A historic night in Berlin and a hat-trick that sealed a double title win.
Having secured the Bundesliga title early, Bayern Munich entered the 2025/26 German Cup final against VfB Stuttgart aiming for their 21st trophy in history.
Stuttgart started confidently and caused Bayern many problems in the first half. Deniz Undav and Chris Führich constantly created chances, while Harry Kane missed Bayern's most notable opportunity, leaving the first 45 minutes ending 0-0.
In the second half, Harry Kane's class shone through at the right moment. The English striker opened the scoring in the 54th minute after an assist from Michael Olise, before completing his hat-trick with two more goals in the 79th and 90+1 minutes, helping Bayern secure a resounding 3-0 victory.
This victory helped Bayern win their first DFB-Pokal in six years, and also completed their 13th domestic double in the club's history under coach Vincent Kompany.
Despite their absolute dominance in the domestic league, Bayern's season was tinged with sadness due to their heartbreaking defeat in the Champions League, where they were eliminated in the semi-finals by Paris Saint-Germain with a narrow aggregate score of 5-6 over two legs. The 4-5 defeat in France in the first leg proved too big a hurdle, rendering the 1-1 draw in the second leg meaningless.
These numbers elevate Harry Kane's status.
Harry Kane's hat-trick at the Olympiastadion Berlin officially raised his total number of goals to 61 in 51 appearances across all competitions for Bayern Munich this season.
This was the best goalscoring campaign of the English striker's professional career, helping him equal the historic milestone of 61 goals set by superstar Cristiano Ronaldo at Real Madrid in the peak 2014/15 season after 54 matches.
Remarkably, over the past 11 years, even the top goalscorers in Europe such as Robert Lewandowski, Luis Suarez, Erling Haaland, Kylian Mbappe, and Lionel Messi in later stages have never reached 61 goals in a single season.
Harry Kane achieved this feat with an impressive performance, needing only 51 matches, and he still has a chance to surpass Ronaldo if he continues to score for England in upcoming international matches.
The 32-year-old striker's season has been described by the media as a "video game" with incredible goal-scoring statistics across all competitions. In the German Bundesliga, Kane scored 36 goals in just 31 appearances and won the league's top scorer title for the third consecutive time.
In the Champions League, he scored 14 goals in 13 matches. In the German Cup, Kane scored 10 goals in 6 games. Including both club and national team appearances, the striker has directly contributed to 73 goals, including 66 goals and 7 assists in 56 appearances.
Besides almost certainly winning the European Golden Boot and the European Golden Boot, Harry Kane also set a number of historical milestones, becoming the first English player since the legendary Dixie Dean in the 1927/28 season to score 60 or more goals in a single season in one of the top five European leagues.
Considering only the 21st century, Kane currently ranks second on the list of players who have scored the most goals for a single club in a season, behind only Lionel Messi's record of 73 goals for Barcelona in the 2011/12 season.
At the same time, he also made history as the fourth player to score a hat-trick in a DFB-Pokal final, equaling the achievements of his predecessors Uwe Seeler, Roland Wohlfarth, and Robert Lewandowski.
The English striker is also the third player to score in every round of this competition, level with Dieter Muller and Dirk Kurtenbach, with Kane's goalscoring record in the German Cup being the third best in the history of the competition, behind the legendary Gerd Muller.
Since officially joining Bayern Munich, Harry Kane has had an incredible performance with 146 goals and 33 assists in 147 matches, bringing the club two Bundesliga titles, one German Cup, and one German Super Cup, shattering any doubts about the previous "title curse."
At 32 years old, Harry Kane is writing the most glorious and brilliant chapter of his football career, transforming himself into a new goalscoring icon of world football.
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