Golden Boot winner and record scorer – 10 years since Harry Kane’s England debut

Thursday marks 10 years since Harry Kane’s England debut.

Here, the PA news agency looks at the career of the national team’s captain and record goalscorer.

Scoring record

Kane started as he would go on, with a debut goal moments after coming off the bench against Lithuania on March 27, 2015.

His strike against Latvia on Monday took him to 71 goals in 105 caps, making him by far England’s record scorer.

He moved alongside Wayne Rooney’s previous high of 53 with a penalty in the 2022 World Cup quarter-final against France. After missing a second spot-kick which saw England eliminated, he had to wait until a Euro 2024 qualifier against Italy in March 2023 to break the record outright.

Monday’s strike also took him into the top 20 men’s international goalscorers of all time, sharing 18th place with former Germany striker Miroslav Klose, Kinnah Phiri of Malawi and Thailand’s Kiatisuk Senamuang. He needs another eight goals to reach the top 10 as it stands.

Kane has five international hat-tricks, scoring his first against Panama at the 2018 World Cup. The others came in qualifiers for Euro 2020 against Bulgaria and Montenegro, and for the 2022 World Cup with three goals against Albania and four versus San Marino.

Almost a third of Kane’s international goals, 23, have been penalties and his longest scoring run is six games, which he has achieved on three occasions. His longest scoreless run is seven.

Centurion

Kane last year became one of only 10 men with 100 England caps, a group he described as “some of our greatest ever players”.

Peter Shilton, surprisingly the only goalkeeper on the list, won a record 125 caps, with Rooney five behind.

David Beckham and Steven Gerrard played 115 and 114 times respectively and World Cup-winning captain Bobby Moore 108. Ashley Cole won 107 caps, Sir Bobby Charlton and Frank Lampard 106 each with Kane alongside Billy Wright on 105.

Kane has captained England 77 times. Thomas Tuchel is his fifth international manager, with 81 of his caps coming during Gareth Southgate’s long reign – Roy Hodgson, Sam Allardyce and interim boss Lee Carsley complete the list.

Major tournaments

Kane is England’s leading scorer at major tournaments with 15 goals, matching Alan Shearer’s record of seven at the European Championship while his eight at World Cups trail only Gary Lineker’s 10.

He won the Golden Boot with six goals as England reached the 2018 World Cup semi-finals, losing in extra-time to Croatia.

That set the scene for back-to-back runs to the European Championship final, losing to Italy on penalties at Euro 2020 – a tournament where Kane scored four times – and then 2-1 to Spain last summer, with Kane’s three goals putting him in a six-way tie for another Golden Boot.

Two goals and a quarter-final exit at the 2022 World Cup marked the worst of Kane and England’s consistently impressive tournament performances under Southgate.

He has 19 goals in World Cup qualifying and 23 in Euro qualifiers, with six in the Nations League and eight in friendlies.