Harry Kane is an English striker who plays for Bayern Munich and is England’s all-time top scorer and captain. This KlinPredict Harry Kane profile covers his biography, Harry Kane stats, goals, career record, trophies, awards, England and World Cup record and playing style.

Harry Kane at a Glance

Harry Kane, born on 28 July 1993 in Leytonstone, London, is a striker who plays for Bayern Munich and captains England. He is England’s all-time top scorer with 85 goals in 121 caps, Tottenham Hotspur’s all-time top scorer with 280 goals, and the highest-scoring English player in history. He has won three Premier League Golden Boots, the 2018 World Cup Golden Boot, two European Golden Shoes and, since moving to Germany in 2023, two Bundesliga titles, a DFB-Pokal and a Supercup. In September 2026 he became the fastest player ever to reach 100 Bundesliga goals, and he is one of the favourites for the 2026 Ballon d’Or.

Harry Kane Player Bio

Full Name	Harry Edward Kane
Date of Birth	28 July 1993 (Age 33)
Place of Birth	Leytonstone, London, England
Grew Up In	Walthamstow and Chingford; attended Chingford Foundation School
Nationality	England (Irish ancestry through his father)
Position	Striker
Height	188 cm (6 ft 2 in)
Current Club	Bayern Munich (No. 9)
Joined Bayern	12 August 2023, four-year contract
Transfer Fee	€100 million plus €10 million in bonuses, per Wikipedia
Parents	Patrick Kane and Kim (née Hogg)
Brother	Charlie, his older brother
Honour	MBE

2026–27 Season Stats

Kane scored the 72nd-minute winner in Bayern’s 2–1 win over Elversberg on 13 September 2026, his first league goal of the season. On 18 September he scored twice in a 7–0 win over Union Berlin, a 39th-minute penalty and a 54th-minute header, to reach 100 and 101 Bundesliga goals in 98 games. Appearance counts for the 2026–27 season are not shown because the sources used here do not list them.

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Career Goals Totals

Bayern’s 150 goals in 153 games after the 13 September win became 152 after the two goals against Union Berlin, a KlinPredict sum; one agency reported 156 goals in 156 games, so counts vary by provider. Tottenham’s 280 is the all-competition figure in Wikipedia’s lead, while the 213 in its club table is his Premier League total. Kane scored his 500th career goal on 14 February 2026, in his 743rd appearance.

Club Career Record

England National Team

Kane made his England debut by replacing Wayne Rooney against Lithuania at Wembley in a Euro 2016 qualifier and scored a header about 80 seconds later. He was made captain just before the 2018 World Cup, and had already captained the side in a qualifier against Scotland in June 2017. By the end of the 2026 World Cup he had 121 caps and 85 goals according to FourFourTwo, which makes him England’s all-time top scorer and, behind goalkeeper Peter Shilton, the country’s second-most capped player. Wikipedia’s own figure of 117 caps and 82 goals predates the 2026 tournament.

The 2022 line is a KlinPredict derivation: 14 career World Cup goals less 6 in 2018 and 6 in 2026 leaves 2 in 2022.

Harry Kane Honours & Trophies

His first senior trophy came with Bayern, in May 2025, when he was 31. His Tottenham career produced no major winners’ medal.

Individual Awards & Records

• England’s all-time top scorer
• Tottenham’s all-time top scorer with 280 goals
• Highest-scoring English player in history, passing Jimmy Greaves on 474 goals in December 2025
• Fastest player to 100 Bundesliga goals, in 98 matches, beating Dieter Müller’s 129 from 1977
• Fastest to 50 Bundesliga goals, in 43 games
• Fastest player this century to 100 goals in a top-five European league, in 104 games
• Premier League’s second-highest scorer with 213 goals
• Highest-scoring English player in the Champions League
• Scored 61 goals for Bayern in 2025–26, a 21st-century club record, passing Dixie Dean’s English record of 60 in a season
• First player to score 30 or more league goals in two separate 38-game Premier League seasons
• Set the Premier League calendar-year record with 39 goals in 2017

Related Players & Pages

Read more on KlinPredict: Lionel Messi profile, Kylian Mbappé profile, Neymar profile and Lamine Yamal profile.

