Harry Kane scored 36 goals in the Bundesliga this season and claimed the Golden Shoe, the award given to Europe's top scorer in league competition. It is the second time the Bayern Munich striker has won the honor.
According to a report by Yahoo Sports, Kane finished with 72 points under the award's weighted scoring system, which multiplies goals scored in top-five UEFA-ranked leagues by a factor of two. Erling Haaland of Manchester City finished second with 54 points, followed by Real Madrid's Kylian Mbappé with 50 points.
"Personally it's been the best season of my career," Kane said after completing a double of the Bundesliga title and the DFB Cup with Bayern.
The 32-year-old England captain did not just produce in the league. Across all competitions this season, he scored 61 goals in 51 appearances. In Saturday's DFB Cup final, he scored a hat-trick to secure the trophy for Bayern.
This is Kane's second Golden Shoe. He won the award for the first time in his debut season at Bayern, the 2023/24 campaign. He now joins a short list of players who have won the award twice while playing in Munich. Gerd Müller won it in 1970 and 1972. Robert Lewandowski won it in 2021 and 2022. Kane is the third player to claim the trophy twice as a Bayern player.
The Golden Shoe has been presented by European Sports Media since 1997. Before that, UEFA administered the award beginning in the 1967/68 season. The points system accounts for the strength of the league a player competes in. Goals scored in leagues ranked sixth through 22nd by UEFA's five-year coefficient receive a 1.5 multiplier. Goals in leagues outside the top 22 receive no bonus at all. Goals scored in playoff matches are not counted.
The fourth-place finisher in this year's ranking was Dion Beljo of Dinamo Zagreb, who scored 31 goals for 46.5 points under the 1.5 multiplier applied to his league. Vedat Muriqi of RCD Mallorca was fifth with 46 points on 23 goals. Brentford's Igor Thiago placed sixth with 22 goals and 44 points. Luis Suárez of Sporting Lisbon, not to be confused with the former Barcelona striker of the same name, scored 28 goals for 42 points to place seventh, tied with Estéban Lepaul of SCO Angers and Stade Rennais, who scored 21 goals in Ligue 1 for the same total. Deniz Undav of VfB Stuttgart was ninth with 19 goals and 38 points. Ryan Mmaee of Omonia Nicosia rounded out the top ten with 25 goals and 37.5 points under the 1.5 factor.
Kane's 36-goal league season was the foundation of a historic individual campaign, one that placed him above every other scorer on the continent by a substantial margin.
