What are the biggest wins in the history of European club competition?

Liverpool racked up the goals in their Europa League tie against Sparta Prague, but fell well short of setting a new continental scoring record.

After beating Sparta 5-1 in the first leg of the teams’ last-16 clash earlier this month, Liverpool thrashed the Czechs 6-1 in the return.

Having netted twice in Prague, Darwin Núñez opened the scoring at Anfield after seven minutes, before Bobby Clark doubled the hosts’ lead a minute later. Mohamed Salah then added a third with 10 minutes on the clock on Merseyside, and Cody Gakpo bagged a fourth on the quarter-of-an-hour mark.

Sparta pulled one back through Velko Birmancevic four minutes before half time, but Dominik Szoboszlai fired in Liverpool’s fifth on the night shortly after the break. With 54 minutes played, Gakpo then turned Harvey Elliott’s shot into the net for a sixth.

What are European soccer’s biggest aggregate wins?

Liverpool’s 11-2 aggregate triumph represents an emphatic mauling of the Czech champions, but their margin of victory is less than half as large as the biggest ever win over two legs in European men’s club comPetitions.

Chelsea and Feyenoord share that record, having both beaten Luxembourgish opposition 21-0 over two legs. The Blues walloped Jeunesse Hautcharage in the first round of the 1971/72 Cup Winners’ Cup, before Feyenoord matched the West Londoners’ feat against Rumelage in the 1972/73 UEFA Cup first round.

What is the largest single-game win in Europe?

Despite their early glut of goals at Anfield, Liverpool finished some way off this record, too.

Sporting CP registered the biggest win in a single Game in European comPetition in 1963/64. The Portuguese club thrashed Cypriots APOEL 16-1 in the first leg of the teams’ second-round Cup Winners’ Cup tie, before a relatively modest 2-0 return-leg win sealed an 18-1 aggregate triumph.

In the Europa League/UEFA Cup, the largest margin of victory in a single match is Ajax’s 14-0 thumping of Luxembourg’s Red Boys Differdange, in the 1984/85 first round second leg. Surprisingly, that mammoth scoreline followed a goalless opening leg.