Thomas Muller's illustrious spell at Bayern Munich may be in its final weeks, but there are still landmarks for the Germany great to reach.

And he joined an exclusive club on Saturday, making his 500th Bundesliga appearance in Bayern's 3-0 win over Mainz.

He is just the 13th player to reach that figure in the league's history, and the fourth to do so with all of his appearances coming for a single club – no other Bayern player had achieved that latter feat.

Here, we run through all the best facts and figures surrounding Muller's 500 league outings for the Bavarian giants.

Lucky for some

Muller is the 13th player to bring up 500 Bundesliga appearances, and with three games of the season remaining, he could yet surpass Stefan Reuter (502) to go 12th on that list.

Karl-Heinz Korbel is top of the charts with 602 – the only player to surpass 600 – with Manfred Kaltz (581), Oliver Kahn (557), Klaus Fichtel (552) and Miroslav Votava (546) rounding out the top five.

Muller's long-time Bayern team-mate Manuel Neuer is eighth with 521 Bundesliga outings, though 156 of those came with Schalke. Fellow goalkeeping great Kahn made 429 of his Bundesliga appearances for Bayern, but his first 128 were for Karlsruher.

Indeed, Muller is the first player to reach 500 Bundesliga appearances with all of them coming for Bayern, and just the fourth to do so for any single club.

Korbel (602 games for Eintracht Frankfurt), Kaltz (581 for Hamburg) and Michael Lameck (518 for Bochum) are the only other one-club men to hit the 55 mark.

Muller had already become Bayern's all-time leading appearance-maker last year, surpassing Sepp Maier's tally of 473. 

A host of records

But Muller's legacy at Bayern goes deeper than the number of games he has played.

Bayern's victory over Mainz was their 360th with Muller involved in the Bundesliga – more wins than any other player has managed with the Bavarian giants (Neuer is second with 277).

Muller's 173 assists are the most by any player in Bundesliga history, with Borussia Dortmund icon Marco Reus a distant second on 95.

Muller also has 150 goals to his name in the competition, making him Bayern's fourth-highest scorer in Bundesliga history, behind Gerd Muller (365), Robert Lewandowski (238) and Karl-Heinz Rummenigge (162).

Since Muller made his Bundesliga debut in August 2008, he has 323 goals and assists combined. 

That is more than any other player has managed for Bayern, and only Lewandowski (367) has more overall, with the Pole also starring for Dortmund before linking up with Muller in Bavaria.

More history to be made?

Muller's 25-year association with Bayern will soon end, with a trip to Hoffenheim on May 17 likely to be his Bundesliga farewell.

He will then have one last opportunity to represent Bayern competitively at the Club World Cup, with Vincent Kompany's team set to face Auckland City, Boca Juniors and Benfica in the group stage of that competition.

Bayern won the previous iteration of the Club World Cup on two occasions, and should they lift the new-look trophy in the United States this year, they will become just the third club to win it three times, after Barcelona and Real Madrid (the latter doing so on five occasions).

More pressing for Muller, though, will be clinching his record-extending 13th Bundesliga title. 

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No other player has hoisted the Meisterschale on 12 occasions, with only Neuer (11), Lewandowski and David Alaba (both 10) also into double figures.

Bayern's victory over Mainz puts them on the brink of regaining their crown, with Bayer Leverkusen having delayed their coronation by beating Augsburg elsewhere on Saturday.

A win at RB Leipzig next week would seal Bayern's 34th German title, and ensure Muller gets the send-off he deserves.