Harry Kane hat-trick lifts Bayern to German Cup final win

Harry Kane turned Bayern Munich’s season into his own on the biggest domestic stage, striking three times in the second half to seal a 3-0 win over VfB Stuttgart in the DFB-Pokal final at Berlin’s Olympiastadion. The result gave Bayern their 21st German Cup and completed a domestic double that had felt increasingly within reach once the Bundesliga title was secured.

For much of the first half, Bayern were far from fluent and Stuttgart, the defending champions, kept the final tight. Kane changed that after the break. He broke the deadlock with a header in the 55th minute, doubled the lead in the 80th after a sharp move that included a one-two with Luis Diaz, and then completed his treble from the penalty spot in stoppage time. It was the kind of final that quickly moved from tense to decisive once Kane found space.

The performance carried more than one trophy. Bayern’s cup triumph ended a six-year wait in the competition, with their previous DFB-Pokal victory coming in 2020, and it delivered the club’s 14th league-and-cup double. No other German club has won the domestic double more than once, a measure of how often Bayern have turned a strong league season into a full sweep of silverware. Kane’s final also put him in rare company, making him only the third player ever to score in every round of the German Cup in a single season.

The timing mattered as well. Bayern arrived in Berlin after their Champions League hopes were shattered by Paris Saint-Germain, who edged them 6-5 on aggregate in the semifinals earlier in May after a 1-1 second-leg draw in Munich on May 6, 2026. The cup win gave Bayern a cleaner finish to a campaign that had threatened to end with frustration rather than control.

Inside the club, the reaction to Kane has already gone beyond admiration. Uli Hoeness called him Bayern’s best transfer ever and said he was the biggest signing the club has made, a blunt endorsement of how quickly the England captain has become central to Bayern’s identity. Kane said the responsibility to help Bayern get over the line sat with him, and that scoring a hat-trick in a final was a special feeling he would remember forever.

The final was interrupted twice by thick pyrotechnic smoke as fans protested against the German Football Federation’s planned security measures, including tighter surveillance, personalized tickets and facial-recognition proposals. Even with the noise and stoppages, Kane’s season closed on 61 goals in all competitions, a number that now defines both Bayern’s trophy run and the scale of his impact in Munich.