{"id":25874,"date":"2026-02-15T06:01:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/harry-kane-reaches-500-goals-what-other-records-could-he-break\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T06:01:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T06:01:19","slug":"harry-kane-reaches-500-goals-what-other-records-could-he-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/harry-kane-reaches-500-goals-what-other-records-could-he-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Kane reaches 500 goals &#8211; what other records could he break?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Greaves&#8217; record as the highest-scoring Englishman stood for six decades until Kane overtook his tally two months ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kane left the Premier League as the second-highest scorer in the competition, with Alan Shearer holding the record with 260 goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to the International Federation of Football History &amp; Statistics (IFFHS), Shearer sits fourth in the all-time list of English scorers with 409 goals, with Steve Bloomer &#8211; who played in the early part of the 20th century &#8211; third with 412 goals, behind Greaves and Kane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dixie Dean sits fifth with 396 top-level goals and Rooney is sixth on 360.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c743xp1xw9yo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greaves&#8217; record as the highest-scoring Englishman stood for six decades until Kane overtook his tally two months ago. Kane left the Premier League as the second-highest scorer in the competition, with Alan Shearer holding the record with 260 goals. According to the International Federation of Football History &amp; Statistics (IFFHS), Shearer sits fourth in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-european-football","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25876,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25874\/revisions\/25876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}