All-time best penalty takers
| # | Name | Matches | 11m | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Vincenzo Grifo | 375 | 39 |
| 2 |  | Nils Petersen | 277 | 20 |
| 3 |  | Levan Kobiashvili | 185 | 19 |
| 4 |  | Rodolfo Cardoso | 68 | 12 |
 | Joachim Löw | 263 | 12 | |
| 6 |  | Dennis Aogo | 98 | 8 |
 | Thomas Stickroth | 95 | 8 | |
 | Marco Weißhaupt | 120 | 8 | |
| 9 |  | Daniel Caligiuri | 100 | 7 |
| 10 |  | Martin Braun | 166 | 6 |
 | Robert Piller | 146 | 6 | |
 | Levan Tskitishvili | 160 | 6 | |
 | Luca Waldschmidt | 56 | 6 | |
| 14 |  | Papiss Demba Cissé | 67 | 5 |
 | Günter Dämpfling | 80 | 5 | |
 | Vladimír Darida | 61 | 5 | |
 | Aleksandr Iashvili | 281 | 5 | |
 | Fred Schaub | 75 | 5 | |
 | Daniel Schwaab | 97 | 5 | |
 | Adel Sellimi | 124 | 5 | |
| 21 |  | Harry Decheiver | 43 | 3 |
 | Hans-Dietmar Deinert | 62 | 3 | |
 | Florian Niederlechner | 89 | 3 | |
 | Niels Schlotterbeck | 34 | 3 | |
 | Julian Schuster | 242 | 3 | |
| 26 |  | Ivica Banović | 87 | 2 |
 | Karl-Heinz Bente | 20 | 2 | |
 | Soumaila Coulibaly | 234 | 2 | |
 | Lucas Höler | 324 | 2 | |
 | Otmar Ludwig | 43 | 2 | |
 | Karl-Heinz Schulz | 297 | 2 | |
 | Hans-Peter Zacher | 19 | 2 | |
| 33 |  | Junior Adamu | 67 | 1 |
 | Zlatan Bajramović | 77 | 1 | |
 | Robert Birner | 71 | 1 | |
 | Andree Fincke | 50 | 1 | |
 | Michael Frontzeck | 64 | 1 | |
 | Matthias Ginter | 264 | 1 | |
 | Janik Haberer | 171 | 1 | |
 | Mohamadou Idrissou | 79 | 1 | |
 | Marek Majka | 64 | 1 | |
 | Igor Matanović | 66 | 1 | |
 | Admir Mehmedi | 72 | 1 | |
 | Dimitrios Moutas | 69 | 1 | |
 | Thomas Rath | 42 | 1 | |
 | Roland Sallai | 163 | 1 | |
 | Wolfgang Schüler | 43 | 1 | |
 | Axel Sundermann | 71 | 1 | |
 | Alain Sutter | 48 | 1 | |
 | Benny Wendt | 13 | 1 | |
 | Karl-Heinz Wöhrlin | 211 | 1 | |
 | Andreas Zeyer | 440 | 1 |