How many teams have scored nine goals in a Premier League match?
At the time of writing, no team has scored ten or more goals in a Premier League match, but four teams have scored nine goals and one them has the distinction of having done so twice. That team, Manchester United, also became the first to do so when, on March 4, 1995, they routed Ipswich Town 9-0 at Old Trafford. In the absence of Eric Cantona, suspended after “kung fu” kicking a Crystal Palace fan on January 25, Andew Cole, signed from Newcastle United that same month, scored five goals and was joined on the scoresheet by striking partner Mark Hughes, with a brace, and Roy Keane and Paul Ince, with a goal apiece.
The Red Devils equalled their own, by then joint, record scoreline 26 years later against Southampton at Old Trafford on February 2, 2021, in a match played behind closed doors. Seven different United players found the net, including second-half half substitute Anthony Martial, who scored twice, and Saints’ centre-back Jan Bednarek put through his own goal after 34 minutes to add to the ignominy.
That was, in fact, the second time that Southampton had been drubbed 9-0 in the Premier League, having previously done so against Leicester City at St. Mary’s Stadium on October 25, 2019. Ayoze Pérez Gutiérrez and Jamie Vardy both scored hat-tricks for the visitors on that occasion. Before that, Tottenham Hotspur beat Wigan Athletic 9-1 at White Hart Lane on November 22, 2009, with Jermaine Defoe scoring five goals. More recently, Liverpool equalled the record for the biggest victory in Premier League history with a 9-0 demolition of newly-promoted Bournemouth at Anfield on August 27, 2022.