No matter what competition of football a team enters, playing away from home is never an easy task. This is especially true in the Champions League, where the level of competitiveness is among the highest in the world. But that doesn't mean that some teams can't inflict devastating blows on their hosts.

In this article, GIVEMESPORT has delved into the annals of European football's greatest competition to find a record of the biggest away victories since 1992 and the famous reform of the Champions League.

10 Legia Warszawa 0-6 Borussia Dortmund

2016/17

• Stage: Group Stage
• Date: 14th September 2016
• Venue: Pepsi Arena
• Goalscorers: Mario Gotze (7'), Sokratis Papastathopoulos (15'), Marc Bartra (17'), Raphael Guerreiro (51'), Gonzalo Castro (76'), Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (87')

Six goals in the first leg, twelve in the return: in 2016, the double-header between Borussia Dortmund and Legia Warszawa in the group stage wrote itself into the history books of the Champions League.

Firstly, because the Germans' 0-6 victory in Poland remains today one of the biggest away wins ever recorded in the competition; and secondly, because no match in the history of the Champions League had been more prolific than the 8-4 scoreline that produced the return leg. Eight years on, that record still stands, although it was almost broken this year in Bayern Munich's 9-2 win over Dinamo Zagreb.

9 PSV 1-7 Arsenal

2024/2025

• Stage: Round of 16
• Date: 4th March 2025
• Venue: Philips Stadion
• Goalscorers: Noa Lang (43') // Jurrien Timber (18), Ethan Nwaneri (21), Mikel Merino (31), Martin Odegaard (47,73), Leandro Trossard (48), Riccardo Calafiori (85)

The most recent entry on this list, Arsenal rocked up to the Dutch champions in a period of real uncertainty. Having lost their entire first-choice attack to injury, and stumbling in the race for the Premier League title, all eyes were on just how they would score goals. But, in a stunning performance, Mikel Arteta's side overwhelmed PSV with a clinic on unerring finishing and unnerving movement.

No goal perhaps summed up the night moreso than when Myles Lewis-Skelly assisted Ethan Nwaneri to put the Gunners 2-0 up - it was a goal made in Hale End and just reward for a pair of teenagers who have lit up the Emirates during the course of the 2024/2025 campaign.

8 Rangers 1-7 Liverpool

2022/23

• Stage: Group Stage
• Date: 12th December 2022
• Venue: Ibrox Stadium
• Goalscorers: Scott Arfield (17') // Roberto Firmino (24', 55'), Darwin Nunez (66'), Mohamed Salah (75', 80', 81'), Harvey Elliott (87')

The relationship between Scotland and England is as rich as it is ancient and tumultuous. And that evening in October 2022 certainly did nothing to ease the tension. Travelling to Ibrox to take on Rangers, still without a win after three games, Liverpool did not hesitate to add insult to injury.

However, the Gers' opener was enough to make them dream of an unexpected triumph. But scoring may also have been the biggest mistake the home side made that night. Mohamed Salah's team-mates needed no more than that to wake up and respond to their opponents by rattling the back of the net seven times. A veritable red storm.

7 AS Roma 1-7 Bayern Munich

2014/15

• Stage: Group Stage
• Date: 21st October 2014
• Venue: Stadio Olimpico
• Goalscorers: Gervinho (66') // Arjen Robben (9', 30'), Mario Gotze (23'), Robert Lewandowski (25'), Thomas Muller (36'), Franck Ribery (78'), Xherdan Shaqiri (80')

Rome wasn't built in a day, but Bayern Munich certainly destroyed it in an evening. In 2014, Pep Guardiola's men had not travelled to the Italian capital for a sightseeing tour. In front of more than 70,000 spectators at the Stadio Olimpico, the Germans played their football, scoring five goals in the space of 27 minutes to bury any hope of a revival from their opponents.

And with their opponents already stunned, Franck Ribery and Xherdan Shaqiri, who both came on as substitutes, had no choice but to complete their side's work, their pride dented by Gervinho's vain attempt to reduce the deficit.

6 Dinamo Zagreb 1-7 Olympique Lyonnais

2011/12

• Stage: Group Stage
• Date: 7th December 2011
• Venue: Maksimir
• Goalscorers: Mateo Kovacic (40') // Bafetimbi Gomis (45', 48', 52', 70'), Maxime Gonalons (47'), Lisandro Lopez (65'), Jimmy Briand (76')

Every football-watcher will remember Olympique Lyonnais in the 2000s. A fearsome team, capable of toppling all the giants of the Continent, which reigned over the French championship for a remarkable eight years.

And although their dominance has waned over the years and the last few years have been synonymous with a period of turmoil, since 2010 the Rhone club has regularly reminded us what a club it once was - just ask Pep Guardiola. One of the most notable examples of this was their crushing victory over Dinamo Zagreb in the group stage of the 2010/11 season, when Bafetimbi Gomis scored four times at Maksimir.

