Since transferring from the English Premier League to Bayern Munich, Harry Kane has lived up to the promise. The statistics surrounding the England captain’s explosive debut for Bayern are crunched by bundesliga.com.
Kane made his debut for Bayern against RB Leipzig in the Supercup, a game that Die Roten Bullen won 3-0. Not quite the start the England captain was hoping for, but since then, things have gotten better.
3. The 30-year-old follows in the footsteps of Omar Richards and Owen Hargreaves as Bayern’s third English player.
Leroy Sané has received 4 assists so far this 2023–24 Bundesliga season—Kane has only so far assisted on goals for the winger. The former Tottenham Hotspur attacker joined Kevin Keegan, Tony Woodcock, and Jadon Sancho as the only other English players to score a hat-trick in the German top division during Matchday 5 versus Bochum.
Kane had such a fantastic debut in Bavaria that he swiftly made history by being the first Bayern player to score seven goals in his first five games for the Bundesliga’s top team.
8 – In fact, the English goal scorer’s season was about to become even better as he increased that total to eight goals in his first seven games in the German top division.
Kane played for Tottenham Hotspur for ten seasons, eight of which he did so while donning the No. 10 jersey. The number 9 that was previously worn by Robert Lewandowski, a star in the Bundesliga and Bayern, is now worn by the Londoner.
Bayern played 10 games throughout all competitions. Read check, check, check for the Bundesliga, Champions League, and Supercup. The powerful striker has played in ten games across three leagues and is still waiting to make his DFB Cup debut.
12 – Harry Kane became the first player to ever have 12 goal involvements in his first seven Bundesliga games, adding another record to a list that was initially established in 2004.
