13 records you might not know Harry Kane holds | OneFootball

Harry Kane will surely go down as one of the greatest strikers in modern football history.

The England captain has been banging in the goals for club and country his his senior Tottenham debut way back in August 2011. Once called a ‘one-season wonder’ by rival fans, Kane has continued to prove everyone wrong as he rose up the goalscoring charts for Tottenham, in the Premier League and on the international stage.

He’s even carried that form over to the Bundesliga this Bayern Munich, even if a trophy still eludes him.

So, just how many records does Harry Kane currently hold?

Tottenham’s all-time top goalscorer

Kane  wrote his name in the Tottenham history books in 2023. Scoring his 267th goal against Man City in February, he finally overtook the great Jimmy Greaves to become the highest goalscorer in Spurs’ 141 year history. The previous record had stood for over 50 years.

This was also the 200th of Kane’s Premier League career, joining Alan Shearer and Wayne Rooney as the only other players to achieve this feat.

It also follows that Kane has the most Premier League goals for Tottenham, a record previously held by Teddy Sheringham (97 goals). Kane left Tottenham with 280 goals scored, including 213 in 317 in the Premier League.

In European competitions, Kane is on 45 goals. Next best is Son Heung-min, on 24.

Most away Premier League goals

Kane’s goal against Brighton in March 2022 set a new record for most away goals (95) in the Premier League. Wayne Rooney had previously held this, but Kane surpassed the former Manchester United striker in over 100 fewer appearances.

Later that year in October, Kane became the first ever player to score 100+ home goals and 100+ away goals in the division, achieving this feat at rivals Arsenal’s ground, the Emirates Stadium. And he left the Premier League with 112 away goals.

Most Premier League goals in a calendar year

Football is played in seasons. But sometimes players have to be commended for their performances across a calendar year, such as Lionel Messi’s 91 goals in 2012.

Kane’s best calendar year came in 2017 (in the Premier League, at least), when he netted 39 times for Tottenham. A ridiculous amount when you consider the league only ran for 10 months in the year and the Englishman didn’t turn up in August. The previous record was held by Alan Shearer, who netted 36 times for Blackburn Rovers in 1995.

Most Premier League Player of the Month awards

They aren’t the most glamorous individual accolade, but the number of Premier League Player of the Month awards a footballer wins can be used as a measurement of their quality and dominance.

Kane has won Player of the Month a total of seven times, receiving the award in January 2015, February 2015, March 2016, February 2017, September 2017, December 2017 and March 2022. That last occasion not only ended a four-year wait but also brought Kane level with Aguero at the top of the list of Premier League Player of the Month winners.

Most Premier League goals for a single club

Harry Kane’s match-winner against Wolves ensured the Englishman started the 2022/23 campaign with another goalscoring record.

Kane’s 64th-minute header from Ivan Perisic’s corner not only wrapped up another three points for Spurs; it also saw the Englishman overtake Sergio Aguero (184) as the player with the most goals scored for a single club in the competition’s history. He would go on to finish the campaign with 30 goals, making him the only player in Premier League history to score 200+ goals for a single side (213 in total).

Most games scored in during a Premier League season

Although 2022/23 was a poor campaign for Tottenham as a whole, Harry Kane once again showed his brilliance as he became the first player in Premier League history to score in 25+ different matches in a single season.

Despite scoring in 26 different matches, Kane finished second to Erling Haaland in the goalscoring charts, becoming the first player to score 30+ goals in multiple Premier League campaigns and not win the Golden Boot either time (2017/18 the other).

Most headed goals in a Premier League season

In 1997/98 Duncan Ferguson’s nine headed goals looked like a record that would stand for some time. And it did, until 2023, when Kane become the first player in the competition’s history to score 10+ goals with his head.

His header against Crystal Palace was also the first time a player hit 40+ for both headed and weak-footed goals in the Premier League, showing just how incredible an all-round finisher he is.

Most competitive goals for England

It’s not just Tottenham getting the benefits of Kane’s goalscoring. In England’s 5-0 win over Albania in World Cup qualifying in 2021, Kane scored a first-half perfect hat-trick. This put the Three Lions out of sight and also moved the striker top of one particular list.

Beating Wayne Rooney’s record of 37, the Tottenham striker has since added to his tally, becoming the first player in England’s history to score 50+ times in in competitive fixtures. At the time of writing, he has an incredible 60 goals in 84 non-friendly matches and has a World Cup Golden Boot to show for it.

Most goals for England at major tournaments

Those 60 competitive goals for England include 15 at major tournaments. With a split of seven in 18 games in the European Championships and eight in 11 at World Cups, Kane has scored more goals in major tournaments than any other England player.

Kane broke the record at the 2022 World Cup, overtaking Gary Lineker with two goals, including one against France in the quarter-finals.

England’s all-time top scorer

The big one. 2023 was an incredible year personally for Harry Kane. Not only did he become Tottenham’s all-time top goalscorer, he also became his country’s all-time leading goalscorer, overtaking Wayne Rooney.

In March, the England captain finally moved to the top of the Three Lions’ goalscoring charts with a penalty against reigning European champions Italy, earning them their first away win in Italy since 1961. Not only did Kane take Rooney’s goalscoring record, he did it in 39 fewer caps than the former Manchester United forward.

He has since extended his lead at the top of the goalscoring charts, finding the back of the net 68 times in 100 caps for the Three Lions.

Most Champions League goals for an Englishman

The latest record to join Kane’s collection. Kane started the 2024/25 Champions League season having scored 29 goals in the competition, trailing Wayne Rooney’s record by one goal.

Rooney’s record was always going to fall this season, it was just a question of when. Well, it only took Kane one game to take the record outright. Kane scored four goals in Bayern Munich’s 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb, including a hat-trick of penalties.

His 33 goals have come in just 45 games, a pretty decent return. Just under two thirds of those goals came at Tottenham with 21 goals in 32 games. For Bayern, Kane has now scored 12 goals in 13 Champions League matches.

Most goals in a debut Bundesliga season

On a personal level, Kane’s debut campaign in the Bundesliga couldn’t have gone much better. Of course, it would have been nice to end with the title, but Kane had the best debut season in Bundesliga history.

In his first season in the German top-flight, Kane scored 36 goals in 32 games to take the Torjagerkannone. The previous best was Uwe Seeler’s record of 30, scored in the first ever Bundesliga campaign in 1963/64.

Seeler’s 30 goals came in 30 games, and included three hat-tricks. Kane scored in 23 of his 32 appearances, while also netting four hat-tricks,

Quickest to 50 goal involvements in the Bundesliga

Kane has now scored 40 goals in the Bundesliga, adding four in three games so far this season. On top of his 40 goals, Kane has provided 10 assists. After just 35 games, this is the quickest a player has reached 50 direct goal involvements in the Bundesliga. Kane has broken the previous record set by Erling Haaland, who now holds that particular record in the Premier League.