Bayern Munich most expensive signings: How Bundesliga giants spent over €1.2 billion on incoming transfers

Pavard announced himself to the wider public with his incredible performances for France at the 2018 World Cup, including a beauty of a goal against Argentina, and Bayern decided to make a move for him in January 2019, with the Bavarians paying €35 million to sign him.

The versatile defender made his debut in a 10-minute substitute appearance in August 2019 in a 2-0 defeat to Borussia Dortmund.

In 2021, the Frenchman scored Bayern's only goal in the 2020 FIFA Club World Cup final win against Tigres UNAL, thus helping his club complete a sextuple of trophies.

After graduating from Bayern Munich's youth academy, Hummels left for Borussia Dortmund on loan in January 2008 before signing permanently with them in February 2009 for €4 million.

He led Dortmund to two consecutive league titles in 2010-11 and 2011-12 respectively and helped them finish runner-up in the 2012-13 Champions League.

Hummels was also part of the German team that won the World Cup in 2014.

After the best part of eight years in Dortmund, Hummels returned to Bayern in the summer of 2016 in a transfer worth €35 million.

Overall, in his time with the Bavarians, he won the Bundesliga title four times along with three DFL-Supercups and a DFB-Pokal.

Three years later in 2019, Bayern agreed to sell him back to Dortmund for €30.50m. 

Once considered the future of German football, Gotze was signed for €37 million by Bayern Munich as a 21-year-old from Borussia Dortmund in 2013.

A year later, he was on top of the world, scoring the winning goal against Argentina at the World Cup in Brazil.

At club level, however, Gotze did not seem to settle in well at Bayern and after a three-year stint in Bavaria, he returned to Dortmund, where he spent four years.

In 2020, Gotze made the move to PSV and after two seasons there, he returned to Germany with Eintracht Frankfurt in the summer of 2022.

After five successful seasons with Juventus, Vidal made the move to Bayern in the summer of 2015 for a handsome €39.25 million.

He spent three seasons at Bayern and played a major role in the 2016-17 campaign, ensuring that the club went a whole league campaign without defeat at the Allianz Arena for the first time since 2008.

In the 2017-18 season, Vidal suffered a season-ending injury during training in the second half of the campaign.

At the end of that season, the Chile ace left for Barcelona.

Bayern agreed to pay Javi Martinez's buy-out clause of €40 million in the summer of 2012, with the Spaniard setting a transfer record in the Bundesliga at the time.

The holding midfielder spent nine years in Bavaria, winning nine Bundesliga titles on the trot.

Martinez also played crucial roles in helping Bayern win two Champions League titles, in the 2012-13 and 2019-20 season.

The midfielder featured in 268 games for the Bavarians, scoring 14 goals.

In a stint marred with injuries, Tolisso comes in as the fifth-most expensive transfer made by Bayern Munich.

The Frenchman joined the Bavarians in the summer of 2017 for €41.50 million, but never really quite managed to live up to the high expectations.

After winning five Bundesliga titles, two German Cups, four German Super Cups and a Champions League in Munich, Tolisso left Bayern to return to Lyon as a free agent in the 2022 summer transfer window.

Upamecano was a revelation at RB Leipzig and developed into one of the best defenders in Germany during his time at the club.

In 2021, at the age of 22, Bayern came calling and Upamecano answered, signing a five-year deal until 2026.

The Bavarians parted ways with €42.50 million for the French centre-back, who won the Bundesliga title in his first season at the club.

Having chased the winger for some time, Bayern paid €60 million to sign Sane from Manchester City in 2020, making him their second-most expensive signing at that time.

Bayern will have no regrets over signing Sane as he scored on his debut, before then helping them win two consecutive Bundesliga titles, two German Super Cups, a FIFA Club World Cup and a UEFA Super Cup.

Bayern Munich brought in De Ligt in the summer of 2022 as a replacement for Niklas Sule, with the latter leaving the club for Borussia Dortmund.

The Bavarians had to pay a premium fee of €67 million to Juventus for De Ligt, who signed a five0year contract.

De Ligt has made a bright start to life at Bayern, scoring his first Bundesliga goal in his team's 7-0 away win against Bochum in August and quickly becoming a key figure at the back.

World Cup winner in 2018 with France, Hernandez remains Bayern's most-expensive signing at €80 million, which they splashed on him in 2019 to lure him away from Atletico Madrid.

In his first season, Hernandez led Bayern's defence in their UEFA Champions League run to glory in 2020.

The Frenchman has won three Bundesliga titles, a club World Cup, a Champions League, a UEFA Super Cup, a German Cup and two German Super Cups with Bayern to date.