Is Bayern Munich Harry Kane on course to break Robert Lewandowski goals record

With 15 goals in his first 10 Bundesliga games, Harry Kane has been shattering records at Bayern Munich. The big question is whether he’s on track to surpass Robert Lewandowski’s single-season record of 41 goals. The straightforward answer is yes; he is.

For those unfamiliar with the Bundesliga’s history, Bayern legend Gerd Müller set an apparently unbreakable goal record of 40 during the 1971/72 season. That record stood as a benchmark for strikers for nearly five decades, until Lewandowski topped it with 41 goals in the 2020/21 campaign, scoring his 41st goal in the 90th minute on the final day of the season to secure a 5-2 victory over Augsburg. Many believed that no one would come close to matching that feat again.

Lewandowski scored “only” 35 goals the following season, and while Erling Haaland made a valiant effort at Dortmund, he managed 27 and 22 goals in his two full seasons at the club.

Is Bayern Munich Harry Kane on course to break Robert Lewandowski goals record

All of this makes Kane’s remarkable start to his Bundesliga career even more astounding. His hat-trick in Bayern’s 4-0 victory over Dortmund in Der Klassiker on Saturday marked his second consecutive treble. For context, the last player to achieve this was Mario Gomez in 2011. Kane also has three Bundesliga hat-tricks this season, a feat only previously matched by Cologne’s Christian Müller at the same stage of a season in 1964/65.

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Kane’s recent performances have propelled him to the top of the Bundesliga scoring charts with 15 goals, one ahead of the injured VfB Stuttgart striker Serhou Guirassy. To put this in perspective, the only player in the Bundesliga’s 60-year history to score 15 goals after 10 rounds of matches was Gerd Müller, who achieved the same tally in 1968/69. However, Müller was unable to maintain that pace, scoring only 15 more goals over the rest of the season to finish with 30.

Is Bayern Munich Harry Kane on course to break Robert Lewandowski goals record

In contrast, both Müller and Lewandowski had scored just four and 12 goals, respectively, in their record-breaking years at this stage.

Adding to Kane’s impressive stats are his five Bundesliga assists, with only RB Leipzig’s Xavi Simons surpassing that with six. Kane has been directly involved in 20 goals this season, the quickest anyone has reached that figure since detailed data collection began in the Bundesliga in 1992/93.