The Biggest Wins in Champions League History

The biggest wins in Champions League history

Liverpool were the first team to win a Champions League match by eight goals.

On November 6, 2007, Liverpool hosted Beşiktaş at Anfield during the group stage.

The Turkish side had beaten Liverpool 2-1 in the earlier meeting, but the return fixture was completely different.

Liverpool won 8-0.

Yossi Benayoun scored a hat-trick, while Ryan Babel and Peter Crouch each scored twice. Steven Gerrard also found the net.

It was the biggest victory in Champions League history at the time and remains one of Liverpool's most famous European scorelines.

Eight years later, Real Madrid matched the record.

On December 8, 2015, Madrid faced Malmö at the Santiago Bernabéu in the final group-stage match.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored four goals, while Karim Benzema completed a hat-trick.

Real Madrid won 8-0, matching Liverpool's record winning margin.

Then came Como in 2026.

On November 4, Como traveled to France to face Lens and produced the biggest away victory in Champions League history.

Como won 9-1.

Tasos Douvikas scored three times, while six other Como players also found the net.

The result matched the record eight-goal winning margin set by Liverpool and Real Madrid, while Como became only the second team after Bayern Munich to score nine goals in a Champions League match.

Bayern had scored nine in a 9-2 victory over Dinamo Zagreb in September 2024.

The difference is that Bayern's victory came by seven goals, while Como's nine-goal haul produced an eight-goal margin.

The most memorable seven-goal victories

The eight-goal margin may sit at the top of the record book, but there have been plenty of extraordinary seven-goal victories.

Juventus recorded one of the earliest when they defeated Olympiacos 7-0 in December 2003.

It remains one of the biggest wins in the competition's history and one of the most emphatic home victories ever produced by the Italian club.

Arsenal matched the seven-goal margin in 2007.

The Gunners defeated Slavia Prague 7-0 at Emirates Stadium, with Theo Walcott scoring twice and Cesc Fàbregas, Alexander Hleb, Nicklas Bendtner and others contributing to a dominant performance.

Bayern Munich have also produced several seven-goal wins.

They defeated Basel 7-0 in the 2011/12 round of 16 and repeated the scoreline against Shakhtar Donetsk in the following season's knockout stages.

Barcelona produced another famous 7-0 victory against Celtic in 2016.

Neymar scored twice, while Lionel Messi, Luis Suárez and Andrés Iniesta were among the other scorers as Barcelona dominated the Scottish champions.

Liverpool have also recorded two 7-0 Champions League wins.

They defeated Maribor 7-0 away from home in 2017 before beating Spartak Moscow by the same score at Anfield later that year.

The Spartak victory was particularly memorable because Liverpool's front three of Mohamed Salah, Philippe Coutinho and Roberto Firmino all scored, with Sadio Mané also on the scoresheet.

Manchester City then matched the margin against Schalke in 2019.

City won 7-0 at home in the second leg of their round-of-16 tie, completing a 10-2 aggregate victory.

The biggest wins in the knockout stages

Some of the most famous Champions League scorelines have come after the group stage, when the stakes are considerably higher.

Manchester United's 7-1 victory over Roma in 2007 is one of the clearest examples.

United had lost the first leg in Rome 2-1, leaving the tie finely balanced.

At Old Trafford, Sir Alex Ferguson's team produced an extraordinary response.

Michael Carrick scored twice, while Alan Smith, Wayne Rooney, Cristiano Ronaldo and Patrice Evra were also on the scoresheet.

United won 7-1 and progressed 8-3 on aggregate.

Bayern Munich produced another iconic knockout-stage result in 2015 when they defeated Shakhtar Donetsk 7-0 at the Allianz Arena.

The match followed a goalless first leg in Ukraine.

Bayern's response was emphatic, with Thomas Müller scoring twice and Mario Götze, Holger Badstuber, Robert Lewandowski and Franck Ribéry also scoring.

The biggest knockout-stage win by margin came in the quarterfinals in 2020.

Bayern Munich defeated Barcelona 8-2 in Lisbon during the one-match quarterfinals held because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

It was one of the most remarkable Champions League scorelines of the modern era.

Thomas Müller opened the scoring after only four minutes. Ivan Perišić, Serge Gnabry, Joshua Kimmich, Robert Lewandowski and Philippe Coutinho all scored for Bayern, with Coutinho adding two goals after coming off the bench.

The eight-goal total made it one of the highest-scoring matches in Champions League knockout history.

The biggest win in a Champions League final is smaller.

AC Milan defeated Barcelona 4-0 in the 1994 final in Athens.

Daniele Massaro scored twice before Marcel Desailly added another after halftime, giving Milan a commanding victory over Johan Cruyff's Barcelona.

It remains the largest winning margin in a Champions League final.

A record book full of remarkable scorelines

The Champions League has produced some extraordinary results, but the biggest victories have come in very different circumstances.

Liverpool's 8-0 against Beşiktaş was a response to a difficult group-stage start.

Real Madrid's 8-0 against Malmö featured four goals from Ronaldo.

Bayern's 9-2 against Dinamo Zagreb produced the most goals scored by one team in a Champions League match before Como matched the nine-goal mark.

Como's 9-1 at Lens then joined Liverpool and Real Madrid at the top of the winning-margin list.

And beyond the numbers, matches such as Manchester United's 7-1 against Roma and Bayern's 8-2 against Barcelona have become part of Champions League folklore because of the teams involved and the stage on which they happened.

The record book will continue to change, but eight-goal victories remain exceptionally rare.