Bundesliga · former league club
- Schalke 04 32 shared
- Eintracht Frankfurt 24 shared
- Borussia Dortmund 18 shared
- Bayern München 13 shared
- Beşiktaş 4 shared
- Bayer Leverkusen 30 shared
- Stuttgart 26 shared
- Köln 25 shared
- Nürnberg 22 shared
- Arminia Bielefeld 20 shared
- Borussia Mönchengladbach 18 shared
- Fortuna Düsseldorf 18 shared
- Mainz 18 shared
- Hamburger SV 18 shared
- Hannover 96 18 shared
- Freiburg 18 shared
- Hertha BSC 17 shared
- Union Berlin 17 shared
- Augsburg 16 shared
- Paderborn 15 shared
- St. Pauli 14 shared
- Wolfsburg 13 shared
- Darmstadt 98 13 shared
- Eintracht Braunschweig 12 shared
- Greuther Fürth 12 shared
- Hoffenheim 10 shared
- Werder Bremen 9 shared
- PAOK 6 shared
- Ingolstadt 6 shared
- Elversberg 5 shared
- Feyenoord 5 shared
- Olympiakos 5 shared
- Fulham 5 shared
- RB Leipzig 5 shared
- Holstein Kiel 4 shared
- Nice 4 shared
- Antalyaspor 4 shared
- Ajax 4 shared
- Saint-Étienne 4 shared
Famous players who played for VfL Bochum
- Takashi Inui 2011–2012
- Takuma Asano 2021–2024
- Shinji Ono 2007–2010
- Leon Goretzka 2012–2013
- Fábio Júnior 2006–2007
- Christoph Kramer 2011–2013
- Zvjezdan Misimović 2004–2007
- Theofanis Gekas 2006–2007
- Jong Tae-Se 2010–2012
- Lukas Klostermann 2014
- Christian Fuchs 2008–2011
- Michael Gregoritsch 2014–2015, 2015
- Stefan Kuntz 1983–1986, 1998–1999
- Cristian Gamboa 2019–2025
- Robbie Kruse 2017–2019
- Chung-yong Lee 2018–2020
- Sunday Oliseh 2003–2004
- Stanislav Šesták 2007–2011, 2014–2015
- Lewis Holtby 2010
- Jürgen Locadia 2022
- Yıldıray Baştürk 1997–2001
- Mërgim Mavraj 2007–2010
- Mehdi Mahdavikia 1998–1999
- Klaus Fischer 1984–1988
- Jaroslav Drobný 2007
- Vratislav Lokvenc 2004–2005
- Armel Bella-Kotchap 2018–2022
- Timo Horn 2025
- Felix Passlack 2023–2026
- Gonçalo Paciência 2023–2024
- Edú 2003–2006
- Sidney Sam 2017–2019
- Thomas Christiansen 2001–2003
- Mikael Forssell 2014–2015
- Zlatko Dedić 2009–2011, 2012–2013
- Jan Laštůvka 2007–2008
- Vangelis Pavlidis 2016–2019
- Anthar Yahia 2006–2007, 2007–2011
- Daniel Fernandes 2008–2011
- Sergei Yuran 1997–1998
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.