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

Liverpool are enjoying a goal fest in their Europa League tie against Sparta Prague - but Jürgen Klopp’s men are still well short of a continental record.

Liverpool are racking up the goals in their Europa League tie against Sparta Prague, but the Reds still have a way to go to make continental history.

After beating Sparta 5-1 in the first leg of the teams’ last-16 clash earlier this month, Liverpool are currently 4-1 up 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.

Four minutes before half time, Sparta pulled one back through Velko Birmancevic.

What are European soccer’s biggest aggregate wins?

Liverpool’s 9-2 cushion is still less than half as large as the record aggregate winning margin 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?

As things stand, Liverpool also remain well short of 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.