Early Life & Youth Career

Harry Edward Kane was born in Leytonstone, east London, the second son of Patrick and Kim Kane (née Hogg), with an older brother, Charlie. His father was born in Galway, which gives Kane Irish ancestry. The family lived in Walthamstow and then Chingford, and Kane attended Chingford Foundation School. As a child he played for Ridgeway Rovers from the age of six.

His path into professional football was not a straight line. Arsenal released him after one season, and an early trial at Tottenham did not work out. He joined the academy at Watford in 2004 before earning another chance at Tottenham. Wikipedia notes that he began as a midfielder and became physically stronger after a growth spurt. He signed a scholarship with Spurs in July 2009 and his first professional contract in July 2010. Teammates and coaches came to see his work ethic as a defining trait, and he has named Teddy Sheringham, a former Tottenham striker, as a player whose finishing he admired.

The Loan Years (2011–2013)

Like many young English strikers, Kane was sent out on loan to find regular minutes, and the experience was mixed.

• Leyton Orient (January–end of 2010–11): 18 matches and 5 goals.
• Millwall (January–end of 2011–12): 9 goals in 27 matches in Wikipedia’s text (its career table shows 22 apps and 7 goals). He was named the club’s Young Player of the Year.
• Norwich City (from 31 August 2012): a season-long loan that ended early after a metatarsal fracture, with a recall on 1 February 2013 and 3 appearances without a goal.
• Leicester City (late February 2013): 13 appearances, 8 of them as a substitute, and 2 goals. Leicester lost a play-off semi-final to Watford.

Kane made his Tottenham debut in the Europa League in August 2011 and scored his first Spurs goal in December 2011. His first senior goal for the club in a normal fixture came in a 2013 League Cup tie against Hull City, and Tim Sherwood gave him his first Premier League start in April 2014.

Tottenham Hotspur (2009–2023)

2014–15: the breakthrough. Mauricio Pochettino’s arrival in 2014 turned Kane into a regular starter, and a 90th-minute winner against Aston Villa in November 2014 helped secure the new manager’s position. He scored a hat-trick against Asteras Tripolis in the Europa League group stage, two in a 5–3 win over Chelsea and two against Arsenal in February 2015. He was named Premier League Player of the Month for January and February 2015 and scored his first Premier League hat-trick against Leicester. He finished the season with 21 league goals and the PFA Young Player of the Year award. Tottenham lost the League Cup final 2–0 to Chelsea, which Kane later called the “worst feeling in the world”.

2015–16: first Golden Boot. He began the season as Tottenham’s only recognised striker and went 748 minutes without a goal, then finished as the Premier League top scorer with 25 goals, one clear of Sergio Agüero and Jamie Vardy. Tottenham finished third.

2016–17: second Golden Boot. Ankle ligament damage in September 2016 cost him several matches. He made his Champions League debut in a 2–1 loss to Monaco, signed a contract extension to 2022, and scored three hat-tricks (against West Brom, against Fulham in the FA Cup and against Stoke). He won a second consecutive Golden Boot with 29 goals and Tottenham finished as Premier League runners-up.

2017–18: the record year. He set the Premier League calendar-year goal record with 39 goals, finished 2017 with six league hat-tricks and was Europe’s top scorer for the year with 56 goals. He became Tottenham’s Premier League record scorer by passing Teddy Sheringham’s 97, reached 100 league goals in February 2018 and signed a new deal to 2024 in June 2018.

2018–19: the Champions League final. Kane hurt his ankle in January 2019 and returned in February. He scored the only goal in the away leg against Borussia Dortmund in the round of 16, then suffered another ankle injury in April against Manchester City. He came back for the Champions League final, a 2–0 loss to Liverpool, though his selection for the match was debated.

2019–20. A hamstring injury in January 2020 required surgery. He returned in June 2020 and scored his first goal of the year in his 200th Premier League appearance.

2020–21: scorer and playmaker. He set a Premier League record by assisting four goals for Son Heung-min in a 5–2 win over Southampton, scored a hat-trick against Maccabi Haifa and twice at Manchester United in a 6–1 win, and finished with 23 league goals. He won a third Golden Boot and the Playmaker of the Season award, the first player to win both in one season.

2021–22: the attempted move. Kane sought to leave after a dispute with chairman Daniel Levy over a claimed agreement. Manchester City’s £127 million bid was rejected, and Kane missed the start of the season before announcing on 25 August that he would stay. He then scored a hat-trick in 20 minutes against Mura, the first hat-trick in the Europa Conference League and the first in all three current UEFA club competitions. He also took the Premier League away-goals record from Wayne Rooney, reaching 95.

