Jamal Musiala was born on 26 February 2003 in Stuttgart, Germany. He was in the Chelsea academy for most of his childhood years. In July 2019, aged 16, Musiala left Chelsea to join Bayern Munich and on 20 June 2020, he made his Bundesliga debut against Freiburg, and he became the youngest player to play a match for Bayern in the Bundesliga, aged 17 years and 115 days. On 18 September 2020, Musiala scored his first Bundesliga goal in an 8–0 win over Schalke, to become Bayern's youngest goalscorer, aged 17 years 205 days, breaking the previous record of Roque Santa Cruz aged 18 years 12 days.