Bayern’s Harry Kane stands on the pitch after the game with the top scorer of the 2024/2025 season award, after the German Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich at the PreZero Arena in Sinsheim, Germany, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)
Bayern’s Harry Kane stands on the pitch after the game with the top scorer of the 2024/2025 season award, after the German Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich at the PreZero Arena in Sinsheim, Germany, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)
Bayern’s Thomas Mueller, right, high fives teammate Harry Kane during his substitution in the German Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich at the PreZero Arena in Sinsheim, Germany, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)
Bayern’s Harry Kane stands on the pitch after the game with the top scorer of the 2024/2025 season award, after the German Bundesliga soccer match between TSG 1899 Hoffenheim and Bayern Munich at the PreZero Arena in Sinsheim, Germany, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Uwe Anspach/dpa via AP)
SINSHEIM, Germany (AP) 鈥 Harry Kane didn鈥檛 need to start Bayern Munich鈥檚 last game of the Bundesliga to finish as the league鈥檚 top-scorer again.
Bayern coach Vincent Kompany suggested before the game that the team鈥檚 title-winning celebrations had taken their toll when he opted to start Kane among the substitutes for Saturday鈥檚 match at Hoffenheim.
The team was after its win over Borussia M枚nchengladbach the previous weekend and 14 of the players, including Kane, continued the party with a quick trip to Ibiza before returning to Munich.
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鈥淚t鈥檚 his first title,鈥 Kompany said of Kane. 鈥淧erhaps the week wasn鈥檛 as optimal for him as I would have hoped, but it鈥檚 normal.鈥
Bayern went on to finish the season with a 4-0 win. Thomas M眉ller started in his last Bundesliga appearance for the club and made way for Kane for the last half hour.
Kane set up Serge Gnabry for Bayern鈥檚 third goal and completed the scoring with his league-leading 26th.
鈥淚t was nice to finish with another goal,鈥 Kane said.
It鈥檚 the second consecutive year the 31-year-old Kane has finished as the Bundesliga top-scorer, making him the first player to win the cannon trophy in his first two seasons in the German league.
Kane scored 36 times last season. Nine of his 26 goals were penalties this season.
Both Bayer Leverkusen鈥檚 Patrik Schick and Borussia Dortmund鈥檚 Serhou Guirassy finished with 21 goals, with Schick needing less time than any other Bundesliga player between goals.
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