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BBC: Earlier this year Harry Kane finally ended his trophy drought in the 15th season of his professional career when Bayern Munich were crowned Bundesliga champions.
It paved the way for him to target other major prizes, for club, country and himself.
Despite being in the form of his life, the England striker ranked only 13th in September at the 2025 Ballon d’Or awards and has never finished higher than 10th in the prestigious list.
In the month since Paris St-Germain’s Ousmane Dembele was named the world’s best player in Paris, it feels like Kane has elevated his game to an even higher, previously unthinkable level.
The 32-year-old took his goal tally this season to 20 in 12 club games in all competitions as Bayern Munich beat Club Brugge 4-0 in the Champions League.
Kane is well aware that maintaining his scoring run, winning Europe’s biggest club competition, and helping England triumph at the World Cup next summer, will make him a frontrunner for the 2026 Ballon d’Or.
“I would love to win it for sure, it would be an accumulation of doing something great individually and as a team,” said the former Tottenham Hotspur hero earlier this month. “It would be almost the perfect season.”
The last English player to win the coveted prize was striker Michael Owen in 2001, when he starred for Liverpool. There have been only three others – Stanley Matthews (1956), Bobby Charlton (1966) and Kevin Keegan (1978, 1979).
In September, Kane became the fastest player this century to reach 100 goals for a club playing in one of Europe’s top five leagues in just 104 games, and has now netted 105 times in 108 matches.
No other player in Europe’s top five leagues has scored that many since the start of 2023-24.
Neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo reached 20 goals in a season faster than Kane – they needed 17 and 13 respectively – and England’s record scorer is averaging a goal every 54 minutes.
Having already netted 12 times in seven Bundesliga outings this term, he is on track to score 58 goals. Kane needs another 30 in the remaining 27 games to break Robert Lewandowski’s record total of 41 goals in a single Bundesliga season.
It’s a similar story in Europe. Since his first Champions League match for Bayern in September 2023, he has scored more goals (24) and been directly involved in more goals (24 goals and six assists) than any other player in the competition.
Only Dutchman Ruud van Nistelrooy scored more goals in his first 60 games in the competition (48).
