Every Premier League Team's MOST Humiliating Defeat 

Southampton fans should look away now.

I'm shocked the "Shame of Manchester" isn't included. Maybe because it was in my random FIFA Manager save in like 2034 but still. 1-1 at half time, however United got 3 red cards and we (AFC Wimbledon) won 1-10. United actually still won the league but actually only conceeded 37 goals all season.

As a Norwich fan, losing 1-7 at home to Colchester in 2009 would probably be our most humiliating defeat

I think Man United's 4-0 loss to MK Dons is little bit more humiliating.

Honorable mentions for man utd: ZTE 1-0 Man Utd (2002) Southend United 1-0 Man Utd (2006) MK Dons 4-0 Man Utd (2014) Astana 2-1 Man Utd (2019) Istanbul 2-1 Man Utd (2020) Brentford 4-0 Man Utd (2022)

For me my own team Glentoran FC's most humiliating defeat was a 5th round Irish cup loss to Newington Youth Club at home. We lost 1-0 and it was a true David Vs Goliath game. Glentoran are one of the biggest and most successful clubs in Northern Ireland and Newington were a amateur club at the time. By far the darkest day in the club's history. Going out at the first hurdle in a competition we would have expected to make the final

As a Bournemouth supporter I'm glad you didn't bring up the FA Cup defeat to Boreham Wood. That was frustrating!

Update that list now!! 7-0

as a Southampton supporter i gotta say the Leicester 9-0 was more humiliating. at MU we had a squad decimated w injuries and even appealed to have the game postponed, which was denied. in the 1st or 2nd minute, an academy player making his debut got a deserved straight red which doomed us there. later on in the match Bednarek was given a wrongful red card (i say this because the red was later rescinded) and the match wouldnt have been 9-0 w out that. obviously 6 or 7 nil is still a disgrace but there were multiple factors outside of So'ton's control that contributed to the 2nd 9-0. so because of that Leicester was far more humiliating

7 "least deserved" results/wins would be a good list.

As a Chelsea fan (whilst being one for just 21 years), I'd say the most humiliating defeats in my book were the 2-4 home loss against Bradford and the 6-0 shitshow against Man City. All other defeats could be justified, but these two really hurt.

Shoutout to Sunderland, yes we aren't Premier league anymore but we lost 8-0 to Southampton in the Premier league including a genuine all-time great own goal volleyed in from 30yards. Santiago Vergini take a bow

As a Spurs fan the most embarrasing game for me, was when we were 3-0 up against 10 man, Manchester City. We ended up losing 4-3.

Was at Histon vs Leeds! Was hoping it would get a mention. Great video 👍🏼⚽️

On that Leeds defeat, it’s worth noting that Histon got relegated out of the Northern Premier League Division One last season and are now just the eight divisions below Leeds United and the Premier League.

Newcastle's defeat to Derby in 2007/08 should be mentioned. It was the only win Derby got that season lol

Can't agree with the Brighton pick. I think most of us old enough to remember it would always pick the time that we had Brian Clough as manager and managed to lose 4-0 at home to Walton and Hersham. Losing to 9 man Walsall was bad, but sneaky 1-0 wins happen against the odds all the time. Losing 4-0 at home to an Isthmian League team is much rarer and more painful.

Alfie, for Liverpool beating Aston villa 6-0 surely you could have called the 7-2 as some sort of revenge of humiliation

Can you do a video on the rise of Yeovil town from the 6th tier to the championship and then the rapid collapse to conference?

As a Brazilian, It's really interesting to get to know some of the lowest moments in Premier League clubs histories. Around here, the greatest "vexames" (embarrasment, shame) usually are - as Alfie described in a Lot of his choices - surrounded by a larger context of a campaign, rivalry, an entire club period and/or even "off-pitch" aspects, such as players, directors, chairmen actions and statements. A lot of times, It's not only the poorest performance or the heaviest scoreline that defines the greatest humiliation. It can be a specific match that "encapsulates and symbolizes" a relagation Season of a big club, for example. Nevertheless, another really fine video!

What about Leeds beating man u when Leeds were in league 1?! That's definitely their most humiliating!!

