Harry Kane is unstoppable! Every record Bayern Munich star has broken this season as England captain edges even closer to Robert Lewandowski's Bundesliga scoring milestone

At Tottenham, Kane garnered a reputation as being somewhat of a slow starter, regularly struggling to score in August. Fortunately for Bayern, there was no sign of any summer hangover during the opening stages of his career in Bavaria.

After netting four times in his first four Bundesliga games, Kane exploded in a 7-0 victory over Vfl Bochum, notching a fine hat-trick to take his tally up to seven. That was a record start for a Bayern player, with Mario Mandzukic, Miroslav Klose and the legendary Gerd Muller only managing a goal per game in their first five league outings.

The goals continued to flow after that too. By the 10-game mark the Englishman already had 15 Bundesliga strikes. That bettered the 13 Klaus Matischak managed during the same period of time in the 1963-64 campaign.

The 2022-23 Bundesliga Golden Boot race was a strange one. A lack of free-scoring strikers meant that RB Leipzig's Christopher Nkunku finished top of the pile alongside Niclas Fullkrug, despite both men missing sizeable chunks of the season due to injury.

And it didn't take long for Kane to better the 16 strikes the pair managed this time around. After just 11 matches, he had already helped himself to a stunning 17 goals, rocketing to the top of the scoring charts amid stiff competition from the incredible Serhou Guirassy.

After leaving Nkunku and Fullkrug in the dust, Kane soon hunted down the 20-goal mark in the Bundesliga. Back-to-back hat tricks against Darmstadt and Borussia Dortmund helped him reach that particular milestone after just 15 games - with the 30-year-old sealing the achievement with an excellent brace in a 3-0 win over Stuttgart.

Before Kane was even born, Hamburg icon Uwe Seeler completed the same feat in 21 matches during the 1963-64 campaign. That the Bayern star managed to do it with little over half of the season completed is astounding.

Kane is not the first Englishman to capture German hearts with a scintillating Bundesliga season. Kevin Keegan's exploits at Hamburg in the 1978-79 campaign won him the Ballon d'Or, while Jadon Sancho's trailblazing decision to join Borussia Dortmund eventually earned him a £73 million ($91m) move to Manchester United.

Keegan and Sancho's highest-scoring seasons both saw them reach 17 league goals, a tally Kane demolished in just 12 matches. For now, Sancho remains the most prolific Englishman in Bundesliga history with 40 goals, but it surely won't be long until Kane claims that honour too.

Kane has also set a new standard for netting more than once in a game. Before the season kicked off, Friedhelm Konietzka (1963-64) and Toni Polster (1993-94) were the only two Bundesliga players to net two or more goals in seven league matches during their debut season.

Kane toppled that record in style against Mainz in March, netting a hat-trick in an emphatic 8-1 hammering. It was the eighth time he'd scored two or more in a Bundesliga game, and another brace during a 2-1 victory over Eintracht Frankfurt recently put daylight between himself and Polster and Konietzka.

Kane is frequently compared with Erling Haaland during debates over who is the best striker on the planet. And the former has landed a jab on his rival this season, reaching 30 Bundesliga goals significantly quicker than Haaland managed during his time at Borussia Dortmund. Kane took just 25 matches to hit that mark, while the Norwegian did it in 32 games.

Kane now also holds the record for the best debut Bundesliga scoring season of all time, though Haaland joining Borussia Dortmund only partway through the 2019-2020 campaign has no doubt helped in this regard.

Previously, Seeler notched the most goals in a maiden season, with the legend scoring 30 times when the German top flight rebranded in 1963-64. Kane has already bettered that mark by five and he could extend his advantage further before the season is through.

With as many as five games still left to play, Kane has also ensured he will be toasting his highest-ever goal tally at the end of the season. His previous, best-ever campaign was 2017-18, where he netted an astonishing 41 goals in all competitions for Tottenham.

His penalty against Madrid took him to 43 for the current campaign, with the 11 assists he's managed only adding to his allure.

There is one big record that Kane is yet to claim this season, though. For years, it was said that Gerd Muller's 40-goal Bundesliga campaign, recorded in 1971-72, would never be beaten. Then, Robert Lewandowski came along.

In 2020-21 the Bayern hotshot pillaged his way to 41 goals, securing the historic milestone in a final-day victory over Augsburg. Kane is gaining fast, though, currently sitting just five goals behind with fixtures against Wolfsburg and Hoffenheim still to come.

It would take a quite incredible run to beat Lewandowski, but he is still holding out hope, saying recently: "It's possible, but I have to hurry, I have to score a few goals in the next few weeks. As I said, it's there, it's within reach. But it will depend on the last three games."

Lewandowski even responded a few days later, telling Sport BILD: "What Kane has achieved in his first season at Bayern is incredible. Nobody could have expected that. As for the record... Kane needs to score six goals in three games. It will be very difficult."

Lewandowski's record is not the only thing Kane has in his sights either. Keep up his incredible scoring antics and he might even become the first Englishman since Michael Owen to win the Ballon d'Or.

His hopes hinge on whether he can lead Bayern to Champions League glory. Tick off that goal and a strong performance at the European Championships this summer would make him the standout candidate, though Bellingham and Kylian Mbappe will also be aiming to strengthen their cases over the next few weeks.

A lot still needs to happen for Kane to claim football's greatest individual prize, though with so many incredible milestones already ticked off, you wouldn't bet against him being the one to lift the Golden Ball next year.