Which is the biggest win in football history? The answer depends on where you look: a protest match in Madagascar, a World Cup qualifier in Oceania, three 21-0 wins in women’s internationals, four 9-0 results in the Premier League and a 7-0 record in the Indian Super League. Here they are.

The biggest win in football history belongs to Madagascar club AS Adema who registered an unprecedented 149-0 win against Stade Olympique L’Emyrne in a 2002 Madagascar National Football Championship match.

As a matter of fact, all goals in the 149-0 win were deliberate own goals by SOE players as part of a predetermined protest over refereeing decisions that cost them the national championship.

At the end of the fixture, the SO L’Emyrne coach Zaka Be, along with four of the team’s players, were suspended. While the coach got a three-year suspension, the players were banned until the end of the season.

Australia hold the record for the biggest win in international football history, as they humbled American Samoa 31-0 in an Oceanian qualifying match for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. Australia’s Archie Thompson found the net 13 times and thus registered the most goals scored by a player in an international match.

In women’s international football, the biggest win is 21-0, and three teams share it. Japan beat Guam 21-0 in December 1997. Canada matched it against Puerto Rico in the 1998 CONCACAF Women’s Championship, with forward Silvana Burtini scoring eight goals, and Australia beat American Samoa 21-0 in October 1998.

Australia came close again at the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup, beating Indonesia 18-0, three goals short of the record. Sam Kerr scored five that night and went past Tim Cahill as Australia’s all-time leading goalscorer.

Coming to the biggest win in Premier League history, the record is a 9-0 win, achieved four times by three clubs – Manchester United (1995, 2021), Leicester City (2019) and Liverpool (2022). The first was achieved by Sir Alex Ferguson’s Red Devils in the 1994–95 Premier League season, as they beat second-from-bottom Ipswich Town by 9-0 with striker Andy Cole becoming the first in Premier League history to score five goals in one game.

9-0 – On this day in 1995, Manchester United beat Ipswich Town 9-0 in the Premier League at Old Trafford. Andrew Cole scored five of these goals during the rout, with United becoming the first team to score as many as nine goals in a Premier League match. Cloud.

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Leicester City matched the record as they plundered nine goals past Southampton in their 2019 league meeting. Jamie Vardy and Ayoze Perez scored hat-tricks in the goal fest game as they matched the feat of a team having two hat-trick scorers in the same match (Robert Pires and Jermaine Pennant, Arsenal 6-1 Southampton, May 2003).

Southampton, unfortunately had to relive the heart-quenching once again as they were at the mercy of Manchester United in their 2021 showdown at Old Trafford. Just one minute and 22 seconds into the match, the Saints were reduced to 10 men after Alexandre Jankewitz’s tackle on Scott McTominay.

Seven players – including a brace from Anthony Martial – saw Ole Gunnar Solskjaer’s Manchester United match their biggest win in Premier League history.

Liverpool became the third club to do it on 27 August 2022, beating Bournemouth 9-0 at Anfield.

Lastly, the biggest win in Indian Super League history came about in 2015, when FC Goa thumped Mumbai City FC by 7-0 in their Indian Super League match at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Goa.

Forwards Semboi Haokip and Dudu netted hat-tricks as the Gaurs exacted revenge for the 0-2 loss in the reverse fixture earlier in the campaign. The result is still the biggest winning margin in the ISL, though it is now shared: East Bengal beat Mohammedan 7-0 on 23 March 2026.

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