Harry Kane's hat-trick gives Bayern the cup and caps a 61-goal season

Harry Kane ended the season with the kind of final that leaves little room for understatement. His hat-trick in Bayern München's 3-0 win over VfB Stuttgart in the DFB-Pokal final sealed the domestic double and pushed his total to 61 goals across all competitions. For a season already overloaded with numbers, this was the cleanest summary of it.

BBC Sport's live report described it plainly: "England captain Harry Kane scored a second-half hat-trick as Bayern Munich beat Stuttgart in the German Cup final to complete a league and cup double."

How Kane took over the final

The game turned when Kane scored the opening goal 10 minutes into the second half, a must-include detail from RTÉ's match report and the moment that shifted the final decisively in Bayern's favour. There was also an unusual interruption, with a break in play caused by a build-up of flare smoke inside Berlin's Olympic Stadium.

Once play settled again, Kane finished the job in full. The brief notes that his hat-trick came via a header, a right-foot finish and a stoppage-time penalty, which says plenty about the variety of the performance. He did not just score three times, he scored every goal in a 3-0 cup final win.

The individual numbers from the match back that up. Kane's final rating was 9.3, and he managed 3 shots on target. That is ruthless finishing rather than volume shooting, and it fitted a striker who has spent the entire season turning good positions into goals at a relentless rate.

RTÉ's report put the headline stat alongside the result: "Harry Kane hit a hat-trick and took his season's tally to 61 goals as Bayern Munich beat Stuttgart 3-0 in the DFB-Pokal final to lift the trophy for a 21st time and the first since 2020." The 61-goal total is verified by the stats pack. The title-history wording is less tidy across sources, so the safer line is the one also supported elsewhere in the brief: this was Bayern's 21st German Cup and their first since 2019-20.

Why the cup numbers matter so much

A 61-goal season is the headline, but the cup run deserves its own share of attention. Kane finished the DFB-Pokal campaign with 10 goals, a must-include figure in the brief and one that makes this final look like the culmination of a trend rather than a one-off. The stats pack also lists those 10 goals coming in 6 appearances.

That matters because cup scoring can sometimes get treated as padding. These numbers do not really allow that argument. Bayern needed a centre-forward who would decide knockout games, and Kane did exactly that all the way to the final.

The brief also includes a useful historical marker from Bavarian Football Works: "In fact, only the legendary Gerd Müller has scored more in a single DFB Pokal campaign." That puts Kane's total in serious company, even without stretching into claims the sources do not fully support. G. Müller is the relevant reference point here, not hype for its own sake.

There is one area where the sourcing needs care. One report frames the season as 61 goals in 51 games, but the stats pack only verifies the 61-goal total and the competition breakdown, not the overall appearance count. So the stronger version of the story is still the obvious one: Harry Kane finished with 61 goals, including 10 in the cup, and closed the season by scoring all three in the final.

That is why this match feels like the defining image of Bayern's domestic double. Bayern München won the trophy, Kane supplied every goal, and the final numbers are concrete enough without dressing them up. He ends the campaign with the cup in hand, 61 goals on the board and one of the biggest final performances of his season.