal contributions last season — then sold him to Real Madrid for up to €140m, the ultimate proof the pipeline works.
Source ↗ - 6SV Werder Bremen — Patrice Čović (19) and Mick Schmetgens (17)
Werder gave a 17-year-old league minutes and an 18-year-old 350+ minutes last season while fighting relegation — trust out of need, but trust all the same.
- 71. FSV Mainz 05 — Kacper Potulski (18)
Mainz started a 17-year-old in nine league games during a relegation season — one of only four U18 players in the division to pass 1,000 minutes.
- 8FC Augsburg — Noahkai Banks (19), Arijon Ibrahimović (19), Anton Kade (19)
Augsburg ran an 18-year-old American out for 20 league starts last season — 1,725 minutes, more than any other U19 player in the division.
- 9Bayer 04 Leverkusen — Montrell Culbreath (17) and the Wirtz lineage
Leverkusen started a 17-year-old nine times last season — the same club that gave Wirtz, Sertdemir and Iker Bravo their debuts keeps betting on teens.
- 10Hamburger SV — Louis Lemke (15/16)
Hamburg gave a 15-year-old his Bundesliga bow — tied as the youngest player in the league last season — in a deliberate show of faith in the academy.
What Kimi noticed
Teen trust literally has a market price: RB Leipzig turned 2,473 league minutes given to an 18-year-old into a €125m (up to €140m) transfer to Real Madrid in August 2026 — Diomandé was 2025/26 Rookie of the Year after 12 goals and 8 assists.
The 2025/26 season set the league's teenage-scoring record — 19 different U19 goalscorers — and 17-year-old Luca Reggiani's strike was the one that marked it; Dortmund alone had three teenagers with senior minutes.
Trust splits two ways: Bayern gave a 17-year-old 1,280 minutes for a champion (chosen trust), while Gladbach's 17-year-old Mohya is producing under relegation pressure (need trust) — 2 goals and 1 assist already, the most decisive teen output of 2026/27.
The age frontier keeps moving: Union's Güther (16y 3d) is the second-youngest player in league history, Hamburg played a 15-year-old, and Gladbach's Mohya became the club's youngest-ever scorer against Bayern at 16.
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The same question, answered by Qwen alone. The final list above combines all the AIs.
- 1Borussia Dortmund
Choosing youth from a position of strength, fielding up to seven teenagers in a single match while remaining stable.
Source ↗ - 2RB Leipzig
The league's youngest squad by design, boasting an average age of just 24.0 years.
- 3FC Schalke 04
Rebuilding through necessity, fielding the second-youngest roster at 24.1 years amid financial constraints.
- 4FSV Mainz 05
A youth-driven rebuild in progress, ranking as the third-youngest team in the division at 24.8 years.
- 5Borussia Mönchengladbach
Forced into crisis youth, relying on 17-year-old Wael Mohya to break a historic six-match losing streak.
- 6Bayer Leverkusen
Integrating breakout stars like Kennet Eichhorn, the youngest goalscorer in Bundesliga 2 history.
Source ↗ - 7FC Bayern Munich
Handing minutes to 15-year-old prodigies like Louis Lemke and Lennart Karl to maintain their talent pipeline.
- 81. FC Köln
Securing high-potential loan deals like Spurs' Mikey Moore to guarantee teenage minutes in the midfield.
Source ↗ - 9VfB Stuttgart
Continuing their youth-focused resurgence by trusting 19-year-old defenders like Finn Jeltsch in high-stakes matches.
Source ↗ - 10FC Augsburg
Routinely giving debuts to academy graduates, contributing to the record 19 teenage scorers seen across the league recently.
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What Qwen noticed
The 2025/26 season set a record with 19 different teenage goalscorers, a high-water mark for youth integration in the league.
Borussia Dortmund recently started a match with seven teenagers on the pitch, highlighting a radical shift toward academy reliance.