Niclas Füllkrug and Loris Karius have each collected four Man of the Match awards through Matchday 7, the highest totals among the listed winners. Voting takes place in the live blog for each Bundesliga fixture, exclusively in the Bundesliga app. Numbers in brackets show a player's season total.
Two players set the pace
Füllkrug and Karius share the lead after seven matchdays, but their latest awards came in games with very different shapes. Füllkrug was recognized after Werder Bremen's 3-2 win at Mainz, a result that required Bremen to outscore its opponent. Karius earned his fourth award in a 0-0 draw between Cologne and Schalke, where a goalkeeper's influence can be decisive even when the scoreline stays still.
That contrast is useful context for a fan vote. Goals and attacking moments are easy to spot, while a goalkeeper's contribution often shows up in the chances that never become goals. A live vote asks supporters to weigh those different kinds of performance while following the match, and the result reflects that immediate view of the game. This is more significant than it looks: a goalless match can still produce a clear individual standout.
Matchday 7
The round's listed awards span wins, a draw and a high-scoring defeat. Antonio Nusa earned recognition in RB Leipzig's 4-0 victory over Elversberg, bringing his season total to three. Han-Noah Massengo was selected after Augsburg and Union Berlin drew 1-1, while Felix Nmecha received the award following Borussia Dortmund's 1-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt. The spread of results shows why the award list can't be read simply as a ranking of players from winning teams.
VfB Stuttgart 2-3 Borussia Mönchengladbach — Wael Mohya
RB Leipzig 4-0 Elversberg — Antonio Nusa (3)
Augsburg 1-1 Union Berlin — Han-Noah Massengo
Mainz 2-3 Werder Bremen — Niclas Füllkrug (4)
Cologne 0-0 Schalke — Loris Karius (4)
Paderborn 1-0 Hamburg — Daniel Heuer Fernandes (2)
Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Eintracht Frankfurt — Felix Nmecha
Hoffenheim vs. Bayer Leverkusen
Freiburg vs. Bayern Munich
Among the listed winners, repeat recognition is concentrated at the top: Füllkrug and Karius now have four each, while Nusa and Heuer Fernandes have three and two respectively. The table also leaves two fixtures without a named winner in this listing: Hoffenheim against Bayer Leverkusen, and Freiburg against Bayern Munich. Those entries don't identify an award recipient, so no season total can be inferred for them here.
Matchday 6
Matchday 6 offered an early view of how quickly repeat winners could emerge. Füllkrug and Karius each moved to three awards, while Daniel Heuer Fernandes and Ibrahim Maza reached two. The round also recognized Younes Ebnoutalib, Waldemar Anton, Lukas Petkov, Luis Díaz and Alexander Prass, with the range of names reflecting performances across markedly different results.
Several matches were decided by one goal or finished level, conditions that can make individual contributions feel especially visible. Frankfurt beat Cologne 1-0; Hamburg edged Stuttgart by the same score; and Schalke lost narrowly to Mainz. Elsewhere, Elversberg's 4-3 win over Augsburg and Bayern Munich's 6-1 victory over Leipzig offered very different kinds of spectacle. A Man of the Match vote compresses those varied performances into one name per fixture, so the list is best read as a record of fan choices rather than a complete account of each game.
Eintracht Frankfurt 1-0 Cologne — Younes Ebnoutalib (2)
Union Berlin 0-0 Borussia Dortmund — Waldemar Anton
Hamburg 1-0 VfB Stuttgart — Daniel Heuer Fernandes
Werder Bremen 2-2 Paderborn — Niclas Füllkrug (3)
Schalke 0-1 Mainz — Loris Karius (3)
Elversberg 4-3 Augsburg — Lukas Petkov (2)
Bayern Munich 6-1 RB Leipzig — Luis Díaz
Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 Freiburg — Ibrahim Maza (2)
Borussia Mönchengladbach 1-2 Hoffenheim — Alexander Prass
What the voting record tells you
The awards offer a compact measure of which players caught supporters' attention across successive matchdays. Repeated wins suggest sustained visibility, though the count alone doesn't explain why a player was chosen or compare the difficulty of performances across fixtures. The voting happens in the live blog, so timing and the flow of a match are part of the experience (and this is the part most people overlook).
If you're following the season through these results, the bracketed totals make the pattern easy to track: Füllkrug and Karius lead, with Nusa and Heuer Fernandes also appearing repeatedly in the latest rounds. That said, the figures are a snapshot of fan voting, not a statistical verdict on the league's best players. A small tally, but a useful one.