Green returned to the first-team after new manager, Carlo Ancelotti, included him in the preseason squad. During the second game of their U.S. tour, Green scored a hat trick in the first 35 minutes, helping Munich to a 4–1 win over Inter Milan. Following an international break in which Green scored two goals in two successive matches, Ancelotti hinted that Green could be receiving a "chance to play in the next few games". That chance came on October 26, 2016, when Green scored his first competitive goal for Bayern, coming against FC Augsburg in a 3–1 victory in the second round of the DFB-Pokal. With the goal, Green successfully became the first American to score a goal for Bayern. To that point in the season, despite being regularly named to the squad for Bundesliga matches, Green had only made a substitute appearance in the Pokal, against first round opponent FC Carl Zeiss Jena.