Harry Edward Kane (born 28 July 1993) is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and captains the England national team.

Kane's involvement at Tottenham increased after Mauricio Pochettino became head coach in 2014, and in his first full season at the club he was named PFA Young Player of the Year.

[44] On 29 December 2011, Kane and Tottenham teammate Ryan Mason agreed to join Championship club Millwall on loan from 1 January 2012 until the end of the season.

[37] On 31 August 2012, Kane joined Premier League team Norwich City on a season-long loan,[50] making his debut as a substitute against West Ham United.

[53] However, with Tottenham having been unable to add to their attacking options during the January transfer window, they opted to recall Kane on 1 February 2013, four months before he was due to return.

[54] Twenty days after he was recalled to Tottenham, Kane joined Leicester City for the remainder of the season to aid in the club's push for automatic promotion from the Championship.

[83] Two weeks later, he scored his 30th goal of the season in a 3–1 win against Newcastle United at St James' Park, making him the first Tottenham player to reach that milestone since Gary Lineker in 1991–92.

[88] On Tottenham's pre-season tour of Australia, Kane attracted numerous fans while visiting the Westfield Sydney shopping centre, resulting in the club sending a minibus to escort him away.

[90] With Adebayor and Roberto Soldado having been put up for sale, he began the season as the club's only forward, and the third-choice captain behind Hugo Lloris and Jan Vertonghen.

[94] On 8 November 2015, he gave Tottenham a half-time lead against Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium, albeit in a 1–1 draw;[95] this goal past Petr Čech was from his first touch of Danny Rose's long pass.

[105] In the absence of Hugo Lloris, Kane captained Tottenham in their opening home match of the 2016–17 season, assisting Victor Wanyama's winning goal as Spurs beat Crystal Palace 1–0 in a London derby at White Hart Lane.

[111] On 22 November, he scored his first Champions League goal in the return fixture against Monaco at the Stade Louis II, a game which saw Spurs eliminated from the competition with a 2–1 loss.

This made him the fourth player in Premier League history to achieve 20 goals in three consecutive seasons, after Alan Shearer, Thierry Henry and Ruud van Nistelrooy.

[196] Following the departure of Karim Benzema from Real Madrid on 6 June 2023, manager Carlo Ancelotti, who was interested in signing Kane, reportedly asked his board to initiate a possible transfer.

[229] With his 18th league goal in a victory over FC Köln on 24 November, he became the top scoring Englishman in a single season in Bundesliga history, surpassing Kevin Keegan and Jadon Sancho.

His 36 goals in his debut Bundesliga season, earned him the European Golden Shoe award, becoming the second English player to achieve this feat after Kevin Phillips.

[242] On 17 September, Kane scored a second hat-trick in a row when he put four goals past Dinamo Zagreb with the help of three penalties in a 9–2 victory in the first match of Bayern Munich's 2024–25 UEFA Champions League campaign.

[262][263][264] Kane was also eligible for the Republic of Ireland through his father, who was born in Galway,[14] but in August 2014 he ruled out switching allegiance, saying that he wanted to break into the England senior team.

[265] After a good run of form with Tottenham and being the third top goalscorer in the Premier League with 16 goals, on 19 March 2015, Kane was named by manager Roy Hodgson in the England squad to face Lithuania in a UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying match and Italy in a friendly.

[267] On 30 March 2015, the day before the Italy match, Hodgson announced that Kane would start alongside Rooney,[268] and he played the full 90 minutes of the 1–1 draw at Juventus Stadium.

[271] On 12 October, as England finished their qualification campaign with a tenth win from ten matches, Kane's shot hit the post for an own goal by Lithuanian goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis in a 3–0 away victory.

[276] On 10 June 2017, Kane captained England for the first time in their 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifier with Scotland at Hampden Park, scoring an added-time equaliser to rescue a 2–2 draw.

[282][283] With his three goals against Panama, Kane became the third England player to score a hat-trick in a World Cup match, after Geoff Hurst against West Germany in the 1966 final and Gary Lineker against Poland in 1986.

Kane first assisted Jesse Lingard's equaliser then scored the winning goal which saw England top the group and qualify for the Nations League Finals in June 2019.

[301] At the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Kane scored twice, enough to equal Rooney's all-time top-scoring record, as England reached the quarter-finals; however they were eliminated by France after he missed a penalty in their 2–1 defeat.

[11]While a teenager, Kane initially struggled in Tottenham's academy, as partially due to his date of birth in July and the so-called Relative Age Effect,[316] he was not as physically developed as other players, nor was he as quick.

[317] Initially a back-up to £26 million Spanish import Roberto Soldado and frequently loaned out, Kane was eventually made Tottenham's starting forward by manager Mauricio Pochettino.

[320] Also that month, Match of the Day pundit Danny Murphy said that the England team should be built around Kane, stating, "I'm struggling to see a weakness in the lad's game".

[335][336] Beginning in 2020, Kane started to be criticised about a perceived tactic of backing into defenders jumping for headers, causing the players to fall backwards onto the pitch, potentially risking serious injury.

[342] Ahead of UEFA Euro 2016, Kane featured in advertisements for Mars Bars and Beats by Dr. Dre headphones, the latter alongside Antoine Griezmann, Mario Götze and Cesc Fàbregas.