The UEFA Champions League has put on quite a show in its long and rich history. Elite clubs from all over Europe compete for the most prestigious silverware. With the bigger clubs thrashing the so-called smaller clubs left and right, with the odd exception of a giant-killing, FootTheBall takes a low down on the biggest wins in Champions League history.
1. Liverpool 8-0 Besiktas 2007
Liverpool became 1st team in the history of the Champions League to score 8 goals in UCL. That year Liverpool was on the song they had a magnificent team. The Reds scored 8 past Turkish side Besiktas that year.
Yossi Benayoun scored three of Liverpool’s eight goals in this victory, becoming the first and, so far, the only Israeli player to achieve a triple in Europe’s premier club tournament. Two Peter Crouch strikes bookended another six goals for the Reds.
Another interesting fact about this match is that 6 out of 8 goals of Liverpool came in the second half. Thus Liverpool became the first team in UCL to score 6 goals after halftime.
2. Real Madrid 8-0 Malmo 2015
Swedish side Malmo were fully expected to leave the Bernabeu with nothing when they faced Real Madrid in the final Group A game of the 2015/16 season, but to lose 8-0 was far from expected.
Despite Karim Benzema scoring a hat-trick within 74 minutes, the game was dominated by Cristiano Ronaldo who scored four goals in 19 minutes, with Mateo Kovacic also getting on the scoresheet to seal the joint biggest win in Champions League history.
The 13-time champions of Europe have had a history like no other in the competition, but this remains their biggest win.
3. Juventus 7-0 Olympiacos – 2003
Olympiacos’ trip to Turin to face Juventus back during the 2003/04 season couldn’t have gone much worse. Two early goals from David Trezeguet and Fabrizo Miccoli put the game out of Olympiacos’ sight, with a goal from Enzo Maresca and a second from Trezeguet handing Juventus a 4-0 lead at half-time.
The Old Lady didn’t take their foot off the gas for the second half and scored two more thanks to Alessandro Del Piero and Marcelo Zalayeta. Juventus haven’t won the title since 1996 and this remains their biggest win in the famous competition.
4. Arsenal 7-0 Slavia Praha 2007
Successive finishes of fourth in 2006 and 2007, during a transitional period that saw Arsenal lose key members of the invincible 2003/04 side, were fully illustrative of the hangover from the Gunners’ golden era.
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