What is England’s biggest win ever and what is the Three Lions’ largest victory in a Euro match?

England smashed seven goals past North Macedonia to qualify for Euro 2024 but that was not even close to their biggest-ever win.

Despite concerns over Gareth Southgate’s conservative style of play, the Three Lions have broken several goalscoring records under him.

England recorded their largest margin of victory for 57 years during a 10-0 demolition of San Mario in 2021, before securing their biggest victory at a major tournament with a 6-2 victory over Iran at the World Cup 12 months later.

In 2023, Harry Kane and co. found the net 26 times across eight Euro 2024 qualifiers and two friendlies to continue their scoring streak.

England are now only a week from Germany following a 3-0 victory over Bosnia and are closer than ever to shattering some historic feats.

What is England’s biggest win?

The Three Lions’ biggest-ever victory came back in 1882 and was against one of their local rivals.

The first international match in Northern Ireland’s history, 15 months after the founding of the Irish FA, saw them set an unfortunate record.

Howard Vaughton hit five and Arthur Brown bagged four in what was England’s first and second-ever hat-tricks to help the Three Lions romp to a 13-0 win in a friendly played at Bloomfield in Belfast.

Unfortunately for Northern Ireland, they were also responsible for England’s biggest win on home soil – a 13–2 win in Sunderland during the 1898/99 British Home Championship.

England’s 2021 win over San Marino remains their fourth-highest margin of victory and the first time since a 1964 win over the USA that they had managed to hit double figures.

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What is England’s largest win in a Euro match?

The Three Lions are historically not high goal scorers at UEFA’s European Championships.

However, England were just one goal away three years ago from matching the highest margin of victory in the all-time record books.

In July 2021, Southgate’s side secured their place in the semi-finals of Euro 2020 in spectacular style by smashing Ukraine 4-0.

Ironically, it was the only game at the tournament that England didn’t play on home soil having taken a brief venture away from Wembley to Rome.

Five teams have racked up five-goal winning margins in EURO fixtures, the most recent of which was at the same tournament when Spain beat Slovakia 5-0 at Euro 2020.

Although, only one team have scored six, with the Netherlands downing Yugoslavia 6-1 in the Euro 2000 quarter-finals.

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What is England’s largest win in a World Cup match?

Before the 2018 World Cup in Russia, England had never won by a margin of more than THREE goals in a single game.

England’s previous historic results saw them achieve 3-0 wins against Denmark (2002), Paraguay and Poland (both 1986).

But under Southgate six years ago, Kane hit a hat-trick en route to a 6-1 victory over Panama.

And it became the first time England had scored four or more goals in a World Cup game since… that 4-2 win in the 1966 World Cup final.

England hit six again in Qatar with that Iran demolishment but are still a way off the all-time nine-goal margin record at a World Cup finals.

Hungary are responsible for two of the three sides to accomplish that feat, (beating El Salvador 10-1 in 1982 and South Korea 9-0 in 1954), with Yugoslavia’s 9-0 win over Zaire in 1974 the other.