The Champions League is the most coveted prize in club football and sees Europe's most elite clubs compete against each other. Over the years, it has provided some extraordinary games of football that go back and forth between two teams until one eventually emerges victorious.

You'd struggle to find a more competitive tournament anywhere. However, there have still been some demolitions in past editions over the years, and we're going to count down the ten biggest wins in Champions League history and find out which clubs have been the most ruthless in Europe.

It must be noted that all entries on this list are taken from after the tournament was rebranded from the European Cup to the Champions League in 1992. Additionally, all entries are from the group stage onwards, meaning that any larger scorelines from qualifying have been left out.

17 Paris Saint-Germain 7-0 Brest

2024/25 season

On their way to collecting their first-ever Champions League trophy, Paris Saint-Germain made light work of fellow Ligue 1 side Brest and recorded one of the biggest scorelines in the competition's history in the process. Interestingly, PSG had struggled in the League Phase of the competition, finishing 15th, which meant that they had to navigate through the Knockout Round Playoff. Brest stood little chance against the rampant Parisians, who recorded a 7-0 win, with seven different scorers, at Parc des Princes. The aggregate score for the round was a remarkable 10-0. Chastening for Brest, but it served to inspire PSG onward to glory.

16 Manchester City 7-0 RB Leipzig

2022/23 season

The year of 2023 was when Manchester City finally got their hands on the trophy they'd been pursuing for so long and the feeling that it was their year would have been first cemented when they dismantled RB Leipzig in the Round of 16. Having breezed through the group stage with relative ease, Pep Guardiola's side were drawn to face the German side in the first round of the knockout stages and nerves must have set in when they could only manage a 1-1 draw in the first leg away from home.

However, if there had been any doubts, they were quickly dispelled in the return fixture as Erling Haaland and his teammates ran riot at the Etihad. The Norwegian forward scored five times, alongside goals Ilkay Gundogan and Kevin de Bruyne, to seal an outstanding 8-1 aggregate victory and from then on, City never looked back and eventually won their first-ever Champions League title.

15 Manchester City 7-0 Schalke 04

2018/19 season

City's massacre of Leipzig equalled their biggest ever victory in the competition, which also came over a German side in the round of 16 four years before. In similar fashion, Guardiola's side had struggled in the first leg after being reduced to ten men for the final quarter of the game, and it took a late rally from Leroy Sane and Raheem Sterling for them to edge a close affair 3-2.

There was nothing close about the return leg as City raced ahead with a goal from Sane and a brace from Sergio Aguero effectively ending the match as a contest by half-time. But that didn't stop the Sky Blues pressing home their advantage and further goals from Sterling, Bernardo Silva, Phil Foden and Gabriel Jesus extended their winning margin to seven goals and earned them a place in the quarter-final after a 10-2 aggregate victory.

14 Liverpool 7-0 Spartak Moscow

2017/18 season

Liverpool's 2017/18 Champions League campaign was memorable for a number of reasons, but they had an inconsistent group stage campaign in which they were unstoppable at times and poor at others. They hosted Spartak Moscow in their final group match knowing they just had to avoid defeat to book their place in the knockout stages.

Any worries over a potential upset were quickly eradicated when, after a quarter of an hour, the Reds found themselves 2-0 up thanks to a brace from Philippe Coutinho, who was captaining the club for the first time. Fellow Brazilian Roberto Firmino made it three soon after that and Jurgen Klopp's side continued to torment their Russian opponents, eventually winning 7-0 win, with Coutinho completing his only Liverpool hat-trick in one of his last games for the club before his big-money move to Barcelona.

13 NK Maribor 0-7 Liverpool

2017/18 season

Earlier in the group stage, after both of their opening matches ended in draws, Liverpool had won another match 7-0 and reassured their supporters that they were capable of making it out of their group. This is the only win away from home on this list.

Maribor are the only team to ever represent Slovenia in the Champions League group stage and the 2017/18 tournament was the third time they reached that point. As a result, they were one of the weaker teams in the competition and the Reds ruthlessly exploited that fact as they stormed to a 7-0 victory thanks to goals from Roberto Firmino, Philippe Coutinho, Mohamed Salah, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and Trent Alexander-Arnold.

12 FC Barcelona 7-0 Celtic

2016/17 season

Celtic went the entire 2016/17 season unbeaten domestically and won the treble, but this wasn't enough to stop them exiting the Champions League with a whimper after finishing bottom of their group. Their first group match was at the Nou Camp against Barcelona, and they were soundly beaten by the Blaugrana.

Lionel Messi bagged a hat-trick, while Neymar, Andres Iniesta and Luis Suarez all got their names on the scoresheet alongside the Argentinian, in a dominant 7-0 victory for Luis Enrique's side. The Spanish giants would go on to top their group in the edition of the tournament that saw them launch the most memorable of comebacks against PSG in the round of 16, before they were knocked out in the quarter-finals by Juventus.

11 Bayern Munich 7-0 Shakhtar Donetsk

2014/15 season

Having drawn the first leg against Shakhtar Donetsk 0-0, Bayern Munich needed to put in a big shift in order to remain in the competition, which, that season, had the added carrot of the final being held in Germany. It didn't take long for the Bavarian giants to get motoring as they went ahead from the penalty spot thanks to the precise boot of Thomas Muller.

Jerome Boateng doubled their lead heading into the second half before a flurry of goals from Franck Ribery, Muller and Holger Badstuber made it 5-0. Robert Lewandowski added a sixth and Mario Gotze put the icing on the cake with just three minutes left on the clock. Bayern went on to reach the semi-finals, where they lost to eventual champions Barcelona.

10 BATE Borisov 0-7 Shakhtar Donetsk

2014/15 season

In the same season they themselves lost 7-0, Shakhtar had already inflicted a 7-0 defeat on BATE Borisov in the group stage and they did so away from home. Shakhtar's Brazilian contingent did the damage on the day, with Alex Teixeira and Douglas Costa getting on the scoresheet, but it was Luiz Adriano's day as the forward struck five times - the most goals by a player in a single Champions League match, a feat matched only by Lionel Messi and Erling Haaland.

9 Bayern Munich 7-0 FC Basel

2011/12 season

In the 2011/12 campaign, Bayern Munich eased through the group stage and were handed a relatively kind draw against FC Basel in the round of 16. However, Jupp Heynckes' side were stunned in the first leg in Switzerland as Valentin Stocker's late strike saw Basel emerge as the victors.

Bayern's retaliation in the return leg was profound, and Mario Gomez scored four times as the Germans overturned the one-goal deficit to breeze into the next round. The Bavarians would go on to reach the Champions League final, which was held at their own ground, the Allianz Arena, but dramatically lost on penalties to Chelsea.

8 Valencia 7-0 Genk

2011/12 season

Roberto Soldado's first-half hat-trick set the tone at Mestalla in 2011 as Valencia eviscerated Belgian outfit Genk in Group E of the Champions League. Jonas put the Liga outfit one up before Soldado padded the lead out to 4-0 heading into the break. Three more goals flowed from Valencia's ranks in the second half as Pablo Hernandez, Aritz Aduriz and Tino Costa got in on the act.