10 Biggest Champions League Wins

Here we take a look at the biggest wins in Champions League history since the competition's rebrand back in 1992/93.

Last season, Manchester City managed to become the latest addition to this list as they thrashed German Bundesliga outfit RB Leipzig 7-0 on their way to completing a famous treble, take a look below and see all of the other nine matches that feature on this list!

Rafael Benitez was in charge of the Liverpool side who put eight past Besiktas, making them the first team in Champions League history to do so in a single game.

A hat trick by Yossi Benayoun was sandwiched between doubles for both Peter Crouch and Ryan Babel, whilst Steven Gerrard also got onto the scoresheet. Benayoun’s treble made him the first and only Israeli to achieve that feat in the competition.

Up by only two at half-time, their six second-half goals also made them the first team to score that many after the break. That record has since been matched by Lyon, in their 7-1 rout of Dinamo Zagreb in 2011.

Holders of the most Champions League trophies in history, Real Madrid also share the record for largest win in the competition. An 8-0 win at home to Swedish side Malmo wrapped up the group stages in which they finished top. The game saw Cristiano Ronaldo score four goals and Karim Benzema net three. They became the first pair of teammates to both record a hat trick in a single Champions League game.

Incredibly, Rafael Benitez was also in charge of Madrid for this game, meaning that he is responsible for both of the biggest wins in Champions League history. However, he was sacked less than a month later and replaced by Zinedine Zidane, who led the Spanish giants to another European title.

Six different players were on the scoresheet as Juventus dispatched of Greek side Olympiakos in the 2003/04 group stages. They were 4-0 up after just 28 minutes following a David Trezeguet brace and a further two goals from Fabrizio Miccoli and Enzo Maresca.

The Italians were unable to add to their lead before halftime, but three goals after the break ensured a then-record biggest Champions League victory. Former Chelsea and Tottenham manager Antonio Conte was in the starting line-up.

However, they would not go far in the competition as they were knocked out by Deportivo La Coruña in the last 16.

Theo Walcott announced his name on the European stage with a pair of goals to help Arsenal on their way to a 7-0 victory over Slavia Prague. These were Walcott’s first goals in the Champions League and at 18 years and 221 days old, it made him the youngest English player to score in the competition. That record has since been broken by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, Jadon Sancho and Jude Bellingham. However, he still remains the youngest Englishman to score a brace. Cesc Fabregas also scored twice.

The Gunners were unable to get past their opponents in the reverse fixture, however, as the Czech side held them to a 0-0 draw. They ended up advancing to the quarter-finals but lost 5-3 on aggregate to Premier League rivals Liverpool.

Marseille became the first Champions League team to score seven goals away from home as a treble from André-Pierre Gignac helped them put away MŠK Žilina. Žilina, from Slovakia, lost all six of their group stage games, with a goal difference of -16. They were the last Slovakian team to appear in the competition.

Gignac’s hat-trick was added to with goals from Gabriel Heinze, Loïc Rémy and Lucho González. This result led Marseille to second place in the group, finishing behind Chelsea. They were rewarded with a last-16 tie with Manchester United, but could not advance any further as they failed to capitalise on a 0-0 home draw, losing 2-1 at Old Trafford.

Liverpool appear once again, this time beating Spartak Moscow 7-0 at home. They had also beaten Maribor by the same scoreline just two months earlier with both games contributing to 23 group stage goals, the third-highest total in a single Champions League season.

A Coutinho hat-trick and goals from Sadio Mane, Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino led them to victory against Moscow. This result ensured qualification to the knockout rounds of the competition for Liverpool, eventually reaching the final where they lost to Real Madrid in a game that will be remembered for a Gareth Bale overhead kick and Lorius Karius error.

With two 7-0 wins and one 8-0 win, Liverpool hold three of the biggest Champions League victories of all time.

This is the most recent addition to the history books, as Manchester City smashed seven past a helpless RB Leipzig in March to book their place in the quarter-finals. It wasn’t the first time City had inflicted heavy defeat on German opponents, as four years earlier they had punished Schalke to the same fate. That night the goals were spread out, as Phil Foden bagged his first ever in the competition, whilst Raheem Sterling and Leroy Sane also got on the scoresheet.

This time around, however, it was all about one man, with Erling Haaland netting five goals in just 63 minutes. Had Pep Guardiola not felt the need to rest his star man, it could well have been more. The fifth goal marked his 39th of the season, which broke a club record. His tally reached 52 by the season’s end.

Man City went on to win the competition for the first time in their history, beating Inter Milan 1-0 in the final.

Only one team in Champions League history has scored six goals prior to half time, and that is Shakhtar Donetsk. Luis Adriano scored four goals by the break and added another one late in the game from the penalty spot, making history as just the second player after Lionel Messi to score five times in a single UCL game.

Such was Shakhtar’s dominance, they scored three times in a matter of five minutes, on a night which quickly became a disaster for their Belarusian opponents.

In total, BATE conceded 24 goals in their group-stage campaign, no team has ever conceded more.

Shakhtar Donetsk make another appearance, but unfortunately for the Ukrainians, they were on the wrong end of a seven-goal thrashing as they visited Bayern Munich for the second leg of their last-16 tie. Having drawn the first game 0-0, they were looking to cause a huge upset.

Five months after their huge victory in Borisov, Shakhtar got off to the worst possible start as Oleksandr Kucher was sent off after just three minutes. Thomas Muller scored from the resulting penalty and from there it was pure dominance from the Germans. They managed to keep it at one until 34 minutes, but a goal from Jerome Boateng and then Franck Ribery just after the break put the game out of reach once and for all.

Bayern beat Porto in the quarter-finals but could not get past the semi-finals, losing to Barcelona.

Celtic fans had a miserable trip to Barcelona, as they were on the end of a 7-0 drubbing from the Spanish giants. Three minutes into the game Lionel Messi put his side a goal up, but Moussa Dembele missed the opportunity to tie things up from the penalty spot in the 24th, as Marc-Andre ter Stegen made the save.

Messi went on to net another two times, whilst Neymar, Andres Iniesta and a brace from Luis Suarez added to the score line. Neymar produced an astounding performance, contributing four assists in addition to his goal. His five-goal involvements in one game were the most of any player that season.

They advanced to the knockout stages where they completed that incredible comeback against PSG, scoring three times in the last seven minutes to erase a 4-0 first-leg deficit. Their 6-1 victory led to the largest comeback in UCL history. It amounted to nothing though as a 3-0 aggregate defeat to Juventus knocked them out in the quarter-finals.