Bundesliga · former league club
- Eintracht Frankfurt 27 shared
- Schalke 04 15 shared
- Borussia Dortmund 12 shared
- Bayern München 4 shared
- Hamburger SV 34 shared
- Hannover 96 27 shared
- Stuttgart 22 shared
- Hertha BSC 17 shared
- Union Berlin 17 shared
- Holstein Kiel 17 shared
- Nürnberg 16 shared
- Greuther Fürth 15 shared
- Köln 14 shared
- Mainz 14 shared
- Freiburg 14 shared
- VfL Bochum 14 shared
- Arminia Bielefeld 13 shared
- Wolfsburg 13 shared
- Werder Bremen 13 shared
- Paderborn 13 shared
- Fortuna Düsseldorf 11 shared
- Darmstadt 98 11 shared
- Augsburg 10 shared
- Eintracht Braunschweig 9 shared
- Ingolstadt 8 shared
- Bayer Leverkusen 7 shared
- Borussia Mönchengladbach 7 shared
- Elversberg 6 shared
- Antalyaspor 4 shared
- Konyaspor 4 shared
Famous players who played for St. Pauli
- Viktor Gyökeres 2019–2020
- Ryo Miyaichi 2015–2021, 2015–2019
- Ante Budimir 2014–2016
- Omar Marmoush 2020–2021
- Ivan Klasnić 1997–2001
- Gerald Asamoah 2010–2011
- Helmut Schön 1947
- Kazuo Ozaki 1988–1989
- Michael Gregoritsch 2013–2014
- Tore Pedersen 1995–1997
- Jackson Irvine 2021–2026
- Max Kruse 2009–2012, 2009
- Marcel Halstenberg 2013–2015
- Carlos Zambrano 2010–2012
- Junior Hoilett 2008–2009
- Alexander Meier 2001–2003, 2019
- Taichi Hara 2026
- Émerson Luiz Firmino 1996–1997
- Igor Matanović 2020–2021, 2021–2023
- Marvin Ducksch 2016–2018
- Bastian Oczipka 2010–2011
- Florian Kringe 2012–2015
- Danel Sinani 2024–2026
- James Lawrence 2019–2020
- Holger Hieronymus 1978–1979
- Mats Møller Dæhli 2017–2018, 2018–2020
- Johannes Eggestein 2024–2025
- Zlatan Bajramović 1997–2002
- Andreas Reinke 1993–1994
- Paul Caligiuri 1995–1996
- Peter Nogly 1984–1985
- Fin Bartels 2010–2014
- Matthias Lehmann 2009–2011
- Julian Koch 2015
- Jacob Rasmussen 2016–2017
- Jeremy Dudziak 2015–2019
- Daniel Ginczek 2012–2013
- Yuri Savichev 1994–2000
- Rouwen Hennings 2008–2009, 2009–2012, 2011
- Lennart Thy 2012–2016, 2012–2013, 2017
Source: Wikidata (CC0), Wikipedia club articles and player infoboxes (years at each club). Youth spells and appearances that look unplayed are left out; volunteer-kept records can contain gaps or errors.