How does Harry Kane score his penalties for Bayern Munich?
Harry Kane has successfully converted 17 consecutive Bundesliga penalties to set a new league record. We take a look at how he has gained his immaculate record from the spot.
In fact, Kane has scored 35 of his past 36 penalties for club and country, with only Wehen Wiesbaden's Florian Strizel foiling him in the 2025/26 DFB Cup first round since the 2022 World Cup. So how does he take his penalties? bundesliga.com looked back through the footage for clues...
Kane has taken – and scored – the other 26 of the 27 penalties he has taken for Bayern since joining the club in summer 2023, comprising a league record 17 successive penalty conversions in the Bundesliga along with eight in the Champions League and one in the DFB Cup.
Watch: All of Kane's Bundesliga penalties
Variety and unpredictability has been key to that success. His first for Bayern arrived against Augsburg on 27 August 2023, a cool clip down the middle with goalkeeper Finn Dahmen diving off to his left.
But Kane has not repeated that technique since then. Instead, his pattern has been to put two penalties to the goalkeeper’s right, then two to the left, then two to the right again.
That sequence was true for his spot-kicks two to 11 at Bayern, with the 32-year-old only breaking the routine against Dinamo in the Champions League, when he placed all three of them to the goalkeeper’s right.
“I practise my penalties a lot, I have the same routine, but even for me it was strange to take three in one game,” Kane told the media after the Dinamo win. “It was the first time I’ve done that but I just had to do what I always do.”
That is not to say, however, that he always takes them the same way. His preferred method is to arrow the ball to the goalkeeper’s right, hard, low and right into the bottom corner. He has scored this way 11 times; nine in the Bundesliga and two in the Champions League.
He also likes to wait for the goalkeeper to make the first move. Opting for a slow run-up when choosing this method, Kane keeps an eye on the keeper and then passes the ball in the opposite direction.
“I’ve changed my process a bit,” Kane confirmed after his Dinamo haul. “Some of them I’ll decide in the moment, some of them I’ll decide the day before the game. Sometimes I now wait for the goalkeeper to take a step because then becomes harder for him to make a save.”
Watch: Kane on his penalty taking routine
The England international tends to save this technique for the Champions League, using it five times in Europe and just a couple in the Bundesliga before repeating the trick in his first penalty in the 4-1 win over Hoffenheim on Matchday 4 of 2025/26.
When he does pause, most of those spot-kicks have gone to the goalkeeper’s left, but placed into the open net, with the keeper already going the other way.
Knowing what he does is one thing. But trying to keep his efforts out is another matter entirely.
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