{"id":1509864,"date":"2026-10-27T11:05:37","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/?post_type=features&p=1509864"},"modified":"2026-10-27T11:10:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T11:10:30","slug":"harry-kane-ballon-dor-2026-year-in-numbers","status":"publish","type":"features","link":"https:\/\/www.squawka.com\/en\/features\/harry-kane-ballon-dor-2026-year-in-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane’s Ballon d’Or winning year in numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Harry Kane<\/a> was crowned the 2026 Ballon d’Or winner in London on Monday night, becoming the first Englishman to win football’s most famous individual award since Michael Owen in 2001.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bayern Munich<\/a> striker finished ahead of Kylian Mbappe and Lamine Yamal<\/a> after a year that brought a Bundesliga<\/a> and DFB-Pokal double, a Champions League semi-final and a World Cup semi-final with England<\/a>. He scored 73 goals for club and country along the way, and there is plenty more to unpack behind that headline figure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Below, we break down the numbers behind Kane’s Ballon d’Or year, from the start of the 2025\/26 season to the end of the World Cup, before looking at how the 33-year-old has started 2026\/27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: 2026\/27 figures cover the Bundesliga, Champions League, DFB-Pokal, German Super Cup and Nations League.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harry Kane’s Ballon d’Or year in numbers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kane scored 73 goals in 65 appearances for Bayern and England between August 2025 and July 2026, more than a goal a game. He found the net in 47 of those 65 matches and scored in all seven competitions he played in, starting with the winner in a 2-1 victory at Stuttgart<\/a> in the German Super Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competition<\/th>Apps<\/th>Goals<\/th>Assists<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Bundesliga<\/td>31<\/td>36<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>
Champions League<\/td>13<\/td>14<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>
World Cup qualifiers<\/td>5<\/td>5<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>
DFB-Pokal<\/td>6<\/td>10<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>
German Super Cup<\/td>1<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>
World Cup<\/td>7<\/td>6<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
England friendlies<\/td>2<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/strong><\/td>65<\/strong><\/td>73<\/strong><\/td>8<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n

36 \u2013 Bundesliga goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kane won the Bundesliga’s golden boot by a distance. His 36 league goals were 17 more than anyone else managed, with Stuttgart’s Deniz Undav<\/a> second on 19 and Borussia Dortmund<\/a>‘s Serhou Guirassy<\/a> third on 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That matched the 36 he scored in his first Bundesliga season in 2023\/24, but this time he got there far quicker. Kane needed 2,382 minutes to reach 36 in 2025\/26, compared with 2,843 two seasons earlier \u2013 a goal every 66 minutes rather than every 79.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bayern scored 122 league goals on their way to the title, finishing on 89 points from 34 games. Kane accounted for almost three in every ten of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5 \u2013 Hat-tricks<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kane scored five hat-tricks in his Ballon d’Or year. Four came in the Bundesliga, and two of those bookended Bayern’s title-winning campaign. He scored three in the 6-0 rout of RB Leipzig<\/a> on the opening night and three more in the 5-1 win over Koln on the final day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In between, he hit a hat-trick in a 4-1 win at Hoffenheim<\/a> in September, two of them from the penalty spot, and another in a 5-0 win at Stuttgart in December. That one came off the bench, with Kane needing just 30 minutes on the pitch to complete his treble. The fifth came on the biggest stage of all, in the DFB-Pokal final. He also added 16 braces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 \u2013 DFB-Pokal goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kane scored in every round of Bayern’s DFB-Pokal triumph, with 10 goals in six games, more than anyone else in the competition. He started with braces in each of the first two rounds, including a last-minute winner against Wehen Wiesbaden, and then scored in the last 16, quarter-final and semi-final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He saved the best for last. Kane scored all three goals in the 3-0 win over Stuttgart in the final to seal the cup and complete a domestic double for Bayern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

