Top 10 revealed 

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Newcastle certainly showed no signs of jet-lag after their eight hour trip to Baku to play Qarabağ in the Champions League play-offs last week. The Magpies won the first leg 6-1 on the night thanks to four goals from Englishman Anthony Gordon. They welcome Qarabağ to St James’ Park for the reverse fixture this Tuesday, and Eddie Howe’s team may have their sights set on breaking a Champions League record that has stood since 2009.

Here at Transfermarkt, we have trawled back through the archives to look at the biggest Champions League scorelines the competition has seen since it’s revamp in the 1992/93 season. We have calculated this by the largest margins of victory on the aggregate scoreline from all knockout ties in that time period. If the margins ar the same, the team with the most goals scored ranks higher. If Newcastle can perform again in their hometown this week, they may just join this list.

Biggest Champions League aggregate wins

The biggest ever knockout win came back in the 2008/09 season, when German giants Bayern Munich beat Portuguese outfit Sporting 12-1 over the two legs of their round of 16 clash. An 11 goal margin of victory. The Bavarians won the away leg 5-0 before winning 7-1 in Germany. In second position comes Paris Saint-Germain’s 10-0 whipping of fellow Ligue 1 side Stade Brestois in the play-off round of last season’s competition, which the Parisians would eventually go on to win. A 10 goal margin. Third goes to when Spartak Moscow beat now-liquidated former Latvian side Skonto Riga 9-0 in the 1993/94 campaign.

Also included in the top 10 was Bayern Munich’s infamous 10-2 drubbing of Arsenal in the 2016.17 campaign, in which they won both legs 5-1, Manchester beating Schalke by the same scoreline in the 2018/19 season and Barcelona’s 10-2 battering of Bayer Leverkusen in 2011/12 in which Lionel Messi scored five goals in one match. If Newcastle win by three goals or more in their reverse leg this week, they will join the top 10.