{"id":588187,"date":"2026-05-17T00:57:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588187\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:57:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:57:13","slug":"bayern-munich-5-1-cologne-harry-kane-hat-trick-helps-bayern-to-easy-win-in-bundesliga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/588187\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich 5-1 Cologne: Harry Kane hat-trick helps Bayern to easy win in Bundesliga"},"content":{"rendered":"

England captain Harry Kane scored his fourth hat-trick of the season as Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich thrashed Cologne in their last league game of the campaign.<\/p>\n

Kane has now scored an incredible 63 goals for club and country in only 55 matches in 2025-26, including 36 goals in 31 Bundesliga games.<\/p>\n

His 58 goals in all competitions for Bayern is the most by a player from Europe’s big-five leagues since Luis Suarez in 2015-16 for Barcelona.<\/p>\n

He also becomes the first player in Bundesliga history to win the top goalscorer award in each of his first three seasons in the German top flight.<\/p>\n

Robert Lewandowski is the only other player to have claimed the prize three times in a row.<\/p>\n

Bayern clinched their 35th league title on 19 April<\/a> and end 16 points clear of second-placed Borussia Dortmund, with a German Cup final against Stuttgart to come on 23 May. <\/p>\n

Such was Bayern’s domestic dominance, they only lost one of their 34 Bundesliga matches, scoring 122 goals in the process.<\/p>\n

Kane got his first against Cologne after 10 minutes when he volleyed in Joshua Kimmich’s flick-on, before the pair combined again three minutes later – Kimmich nudging a free-kick to Kane, who fired into the bottom corner.<\/p>\n

Said El Mala pulled one back for the visitors in the 18th minute after a quick counter-attack, but Tom Bischof quickly restored Bayern’s two-goal advantage with a low shot from outside the penalty area.<\/p>\n

Kane, 32, completed his hat-trick in the 69th minute with a powerful effort from 25 yards, after being set up by Leon Goretzka.<\/p>\n

Forward Liverpool forward Luis Diaz provided an assist for Nicolas Jackson, on loan from Chelsea, as he added a fifth in the 83rd minute to seal the rout.<\/p>\n

Kane had already scored Bundesliga hat-tricks this season in Bayern’s 6-0 win over RB Leipzig in August, the 4-1 away victory at Hoffenheim in September and the 5-0 success at Stuttgart in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"England captain Harry Kane scored his fourth hat-trick of the season as Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich thrashed Cologne…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-588187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}