It seems that rarely a week goes by without Erling Haaland breaking some sort of goalscoring record. So much has been written about the incredible Norwegian striker and he has started the 2025/26 season with a real bang. The Manchester City man has notched 11 goals in eight games for his club and six in two games for his country, including a five-goal haul against Moldova. At the rate he is going, it seems like a matter of when, not if, he will break Alan Shearer’s record for the most Premier League goals.
However, the man currently second on that list is making Haaland’s club scoring this term look rather average. Harry Kane has 213 PL goals and would surely have surpassed Shearer’s 260 had he opted to stay in English football. He instead chose a move to the Bundesliga and Bayern Munich. Naturally enough, fans in England and the media focus more on what is happening at home. That explains why Kane’s feats since his move to Munich have received relatively scant coverage in England.
Of late they have been too incredible to ignore, though, and the former Spurs star recently broke a record that had been held jointly by Haaland and a certain Cristiano Ronaldo. We will come to that shortly, but for now, let’s take a look at the truly sensational start Kane has made in front of goal this term.
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Kane’s Flabbergasting 2025/26
Kane is obviously a striker of the highest calibre. He has managed to ascend to second on the all-time Premier League top-scorer chart despite playing for Spurs! In addition, he is England’s leading goalscorer and won the Golden Boot at the 2018 World Cup. Even so, the start he has made to the 2025/26 campaign is really quite something.
| Date | Competition | Opponent | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16th Aug 2025 | DFL-Supercup | VfB Stuttgart | 1 |
| 22nd Aug 2025 | Bundesliga | RB Leipzig | 3 |
| 27th Aug 2025 | DFB-Pokal | Wehen Wiesbaden | 2 |
| 30th Aug 2025 | Bundesliga | FC Augsburg | 0 |
| 13th Sept 2025 | Bundesliga | Hamburger SV | 2 |
| 17th Sept | Champions League | Chelsea | 2 |
| 20th Sept 2025 | Bundesliga | TSG Hoffenheim | 3 |
| 26th Sept 2025 | Bundesliga | Werder Bremen | 2 |
| 30th Sept | Champions League | Pafos | 2 |
Kane has played just five league games in Germany and has an astonishing 13 goal involvements. That is made up of 10 goals and a further three assists. In the Champions League, he has maintained that crazy scoring rate of two goals per game, netting four times in two matches. His strike rate remains the same in the German Cup, with Kane having played one match in the DFB-Pokal this term and scoring twice.
On top of all that, he also scored in the German Supercup – just the one goal, a real sub-par performance! – and before that well and truly showed himself up when only managing three goals (and an assist) from five games at the FIFA Club World Cup.
All in all, that takes him to 20 goals and four assists for his club this season, from just 14 games. He is currently scoring a goal for every 56 minutes of football he has played, though that mark is made less impressive by his performances at the Club World Cup, which was not perhaps a tournament played a full throttle.
If we look at the more serious business of the two main competitions this term, the Bundesliga and CL, his stats are wild: a goal every 41 minutes in the league and one every 39 in what is probably the highest-class football competition in the world, the UEFA Champions League. In addition, the England captain has netted five goals in six appearances in 2025 for the Three Lions.
He was named Bundesliga Player of the Season in 2024/25 and was the competition’s top scorer in both 2023/24 and 2024/25. He won the European Golden Shoe in the first of those campaigns, when he was also the top goalscorer in the Champions League. His first campaign in Germany yielded 44 goals in 45 games, while last term he bagged 41 from 51 matches. 17 in nine this term (excluding the Club World Cup) so far suggests he could smash both of those marks and perhaps break various other records along the way too.
Super Centurion
Kane’s flurry of goals this season has seen him race to triple figures for Bayern. In the club’s illustrious history, 19 players have reached triple figures. The English striker will certainly not get anywhere near the record 570 goals that Gerd Müller scored for FC Hollywood. Robert Lewandowski’s 344 and the 250 of Thomas Müller are also almost certainly out of reach.
However, there seems to be a reasonable chance that Kane will become just the sixth man to register 200 or more goals for Bayern. One thing that we know for certain, however, is that he is the fastest man to reach three figures for the club. Moreover, Kane became the fastest player in the 21st century to reach 100 goals with any club in one of the “big five” European leagues.
It took Haaland 105 games to get there for Man City, a feat he achieved recently that saw him match Ronaldo. CR7 hit his fastest century for Real Madrid, but now Kane has eclipsed both of those players. Bayern’s latest goalscoring phenomenon brought up his hundred when he scored his second goal against Werder Bremen on the 26th of September.
That took him to 100 in just 104 matches and he added two more in his next game. Kane is 32 but given his game has never really relied on pace there is every reason to think he could play at the top level for at least three more seasons. We look forward to seeing what new records he can set – though ideally, the biggest and best of those will come with England!