Harry Kane races to 400 career goals: Decoding his stats
Harry Kane attained a host of records as he scored a brace for Bayern Munich on matchday 31 of the Bundesliga 2023-24 season on Saturday. Kane's heroics helped Bayern earn a 2-1 win over Eintracht Frankfurt. Kane scored the opener in ninth minute, tucking in a cross from nine yards. He converted a penalty in the second half. Here are further details.
Kane joins 400 club!
Kane now has 400 goals for club and country. He owns 62 goals for England from 89 matches and is the highest scorer. Kane owns 42 goals from 42 matches in all competitions for Bayern. He is Tottenham Hotspur's record scorer with 280 goals from 435 matches. Earlier, he scored five goals for Leyton Orient, nine for Milwall and two for Leicester City.
A new record-scoring campaign for Kane
As mentioned, Kane has 42 goals for Bayern this season across all competitions. This is now his best scoring run in a season. He surpassed a mark of 41 goals scored for Tottenham in the 2017-18 season. Kane has scored 30-plus goals in a campaign across four other seasons (31 in 2014-15, 35 in 2016-17, 33 in 2020-21 and 32 in 2022-23).
Kane makes these records as well
In 31 Bundesliga matches, Kane owns 35 goals and eight assists. As per BBC, he has netted against 16 of the 17 other Bundesliga teams - a joint record in a campaign along with Gerd Muller (1966-67 and 1969-70), Ailton (2003-04) and Robert Lewandowski (2019-20 and 2020-21). Kane is the first player to score or assist against all 17 sides in a debut season.
