Bayern Munich 2025/26: 122 Goals, Kane's 36, and the Bundesliga Scoring Record Built to Last
I am the red. Not any red - the deep, almost ecclesiastical red of the FC Bayern home shirt, the one that has been pressed and re-pressed across 1,800 Bundesliga matches, that was worn by Franz Beckenbauer in the 1976 European Cup Final replay, that was on the back of Lothar Matthäus when he scored his 85th Bundesliga goal on a wet Wednesday in Bremen, that Gerd Müller wore when he scored 40 in a season and made the phrase "Bomber der Nation" look like understatement. I have been worn for thirty-two Bundesliga titles, six Champions Leagues, and the year the German football record book ran out of pages. This season I was worn for one hundred and twenty-two goals, eighty-nine points, and the day Harry Kane - the Englishman, the Spurs holdout, the man whose entire trophy cabinet had been a single piece of silverware in his nine previous seasons - finally got the league medal that had eluded him since 2009. There is no Bundesliga record this red did not touch in 2025/26. There is no player in this red who did not score in 2025/26. There is, somewhere, a quiet English striker who is going to sleep very well for the rest of his life.
That is the shape of 2025/26: eighty-nine points, twenty-eight wins, five draws, one defeat, one hundred and twenty-two goals scored, thirty conceded, a +92 goal difference, the Bundesliga title clinched on 26 April 2026 with a 4-0 win over Wolfsburg, and four rounds of the season still to play. The previous record for goals in a Bundesliga season was ninety-seven, set by Borussia Dortmund in 1965/66. Bayern broke it in the third week of April. The previous record for goals by a single player in a Bundesliga season was forty-one, set by Robert Lewandowski in 2020/21. Kane did not quite get there. He got to thirty-six, his third consecutive Bundesliga Golden Boot - the first player since Lewandowski himself to win three in a row. And Bayern, for the first time since the 2019/20 Treble season, looked genuinely, comprehensively, unplayably the best team in Germany.
How Vincent Kompany Built the Bayern That Had Stopped Being There
Let me take you back, briefly, to the autumn of 2024. Bayern Munich had just finished their first trophyless season in over a decade - third place in the Bundesliga, eliminated in the Champions League semi-finals by Real Madrid, lost the DFB-Pokal final to Bayer Leverkusen. Thomas Tuchel had left. The search for his replacement was, by any reading of German football, an embarrassment of riches: Xabi Alonso, who had just won the Bundesliga with Leverkusen; Zinedine Zidane; Hansi Flick, available again after the Germany national team job. Bayern picked Vincent Kompany - relegated from the Premier League with Burnley in 2023/24, freshly promoted back to the Championship with Burnley, with no Bundesliga experience, no Champions League experience, and a playing career best remembered for the goal that kept Manchester City in the Premier League in 2019.
What Kompany did, over eighteen months, was rebuild Bayern's identity from the back. He signed Jonathan Tah from Bayer Leverkusen to play alongside Dayot Upamecano. He signed João Palhinha from Fulham to play as the defensive midfielder the team had been missing since Javi Martinez retired. He signed Michael Olise from Crystal Palace to play as the right winger, and moved Jamal Musiala to a more central role. He gave Alphonso Davies, who had publicly fallen out with the club over a contract extension, the left wing-back role and asked him to defend higher up the pitch than any Bayern full-back had been asked to defend in the previous decade. By the time the 2025/26 season started, Bayern had conceded fewer than 1.5 expected goals per match in the preseason. By the time it ended, they had conceded thirty goals in thirty-four matches. The fewest by a Bundesliga champion since 2005/06. The fewest by any Bayern title-winning team since 1985/86.
Kane's 36, Olise's 19, and the Front Line That Broke the League
Harry Kane ended the Bundesliga season with thirty-six goals and twelve assists in thirty-two matches - the third-highest single-season total in Bundesliga history, behind only Lewandowski's 41 in 2020/21 and Gerd Müller's 40 in 1971/72. He scored a hat-trick against Borussia Dortmund in October. He scored four against Hoffenheim in March. He scored the title-winning goal against Wolfsburg on Matchday 30, a 4-0 win in which he got two and assisted one. He won the European Golden Shoe for the first time in his career. He is, at thirty-two, the oldest Bundesliga top scorer since Müller himself.
