Bundesliga top scorer Harry Kane scored a hat-trick to guide champion Bayern Munich to a 5-1 win over Cologne in the league finale on Saturday.
Kane volleyed in the opener in the 10th minute and then curled a free-kick past the wall three minutes later to double the lead. He completed his treble with a long-range effort in the 69th minute to take his league tally to 36 goals this season.
The England captain, who has now scored 98 goals in 94 Bundesliga matches for Bayern, is the first player in the history of the league to win the top scorer trophy in each of his first three seasons in Germany.
Said El Mala briefly cut the deficit in the 18th minute, but Tom Bischof restored the host’s two-goal cushion four minutes later. Nicolas Jackson made it 5-1 for Bayern in the 83rd minute.
Bayern, which can win the double when it faces VfB Stuttgart in the German Cup final next week, finished the season on 89 points from 34 games and with a record 122 goals, surpassing the previous league mark of 101 it set in 1971-72.
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Borussia Dortmund, a 2-0 winner at Werder Bremen, finished runner-up for the eighth time in the last 14 seasons, with 73 points. Third-placed RB Leipzig, on 65 points, and VfB Stuttgart, fourth on 62, will join it in the Champions League next season.
Hoffenheim and Bayer Leverkusen will compete in the Europa League, while Freiburg, a surprise finalist in this season’s Europa League, secured a place in the Conference League after finishing seventh with a 4-1 win over Leipzig.
Bottom sides St Pauli and Heidenheim, both on 26 points, were relegated, while VfL Wolfsburg will enter a relegation playoff against the third-placed team from the second division.
Published on May 16, 2026