Harry Kane says he wants to break Robert Lewandowski’s Bundesliga single-season scoring record, and he has put a number on it: 42 goals. The Bayern Munich striker said that is the target as he continues contract talks with the club’s board.
“That’s the goal,” Kane said. “I always say that it depends on playing a lot and staying fit. I’ll try to continue doing exactly that. The record is certainly not impossible.”
It is a bold aim, but not a wild one. Kane finished this Bundesliga campaign with 36 goals in 31 games, leaving him six short of Lewandowski’s 41-goal mark from 2021 and just below Gerd Müller’s 40-goal benchmark from the 1971/72 season. Bayern have still enjoyed one of the most prolific individual scoring seasons by any club in European football history, with Kane at the center of it.
That is what makes the missed record feel so narrow. Kane’s sudden injury during the international break this year is being treated as the likely reason he fell short. Without that interruption, the chase would have looked very different. Instead, he finished with a total that was elite by any standard, but still left him just outside the league’s most exclusive circle.
The timing matters because Kane’s comments come while he is locked in contract negotiations with the Bayern board. His public commitment to another scoring chase tells the club exactly where his focus lies: on staying fit, staying central to the attack and, if the schedule allows, pushing beyond even Lewandowski’s standard. The numbers are the measure, but the message was simple. He believes the record can fall.
For Bayern, that leaves a familiar question hanging over a season already defined by Kane’s output. If he stays healthy, the record is there. If he does not, the best he can do is keep producing at a rate that few forwards in Europe can match. For now, the target is clear, and so is the man chasing it.