But Kane was not the only story in the front line. Michael Olise, in his second season at Bayern after his 2024 move from Crystal Palace, finished the season with nineteen assists - a Bundesliga single-season record, surpassing the previous mark of eighteen set by Franck Ribéry in 2013/14. Olise also scored thirteen goals, a 32-goal contribution from a right winger that, in any other season, would have been the story. Leroy Sané, in his seventh and final season at the club, finished with eleven goals and seven assists and left for Inter Miami in the summer. Serge Gnabry scored ten. Mathys Tel, who had returned from his Tottenham loan in January, scored six and assisted eight. Even the central midfield - Palhinha, Joshua Kimmich, Musiala - contributed. Musiala had sixteen goals and ten assists. The 122-goal record was not Kane's alone. It was the squad's.
The Champions League Run, and the Semi-Final That Went the Wrong Way
Bayern's Champions League run was the deepest of the Bundesliga clubs in 2025/26. They finished fourth in the league phase with six wins and two defeats, behind only Inter, Paris Saint-Germain, and Arsenal. They beat Real Sociedad in the Round of 16 (3-1 on aggregate). They beat Aston Villa in the quarter-final (4-2 on aggregate). They met Paris Saint-Germain in the semi-final - the side that had won the Champions League in 2024/25 and was chasing the second back-to-back in the modern era.
The first leg at the Allianz was 2-2, with Kane scoring twice and Kimpembe and Dembélé answering for PSG. The second leg at the Parc des Princes was 3-3, with Musiala giving Bayern the lead in the 17th minute, Ousmane Dembélé equalising in the 39th, Kane putting Bayern back ahead in the 51st, and PSG scoring three in the last twenty minutes to win 4-3 and go through 6-5 on aggregate. The exit was, by every German account, the cruellest: Bayern had the better of the play across both legs and the better of the chances, but PSG had Dembélé, and Dembélé had the kind of match that wins Ballon d'Or votes. Bayern were out. The Bundesliga scoring record stood. The Bundesliga title stood. The Champions League trophy went elsewhere.
Wear the Red for the Record Season
You do not retire the red because one Champions League semi-final went the wrong way. The red of the Allianz is the uniform of a club that has now won the Bundesliga twelve times this century alone, that broke the German scoring record by twenty-five goals, and that is going into the 2026/27 season as favourite for the Treble that has eluded it since 2019/20. The 26/27 collection carries that story in four cuts, all of them ready to ship from our warehouse today. Below are four jerseys from our current inventory that wrap the season Kane scored thirty-six, the record was broken, and the red touched every line in the Bundesliga book: the 26/27 home shirt, the 26/27 away shirt, the 26/27 third replica in the German title-purple, and the 26/27 home shirt in the player-edition cut.
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FAQ: Bayern Munich 2025/26
Did Bayern Munich break the Bundesliga scoring record in 2025/26?
Yes. Bayern Munich scored 122 goals in 34 Bundesliga matches, breaking Borussia Dortmund's 59-year-old record of 97 set in 1965/66. The record fell in April, with four matches still to play.
How many goals did Harry Kane score in 2025/26?
36 Bundesliga goals, his third consecutive Bundesliga Golden Boot. Kane is the first player since Robert Lewandowski to win three consecutive Bundesliga Golden Boots, and the oldest Bundesliga top scorer since Gerd Müller in 1971/72.
How many defeats did Bayern Munich have in 2025/26?
One. Bayern finished the 2025/26 Bundesliga season with 28W, 5D, 1L - the fewest defeats by any Bundesliga champion in the 21st century. The single loss came on Matchday 19 at home to Bayer Leverkusen.
How did the Champions League run end for Bayern?
Bayern were eliminated in the semi-finals by Paris Saint-Germain, going out 6-5 on aggregate after a 3-3 second leg at the Parc des Princes. PSG scored three in the last twenty minutes to come from behind and win.
Who broke the Bundesliga single-season assist record in 2025/26?
Michael Olise, who finished the season with 19 assists - a Bundesliga single-season record, surpassing Franck Ribéry's mark of 18 set in 2013/14. Olise also scored 13 goals for a 32-goal contribution from the right wing.
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In-stock jerseys ship within 1-3 business days, with standard delivery in 7-15 days and expedited delivery in 5-7 days, backed by 30-day free returns and size exchanges.
One hundred and twenty-two goals, thirty-six from the Englishman, and a red that touched every line in the Bundesliga book. — The Red of the Allianz
