In our monthly feature, Flashscore shines the light on the best players in world football to see what has made them stand out from the crowd. Using cutting-edge stats as well as our player ratings system, we will delve into the numbers to see why they are performing so well. For September's Player of the Month, no one has come close to Bayern Munich and England marksman, Harry Kane.
Into the spotlight
A Flashscore rating of 8.7 over the seven games he played in September saw him edge out players such as Erling Haaland and Jeremy Doku amongst others who have also produced excellent performances during the past month.
At 32 years of age, it's perfectly arguable that Kane is playing some of the best football of his career.
He leads his national team by example and with aplomb, and thanks to the players that he has around him in Bavaria, he routinely gets on the end of those chances being created.
To put his month into context, Kane was involved in seven matches - five for Bayern and two for England - all of which were won, and with a balance of 28 goals scored and two conceded.
Of those 28, the centre-forward bagged a noteworthy 12: One against Serbia, two against Hamburg, two against Chelsea, a hat-trick at Hoffenheim, two more against Werder Bremen and finally another brace at Pafos.
Oddly enough, the only game in which he didn't register a goal in September was against Andorra. Given that they had only scored one goal themselves in their last 21 games, that was, with respect, a big opportunity missed by Kane.
Not just goals
Although goals remain a striker's bread and butter, Kane provided much more than that during the month.
A solitary assist in the game against Hamburg won't have grabbed the headlines, but it's his presence in and around the box that keeps opposition defenders occupied which also catches the eye.
His movement and appreciation of where he needs to be, both in scoring terms or just for making those runs that open up space for colleagues, is elite level.
Throughout his career of course, the striker has thrived on the responsibility of leading teams and scoring the goals to give them the best chances of success, and he is absolutely flourishing in the Bundesliga at present.
"He's not only a great player on the pitch, but he's also a very pleasant person in his private life," Bayern legend Karl-Heinz Rummenigge recently said. "He's not an arrogant guy who doesn't sign autographs or pose for selfies. He does everything. A really nice, likeable guy, too."
To that end, persistent rumours linking him with a move back to the Premier League - where he needs just 48 more goals to become the all-time top scorer in the English top-flight since its rebrand back in the 1990s - are facetious at best and mischievous at worst.
Best yet to come?
Like a fine wine, Kane does seem to be getting better with age, and certainly from a goalscoring perspective, the numbers would appear to bear that out.
For example, of the 102 goals that he's scored since joining Bayern, 20 of them have come in the 14 games this season if we take the Club World Cup into account. His Bundesliga output in 2025/26 is even more impressive with 10 goals in five games.
With 36 German top-flight goals in his first campaign for the Bavarians, and 26 more last season, he's well on the way to annihilating that figure if he continues for the rest of the campaign in the same way that he's started it.
His passing accuracy has already gone up as high as 85.2% this season, in itself a great return from a main striker, and that's the third best he's provided in his entire time he's played for the German giants.
Shooting accuracy has also improved immeasurably in the Bundesliga, with his 88.2% showing a vast uplift on the 60% from 2024/25 and 61.5% from 2023/24.
Factoring in that his shot conversion rate has also seen an upturn arguably means that his form is also something that bodes well for Thomas Tuchel and the England team.
As long as Bayern manage him correctly, there's no reason why Kane shouldn't arrive at the 2026 World Cup fit and firing, and ready to end 60 years of hurt for the Three Lions.
Even if the popular opinion is that football 'coming home' will still be a tall order, no one in their right mind is going to bet against Kane having a say in where the trophy ends up.
