Kane breaks Premier League record with 39 goals in calendar year

Step aside, Alan Shearer.

Harry Kane bettered Shearer's 22-year-old record of 36 Premier League goals in a calendar year, tallying his 37th, 38th, and 39th goal of 2017 with a hat-trick in Tottenham Hotspur's 5-2 victory over Southampton at Wembley Stadium.

The record-breaking goal came in the 22nd minute. Christian Eriksen delivered a free-kick that Kane headed in from one yard out to open the scoring with his 16th goal of the Premier League season.

Shearer was quick to offer congratulations.

But Kane didn't stop there. The product of Tottenham raised his tally before the interval, scoring his 38th goal of the calendar year by one-timing a low cross by Heung-Min Son past Fraser Forster. The brace pushed the striker above Lionel Messi as the top scorer for club and country in Europe in 2017, bringing an end to the monopoly that the Argentinian phenom and Cristiano Ronaldo held when it came to the honour.

Kane didn't slow down in the second half, either. After a defence-splitting pass from Dele Alli, the lanky attacker lifted the ball over Forster to notch his 39th goal of the calendar year and 56th goal for his club and country in 2017.