Will Harry Kane break the Bundesliga goalscoring record set by Robert Lewandowski?

Robert Lewandowski has held the Bundesliga goalscoring record since the 2020/21 season, when he scored an incredible 41 goals for Bayern Munich. This breaks Gerd Muller’s record from the 1971/72 season, which stood for almost 50 years. However, this season, Harry Kane has been the star of the show.

Lewandowski’s record-breaking season

Polish cannonballer Robert Lewandowski has been scoring one goal after another in the 2020/21 season. Before the last round, he was on target to score 40 league goals. He therefore had the same goalscoring record as Germany’s all-time top scorer Gerd Muller.

He also did it in a Bayern Munich jersey, specifically in the 1971/72 season. And it lasted for almost 50 years. The Polish cannonballer in a Bayern jersey saved breaking the record for the last possible moment. Because he scored his 41st league goal of the season in the 90th minute of the match against Augsburg, when he set the final score at 5:2 for Bayern.

In the following season, he added 35 league goals. He then went to Spain to the equally famous FC Barcelona. He left an indelible mark on the Bayern team with 344 goals and 73 assists in 375 competitive matches.

Will Harry Kane break the record?

The 2023/24 season saw the sensational arrival of one of the top goalscorers in Premier League history, Harry Kane, at Bayern Munich. By leaving Tottenham for the Bundesliga, he has probably deprived himself of the opportunity to break Alan Shearer’s historic goalscoring record of 260 league goals.

Kane is the second highest goalscorer in English league history with 213 goals and would surely match Shearer’s feat if he stayed in England. However, he has lost none of his reputation as a killer in the Bundesliga. He immediately caught on in his new job. In his first 16 league games in Germany he has already netted 22 goals, a new record in Bayern Munich’s history. Not even Lewandowski or Muller have reached such numbers.

So the question arises whether it is possible to attack the record set by Robert Lewandowski at this set pace. At the current pace, it is indeed realistic. In the current season, Kane has already scored three hat-tricks and has come up empty in just three league duels.

He’s scoring goals every 64 minutes on average so far. He has 18 more league games to play. It can be assumed that he could reach at least 35 goals. He certainly won’t keep up the pace until the end of the season, but he has a very good basis for breaking the set record.

Source: Eurofotbal, Kicker