I wish Blackpool were in the prem now. So he could talk about when Port Vale beat the Stanley Mathew's team back in '54. UTV ⚫⚪

Absolutely criminal how that Everton team made top four scoring 45 goals

Aston Villa 7-2 Liverpool deserves a honorable mention

Fulham getting battered by Hull with 6 of the goals coming in at the second half was pretty brutal :')

As a feyenoord fan, I'm just incredibly happy you did not make this video about the eredivisie

When talking about Man City the picture of Cantona is against Coventry not Man City

As a forest fan i think our 4-1 defeat to stoke is probably one of our most humiliating defeats as it was a stoke team with nothing to play for we only had to draw to get play offs and if we lost we could of still got play offs if we didn’t lose by a lot of goals but we still bottled it

As a WBA fan, smashing Wolves 5-1 was incredibly satisfying, I think there was a riot in Wolverhampton town centre afterwards, it must have been horrible to be on the other end of that. We maybe in a lower league now but we have had it over them for so long in the derby. We've only lost to them 3 times since 1997, winning 13 in the process including a very memorable 3-0 win in the FA Cup where we were given their seats in exchange for Wolves fans getting a pie and pint voucher. In terms of our own most embarrassing defeat there have been a few in my lifetime, including a few thrashings in the prem, ones that stand out are losing 6-0 and 5-0 to liverpool at home, but I think losing to Wimbledon 1-0 in 2004 is one that has stuck in my mind. They had just moved to Milton Keynes and finished bottom that season. They only bought about a 100 fans and still managed to beat us. Very depressing game all round.

For me, Spurs losing to Dynamo Zagreb while having a 2 goal lead and Zagreb having their manager recently taken to prison before the second leg is up there as most embarrassing.

From someone who saw both legs of the Arsenal-Bayern match, I would say that was just as embarrassing for Arsenal. Losing 10-2 over two legs is brutal, but as I am a Bayern fan, I laughed my ass off.

The brentford Peterborough game is the first game I remember going to, best day of my life. Made me fall in love with football.

I think when compiling such a list, it might help to consider what the result means to the winning side. If you're playing Liverpool or Manchester United, and you've got a bad day while they've got a great one, then conceding 6 to 8 goals can happen. But to them, this'll be merely a side note in their history, On the other hand "remember when we won despite being two men down after half an hour?" is the stuff of legends, and will probably get talked about for decades to come among fans of that club - especially if they're not regularly winning any trophies

as a bournemouth fan i honestly think losing 1-0 away at blyth spartans in an fa cup replay was our most humiliating defeat. probably the absolute lowest point in the clubs history as we were still on minus points in december and eddie howe hadnt become our manager yet. it felt like the final death knell of our club at the time

Great video! Though if it was made today, Man U's might now be updated to losing 7-0 to Liverpool. Man Utd went into that game sitting 3rd in the table, off the back of a League Cup triumph at Wembley against a much improved Newcastle Utd, as well as beating Barcelona 2-1 in the Europa League. Liverpool meanwhile were sat 6th, and in the build-up to this game, had just lost 5-2 at home to Real Madrid, drew 0-0 to Crystal Palace, and struggled to beat Wolves 2-0. In a game that should have seen Man Utd in full confidence, they actually started the game well, but utterly capitulated following a Cody Gakpo goal just before half-time.

Surprised you didn’t mention our 9-1 defeat against Sunderland in 1908

Another great video mate! While watching this I thought of a possible idea for a video. The 7 teams that have conceded the most goals in total in the PL. Obviously some teams have played a hell of a lot more games than others but I’m sure a man of your skills could come up with some rules to sort it haha.

As a Norwich fan some would say the 7-1 to Colchester, however the FA cup defeat 1-0 to Luton is probably worse, due to our relative league positions at the time....

Regarding Forest, I'd say the most embarrassing result in my lifetime was losing 3-2 to Woking away in the 1st round of the LDV Vans trophy in 2005. I went to that game as I live near Woking but support Forest. That is the most embarrassing along with the 8-1 defeat to Man Utd in 1999 (ironically we've not played Man Utd in ANY competition since that game)

Thanks for not mentioning the back-to-back trouncings by Bayern over Arsenal, battering us 5-1 twice to give them a 10-2 win on aggregate! Oh, how we miss the CL!

I mean man u losing to leeds at old Trafford given the rivalry and the fact leeds were in league 1 and fergie still at the helm surely deserved an honorable mention for man u

I'm a Walsall fan, remember that win against Brighton well. We don't often get a mention on HITC Sevens either!

