Harry Kane Named Germany’s Footballer of the Year

Harry Kane has been voted Germany’s Footballer of the Year for the 2025/26 season after producing a remarkable goalscoring campaign with Bayern Munich and England.

Bayern Munich announced the honour on Sunday, confirming that the England captain won the prestigious kicker award after a season in which he scored 61 goals in 51 competitive appearances for the German champions. Kane received 272 votes from the members of the Association of German Sports Journalists who participated in the poll, finishing ahead of Bayern teammate Michael Olise, who received 203 votes, while VfB Stuttgart striker Deniz Undav was third with 61 votes.

The award represents another major individual milestone for Kane, who became the first Englishman to win Germany’s Footballer of the Year award. It also completes an extraordinary sweep for Bayern, with Vincent Kompany named Coach of the Year and Giulia Gwinn taking the women’s Footballer of the Year award.

Kane’s numbers provide the clearest explanation for the recognition.

For Bayern, he scored 36 goals in 31 Bundesliga appearances, adding five assists. He scored another 10 goals in six DFB-Pokal appearances, 14 goals and two assists in 13 Champions League games, and one goal in one appearance in the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup.

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That gave him 61 goals and seven assists in 51 appearances across all competitions, averaging a goal every 66 minutes and a goal contribution every 59 minutes.

His Bundesliga campaign was particularly outstanding.

Kane finished the season as the Bundesliga’s top scorer with 36 goals, winning the Torjägerkanone for the third consecutive season. His tally also took his Bundesliga record to 98 goals in 94 appearances since joining Bayern from Tottenham Hotspur. ([Bundesliga][2])

He was not simply prolific in the league. Kane also finished as the DFB-Pokal’s leading scorer with 10 goals, while his 14 Champions League goals placed him second in the competition’s scoring chart, one behind eventual leader Kylian Mbappé. Bayern reached the Champions League semi-finals before their European campaign ended. ([Bundesliga][2])

Kane’s domestic success was matched by team silverware.

Bayern retained the Bundesliga title, giving Kane his second German league championship. The club also won the DFB-Pokal, ending a six-year wait for the German Cup, while Kane had already helped Bayern claim the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup at the beginning of the campaign after scoring in the 2-1 victory over VfB Stuttgart. ([Bundesliga][2])

The combination meant Kane finished the season with three team trophies and one of the most productive individual campaigns of his career.

His goalscoring exploits also earned him the European Golden Shoe for the second time. His 36 Bundesliga goals put him nine goals clear of Erling Haaland in the race for Europe’s leading league scorer. ([Bundesliga][2])

Kane’s remarkable form continued with England.

During the 2025/26 season, he scored 12 goals and supplied one assist in 14 appearances for the Three Lions. That included five goals in five World Cup qualifying appearances and six goals with one assist at the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

England completed a perfect World Cup qualifying campaign before Kane helped the Three Lions reach the semi-final stage of the tournament. England eventually finished third, their best World Cup finish since winning the competition in 1966.

Across Bayern Munich and England, Kane finished the 2025/26 campaign with 73 goals and eight assists in 65 appearances.

He averaged a goal every 71 minutes and a goal contribution every 64 minutes over the season.

According to the Bundesliga’s official statistical review, Kane’s 73 goals made 2025/26 the second-highest-scoring season by any player since the turn of the millennium, behind only Lionel Messi’s 82 goals in 69 appearances for Barcelona and Argentina in 2011/12.

The figures also underline the remarkable consistency of Kane’s Bayern career.

Since arriving in Munich in 2023, he has transformed from a prolific Premier League striker into one of the most dominant goalscorers in European football. By the end of the 2025/26 season, he had scored 98 Bundesliga goals in 94 appearances, while his overall Bayern tally had reached 146 goals in 147 appearances.

The latest award is therefore the culmination of a season in which Kane combined extraordinary individual production with major team success.

Bayern sporting director Max Eberl said the club was “slowly running out of superlatives” to describe Kane’s achievements, while CEO Jan-Christian Dreesen said there was no getting away from the striker when it came to the major individual awards of the year.

“Harry has shone on every stage,” Dreesen said, according to Bayern’s official statement, following Kane’s European Golden Shoe success and his subsequent Footballer of the Year recognition.

For Bayern, Kane’s individual award also forms part of a historic clean sweep. The club supplied the winners of the men’s Footballer of the Year award, Coach of the Year award and women’s Footballer of the Year award, with Kane, Kompany and Gwinn respectively taking the honours.

Kane’s victory also carried a significant statistical margin. His 272 votes were 69 more than Olise’s 203, while Undav’s 61 votes placed him a distant third in the poll. A total of 656 members of the Association of German Sports Journalists participated in the Footballer of the Year voting.

At 33, Kane has now added another historic distinction to a 2025/26 season that already included Bundesliga champion, DFB-Pokal winner, Supercup winner, Bundesliga top scorer and European Golden Shoe winner.

The kicker Footballer of the Year award is arguably the latest confirmation that Kane’s third season in Germany was not merely another prolific campaign, but one of the defining individual seasons of his career.