14 \u2013 Champions League goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Only Mbappe, with 15, scored more Champions League goals than Kane in 2025\/26. The Bayern striker netted 14 times in 13 appearances, starting with a brace in a 3-1 win over Chelsea<\/a> on matchday one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He saved his best for the knockout rounds. Kane scored in all five knockout games he played, with six goals and two assists, including a goal in each leg of the 6-4 aggregate win over Real Madrid<\/a> in the quarter-finals. He was on target in both legs of the semi-final against Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> too, but it wasn’t enough, as PSG edged a 6-5 aggregate thriller.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10 \u2013 Straight games with a goal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kane’s hottest streak came in the autumn of 2025. Between the 5-0 win in Serbia on 9 September and Bayern’s 4-0 win over Club Brugge<\/a> on 22 October, he scored in 10 consecutive appearances across the Bundesliga, Champions League and World Cup qualifying. He scored 17 goals in that run, including a hat-trick at Hoffenheim and braces against Hamburg, Chelsea, Werder Bremen<\/a>, Pafos<\/a> and Latvia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11 \u2013 England goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kane scored 12 goals in 14 games for England in his Ballon d’Or year, 11 of them in competitive matches, plus one in two friendlies. Five came in five World Cup qualifiers, including braces away to Latvia and Albania, as the Three Lions booked their place in North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He added six more at the World Cup itself, scoring twice in the 4-2 win over Croatia<\/a> in the opening game and finding the net in four of England’s first five matches. His penalty in the 3-2 last-16 win over Mexico<\/a> proved to be his final goal of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

England beat Norway<\/a> after extra time in the quarter-finals before losing 2-1 to Argentina<\/a> in the semi-finals, and Kane did not feature in the third-place play-off win over France<\/a>. Only Mbappe (10), Lionel Messi<\/a> (8), Jude Bellingham<\/a> and Erling Haaland<\/a> (both 7) scored more at the tournament. Kane was particularly dangerous in the air for his country, with five of his 11 England goals coming from headers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17 \u2013 Penalties<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kane remained as reliable as ever from 12 yards. In the Bundesliga, Champions League and England’s competitive games, he scored 17 penalties and missed just two. Even so, 44 of his 61 goals in those competitions came from open play or set pieces, so this was far from a season built on spot-kicks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How Harry Kane scored his goals<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The breakdown below covers his 61 goals in the Bundesliga, Champions League, World Cup qualifiers and World Cup.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Type<\/th>Goals<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Right foot<\/td>43<\/td><\/tr>
Left foot<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>
Headers<\/td>9<\/td><\/tr>
Inside the box<\/td>53<\/td><\/tr>
Outside the box<\/td>8<\/td><\/tr>
Penalties<\/td>17<\/td><\/tr>
Direct free-kicks<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He took 205 shots, put 112 of them on target and converted 29.8% of his efforts. Kane wasn’t just a finisher, either. He set up eight goals and created 65 chances for team-mates, 26 of them big chances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Harry Kane’s 2026\/27 season so far<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Kane shows no sign of slowing down. He has 16 goals and eight assists in 16 appearances for Bayern and England this season, still averaging a goal a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Competition<\/th>Apps<\/th>Goals<\/th>Assists<\/th><\/tr><\/thead>
Bundesliga<\/td>7<\/td>4<\/td>5<\/td><\/tr>
Champions League<\/td>3<\/td>4<\/td>2<\/td><\/tr>
DFB-Pokal<\/td>1<\/td>2<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>
German Super Cup<\/td>1<\/td>0<\/td>0<\/td><\/tr>
Nations League<\/td>4<\/td>6<\/td>1<\/td><\/tr>
Total<\/strong><\/td>16<\/strong><\/td>16<\/strong><\/td>8<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The most notable shift is in his creative output. Kane already has five Bundesliga assists in seven games, matching his total for the whole of 2025\/26, with two each in the 2-2 draw at Augsburg<\/a> and the 6-1 win over RB Leipzig.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He brought up his 100th Bundesliga goal with a brace in the 7-0 thrashing of Union Berlin<\/a> in September. He has also scored four Champions League goals in three games, including two in the 3-3 draw at Viking<\/a> and a penalty in last week’s 2-2 draw with Arsenal<\/a>. His DFB-Pokal defence has started the same way the last one did, with a brace in his first game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

International duty has been just as productive. Kane scored six times in four Nations League games in September and October, including braces in the 7-0 win in Croatia and the 3-0 victory over Czech Republic. The one blemish is a missed penalty for England, his only miss from the spot this season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ahead of the ceremony, we set out why Harry Kane should win the 2026 Ballon d’Or<\/a>. The voters agreed, and on this evidence, he isn’t finished yet.<\/p>\n\n\n

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