The 2022/23 Champions League group stage ends Wednesday with 271 goals marked so far. Naples (20), Bayern Munich (18) and liverpool (17) qualify for the last 16 as the top teams across six matchdays. Almost half of Liverpool’s tally comes from their trip to Ibrox on Matchday 4. Rangers’ 1-7 shot ranks among the Reds’ biggest wins in the Champions League and European competition as a whole. It just wasn’t enough to slip into Top 10 biggest wins since the start of the Champions League in 1991, but Liverpool already hold the record for winning by the biggest margin in the competition proper – that is, from the group stage, a record they share jointly with Real Madrid.
Biggest victory in the qualifying rounds
The win by the biggest margin in the whole competition – including the qualifying rounds were set by the Icelandic team HJK Helsinki versus Town of Bangor in the second qualifying round at the Töölo Football Stadion in July 2011. Poor old Bangor City goalkeeper Lee Idzi had to pick the ball up from the back of his net, an eye watering 10 times During the match. The 10-0 result looks like the record at the time of the Champions League but here we focus biggest wins from the group stage to the finalwhen all the best teams on the continent join the tournament.
A total of 11 Champions League games ended 7-0 in the actual competition. This is the second highest score of the tournament – here they are in chronological order:
season 2003/04
Juventus 7-0 Olympiacos
December 10, 2003: Delle Alpi
Scorers: Trezeguet 14′, 25′; Miccoli 19′, Maresca 28′, Di Vaio 62′, Del Piero 67′, Zalayeta 79′.
season 2007/08
Arsenal 7-0 Slavia Prague
October 23, 2007: Emirates Stadium
Scorers: Fabregas 5′, 58′; Hubáček 24′ and Walcott 41′, 55′; Hleb 51′, Bendtner 89′.
season 2010/11
Zilina 0-7 Olympique de Marseille
November 3, 2010: MSK Zilina Stadium
Scorers: Gignac 12′, 21′, 54′; Heinze 24′, Remy 36′, Lucho González 52′, 63′.
season 2011/12
Valencia 7-0 Genk
November 23, 2011: Mestalla
Scorers: Jonas 10′, Soldado 13′, 35′, 39′; Pablo Hernandez 68′, Aritz Aduriz 70′, Costa 81′.
Bayern Munich 7-0 Basel
March 13, 2012: Allianz Arena
Scorers: Robben 11′, 81′; Muller 42′, Gomez 44′, 50′, 61′, 67′.
season 2014/15
BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar Donetsk
October 21, 2014: Borisov Arena
Scorers: Alex Teixeira 11′, Luiz Adriano 28′ (pen), 36′, 40′, 44′, 82′ (pen); Douglas Costa 35′.
Bayern Munich 7-0 Shakhtar Donetsk
March 11, 2015: Allianz Arena
Scorers: Müller 4′ (enclosure) 51′; Boateng 34′, Ribéry 49′, Badstuber 63′, Lewandowski 75′, Götze 87′.
season 2016/17
Barcelona 7-0 Celtic
September 13, 2016: Camp Nou
Scorers: Messi 3′, 27′, 60′; Neymar 50′, Iniesta 59′, Suarez 75′, 88′.
season 2017/18
Maribor 0-7 Liverpool 2017
October 17, 2017: Stadion Ljudski vrt
Scorers: Firmino 4′, 54′; Coutinho 13′, Salah 19′, 40′; Oxlade-Chamberlain 86′, Alexander-Arnold 90′
Liverpool 7-0 Spartak Moscow
December 6, 2017: Anfield
Scorers: Coutinho 4′ (pen), 15′, 50′; Firmino 19′, Mane 47′, 76′, Salah 86′.
season 2018/19
Manchester City 7-0 Schalke 04
March 12, 2019: Etihad Stadium
Scorers: Agüero (pen) 35′, 38′, Sané 42′, Sterling 56′, Bernardo Silva 71′, Foden 78′, Gabriel Jesus 84′.
The biggest wins in Champions League history
season 2007/08
Liverpool 8-0 Besiktas
November 6, 2007: Anfield
Scorers: Crouching 19′, 89′; Benayoun 32′, 53′, 56′; Gerard 69′; Babel 78′, 81′
On a chilly night at Anfield on November 6, 2007, Liverpool became the first club to score eight Champions League goalsserving Turkish side Besiktas a punch they will never forget in the final group game.
Voronin and Yossi Benayoun missed early chances at the end of Anfield Road but Peter Crouch finally broke the deadlock, beating Hakan Arikan on the second set attempt Rafa Benitez‘s men on their way. Benayoun cheerfully scratched in the first of his three goals that night on the half hour mark.
For all their luck, Liverpool entered the break with a slim two-goal lead. The floodgates opened when Benayoun completed his hat trick within 10 minutes of the restart – netting two rebounds from close range. Steven Gerrard made it 5-0 finish a marauding race with fierce and swerve driving. Substitute ryan babel sent the Kop wild with delight after beating Arikan with a cheeky backheel then grabbed his second of the night three minutes later, with an equally unorthodox finish – Ibrahim Toraman’s clearance attempt took an unlucky deflection from the Dutch striker and looped high over the keeper and under the bar. Peter Crouch concluded a magical night on 89 minutes, nodding in a Benayoun cross as Liverpool set new record at the time of the Champions League.
season 2015/16
Real Madrid 8-0 Malmo
December 8, 2015: Santiago Bernabéu
Scorers: Benzema 12′, 24′, 74′ Cristiano Ronaldo 39′, 47′, 50′, 59′; Kovacic 70′
real Madrid tied the record eight years later with the same coach – Rafa Benítez and also in the final match of the group stage The Spaniard returned to his hometown and former club in 2015 after spells at Inter, Chelsea and Napoli. His Madrid side had already booked their place in the next round when Malmo visited the Bernabéu on Matchday 6.
Meeting mighty Madrid for the first time in official competition, the Swedes had lost the home game 0-2 on Matchday 2, but no one expected the cover-up they would suffer at the Bernabéu. Karim Benzema was unmarked to enter the opener in the 12th minute and was connected with a cross from Cristiano Ronaldo to signal home number two before the half-hour mark.
Ronaldo made it 3-0 with a ferocious, low free-kick that bounced awkwardly for the keeper as half-time approached and when play resumed, he and Benzema would complete their hat tricks. Ronaldo took just 19 minutes to complete his personal four-goal run. Mateo Kovacic slammed into No.7 – his first goal for the club and Benzema concluded a historic night by scoring the record-tying goal 15 minutes from time.
Another place in the history books for real Madrid and for Rafa Benitez but despite the supervision of this victory – the more the 10-2 Rayo shot a few weeks later, it appeared that his card was already marked. Five games later, the club decided to terminate his contract and bring in Zidane.