| Place | Player | Team | Goals | Penalties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Horst Hrubesch | Rot-Weiss Essen | 41 | 8 |
| 2. | Friedhelm Funkel | KFC Uerdingen | 25 | 5 |
| 3. | Karl-Heinz Mrosko | Arminia Hanover | 24 | 10 |
| 4. | Jan Mattsson | KFC Uerdingen | 21 | 1 |
| 5. | Werner Lenz | Union Solingen | 19 | 0 |
| 6. | Volker Graul | Fortuna Köln | 18 | 4 |
| 6. | Heinz-Josef Kehr | Tennis Borussia Berlin | 18 | 0 |
| 8. | Winfried Stradt | Tennis Borussia Berlin | 16 | 1 |
| 8. | Hans-Gunther Plucken | Union Solingen | 16 | 0 |
| 8. | Hans-Gunter Bruns | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 16 | 10 |
| 8. | Karl-Heinz Modrath | Fortuna Köln | 16 | 0 |
| 8. | Ewald Hammes | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 16 | 0 |
| 8. | Norbert Eilenfeldt | Arminia Bielefeld | 16 | 0 |
| 14. | Jurgen Milewski | Hannover 96 | 15 | 0 |
| 14. | Elmar Jurgens | Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid | 15 | 0 |
| 16. | Norbert Runge | 1. FC Bocholt | 14 | 0 |
| 16. | Gerd-Volker Schock | VfL Osnabrück | 14 | 0 |
| 16. | Klaus Wolf | Preußen Münster | 14 | 1 |
| 16. | Helmut Reiners | Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid | 14 | 4 |
| 16. | Uwe Pallaks | SC Herford | 14 | 1 |
| 21. | Helmut Lausen | Wuppertaler SV | 13 | 0 |
| 21. | Urban Klausmann | Schwarz-Weiss Essen | 13 | 4 |
| 23. | Gunter Propper | Wuppertaler SV | 12 | 0 |
| 23. | Vitomir Rogoznica | OSC Bremerhaven | 12 | 0 |
| 23. | Volker Ohling | OSC Bremerhaven | 12 | 1 |
| 23. | Dieter Herzog | Bayer Leverkusen | 12 | 2 |
| 23. | Klaus-Dieter Bone | Alemannia Aachen | 12 | 0 |
| 23. | Frank Mill | Rot-Weiss Essen | 12 | 0 |
| 23. | Wolfgang Luttges | Hannover 96 | 12 | 1 |
| 23. | Matthias Brucken | Bayer Leverkusen | 12 | 0 |
| 31. | Heinz-Dieter Greif | VfL Osnabrück | 11 | 0 |
| 31. | Mileta Rnic | Arminia Bielefeld | 11 | 1 |
| 31. | Benno Mohlmann | Preußen Münster | 11 | 0 |
| 31. | Christian Sackewitz | Arminia Bielefeld | 11 | 0 |
| 31. | Ranko Petkovic | Preußen Münster | 11 | 3 |
| 31. | Hans Fritsche | Fortuna Köln | 11 | 0 |
| 31. | Herbert Bals | Westfalia Herne | 11 | 0 |
| 31. | Klaus Wunder | Hannover 96 | 11 | 2 |
| 31. | Otmar Ludwig | Fortuna Köln | 11 | 0 |
| 40. | Alfred Hussner | VfL Osnabrück | 10 | 2 |
| 40. | Franz-Josef Breuer | Alemannia Aachen | 10 | 5 |
| 40. | Hubert Clute-Simon | Rot-Weiss Lüdenscheid | 10 | 0 |
| 43. | Heiko Mertes | Alemannia Aachen | 9 | 0 |
| 43. | Uwe Hofer | Westfalia Herne | 9 | 0 |
| 43. | Jurgen Tanzer | 1. FC Bocholt | 9 | 0 |
| 43. | Mohammed Amiq | OSC Bremerhaven | 9 | 1 |
| 43. | Peter Hermann | Bayer Leverkusen | 9 | 0 |
| 43. | Carlos Babington | SG Wattenscheid 09 | 9 | 0 |
| 43. | Bernd Laube | SC Herford | 9 | 0 |
| 50. | Michael Kruger | Arminia Hanover | 8 | 0 |