2022–23: Tottenham’s record scorer. He scored an injury-time equaliser at Chelsea and became the first player to score 185 Premier League goals for one club. He passed Jimmy Greaves as Tottenham’s all-time top scorer in February 2023, although the record was disputed because of Greaves’s 1962 Charity Shield goals, and he made it uncontested in March with a brace against Nottingham Forest. He finished second in the Premier League scoring race with 30 goals, behind Erling Haaland.

The exit. Bayern Munich’s first bid of £70 million was rejected in June 2023, and a later bid of £86 million was also refused. The clubs agreed a deal worth more than €100 million in August 2023. Kane posted a farewell video, and Levy said Kane wanted a new challenge.

Bayern Munich (2023–Present)

2023–24: a record debut season. Kane signed on 12 August 2023 on a four-year deal, making him the most expensive signing in Bundesliga history. He made his debut as a substitute the same day in a 3–0 loss to RB Leipzig in the DFL-Supercup. He scored on the opening day at Werder Bremen, scored his first Champions League goal for the club against Manchester United, and hit hat-tricks in a 7–0 win over Bochum and a 4–0 win at Borussia Dortmund. He finished with 36 Bundesliga goals, a debut-season record, won the European Golden Shoe and was joint top scorer in the Champions League with eight goals. Bayern did not win a trophy that year.

2024–25: the first trophy. He reached 50 Bundesliga goals faster than anyone and had 55 in 50 games. In May 2025, with two games left, Bayern were mathematically crowned champions and Kane won the first major trophy of his career. He was the Bundesliga top scorer for the second year in a row and was named the league’s Player of the Season.

2025–26: the record season. He won the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup in August 2025 with a goal against Stuttgart and scored a second-half hat-trick against Leipzig on the opening matchday. He became the fastest player this century to 100 goals in a top-five European league, in 104 games, scored his 400th club goal in October 2025 and his tenth Bundesliga hat-trick in December. On 474 career goals he passed Jimmy Greaves as the highest-scoring English player of all time, and he reached 500 career goals on 14 February 2026 in his 743rd appearance, 100 of them from penalties.

In the Champions League he scored against Atalanta, Real Madrid (including the equaliser in the return leg) and Paris Saint-Germain, and became the first English player to score in six consecutive Champions League matches. By mid-January he had 21 Bundesliga goals and 4 assists in 18 league games, and 31 goals in 27 matches in all competitions, as Bayern kept an 11-point lead.

Bayern clinched the 2025–26 Bundesliga on 19 April 2026 and won the DFB-Pokal 3–0 against Stuttgart on 23 May, with Kane scoring a hat-trick in the final, only the fourth player to do so. He finished the season with 61 goals for Bayern in all competitions, a 21st-century club record that passed Dixie Dean’s English record of 60 in a season, and he won his second European Golden Shoe. Bayern reached the Champions League semi-final.

Bundesliga.com reports that Kane scored 73 goals for club and country between August 2025 and July 2026, the second-best scoring season by any player since the turn of the millennium, behind Lionel Messi’s 82 in 69 matches in 2011–12. He also has 15 goals in 22 meetings with Arsenal, who inflicted Bayern’s first defeat of the 2025–26 season in November 2025.

2026–27 so far. Bayern drew 0–0 with Schalke in an earlier league match, and Kane did not score in his first two league games of the campaign. He opened his league account with the winner against Elversberg on 13 September, scored against Bodø/Glimt in the Champions League opener on 10 September (his 55th Champions League goal, 34 of them for Bayern, and his eighth consecutive Champions League game with a goal), and scored twice in the 7–0 win over Union Berlin on 18 September to become the fastest player to 100 Bundesliga goals. Bayern face Arsenal in the Champions League on 21 October 2026.

Harry Kane for England: The Full Story

Kane’s England debut, a substitute appearance for Wayne Rooney against Lithuania at Wembley, brought a goal after about 80 seconds. He was named captain just before the 2018 World Cup and has captained England at every major tournament since.

