Biggest wins in Premier League history

The biggest win in Premier League history is 9-0, a scoreline that has been produced four times since the competition began in 1992/93. The first was Manchester United 9-0 Ipswich Town in March 1995, and it has since been matched by Leicester City, Manchester United again and Liverpool. No Premier League team has ever scored 10 goals in a match.

The biggest wins in Premier League history: the 9-0 record

The record was set on 4 March 1995, when Manchester United beat Ipswich Town 9-0 at Old Trafford. Andy Cole scored five of the goals, the Premier League record for most goals by one player in a single match, equalled since but never beaten.

The scoreline has now happened four times:

Date	Result	Notes
4 March 1995	Man Utd 9-0 Ipswich	The first 9-0, at Old Trafford; Andy Cole scored five
25 October 2019	Southampton 0-9 Leicester	The biggest away win in Premier League history
2 February 2021	Man Utd 9-0 Southampton	Southampton finished with nine men
27 August 2022	Liverpool 9-0 Bournemouth	Against newly promoted Bournemouth at Anfield

The record stood alone for 24 years, and the first 9-0 did not even decide its own title race. Manchester United went into that March afternoon second, chasing Blackburn Rovers, and still finished the 1994/95 season one point behind the champions. Nine goals were worth the same three points as one, and once the dam broke, the other three 9-0s arrived inside three years.

Southampton have the misfortune of owning two of the four defeats. Their 0-9 at home to Leicester in October 2019 was followed 15 months later by the 9-0 at Old Trafford, and in both cases the damage told you as much about the side collapsing as the side scoring. The only other nine-goal match, Tottenham 9-1 Wigan Athletic in November 2009, was the same margin in different packaging.

The other big wins: 8-0 and the biggest 7-0s

Below the 9-0s sit six 8-0 wins, with one more eight-goal margin:

• Newcastle 8-0 Sheffield Wednesday, 19 September 1999, a game that featured an Alan Shearer five-goal haul
• Chelsea 8-0 Wigan Athletic, 9 May 2010
• Chelsea 8-0 Aston Villa, 23 December 2012
• Southampton 8-0 Sunderland, 18 October 2014
• Manchester City 8-0 Watford, 21 September 2019
• Sheffield United 0-8 Newcastle, 24 September 2023

Chelsea are the only side to win 8-0 twice, against Wigan in May 2010 and Aston Villa in December 2012. Add Tottenham 9-1 Wigan and the total is eleven matches decided by eight or more goals, which is why even the best 7-0 does not make the top 10. The notable 7-0s include Manchester United 7-0 Barnsley in October 1997, with an Andy Cole hat-trick, and Liverpool 7-0 Manchester United in March 2023, the biggest win in the history of that fixture.

Who the victims are: the pattern behind the biggest wins

The biggest wins in Premier League history cluster against sides in trouble. Ipswich went into the 1995 game second-last and finished that season bottom, relegated by 18 points, while Manchester United finished second, one point behind champions Blackburn. Sheffield Wednesday took their 8-0 at Newcastle in a season that ended with them relegated in 19th with 31 points, and they have not been back in the Premier League since. Watford were bottom of the table when Manchester City put eight past them in September 2019. Bournemouth had just been promoted when Liverpool scored nine past them in August 2022.

Southampton are the extreme case. They lost 9-0 twice in as many seasons, and in 2024/25 they set the record for the most defeats in a Premier League season with 30, the season they were relegated along with Ipswich and Leicester.

None of this makes the winners ordinary. Cole's five goals in 1995 is a record that still stands, and Manchester City's 8-0 saw them take a 5-0 lead in 18 minutes, the fastest a side has ever gone five clear in the Premier League. But the scale of these results is a function of the losers' collapse as much as the winners' quality. A 9-0 against a healthy, organised team does not happen; it happens against sides already in freefall.

How often do these scorelines happen

Big wins are rarer than the highlight reels suggest. Every Premier League season contains 380 matches, and in the entire history of the competition only four of them have ended 9-0 and seven more have been won by eight goals. Last season proved the point. In 2025/26, the only two matches decided by five or more goals were Arsenal 5-0 Leeds on 23 August 2025 and Sunderland 0-5 Nottingham Forest on 24 April 2026. No game in 2025/26 was won by six or more. The biggest wins in Premier League history are outliers, and the season that just ended shows how far the record sits above normal football.

FAQ

What is the biggest win in Premier League history? The biggest win is 9-0, a scoreline achieved four times, starting with Manchester United 9-0 Ipswich Town on 4 March 1995.

When did Man United win 9-0? Manchester United have won 9-0 twice: against Ipswich Town in March 1995 and against Southampton in February 2021.

Has anyone won by 9 goals in the Premier League? Yes, four times: Manchester United (twice), Leicester City and Liverpool have all won 9-0, and Tottenham beat Wigan 9-1 in 2009.

Which teams have lost 9-0? Ipswich Town, Southampton (twice) and Bournemouth have lost 9-0 in the Premier League.

Key takeaways

• The record win in Premier League history is 9-0, produced four times between 1995 and 2022.
• Manchester United set the record in 1995 against Ipswich and matched it in 2021 against Southampton; Leicester and Liverpool also won 9-0.
• Eleven matches have been won by eight or more goals, so even a 7-0 does not make the top 10.
• The victims were sides in crisis: Ipswich were relegated, Watford were bottom, Bournemouth were newly promoted and Southampton lost 9-0 twice.
• The biggest wins in Premier League history are rare: in 2025/26 the largest margin anywhere in the division was 5-0, with nothing close to the record.