Harry Kane made history on Tuesday evening as the Bayern Munich forward scored four times in his side’s 9-2 thrashing of Dinamo Zagreb.
Kane’s four-goal haul saw him eclipse Wayne Rooney as the highest-scoring Englishman in Champions League history, while the 31-year-old also became the first English player to score four goals in a game in the competition.
“Whenever you’re in a conversation with Wayne Rooney, it means you’re doing something well,” Kane told Prime Video.
“He’s one of the greatest English players and one of the best players there was in the game. It’s a nice achievement.”
Kane’s return also saw him level Andy Cole and Michael Owen for Champions League hat-tricks by an Englishman (2), while he is the 19th player to score four goals in a Champions League game.
Of those, only two – Lionel Messi and Robert Lewandowski – have scored four goals in a game on more than one occasion, while three players, Messi, Luiz Adriano and Erling Haaland, have netted five times in a single Champions League fixture.
Every player to score four goals in a Champions League game
- Marco van Basten, Milan 4-0 IFK Göteborg – 25 February 1992
- Simone Inzaghi, Lazio 5-1 Marseille – 14 March 2000
- Dado Prso, Monaco 8-3 Deportivo de La Coruña – 5 November 2003
- Ruud van Nistelrooy, Manchester United 4-1 Sparta Prague – 3 November 2004
- Andriy Shevchenko, Fenerbahçe 0-4 Milan – 23 November 2005
- Lionel Messi, Barcelona 4-1 Arsenal – 6 April 2010
- Bafétimbi Gomis, Dinamo Zagreb 1-7 Lyon – 7 December 2011
- Lionel Messi, Barcelona 7-1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen – 7 March 2012 (5)
- Mario Gomez, Bayern Munich 7-0 Basel – 13 March 2012
- Robert Lewandowski, Borussia Dortmund 4-1 Real Madrid – 24 April 2013
- Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Anderlecht 0-5 Paris Saint-Germain – 23 October 2013
- Luiz Adriano, BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar Donetsk – 21 October 2014 (5)
- Cristiano Ronaldo, Real Madrid 8-0 Malmö FF – 8 December 2015
- Serge Gnabry, Tottenham Hotspur 2-7 Bayern Munich – 1 October 2019
- Robert Lewandowski, Crvena Zvezda 0-6 Bayern Munich – 26 November 2019
- Josip Ilicic, Valencia 3-4 Atalanta – 10 March 2020
- Olivier Giroud, Sevilla 0-4 Chelsea – 2 December 2020
- Sébastien Haller, Sporting CP 1-5 Ajax – 15 September 2021
- Erling Haaland, Manchester City 7-0 RB Leipzig – 14 March 2023
- Harry Kane, Bayern Munich 9-2 Dinamo Zagreb – 17 September 2024
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