Hi Alfie! You just mentioned my boyhood club in here for the first time I belive, in the name if Dinamo Bucharest and I know now it’s the best time for me to request a What on earth is going on (which by the way is one of the best series on youtube) video on them. We just got relegated for the first time in all club’s history and the things are not going well at all. I truly appreciate all of your efforts and I will be more than happier if you will consider this idea. Hope you enjoy your day, Alfie!

I was at Brentford's 7-0 loss at Peterborough in 2007. The only consolation was that I lost count and left the stadium thinking it was 8-0! Not sure why the thumbnail picture is of Deon Burton from the 2004/05 season though, when he'd left more than 2 years before that Peterborough game!

As a Blackpool fan, you forgot to mention...we beat Liverpool twice back in 2010/11. 2-1 at Anfield and same score at Bloomfield Rd.

When did Everton overtake Liverpool as Englands dominant force. I seem to remember either side of their two league triumphs Liverpool winning the other 3 titles and a European cup and the double in 86 between there 2 league titles in that period. Some dominance

You could do a 25 minute video on Leeds' most humiliating defeats alone. Also worth mentioning we made two playoff finals in our time outside the top flight and lost 3-0 to a poor Watford side and 1-0 to Doncaster. Don't even get started on the time we became the first club to fail to reach a Championship playoff final after winning the first leg away from home in 2019.

The 7 teams in most need of a new stadium.

As a spurs fan. I remember being live on sky. The 1-0 defeat to Grimsby town in the second round of the League cup. Or city's 4-3 come back in the FA cup at White Hart lane depsite them being down to ten men.

What a game the 8-2 against Arsenal was. Im a die hard United fan from Sweden. I bought a ticket to that game online and was told to pick it up at some agent in Manchester. I was meant to pick up by 1pm on the Saturday before the game. After waiting until 9am for a friend who was meant to come from Birmingham and drive me to Manchester i ended up taking a train. When i got to Manchester it turned out i had to take a tram to the agent. By the time i got of the tram, it was almost 1pm and i was rushing. I ran out the tram looking down at the papper with the address to the agent when i suddenly felt a sharp pain to my head. It turned out i had ran into a pole and split my eyebrow open. With blood gushing down my face i continued to run to the agent only to find it was closed by the time i got there. Dissapointed and in pain, i figured that if i go to Old trafford the club would give me a ticket. Only to be told that they didn’t recognize the agent that had sold me the ticket and that it was fake. I pleaded with them and told them that i was a die-hard fan from Sweden, only to be told that ”this happens all the time” 😤 Dissapointed and in pain, i angrily walked out and wondered around Old trafford in a daze, crying and blood running down my face because it was raining by then. After an hr or so, while standing next to the holy trinity, i was approached by a man. After asking me what was wrong and me telling him, he asked me how much money i had on me. I had more, but told him i had sixty pounds left on more. Then he told me he had a ticket in the away section that he could sell me for that. After buying the ticket from him, he told me to go to the hospital because of my sore (i hadn’t been aware it was that bad). You can imagine how surprised i was when a woman walked into the waiting room at the hospital and presented herself as the sister of the man who had sold me the ticket. Her brother had told her the story and she had come to check on me. She gave me her number and told me to call her when i was done. I called her and she came and picked me up and drove me to her house where me, her 80 yr old mother and her had dinner. After dinner me and her brother hung out and it turned out he was a die hard fan who had been at a couple of CL finals. He offered me to sleep over but i declined because i had booked a room by a pub close to Old trafford. Later that night we went out and had some drinks before calling it a night. The next day i watched the game and couldn’t believe my eyes. Unfortunately i couldn’t celebrate the goals because i was with the arsenal fans😂 What a memory, this video just reminded me of that day. But also how total strangers can be so kind and thoughtful. It’s a shame there are not more people like that. Unfortunately i lost my phone and contact with that guy, but wish i could find him somehow and invite him to 🇸🇪

Never Forget Man City's 8-1 Lose To Middlesbrough Back In 2008

7:34 Big ups for the Kingstonian shout out. Grew up there. Kings Meadow was at the end of my road. Used to jump the fence with my mates on Friday night to play on the pitch. Floodlights from the athletes track next door lit the pitch.

Me personally was the 4-1 defeat at home to Liverpool. The loss, fact that both were going for the title at that time just hit harder.