• Euro 2016: in the squad but without a goal as England lost to Iceland in the round of 16. He was used as the team’s corner-kick taker.
• 2018 World Cup: six goals, including a hat-trick against Panama, and the Golden Boot as England finished fourth, their best result since 1990.
• Euro 2020: he captained England to the final, the country’s first major final since 1966.
• 2022 World Cup: two goals in Qatar by KlinPredict’s arithmetic from his career total.
• Euro 2024: he shared the top-scorer award and again captained England to the final.
• 2026 World Cup: six goals. He scored a late double, a headed equaliser in the 75th minute from an Anthony Gordon cross and a winner in the 86th, to beat DR Congo 2–1 in the last 32 on 1 July in Atlanta after England had trailed from the seventh minute. England reached the semi-final, where they lost 2–1 to defending champions Argentina in Atlanta, a game in which Anthony Gordon scored first and Messi set up both Argentine goals.

The DR Congo match took his World Cup total to 13, one above Pelé’s 12 and level with Just Fontaine, and he finished the tournament with 14, England’s record at World Cups. His 121st cap came in the semi-final, moving him past Wayne Rooney’s 120 and into second place behind Peter Shilton on England’s all-time appearance list. Asked about 2030, when he would be 36, Kane said “four years is a long way away” and added: “I never want to put a limit on these things. Playing for England means more to me than anything else.”

IOL reports that Kane pointed to Messi, then 39, who scored eight goals at the 2026 tournament, as an example of players who can still perform at the top level.

Playing Style, Strengths and Weaknesses

Kane is a complete modern striker. He scores with both feet and his head, finishes from close range and from outside the box, and drops deep to link the play, which is why he has won both a Golden Boot and a Playmaker of the Season award in the same Premier League season. Wikipedia singles out his strength in the box and his finishing. The statistics support that range: 213 Premier League goals, a record four assists for one teammate in a single Premier League match, and 36 Bundesliga goals as a first-year player in a new country.

• Finishing: 85 England goals and 280 Tottenham goals, with 100 of his first 500 career goals scored from the penalty spot.
• Link-up play: assists such as the four for Son Heung-min against Southampton, and 4 assists alongside 21 league goals in 18 Bundesliga games by January 2026.
• Consistency: Bundesliga top scorer in each of his three Bayern seasons and 20 or more league goals in each of his first three Bundesliga seasons, the first player to do that since 1966.
• Big occasions: a World Cup Golden Boot, a hat-trick in a DFB-Pokal final and the equaliser against Real Madrid in the Champions League.
• Weakness — injuries: repeated ankle problems at Tottenham, a hamstring operation in 2020 and an ankle knock in 2026 that cost him an England friendly.
• Weakness — trophies: he did not win a team trophy until he was 31, and England have yet to win a major tournament with him.

Kane Compared With Messi and Mbappé

The Ballon d’Or race in 2026 includes Kylian Mbappé and Lamine Yamal alongside Kane, according to K24. At the World Cup, Kane’s 14 goals are a long way behind Mbappé’s 22 but ahead of Pelé’s 12, and his six in 2026 match the best of his own career. Lionel Messi, who knocked England out of the 2026 World Cup by creating both Argentina goals, has 126 goals for Argentina against Kane’s 85 for England.

Country totals come from the individual KlinPredict profiles and from FourFourTwo for Kane. Messi retired from international football on 6 October 2026; Neymar retired in July 2026.

Harry Kane Career Timeline

What Next for Harry Kane?

Kane is 33 and in the third year of a four-year contract with Bayern, who went top of the Bundesliga after the Union Berlin win on 18 September and meet Arsenal in the Champions League on 21 October. The Ballon d’Or ceremony takes place in London at the end of October, and he said “the Ballon d’Or would be a massive success for me, but at the moment I’m concentrating on performing again this season”. No Englishman has won it since Michael Owen in 2001. KlinPredict will update this page after the ceremony and after each Bayern and England fixture.

Kane”s Season-by-Season Highlights

Figures are taken from Wikipedia’s season narrative. Not every season has a published all-competition total in the sources used, so some rows show the headline achievements instead.

Harry Kane Honours Explained

Bayern Munich. Kane’s trophy drought ended with the 2024–25 Bundesliga, clinched in May 2025 with two games to spare. In August 2025 he scored against Stuttgart as Bayern won the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup, then in April 2026 he secured a second league title and on 23 May he scored a hat-trick in a 3–0 DFB-Pokal final win over Stuttgart. That made three major trophies in a single season and four in total at Bayern.

