Bayer 04 Leverkusen suffered a 7-2 defeat in the Champions League – one of the heaviest defeats ever for a German team. Schalke is in the “top 10” twice.
Tuesday’s 7-2 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League was not only historic for Bayer 04 Leverkusen.
With the ninth-highest defeat in the club’s history, the Werkself joined the “top ten” of the highest defeats suffered by German clubs in the premier class. Again. Because Leverkusen are already represented there three times.
At the end of November 2013, under coach Sami Hyypiä, there was a 5-0 home defeat in the preliminary round against Manchester United. A year and a half earlier, there was an even greater humiliation: in the round of 16 second leg, Bayer 04 went down 7-1 at Camp Nou – Lionel Messi scored five times. The 1-3 defeat in the first leg sealed their fate. Schalke twice in the top 10 of Germany’s biggest Champions League defeats FC Schalke is also represented in this inglorious top ten, twice in fact. In November 2014, the Royal Blues, under Roberto di Matteo, lost 5-0 to Chelsea FC in the preliminary round. Schalke’s run came to an end in the round of 16 against Real Madrid.
FC Schalke – Chelsea FC 0-5 (November 25, 2014)
Schalke: Fährmann – Uchida, Höwedes, Felipe Santana, Aogo – Neustädter, Kirchhoff (46. Clemens), Höger, K.-P. Boateng (63. M. Meyer), Choupo-Moting – Huntelaar
FC Chelsea: Courtois – Ivanovic, Terry, Cahill, Azpilicueta – Matic, Fabregas (79. Schürrle), Oscar (75. Ramires), Willian, E. Hazard – Diego Costa (66. Drogba)
Goals: 0-1 Terry (2′), 0-2 Willian (29′), 0-3 Kirchhoff (44′, own goal), 0-4 Drogba (76′), 0-5 Ramires (78′)
Just under five years later, there was an even more emphatic defeat for S04. After Domenico Tedesco’s team had kept up well with Manchester City in the first leg of the round of 16 (2:3), they were crushed 0:7 in the return leg in England. There has never been a bigger defeat for German clubs in the history of the Champions League.
Manchester City – FC Schalke 04 7-0 (March 12, 2019)
Manchester City: Ederson – Walker, Danilo, Laporte (72. Delph), Zinchenko – Gündogan, Bernardo Silva, D. Silva (64. Foden) – Sterling, Aguero (64. G. Jesus), L. Sané
FC Schalke 04: Fährmann – Stambouli, Sané, Bruma, McKennie (74. Mendyl), Oczipka – S. Serdar, Bentaleb, Embolo (69. Skrzybski), Konoplyanka – Burgstaller (79. Teuchert)
Goals: 1:0 Aguero (35., penalty), 2:0 Aguero (38.), 3:0 Sané (42.), 4:0 Sterling (56.), 5:0 B. Silva (71.) , 6:0 Foden (78.), 7:0 G. Jesus (84.)
Other heavy defeats for German clubs in the Champions League
March 14, 2023: Manchester City – RB Leipzig 7:0 (round of 16)
March 30, 1994: Werder Bremen – FC Porto 0-5 (preliminary round)
October 28, 2020: Manchester United – RB Leipzig 5-0 (preliminary round)
March 8, 2005: Olympique Lyon – Werder Bremen 7-2 (round of 16)