More prolific than Messi and Ronaldo – Kane’s electric start to season

Harry Kane has a sense of inevitability this season as Bayern Munich breaks records and sees his nets explode.

The 32-year-old has so far this term that he has netted a remarkable 17 goals for the German champions.

And he broke Cristiano Ronaldo’s and Erling Haaland’s record of 105 goals scored for a club playing in one of Europe’s top five leagues in just 104 games, breaking the previous record of 105 for the same period.

When it comes to goals scored in the first half of a season, Kane surpasses legendary players Lionel Messi, Ronaldo, and Robert Lewandowski.

Only Erling Haaland’s 17 years as a RB Salzburger has ever been on par with the England captain’s 17!

In his first nine games of 2014-15, Real Madrid’s serial goalkeeper Ronaldo found the net 13 times.

In addition to his best tally from 2011-12 and 2017-18 with Barcelona, Messi has eight Ballon d’Or winners and has won 12 games overall.

In his nine games for Bayern, Lewandowski scored 13 goals in 2021-22.

Yes, for the entire season, but Messi and Ronaldo have only previously surpassed Kane’s current run.

Ronaldo, a five-time Ballon d’Or winner, scored 18 goals for Real Madrid in April 2018, which was his best run across nine games.

In March 2012, Messi, an icon of Argentina, scored 18 goals in nine games while wearing the Barcelona colors.

Haaland has twice managed to bring Kane’s 17 to the same level as Kane, first for RB Salzburg in September 2019 and then once more for Manchester City in October 2022.

But how does his standing against elite competitors in Europe compare?

Only seven Champions League players have a better goals-per-game ratio than Kane, who has at least 10 goals.

Kane has scored 44 goals in 59 games, or 0.75 per game.

Ronaldo, the all-time top scorer in the Champions League, has a ratio of 0.77 and has scored 140 incredible goals in 183 games. Messi has also struck 129 times in 163 games, which equals his ratio of 0.79.

After learning the ropes while on loan at Norwich, Leicester, Leyton Orient, and Millwall, Kane’s early career began a slower pace than Messi, Ronaldo, and Haaland, before becoming a household name at Tottenham.

The north London club’s captain played 435 games and found the net on 280 occasions for the country. Prior to moving overseas, he was well on his way to surpassing Alan Shearer as the all-time top scorer in the Premier League.

Kane is a different animal at Bayern, though. He scored 70 Bundesliga goals in his 67th game, surpassing all other league goals in its history.