The 2023/24 Premier League season has already seen an 8-0 victory but that doesn’t even crack the top five all-time list of massive wins.
England’s top-flight has built its brand into the most elite football division in the world since its 1992 inception and yet there are still plenty of one-sided contests.
Sheffield United played just five Premier League games upon their 2023/24 return before they succumbed to an 8-0 thrashing at home to Newcastle.
The match saw eight different goal scorers scored without an own goal being scored – which had never happened in the Premier League before.
The only consolation for the Yorkshire club is that there have been several other teams to suffer a worse fate in the past three decades.
What is the biggest win in Premier League history?
The biggest margins of victory in the Premier League is shared between three clubs that have hit nine goals without conceding.
Manchester United remain the only team to have done it twice, having torn Ipswich and Southampton to shreds 26 years apart.
In 1995, Andy Cole scored five goals, Mark Hughes got two, with Roy Keane and Paul Ince getting the others.
Cole was playing in his first season at the club, having joined from Newcastle in January 1995 and ended his career at the club with 121 goals in 275 games for United.
Over two decades later Old Trafford played host to another nine-goal drubbing – although this time COVID rules meant no fans could see it.
Not that a lack of supporters could stop a rampant United in 2021, who routed an injury-depleted Saints after Alexandre Jankewitz, who was making his first Premier League start, was sent off after two minutes.
After Jankewitz’s red card, United stormed into a 4-0 lead before half-time.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka and Marcus Rashford scored before Jan Bednarek’s own goal, with Edinson Cavani heading home before the break.
Bednarek then became the second Saints player to see red after the restart, with Scott McTominay, Bruno Fernandes and Dan James all finding the net either side of an Anthony Martial double.
That result meant Southampton embarrassingly are also the only side to have been on the receiving end of two 9-0 drubbings.
The club’s former manager Ralph Hassenhuttl has the unwanted feat of being in charge for both humiliating losses.
In 2019, Jamie Vardy and Ayoze Perez bagged a hat-trick apiece as Leicester ran riot, with Youri Tielemans, Ben Chilwell and James Maddison completing the set.
Liverpool were the other team to have accomplished the coveted 9-0, having put Bournemouth to the sword in August 2022.
Jurgen Klopp’s side ran riot accelerating to a 5-0 half-time lead before adding four more in the second period to write their name in the history books.
Luis Diaz and Roberto Firmino both netted braces while further efforts from Harvey Elliott, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Virgil van Dijk and Fabio Carvalho completed the hammering.
Perhaps even more staggering is that Mohamed Salah didn’t even record a goal or assist despite playing the full 90 minutes.
In only the third game of the 2022/23 season, Scott Parker questioned the club’s recruitment and ambition following the Anfield humiliation and was subsequently sacked.
Meanwhile, Paul Scharner’s second-half consolation for Wigan was the only blotch on the 2009/10 Tottenham side that smashed nine past the Latics.
Remarkably, Tottenham were only leading by one goal at half-time thanks to Peter Crouch’s ninth-minute header.
No one could have predicted what was to come as Jermain Defoe hit five second-half goals to down Wigan.
David Bentley, Niko Kranjcar and Aaron Lennon also got on the scoresheet.
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