Bayern set European record with 14th straight win

Harry Kane scored twice as Bayern Munich racked up its 14th straight win in one of soccer’s best-ever starts to a season after overcoming a rare setback to beat Cologne 4-1 in the German Cup on Wednesday.

Vincent Kompany’s team has won every game it has played in the Bundesliga, German Cup and Champions League so far in 2025-26, and the win over Cologne surpassed a historic mark of 13 wins in all competitions set by AC Milan at the start of its 1992-93 campaign.

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No team in Europe’s top five leagues has ever won more games in a row to start a season.

“We’re always hungry, we always want to win and we’re never satisfied,” defender Jonathan Tah said. “We’re happy today and tomorrow we’ll focus on the next game.”

Bayern extended their winning run despite falling behind in a game for the first time since July as Ragnar Ache‘s 31st-minute header put Cologne ahead.

Bayern turned it around with two goals in two minutes, first for Luis Díaz — who seemed clearly offside, though there’s no video review until later in the competition — and then Kane, with an acrobatic turn and shot over the keeper in the 38th.

Kane extended Bayern’s lead with a header at a corner, his 22nd goal for Bayern in 14 games this season, and Díaz set up Michael Olise to score Bayern’s fourth on a counter soon after.

Information from The Associated Press and ESPN Research was used in this report.