2023–24 36 league goals 0 Trophies. Leverkusen won the league | 2024–25 First trophy 1 The Bundesliga title, in May 2025 | 2025–26 73 goals 3 League, DFB Cup and Supercup | Ballon d'Or 2026 1st Kane Ahead of Mbappé and Yamal |
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| 01 The Big Take |
| Kane said it himself on stage: "I didn't go straight to the top." |
| When he joined Bayern in the summer of 2023, Kane had scored hundreds of goals and won nothing. His first season in Munich ended the same way. He scored 36 Bundesliga goals, was the league's top scorer, and Bayern finished without a trophy as Leverkusen won the title. |
| The first trophy of his career came in May 2025, when Bayern won the Bundesliga. Last season he scored 36 league goals again, a hat-trick in the DFB Cup final against Stuttgart, 14 in 13 Champions League games and six at the World Cup, where England finished third. That's 73 goals for club and country. |
| On Monday in London, he finished ahead of Kylian Mbappé, Lamine Yamal, Rodri and Lionel Messi. "Wow, I'm almost speechless," he said. He also won the Striker of the Year award. |
| Three seasons, three Torjägerkanonen. No player had done that in his first three Bundesliga seasons. |
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| Bayern career figures are from Bundesliga.com, correct to 22 October. Kane played at Freiburg on Sunday but didn't score, so the goal totals are unchanged. |
| 02 How He Plays for Bayern |
| Four things that made him the best in the world |
| 1 · The finisher |
| 102 Bundesliga goals in 101 games. He reached 100 in his 98th game, the fastest in the league's history. Before his first miss in May 2026, he had scored 24 Bundesliga penalties in a row. |
| 2 · The link |
| He also has 25 Bundesliga assists. Kane drops off the front line, turns, and plays others in. Against Leipzig this month he made two goals that way, and against Arsenal it was his pass in behind that set up Davies. |
| 3 · The partnership |
| Michael Olise finished in the Ballon d'Or top 10 too, with 34 Bundesliga goal involvements last season. With Kane in the middle and Olise on the right, Bayern scored a Bundesliga-record 112 league goals. |
| 4 · The big nights |
| 13 hat-tricks for Bayern, including one in a cup final. The striker who couldn't win a trophy at Tottenham now scores in the games that decide them. |
| 03 The Numbers |
| Season | League goals | Trophies | | 2023–24 | 36 | None | | 2024–25 | 26 | Bundesliga | | 2025–26 | 36 | Bundesliga, DFB Cup, Supercup |
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| Three seasons, three times the Bundesliga's top scorer. |
156 Goals for Bayern in all competitions. In 159 games, including Sunday at Freiburg. |
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73 Goals for club and country in 2025–26. Since 2000, only Messi's 82 in 2011–12 is higher. |
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98 Games he needed to reach 100 Bundesliga goals. The previous record was Dieter Müller's 129. |
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45 Years since a Bayern player last won the Ballon d'Or. Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, in 1981. |
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| 04 The One Thing You Missed |
Beyond the headlines The first Bundesliga winner in 30 years What we saw The last Ballon d'Or winner from a Bundesliga club was Matthias Sammer of Dortmund, in 1996. Kane is only the seventh player to win it at a German club, after Gerd Müller, Franz Beckenbauer, Allan Simonsen, Kevin Keegan, Rummenigge and Sammer. What we think it means When Kane left the Premier League, plenty of people in England called it a step down. Three years later, the best player in the world, by the voters' count, plays in the Bundesliga. |
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| 05 The Counterargument |
| Was this the best player, or the best numbers? |
| — Mbappé had a case. He scored 10 at the World Cup, became the tournament's all-time top scorer with 22, and finished one goal ahead of Kane in the Champions League. |
| — So did Yamal. He won the World Cup with Spain. Kane's England finished third, and Bayern went out in the Champions League semi-finals. |
| — The league question won't go away. Some will always say 36 Bundesliga goals are easier than 36 in England. The voters didn't agree. |
| 06 What It Means |
| Three questions for the next year |
1 | The contract. Kane's deal runs until 2027. A Ballon d'Or winner at 33, with his contract running down, is a conversation Bayern will want to have soon. |
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2 | The one that's missing. He has the league, the cup and the individual award. The Champions League is the trophy he came closest to last season. |
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3 | Saturday. His first home game as Ballon d'Or holder is first against second: Bayern v Dortmund, after Wednesday's DFB-Pokal tie against Magdeburg. |
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| Our best wishes again to Vincent Kompany, who is recovering in hospital. |
The B90 Question Kane or Lewandowski: who's the better Bayern striker? Tell us on X @Beyond90Bayern. We'll pick up the best answers in the Dortmund preview. |
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Next: Bayern v Magdeburg, then Dortmund
DFB-Pokal on Wednesday · Bundesliga, first v second
Sat 31 Oct · 17:30 UK |
| Sources: Bundesliga.com: Kane wins the Ballon d'Or · Sky Sports: ceremony, rankings, quotes · ESPN: Mbappé and Yamal · Bundesliga.com: Kane's Bayern career in numbers · Bundesliga.com: Kane's 2025–26 numbers · ESPN: fastest to 100 Bundesliga goals · CBS Sports: Kane's first trophy · Results and table: GoalIQ |
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