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Harry Kane has scored over 500 career goals for club and country. He reached the milestone of 500 career club goals on the 14th of February 2026 in his 743rd appearance, with 100 of those goals coming from penalties.
Arsenal released Kane after one season because academy head Liam Brady judged him to be "a bit chubby" and not "very athletic". Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger stated in November 2015 that he was disappointed the club had chosen to release Kane.
Kane became England's all-time top goalscorer on the 23rd of March 2023, when he scored a penalty against Italy in a UEFA Euro 2024 qualifier. That goal, his 54th for England, overtook Wayne Rooney's record, and Kane achieved the feat in 39 fewer games than Rooney.
Bayern Munich paid one hundred million euros plus ten million euros in bonuses for Kane in August 2023, making him the most expensive signing in Bundesliga history. The fee surpassed the eighty-million-euro transfer Bayern had paid for Lucas Hernandez in 2019.
Kane scored six goals at the 2018 FIFA World Cup, earning the Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer, the first England player to win the award since Gary Lineker in 1986. He also scored a hat-trick against Panama, becoming only the third England player to score a hat-trick at a World Cup, after Geoff Hurst in 1966 and Lineker in 1986. England finished fourth, their best result since 1990.
In the 2025-26 season, Kane scored 61 goals in all competitions for Bayern Munich, setting a new club record for the twenty-first century and surpassing Dixie Dean's English record of 60 goals in a season set in 1927-28. He also won his second European Golden Shoe and secured the Bundesliga top-scorer award for a third consecutive season.