Tottenham. At Tottenham Kane came close several times without a winner’s medal: League Cup runner-up in 2014–15 after a 2–0 loss to Chelsea, Premier League runner-up in 2016–17 and Champions League runner-up in 2018–19.

England. England’s results with Kane as captain are among the best since 1966: a fourth-place finish at the 2018 World Cup, the Euro 2020 final, the Euro 2024 final and a World Cup semi-final in 2026. He was also part of the England squad that finished third in the 2019 Nations League. Each of those finishes stopped short of a trophy.

Individual. His individual collection is far larger than his team one: three Premier League Golden Boots (2015–16, 2016–17 and 2020–21), a World Cup Golden Boot, two European Golden Shoes (2023–24 and 2025–26), Bundesliga top scorer three years running, five Premier League Player of the Month awards (January 2015, February 2015, March 2016, February 2017 and September 2017), and a place in the PFA Team of the Year for four seasons from 2014–15 to 2017–18.

Harry Kane by the Numbers

Bundesliga.com says Kane scored 73 goals for club and country between August 2025 and July 2026, while a September 2026 article describes 73 as his calendar-year total; this page uses the Bundesliga.com wording.

The 2026 Ballon d”Or Case

Kane has never won the Ballon d’Or, but Bundesliga.com argues that 2026 could be his year. He scored 61 goals for Bayern in 2025–26, won a league and cup double, reached the Champions League semi-final, and then scored six goals as England reached the World Cup semi-final. No Englishman has won the award since Michael Owen in 2001, and the ceremony is held in London at the end of October. Kane called that “maybe a good omen”.

His rivals include Mbappé, Yamal, Ousmane Dembélé, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and others named in the press, with Messi and Rodri also touted. K24 names Kane as one of the favourites. His case rests on volume, a European Golden Shoe, a domestic double and a deep World Cup run. The case against him is that Argentina knocked England out of the World Cup and Bayern fell short in the Champions League.

Frequently Searched Facts About Kane

• Full name: Harry Edward Kane.
• Shirt number: No. 9 at Bayern.
• Position: striker.
• Height: 188 cm (6 ft 2 in).
• Born: 28 July 1993, Leytonstone, London.
• Current club: Bayern Munich, since 12 August 2023.
• International: England captain, 121 caps and 85 goals.
• First trophy: the 2024–25 Bundesliga, at 31.
• Biggest transfer: €100 million plus bonuses to Bayern in 2023.

How Kane Became One of Europe”s Most Consistent Scorers

Few strikers have scored so regularly for so long. Kane scored 21 league goals in his first full Premier League season, then 25, 29, 23 and 30 in the seasons Wikipedia details, before moving to Germany and scoring 36 in his first Bundesliga season. In 2025–26 he reached 50 league goals in a season for the first time, and across the three Bayern seasons he led the Bundesliga scoring charts each year. A September 2026 report says he has scored 10 more goals than any other player in Europe’s big five leagues since the start of 2023–24, and that he averages a goal every 79 minutes for Bayern.

The consistency is also visible in how quickly he reaches milestones: 50 Bundesliga goals in 43 appearances, 100 goals in a top-five league in 104 games, and 100 Bundesliga goals in 98 games, 31 fewer than the previous record held by Dieter Müller since 1977. The Premier League numbers are equally strong, as he was the first player to score 30 or more league goals in two separate 38-game seasons, and he reached 100 league goals in February 2018.

Why this matters for predictions. For KlinPredict readers, Kane’s numbers are a useful baseline: he takes penalties (100 of his first 500 career goals came from the spot), he plays most of every match, and Bayern’s attack creates a large volume of chances. Each match still carries variance, so any prediction page should treat these figures as context and not as a guarantee.

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Sources & Data Notes

This profile uses Wikipedia for career, honours and records, Bundesliga.com, FC Bayern and news agencies for 2026 matches, and FourFourTwo for England totals. FotMob did not load, so no FotMob figures are used. Where sources disagree, the page says so.

• Wikipedia — Harry Kane
• FC Bayern — Kane makes history with 100th Bundesliga goal

Data on this page is current to 15 October 2026 and is updated as new matches and official records become available. Always check the latest figures before using statistics for time-sensitive analysis.