Biggest wins in UEFA Champions League history: List of largest victories in UCL, European Cup
If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation. Learn more > Arsenal produced the biggest UEFA Champions League Round of 16 victory for some time when they thrashed PSV 7-1 in Eindhoven in 2024/25.
Mikel Arteta's team headed into the game after back-to-back scoreless outings in the Premier League but Jurrien Timber, Ethan Nwaneri, Mikel Merino, Leandro Trossard and Riccardo Calafiori were all on target as captain Martin Odegaard bagged a brace at the Philips Stadion. It amounted to Arsenal's record away victory in the competition and the biggest away triumph in the knockout stage.
It also came barely two weeks after Paris Saint-Germain destroyed Ligue 1 counterparts Brest 7-0. There have been similarly big scores in the early stages of 2025/26.
Arsenal put four past Atletico Madrid, while Chelsea and Liverpool thrashed Ajax and Eintracht Frankfurt, respectively. Here's our rundown of the biggest Champions League wins of all time.
What is the biggest Champions League win ever? The biggest wins - or defeats, depending upon your perspective - in the Champions League have been by eight goals.
In 2007, Besiktas lost 8-0 to Liverpool at Anfield, with Ryan Babel and Peter Crouch scoring two apiece. Eight years and one month later, Real Madrid matched that margin against an overmatched Malmo.
Cristiano Ronaldo got four of them, while they needed to find another match ball for fellow hat-trick scorer Karim Benzema. Then, in 2026, Italian side Como roared into the record books, matching that eight-goal margin by trouncing Lens in France by a 9-1 score.
Anastasios Douvikas scored a hat-trick for Cesc Fabregas's side, while Nico Paz scored one and assisted two. To be clear, these were all record wins in the Champions League proper, i.
The biggest victory in those preliminaries belongs to Finland's HJK, who defeated Bangor City 10-0 in July 2011. Each of those were home wins, but - fear not, PSV - there are three teams who have had it worse on their own patch.