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Harry Kane will finish 2017 as the top goalscorer in elite European football with 56 goals for club and country -- one more than Barcelona superstar Lionel Messi -- and he broke Alan Shearer's 22-year-old record for Premier League goals in a calendar year with 39.
Here we take a look at the Tottenham striker's stellar 2017, month-by-month ...
Kane got 2017 off to a flyer, scoring Spurs' first two goals in a 4-1 win at Watford on New Year's Day. He did not find the net in the win over Chelsea or the draw at Manchester City but in between he bagged a brilliant hat trick against West Brom. January finished in frustration as he was kept quiet in a 0-0 draw at Sunderland, denting Spurs' title push.
Best goal: vs. West Brom (4-0): Kane completed his first of seven hat tricks in 2018 by volleying home Dele Alli's scooped pass.
Kane scored only hat tricks in February, firing trebles past Championship club Fulham in the FA Cup fifth round and Stoke City in comfortable Spurs wins.
Best goal: vs. Stoke (4-0): Kane scored his second goal of the match with a brilliant first-time left-foot volley from Christian Eriksen's corner -- one of his best goals of the year.
Kane scored twice in Spurs' 3-2 win over Everton in the first week of March but he was injured in the 6-0 FA Cup win over Millwall and did not play any further part in the month, as Spurs pushed for honours on two fronts.
Best goal: vs. Everton (3-2): Kane opened the scoring with a brilliant long-range effort that flew into the bottom corner.
Kane missed four consecutive league wins against Southampton, Burnley, Swansea and Watford as Spurs continued to chase down league leaders Chelsea. He returned to the team, and scored, in a 4-0 win over Bournemouth but another goal could not prevent Spurs losing to the Blues in the FA Cup semifinal. He opened the scoring with a penalty in the famous 2-0 win over Arsenal in the last-ever North London derby at White Hart Lane.
Best goal: vs. Chelsea (2-4): Kane's instinctive header levelled the score, but Spurs fell to a costly defeat at Wembley.
Spurs could not overhaul Chelsea at the top of the table, but Kane finished the season spectacularly, scoring eight goals in the final three league games. If it wasn't for Wayne Rooney's consolation, he would have scored the last-ever goal at the Lane in the 2-1 win over Manchester United before he overhauled Everton's Romelu Lukaku to win a second consecutive Golden Boot with four goals at Leicester in a 6-1 win and a hat trick in the record-breaking 7-1 win at Hull on the final day.
Best goal: vs. Leicester (6-1): Kane completed another hat trick against his former club, stepping inside and firing low into the near post from 20 yards.
The domestic season may have ended but Kane did not stop scoring, bagging a crucial stoppage-time equaliser in England's 2-2 World Cup qualifying draw in Scotland and twice scoring in a friendly defeat in France.
Best goal: vs. France (2-3): Kane capped a fine England move with a simple tap-in from Raheem Sterling's cross as England were beaten by 10 men in Paris.
Having not played in July, Kane's August curse continued as he failed to find the net against Newcastle, Chelsea and Burnley, despite hitting the woodwork three times.
As soon as August was over, Kane found his groove, scoring twice on the first day of the month in England's 4-0 win in Malta to open the floodgates. He scored a remarkable 13 goals in September, getting off the mark in the Premier League with a fluke in a 3-0 win at Everton.
He scored his first Champions League goals of the campaign with another double against Borussia Dortmund and bagged a hat trick against APOEL in Cyprus as well as braces against West Ham and Huddersfield in the league.
Best goal: vs. Dortmund (3-1): Kane finished off a counterattack with a superb, rasping near-post finish as Spurs earned a landmark result at Wembley.
Kane's importance to England increased as he scored the winners in uninspiring 1-0 wins over Slovenia and Lithuania to seal World Cup qualification, and he found the net twice as Spurs thrashed Liverpool 4-1 at Wembley in the league in their best result at their temporary home.
Best goal: vs. Liverpool (4-1): Kane benefited from Dejan Lovren's daydreaming to get behind Liverpool's defence, skip around goalkeeper Simon Mignolet and finish, despite being off-balance.
In a difficult month domestically for Tottenham, Kane continued to stand out, scoring in the home draw with West Brom and the defeat at Leicester. Their imperious form in the Champions League continued, however, helped by Kane's brilliant goal in Dortmund.
Best goal: vs. Dortmund (2-1): Kane took a touch and then rolled a brilliant low finish between two defenders and into the bottom corner.
Kane's double in a 5-1 win over Stoke put him in sight of Shearer's record, but goalless games against Brighton and Man City left him needed something special in the final two games of the year. Just as he had surged to the Golden Boot, he stormed to personal glory again, finishing the year with consecutive hat tricks against Burnley and Southampton, leaving him with more trebles in the Premier League in 2017 than every other player combined.
Best goal: vs. Southampton (5-2): Kane completed another (perfect) hat trick with a cool left-foot finish to end the year with two personal records.
