Serhou Guirassy's 100 Matches for Dortmund: A Night of Milestones
Serhou Guirassy walked off the pitch with a win, a brace, and only then the realisation of what the night actually meant.
"I'm very, very happy to have played 100 matches for Dortmund. I didn't even know that," the 30-year-old striker said after Borussia Dortmund’s wild 3-2 home victory over Villarreal CF. A landmark game he hadn’t clocked, but one that underlined exactly why BVB brought him in from VfB Stuttgart in the summer of 2024.
One hundred competitive appearances in just over two years. That alone speaks of durability. Add in his finishing, and the numbers start to look outrageous. Against Villarreal, Guirassy struck goals number 63 and 64 in a Dortmund shirt, another ruthless reminder of how quickly he has embedded himself among the club’s most prolific forwards.
Only one man sits clearly ahead of him in that regard: Erling Haaland. The Norwegian’s haul remains otherworldly – 86 goals in just 89 competitive games for the Black and Yellows. Lothar Emmerich, another reference point from a different era, hit 64 goals in his first 100 Bundesliga matches for Borussia Dortmund. Guirassy has matched that total in all competitions by the same appearance mark, and he has done it with a similar sense of inevitability in front of goal.
The milestones did not stop at domestic records. Europe provided another.
Passing Lewandowski, chasing Reus
On this same night, Guirassy climbed past Robert Lewandowski in Dortmund’s internal Champions League scoring charts. Lewandowski registered 17 goals in 28 Champions League outings for BVB. Guirassy, in just his 25th appearance in Europe’s premier competition for the club, moved to 18 and then 19.
Only Marco Reus is left ahead of him now. The club icon stands on 24 Champions League goals from 72 matches, a figure that once felt distant but now looks well within range if Guirassy maintains anything like this tempo.
"Of course, it's something very special to break Lewandowski's record, because he is a great striker," Guirassy told Prime. Coming from a player who has built his Dortmund career on relentlessness rather than noise, it was a rare pause to acknowledge the scale of what he is doing.
The game itself mirrored his numbers: chaotic, breathless, decisive in key moments. Villarreal pushed, Dortmund wobbled, and yet Guirassy kept finding the net. The pressure told, the chances fell, and he did what he does best.
"It was a strange match tonight," he admitted after the 3-2 win, "a crazy game. We could have done better, but we're happy with the win."
A hundred games in, 64 goals behind him, more records already falling. With Haaland’s benchmark towering in the distance and Reus’ European mark within sight, the question now is simple: how far can Guirassy drag those numbers before Dortmund’s next century rolls around?
