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June 30

Most goals scored by losing team in a soccer match?

I am aware that professional soccer has no "mercy rule", and so teams can run up the score indefinitely, as in, for example, [the U.S. women beating Thailand 13-0], or, for another example, Australia_31-0_American_Samoa. My question is, what is the most goals scored by the losing team in a professional soccer match? Let's say that I am watching a soccer match, but I only know how to count up to five, and anything higher than that is "many". Is that enough to be able to work out which team has won the match? (Assume that I am not "cheating" and going by which team seems to be celebrating, etc. I am only counting each team's goals.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.114.16.127 (talk) 05:49, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

In England, the record is Charlton Athletic F.C. 7–6 Huddersfield Town A.F.C.. --Wrongfilter (talk) 06:31, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

For the World Cup, the most seems to be Austria v Switzerland (1954 FIFA World Cup) 7-5 so I guess the OP can tell these apart [1]. BTW according to [2] there have been several 6-6 draws at the professional level. Nil Einne (talk) 15:56, 30 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]