Bayern Munich, Harry Kane and Michael Olise chasing even more records in remarkable season
Bayern Munich scored three goals or more for the 19th time in the Bundesliga this season as they beat Borussia Dortmund to move 11 points clear in the title race. With 10 matchdays remaining, numerous records could still be broken as the defending champions, Harry Kane and Michael Olise aim for the stars…
After a mini blip against Augsburg (2-1 loss) and Hamburg (2-2 draw), Bayern are back on track with four straight victories, including Der Klassiker success at Borussia Dortmund.
Kane has scored braces in each of those games as the defending champions hit their goalscoring and winning stride once more.
Those results keep Vincent Kompany's men at the top of the table, amassing 63 points and a +65 goal difference as they attempt to defend their title in style. The current highest points tally in Bundesliga history was set in 2012/13, when Bayern finished with 91 points and a goal difference of +80.
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Those slips against Augsburg and HSV mean Bayern now have no room for manoeuvre if they want to beat that tally. Only a winning streak to the end the campaign would see them surpass it - hardly impossible given they won 16 straight games in all competitions to begin the campaign.
At this stage, though, breaking the record single-season goal tally as a team appears more likely. So far in their 24 fixtures, Bayern have found the back of the net on a remarkable 88 occasions. Unsurprisingly, that is also the best-ever haul at this point of a campaign, coming in at an average of 3.67 goals per game.
There have already been several huge wins, with RB Leipzig suffering the brunt of Bayern’s scoring wrath by shipping 11 times across their two meetings with Kompany’s men, while they even put eight past Wolfsburg on Matchday 16.
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Additionally, the Munich-based outfit have also scored four goals on three occasions, amassed a five-goal haul four times and struck six twice.
To surpass the current record number of 101 goals (by Bayern in 1971/72), they will need just 14 more in the remaining 10 fixtures. On this form, that should be child’s play.
Several Bayern stars have displayed clinical finishing, but Kane once again leads the way. Having already been the Torjägerkönig in each of his first two Bundesliga seasons, the Englishman is on track to make it a hat-trick after plundering 30 goals thus far. As such, Robert Lewandowski’s single-season record of 41 goals and whether Kane can beat it is the topic of much conversation.
By the end of Matchday 24 during that unforgettable 2020/21 season, the legendary Pole had struck 31 times - marginally ahead of Kane. No player has ever had more at this stage.
After an electric start that saw the latter rack up two hat-tricks and two braces in the opening five matchdays, Bayern's goal-getter has scored at a slower, yet consistent rate, netting four successive braces and nine goals across Bayern's last five league games.
While the Englishman is his side’s main goalscorer, Olise has been the leading provider of assists. The France international picked up an assist against Hoffenheim for the sixth Bundesliga match in succession to move to 16 for the campaign, already more than the league-leading 15 he managed during the entire 2024/25 season.
It means Thomas Müller’s overall record of 21 goals created during 2019/20 is very much at risk. After 24 games of that campaign, the Raumdeuter also had 16 assists.
Bayern’s main goal will be to wrap up the defence of their Bundesliga title as quickly and convincingly as possible, before going in search of the DFB Cup and UEFA Champions League trophies to complete what would be another memorable treble.
On current form, Kane, Olise and the team as a whole have every chance of writing themselves into the history books in the process.
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