Bundesliga
Kane: the complete striker
Long-range drives, spectacular strikes, penalties, tap-ins…is there any kind of goal Harry Kane can’t score? We break down the Bayern Munich man’s stunning stats that make him the world’s most complete striker after breaking a record held by Cristiano Ronaldo and Erling Haaland.
Record start
No player has scored more than Kane's 10 goals after five matches of a Bundesliga season. They have come from just 17 shots on goal, and if you are talking strikes in competitive games, Kane is already on 15 – the highest tally among players in Europe.
“I already knew about his finishing skills, I was able to observe them up close,” said a smiling Bayern coach Vincent Kompany, who faced Kane while playing for City in the English Premier League, after his forward's Matchday 4 hat-trick against Hoffenheim. “He’s as hungry as he was last season.”
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The 32-year-old now has 100 competitive goals for Bayern in 104 outings, breaking the record set by former Borussia Dortmund forward Erling Haaland at Manchester City and Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid, who both took 105 matches to reach 100 goals for a club in one of Europe's top five leagues.
Hat-trick hero
The England captain has already claimed two hat-tricks – only three have been scored league-wide this season – to take his Bundesliga career tally to nine. Only six players have ever had more 3+ goal games than Kane in the history of Germany’s top flight, and none took fewer than the 67 games it took Kane to record his ninth.
Only two players have ever scored more lupenreine Hattricks than Kane’s three. For German fans, this means three goals, scored in the same half and uninterrupted by another scorer – those men are Gerd Müller and Klaus Fischer (seven and five respectively).
Speed scorer
The former Tottenham Hotspur forward has never been renowned for his fleet of foot, but the pace of his scoring since arriving in Germany in summer 2023 is unmatched.
He has reached 72 goals in just 68 Bundesliga appearances – faster than anyone in the league’s history – meaning England’s all-time leading international scorer has found the net every 79 minutes.
That is better than Haaland at Dortmund (87 minutes), Robert Lewandowski at Dortmund and Bayern (100 minutes) and the Bundesliga’s all-time leading scorer, Bayern legend Müller (105 minutes).
He also holds another league record: none of those great goalscorers won the Torjägerkanone for the Bundesliga’s top goal-getter in each of their first two top-flight seasons in Germany. Kane did.
Spot on
Kane has never missed a penalty in the Bundesliga. Not one. His converted brace of spot-kicks against Hoffenheim took him to 17, breaking the record previously held by Max Kruse und Hans-Joachim Abel, who had scored their first 16 penalties in the league. He then added number 18 against Bremen.
Kane's also surpassed the league record for the most consecutive converted penalties in Bundesliga history held by Lewandowski (2013-18) and ex-Hamburg, Leverkusen and Bayern goalkeeper Hans-Jörg Butt (1999-2001) at 17 each.
Teeing them up
Kane is known to be a talented amateur golfer, and he is adept at teeing up his teammates on the pitch too. He has the second-most passes-before-a-shot league-wide (12) and has tallied at least two goal involvements in every game this season thanks to his three assists: one against Hamburg and two against Augsburg for a total only bettered by Union Berlin’s Andrej Ilić (four).
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Averaging 45 touches of the ball per 90 minutes, Kane has a fundamental role in his team’s play, and always moves forward: 22 percent of his passes go forward to the Bayern right with 16 percent heading to the opposite flank.
By comparison, 50 percent of Dortmund forward Serhou Guirassy's passes go backwards.
This season, Kane has covered 6.5 miles per game on average – a huge distance for a centre-forward – to underline his “team player” billing, but more than that, he has proven to be a goalscorer beyond compare.
“When a player scores so many goals and wins his first trophy, you can’t always expect that he is going to defend for the team and give everything in training,” said Kompany.
“But for him, it’s not an option to do not do that. That Harry helps out defensively and is on it every training session despite all those goals makes my job easier.”
“He is simply outstanding, and has been for the last two years,” added Max Eberl, Bayern’s board member for sport, after Kane’s Matchday 4 performance.
“I don’t just say that because of the three goals, but because of the way that he is as a person on the pitch. He wants the ball, he supports the guys, he fights, and he tracks back and makes challenges. That’s a true leader.”