IMO, Liverpools most embarrassing defeat surely has to be their 1-0 1998 FA Cup Final defeat to Wimbledon. Back then nobody gave Wimbledon a chance in hell, some papers even had them losing double digits in the final. Liverpool being the team of the 80's and as dominant as you can imagine they thought Wimbledon in the final would be a stroll in the park. All this just for Wimbledon to go 1-0 up and Dave Beasant becoming the first goalkeeper to save a penalty in an FA Cup final practically winning the cup for a side who had been a non-league club no more than 12 years prior.

My local team worksop town managed to scrape a 0-0 draw vs Leicester in the fa cup whilst being in the 9th divison. We wont talk of the replay though and end the story here.

I think the most relelvant topics in football right now are; Did Barcelona hire thugs to slap around Aubameyang so they don't have to pull anymore levers? And are witches a thing in football?

I would have picked the 4-0 FA Cup Final defeat by Man Utd for Chelsea. Even though we finished 14th that year, we beat League Champions Man Utd 1-0 home and away that year, and it was expected to be a very close game. To be beaten so comprehensively in arguably the biggest English game of the season (The FA Cup was still considered the banner competition back then) was a massive blow for Chelsea (and me as a 17 year old watching my team in their first FA Cup Final of my lifetime).

Personally, while the 6-1 home defeat to City is inescapable and cemented a major paradigm shift in the English game, I think the 5-0 home defeat to Liverpool felt much, much worse considering the progress we were making under Ole prior to that point. It also sent me into a depression personally, which the City game did not, so take your pick I guess lol

Chelsea's 6-0 defeat to QPR on 31st March 1986 was our worst-ever, I'd say. We finished 6th that year (QPR were 13th), but we were also relegated two seasons after. This time period has often been referred to as "the shit years" for good reason. I've been a Chelsea girl my whole life, but was lucky enough to have been born just after 💙🤍 #KTBFFH

As a Newcastle fan the one you chose for us is wrong, our most humiliating defeat came way back in 1908 with a 9-1 defeat at SJP to Sunderland. Our heaviest defeat ever...and it had to be to THEM. At the time we were the best team in England as well.

Glad this channel exists to continuously remind people of our 8-0 pasting of Hull

I'm disappointed that you didn't select Wrexham 2-1 Arsenal for the first entry. That one was truly hilarious.

TIL Alfie was tweeted by Hull once

Was at the 8-2 drubbing of my beloved Arsenal at that shit hole, Old Trafford. Saw a remarkable number of octogenarians weeping with joy over what had taken place. It was a remarkably sobering moment. Absolutely horrific.. Still paying off the debt from that trip. Wouldn’t alter a thing. We drove 2,600 miles about the place, attending 13 matches over the course of 17 days taking in matches far and wide, of many levels… Wales, England and Scotland. Had the time of my life! COYG!!! ✌🏼❤️🥂 from Colorado, USA.

Absolutely spot on with the Brighton selection! Was an astonishing day

It goes back to 1908-and even though they won the league that season-I would imagine Newcastle United's NINE-one HOME defeat to Sunderland still haunts St James Park !

Amazed you didn’t think Leicester losing to Wycombe was the biggest lcfc shock! FA Cup Quarter Final, Leicester were in top 5 of the Premier League at the time whilst Wycombe had to advertise for a striker! I believe Leicester went in free fall after that which took 10 years to recover from

As a Peterborough United fan, it pleases me greatly to see little old us feature twice in a video about humiliating defeats for current Premier League teams 😆

Man Utd losing 4-0 to MK Dons in 2014 should've got a dishonourable mention.

How did Liverpool losing 7-2 to Aston Villa not even get a mention

One other Villa defeat that deserved a shout is Bradford 3 Villa in the 2013 League Cup semifinal first leg. Maybe that one game wasn’t humiliating enough, Villa could only win the home leg 2-1, and a Premier League losing over two legs to a side in League 2 is certainly humiliating. Especially a big club that hasn’t won a trophy since 1996.

"I hope you enjoy it, at least until your team comes up" Me who's team isn't in the Premier League.

Though maybe not their worst ever loss, as a Yorkshireman whose boss at the time was a Man U fan, I truly enjoyed York City beating Man U over 2 legs in the League Cup back in 95. Massive Man U vs the minnows of York. Nice.

