How to seal his goal difference after a single day of the championship? The answer comes from Akropolis IF, a Swedish fourth division club, who managed the masterful (against) performance of losing 28-0 (13-0 at half-time) against IFK Stocksund for the season opener!
A catastrophic result which is not really surprising. Because to play, the team from north-west Stockholm had no… players. Debted to the tune of around 150,000 euros, the club has been relegated twice administratively in the last two seasons when it was 5th in D2 in 2020. The sponsors have all dropped the case according to the descents and the players, who do not are not philanthropists either, were not going to stay unpaid.
It was therefore volunteers who offered themselves food to the opposing attackers for 90 very long minutes, where they almost only touched the ball to make commitments. “If we fail to settle the finances in the next few weeks, we will end the club,” explained Glenn Bovin, the new president.
Akropolis are due to play their next game on Saturday April 9 against Hudiksvalls. With perhaps the opportunity to do worse. Because conceding 28 goals without returning a single one is far from being a football record. Take, for example, an extravagant 31-0 inflicted by Australia on American Samoa in 2001 in a qualifying match for the World Cup. Or a 30-0 skillfully distilled by Tahiti in the Cook Islands at the Pacific Games in 1971.
But the prize outside the category goes to a surreal meeting on the last day of the Madagascar championship in 2002. Victory away from AS Adema over the Olympic Stadium L’Emyrne with the score of 149 to 0, official Guinness record . That’s one goal every 36 seconds.
A historical romp that (unfortunately) has a rational explanation. To protest against the refereeing of their previous match, which they considered corrupt, the players of Emyrne had decided to mark the occasion… even to score abundantly in their own cage, which had even allowed their own goalkeeper to push often himself the ball in his net.