5 Barcelona 2-8 Bayern Munich

2019/20

• Stage: Quarter-final
• Date: 14th August 2020
• Venue: Estadio da Luz
• Goalscorers: David Alaba (7', OG), Luis Suarez (57') // Thomas Muller (4', 31'), Ivan Perisic (21'), Serge Gnabry (27'), Joshua Kimmich (63'), Robert Lewandowski (82'), Philippe Coutinho (85', 89')

Unlike each of the matches listed in this ranking, the one between Barcelona and Bayern Munich has the particularity of not having been played in either of the two clubs' respective stadiums. This was due to the coronavirus pandemic, which forced UEFA to organise a Final 8 tournament in Lisbon, Portugal, where the health situation seemed to be the most favourable for holding football matches.

This particular context certainly made the Catalans' heavy defeat all the more memorable in the eyes of observers the world over. Never before in the history of the Champions League had a team conceded eight goals ‘at home’, especially when two of them had been scored by a player on loan to the opposition a few months earlier. It's the kind of memory that will stay with you forever.

4 NK Maribor 0-7 Liverpool

2017/18

• Stage: Group Stage
• Date: 17th October 2017
• Venue: Ljudski Vrt
• Goalscorers: Roberto Firmino (4', 54'), Philippe Coutinho (13'), Mohamed Salah (19', 39'), Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (86'), Trent Alexander-Arnold (90')

Liverpool are definitely a team that likes to travel. Indeed, as impressive as it was, the Reds' emphatic victory over Rangers in 2022 was not the biggest away win recorded by Jurgen Klopp's side. That victory, which had come a few years earlier, during an autumn trip to Slovenia to face the modest club NK Maribor, saw the English side win by a seven-goal margin.

And this time without conceding a single one. It was a display of strength, notably highlighted by double strikes from Salah and Roberto Firmino, that has seen the Liverpudlian club move up to third in our rankings.

3 BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar Donetsk

2014/15

• Stage: Group Stage
• Date: 21st October 2014
• Venue: Borisov Arena
• Goalscorers: Alex Teixeira (11'), Luiz Adriano (28', 37', 40', 44', 82'), Douglas Costa (35')

Shakhtar Donetsk may have suffered one of the heaviest home defeats in Champions League history, but they were also responsible for one of the biggest away wins. The 0-7 win at BATE Borisov, the most successful club in the Belarusian league (15), was achieved thanks to the Ukrainian club's Brazilian branch.

The match will go down in history not only for its historic outcome, but also for the performance of Luiz Adriano, who became only the second player in history - alongside Lionel Messi - to score five goals in a single Champions League match. A performance recently emulated by Erling Haaland against RB Leipzig.

2 MSK Zilina 0-7 Olympique de Marseille

2010/11

• Stage: Group Stage
• Date: 3rd November 2010
• Venue: Stadion MSK Zilina
• Goalscorers: Andre-Pierre Gignac (12', 21', 54'), Gabriel Henze (24'), Loic Remy (36'), Lucho Gonzalez (52', 63')

A legendary club on the French footballing scene, Olympique de Marseille are still the only French club to have won the Cup with the Big Ears. But that's not the only record they can boast. In 2010, a trip to Slovakia to take on MSK Zilina enabled them to achieve an unprecedented feat.

And not just for a French club, but also for a European one: to become the first team to score seven goals in an away match. Andre-Pierre Gignac (hat-trick), Lucho (brace), Gabriel Heinze and Loïc Rémy are still the main architects of this feat. Straight to the point.

1 RC Lens 1-9 Como

2026/27

• Stage: League Phase
• Date: 4th November 2026
• Venue: Stade Bollaert Delelis
• Goalscorers: Anastasios Douvikas (7', 32', 57'), Nico Paz (40'), Lucas Da Cunha (47'), Marc-Oliver Kempf (53'), Mattia Liberali (62'), Martin Baturina (69'), Matteo Papaccioli (90+2')

Cesc Fabregas masterminded a total obilteration of Ligue 1 outfit RC Lens when his Como team triumphed 9-1 at Stade Bollaert Delelis in the 2026/27 Champions League. Anastasios Douvikas struck a hat-trick, while Nico Paz - heralded as Argentina's heir to Lionel Messi - got in on the act too, scoring and pulling the playmaker strings. It was just Como's fourth Champions League match in the club's entire history and Fabregas was keen to stress the need for humility during such moments.

"It is a wonderful night for Como, for all our fans and many lads here who are at the start of their careers, but they need to keep their feet on the ground, be humble, keep learning and not think everything will go well from here on," the former Barcelona and Arsenal star explained. "They must keep working to continue these performances."