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Harry Kane admits the Ballon d’Or is “as big as it gets” for any player in terms of individual accolades, but he is putting his push for the award to one side ahead of the new season.
Kane is considered one of the favourites to land football’s biggest individual honour for 2025-26, having scored 61 goals in all competitions for Bayern since the end of the Club World Cup.
The 33-year-old also helped England reach the World Cup semi-finals this summer, netting six goals in seven games.
Only Kylian Mbappe (10), Lionel Messi (eight), Erling Haaland and Jude Bellingham (both seven) outscored Kane at the tournament, and he missed out on a chance to improve his figures when he was rested for England’s chaotic 6-4 win over France in the third-place play-off.
Across all competitions, no player from Europe’s top five leagues matched Kane’s goal tally last season, and the Bayern talisman also overperformed his expected goals figures (44.4 xG) by 16.6, while averaging a goal every 66.4 minutes.
Kane helped Bayern win a Bundesliga and DFL-Pokal double in 2025-26, and none of the other major contenders won the Champions League or the World Cup, potentially boosting his chances further.
Bayern face Borussia Dortmund in the Franz Beckenbauer Supercup on Saturday before opening their Bundesliga title defence against Stuttgart a week later.
They have one final pre-season friendly to play on Tuesday, with Kane potentially being involved against Heidenheim.
Our last preseason friendly before we kick off the season on Saturday pic.twitter.com/p0CbExbhOz
— FC Bayern (@FCBayernEN) August 18, 2026
And starting the new campaign on the right foot is Kane’s current focus, with the Ballon d’Or not being awarded until October.
“I am extremely proud to put in the season that I did last year. The Ballon d’Or is as big as it gets, from an individual point of view,” Kane said, as quoted by ESPN.
“I know I had a great season last season. But as always, the focus is on this new season.
“The Ballon d’Or is not in my hands. I’ve done what I can do in terms of putting in performances.
“It’s now down to votes, and other people, and the media, and stuff I can’t control. So, we’ll see what happens.
“Obviously, it would be amazing if it were to happen. But it’s two or three months until that is decided, so it’s not something that’s at the front of my mind right now.”
Kane has led the Bundesliga scoring charts in each of his first three seasons with Bayern (2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26), netting 98 goals in the competition overall.
The only players to ever win the Bundesliga’s Golden Boot more often are Bayern icons Gerd Muller and Robert Lewandowski (seven each), with the latter also being the only player to win it four times in a row this century (five straight from 2017-18 to 2021-22).
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