As an Ipswich fan, the nine nil at old trafford still gives me nightmares. But we smashed the same team 6-0 at Portman Road in 1980, so there is a massive cushion of comfort in that.

Teams that signed the most players in a single transfer window.

Nah the Southampton 9-0 wasn't the most humiliating. 2 red cards, (the first after 2 minutes) covid outbreak meaning 2 youth team players with less than 5 starts between them had to play. The real humiliating defeat was back in the league cup in 1980. Southampton were 2nd in the table(finished 6th), had 5 internationals playing, had won the first leg 4-0 against a team in the division below. Even rested European footballer of the year Kevin Keegan. Promptly lost 7-1. I was there, sadly.

As a Newcastle fan I'd say the last 14 years under the old ownership was one long embarrassing moment.

Since you mentioned Bury, they are back! In the ninth division, admittedly, but it is the original club once again.

Another one for Newcastle. Losing 6-1 to Leyton Orient in a pre season friendly to tell us all it would be another awful, hopeless season to come under Ashley.

Bournemouth's 9-0 defeat to Liverpool was their joint worst loss. In December 1982 they also lost 9-0 to my team Lincoln in what is now League One in what was Harry Redknapp's first game in charge fir the Cherries. Bournemouth's keeper was actually man of the match as it could have been well into double figures.

As a Northampton fan, most humiliating since I’ve been following us (2007/08) and my top three have to be: 1. Shrewsbury Town 7-2 home defeat in November 2011. 2. Plymouth Argyle 4-1 away literally just after the Shrewsbury one. Plymouth at this point had financial issues and were the whipping boys of League Two at this point. An insulting performance. 3. 1-0 defeat to Stourbridge in the FA Cup in 2016/17. Several divisions below us and overall, just embarrassing.

yes up the posh! never thought id see us in a HITC sevens video

Day 7: a team with teenagers/the best young players to ever captain their senior side

As a spurs fan I would say losing 5-2 to Arsenal while being 2-0 up was embarrassing we never heard the end of it

Speaking as a Liverpool fan, the 7-2 defeat to Villa was a pretty dark day…

The 0-5 to Liverpool is a lot worse than the 1-6 to City at Old Trafford

I think Tottenham losing to Man City in an FA Cup 4th Round replay was worse than the West Ham loss. Losing away to West Ham wasn't such a strange thing. Losing at home to pre takeover Man City after taking a 3-0 lead before halftime, to a team that had to substitute Nicholas Anelka halfway through the first half and had Joey Barton sent off for arguing with the referee after the halftime whisltle was blown was far worse. That was a long bus ride home that night....

As an Arsenal fan, I think the penalty shootout defeat to Bradford in the League Cup was more embarrassing than the 8-2 to Manchester. The former saw an almost full-strength Arsenal side desperately chasing a game against a League Two team (complete with Gervinho missing one of the easiest goalscoring chances I've ever seen), while the latter saw a massively inexperienced and underpowered Arsenal side capitulate after a red at a ground they've historically never done well at.

Haven’t looked through all comments, so apologies if this has been pointed out, but at the start of the Man City segment there is a still of Man Utd playing Coventry…

Do the Championship next.

Spurs being up 3-0 to a Man City team down a man and losing 4-3 deserved a shout

My clubs is when Celtic lost to Inverness in 2000 they were a newly formed team came to celtic park and got John barnes sacked.

I would say the Manchester Utd - Liverpool game at Old Trafford last season, 0-5, would be more humiliating. That game could have ended 0-10, if Liverpool didn't stop trying in the second half.

Why have you got an image of Clive Allen of Spurs when you said that West Ham lost 5-2 to Barnsley? 🙄

Liverpool losing 7-2 to villa is also pretty humiliating tbh especially the circumstances of the season prior to that

I think losing 1-0 to a smaller team is more humiliating than losing 5-0 to a bigger one.

West Ham losing european qualifiers to Astra Giurgiu two years in a row deserves a shout tbh

17:07 Manchester United : 1-6 Defeat to Man City (2011), 0-5 to Newcastle (1996), 0-5 to Chelsea (1999)

In all fairness Posh had a great team back then when we beat Brentford 7-0 and they had 9 men but cant takeaway how good we were

I will say that the loss to MK Dons also was very humiliating... atleast worth an honorable mention