What is the Matildas' biggest win? Highest-scoring game in Australian women's football history

Joshua Mayne

What is the Matildas' biggest win? Highest-scoring game in Australian women's football history image

The Matildas booked their ticket to Paris via a thrashing of Uzbekistan in their Olympic qualifiers.

But how did that 10-0 win stack up against some of their previous big victories?

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Matildas' highest scoring game: What is Australia's biggest win in history?

The Matildas' biggest win came in 1998 when they thrashed American Samoa 21-0 in an Oceania Football Confederation Championship group match.

This result is tied for the biggest win in women's football history.

Since joining the Asian Football Confederation, Australia's largest margin of victory occurred fairly recently.

They smashed Indonesia 18-0 in the group stage of the 2022 AFC Women's Asian Cup in India.

Sam Kerr scored five goals in the match and officially became Australia's top international goalscorer – across the men's and women's games.

Most goals scored in a women's football match

There have been five matches in the World Cup qualifying rounds that have seen teams score a whopping 21 goals in seriously lopsided victories.

The most recent was Haiti's demolition of the British Virgin Islands in 2022.

MatchScoreYearStage
Japan vs. Guam21-01997AFC Championship Group A
Canada vs. Puerto Rico21-01998CONCACAF Championship Group A
New Zealand vs. Samoa21-01998OFC Championship Group A
Australia vs. American Samoa21-01998OFC Championship Group B
Haiti vs. British Virgin Islands21-02022CONCACAF Women's Championship Qualification

Joshua Mayne

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Joshua Mayne is a content producer for The Sporting News Australia based in Sydney, Australia. He has previously worked as a newsreader at 2SER and journalist at Ministry of Sport. While Joshua’s main passions are football, rugby league, basketball and F1, he will watch any sport that's on. He is still waiting for Arsenal to win the Premier League again.