Harry Kane came off the bench to score his 56th goal of the season and help clinch successive Bundesliga titles for Bayern Munich.
The Bavarians, who have lost just once all season, battled back from behind against Stuttgart to secure a 4-2 home win and a 35th championship for the club.
Bayern needed only a point to clinch the crown having been in irresistible form for much of the season, with Kane, 32, enjoying his most prolific campaign. As the club celebrated a 13th Bundesliga title in the past 14 seasons, Kane was joined on the pitch by his wife and children.
With the league secured with four games to play, the players celebrated by holding up a porcelain cockatoo. The ornament has become the team’s lucky charm since players snatched it from a Munich restaurant after last season’s title party. The cockatoo also features on the players’ official championship-winning T-shirts.
The England captain, introduced at the restart after half-time, struck Bayern’s fourth after Raphael Guerreiro, Nicolas Jackson and Alphonso Davies had cancelled out Chris Fuhrich’s opener for the visitors. Chema Andres grabbed a late second for Stuttgart, but it was immaterial as Bayern maintained their domination of German football.
It is now 56 goals in 47 appearances for Kane in all competitions – five of those coming for England in international fixtures. Kane also netted in the last-eight Champions League win against Real Madrid last week. In the domestic campaign, Kane has 32 Bundesliga goals in 27 appearances this season.
Stuttgart stunned Vincent Kompany’s side by taking a 21st-minute lead when Fuhrich raced on to a through-ball from Bilal El Khannouss to fire into the bottom corner.
Bayern poured on the pressure in pursuit of an equaliser and were rewarded with three goals in seven first-half minutes to seize control. Guerreiro slammed home a close-range finish from Jamal Musiala’s cross to level at 1-1 in the 31st minute and two minutes later a swift counter-attack led to Bayern taking the lead, with Luis Diaz supplying the assist for Jackson to finish.
Diaz laid on another assist, this time for Davies to crash a shot into the roof of the net from inside the penalty area, as Bayern marched relentlessly on. Fuhrich offered Stuttgart some brief respite when his goal-bound effort forced Bayern goalkeeper Jonas Urbig into a flying save, while Musiala fired wide of the post following another incisive Diaz pass just before the break.
Leon Goretzka was denied by Stuttgart keeper Alexander Nubel soon after the restart before Kane, who replaced Musiala during the interval, turned home from two yards following a corner.
Nubel pulled off another smart save to deny Goretzka and Joshua Kimmich’s effort from outside the area fizzed narrowly wide. El Khannouss went close to a second for Stuttgart when his shot was turned away by Urbig and Andres pulled one back with a thumping effort from outside the area in the closing stages.
The visitors created other late chances, but El Khannouss and Badredine Bouanani were thwarted by Urbig, with Bayern’s fans already celebrating their club’s latest title success.
Victory keeps Bayern’s hopes of winning the treble alive, with semi-finals against Bayer Leverkusen in DFB‑Pokal and Paris St-Germain in the Champions League to come later this month.