Bayern Munich's Harry Kane 'in a good position' to break Robert Lewandowski's Bundesliga goal record
Harry Kane’s 2026 has got off to a flying start, with the Bayern Munich star in scintillating form as he hunts down Robert Lewandowski's single-season Bundesliga goal record.
Plundering nine goals in his last five league games - which includes braces in his last four outings - takes Kane’s tally to 30 strikes for the 2025/26 campaign, 11 short of Lewandowski’s 41-goal haul with 10 games remaining.
Targeting five goals before the March international break with a trip to Bayer Leverkusen sandwiched by home fixtures against Borussia Mönchengladbach and Union Berlin, Bayern’s goal-getter believes anything is possible.
“I’m certainly in a good position at the minute,” he told Germany's Bild newspaper. “If you look closely at the record, Lewandowski missed a few games, but he scored a lot of hat-tricks during that time.”
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Needing to average more than a goal per game, Bayern’s No.9 doesn’t look at the record themselves, but breaks his goalscoring habit into chunks.
“I ask myself: ‘Can I score five goals? Or another number?’ I look at the specific games,” the 32-year-old continued. “Some might be tougher and then there are games where you think: ‘Okay, I can definitely score a few goals there, especially if we have a few home games.’
“That’s how I break it down, and less by looking at Lewandowski’s record of four braces in a row. I don’t look at that, but at what I think I should achieve.”
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Remarkably, Gerd Müller's 40 goals in the 1971/72 season stood for 49 years until Lewandowski’s record-breaking campaign. Just five years later, Kane is close to eclipsing the Pole. “It would be difficult to beat him,” remarked the Englishman, who has struck three hat-tricks and netted six braces this term. “I think that chances are pretty even at the moment, whether I manage it or not.”
Surpassing Lewandowski's 41-goal haul would be a tall order for any striker – even for someone of Kane's ability – but there are positive signs the he could break that record this term.
Indeed, Bayern face Mainz, Heidenheim, Wolfsburg and Cologne in their final four Bundesliga fixtures, and you wouldn’t bet against Kane continuing his purple patch.
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