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Which match holds the record for the most goals in a Champions League game? We list the highest-scoring matches in the competition’s history.

Following Barcelona’s dramatic win over Benfica on Matchday 7 of the new-look league phase of the Champions League, two of the highest-scoring games in Champions League history have now occurred this season.

There have been 11 games in which nine or more goals have been scored since the competition’s rebrand in 1992, and 18.2% of them have come in the new league format that was introduced for the 2024-25 season.

Whether or not the new 36-team league has anything to do with this happening is a discussion for another day. We’re just here to report on the numbers.

So, with that in mind, here is a list of the highest-scoring games to have been played in the Champions League. (Further down we’ll stop pretending football started in 1992 and reveal the highest-scoring game in the European Cup, too.)

12 Goals

Borussia Dortmund 8-4 Legia Warsaw22 November 2016

Leading Group F heading into Matchday 5 of the 2016-17 season, Borussia Dortmund hosted Legia Warsaw, a team they had already beaten 6-0 in Poland earlier on in the campaign.

They went a goal down early on, opening the door for Real Madrid to sneak into first position in the group with one game to play.

But Dortmund struck three times in four minutes through two goals from Shinji Kagawa and one from Nuri Sahin to take the lead, before conceding another and adding another two before half-time. At 5-2 at the break, this was the joint-highest-scoring first half in Champions League history.

The action didn’t stop in the second half, though, with five more goals arriving to complete a remarkable game that remains the highest-scoring match in Champions League history.

Dortmund held off Real Madrid to finish top of the group, but they only made the quarter-finals in the end. Madrid, meanwhile, predictably recovered to win the competition yet again.

11 Goals

Monaco 8-3 Deportivo La Coruña5 November 2003

On their way to the final – where they would lose to José Mourinho’s Porto – Monaco won Group A, with their group stage including this frankly bizarre 8-3 victory over eventual semi-finalists Deportivo La Coruña.

Just two weeks after a 1-0 win for Deportivo in the return game in Spain, back on home soil, Monaco raced into a 4-0 lead inside half an hour, with a further three goals scored before half-time as the hosts took a 5-2 lead into the break.

Incredibly, three more goals were added before the 52nd minute to leave Monaco leading 7-3, yet only one more goal was scored in the final 38 minutes of the game, with Édouard Cissé scoring the eighth for the hosts.

Monaco scored more goals in this one match than in their five other group-stage games combined (seven), while Deportivo let in twice as many goals as they did in their other five matches in total (four).

Dado Prso scored half of Monaco’s goals in this match, becoming just the third player to score as many as four goals in a Champions League game after Marco van Basten (November 1992 for Milan vs IFK Göteborg) and Simone Inzaghi (March 2000 for Lazio vs Marseille).

This game had held the record as the highest-scoring Champions League game for 13 years before Dortmund’s win over Legia Warsaw in 2016.

Bayern Munich 9-2 Dinamo Zagreb17 September 2024

On MD 1 of the 2024-25 campaign, Bayern Munich put nine past Dinamo Zagreb in a one-sided affair that raised concerns that the expanded Champions League had increased the gulf between the best and the worst teams.

Harry Kane became the first Englishman to score four goals in a Champions League match while also hitting the competition’s first ever hat-trick of penalties, with Michael Olise also grabbing a brace.

4 – Harry Kane is the first player to score a hat-trick of penalties in a European Cup/Champions League match, and the first Englishman to score 4 in a match in the competition since @9smudge for Arsenal against FK Austria Wien in 1991. Fab. pic.twitter.com/WjPR736xDO

The scoreline eventually reflected Bayern’s dominance but, after having gone three goals up before half-time, Zagreb pulled two back just after the break and the game looked like it might become a genuine contest.

Bayern put any ideas of a comeback to bed, though, scoring six goals in the final 33 minutes to wrap up one of the biggest wins the Champions League has ever seen.

10 Goals

Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich14 August 2020

The only consolation for Barcelona after this loss was that there were no fans in the stadium to see it.

Played at the end of the COVID-affected 2019-20 season and over just one leg, this remains the highest-scoring game in the knockout phase of the Champions League, although it was only through a flurry of late Bayern goals that it makes the list at all.

The German side made a fast start, going 4-1 up by the 27th minute, but no more goals were added until Luis Suárez pulled one back for Barcelona 12 minutes into the second half. Joshua Kimmich reinstated Bayern’s three-goal lead shortly after, but it wasn’t until the 82nd minute when Bayern pulled away properly. One from Robert Lewandowski and two more from Philippe Coutinho, on loan from Barcelona, put the icing on the cake.

It was the first time in 74 years that Barcelona had conceded eight goals in a game, and the first time they had lost by a six-goal margin in 69 years. Manager Quique Setién lost his job just three days later. Bayern, meanwhile, went on to win the European Cup for a sixth time.

9 Goals

Football Didn’t Begin in 1992

Before the rebrand in the early 1990s, the Champions League was known as the European Cup. And one game under the competition’s old name saw more goals than any in the Champions League era.

That was Feyenoord’s 12-2 away win over KR (who you probably know as Knattspyrnufélag Reykjavíkur) of Iceland in the first leg of the first round, played on 17 September 1969. Feyenoord went 10-0 up before KR scored their two goals, but then the Dutch side added two more late on, before winning the return leg 4-0 back on home soil.

Wins by such a margin were more common back in those days, with the first-round first-leg games also including Real Madrid 8-0 Olympiakos Nicosia, Leeds 10-0 Lyn, and Red Star Belgrade 8-0 Linfield.

However, Feyenoord vs KR was the only game in the entire history of the European Cup to see as many goals as the 12 in Dortmund’s win over Legia Warsaw.

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