Soccer Football - Champions League - Group A - Rangers v Liverpool - Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - October 12, 2022 General view of a big screen displaying the full time score after the match Action Images via Reuters/Russell Cheyne
The proud Sevco Champions League record is 90 minutes away from being secured for all time.
Last season in their first ever campaign in the elite competition Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side lost all six matches with a -20 goal difference. The ‘quality’ of their opponents can be measured by the fact that only Napoli are back in this season’s competition, Ajax and Liverpool had nightmare seasons.
Since the six match group stage was introduced in season 91/92 only 22 teams have managed to finish with six defeats.
It was quite a task to emulate but with Giovanni van Bronckhorst in charge he racked up six defeats on the bounce highlighted by a 7-1 home defeat from Liverpool after Scott Arfield scored their first ever group stage goal. Ibrox fans were offered the chance to buy a special framed print to remember that night.
Antwerp zero points and -12.
Antwerp can avoid being the eternal worst side in Champions League history of forever, if they avoid a 9-0 defeat at home to Barcelona in the final game.
With the Champions League format change next season the ‘worst’ title becomes permanent. https://t.co/gT8OG7e6Ag
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) November 29, 2023
Sitting on -12 Antwerp have had the consolation of scoring three times in the competition, a defeat looks likely at home to Barcelona in their final match but it will require a nine goal reverse to take Sevco’s place in the record books.
Next season the competition will take on a new format with 36 clubs playing eight matches against seven different opponents with home and away matches confined to the history books alongside the heroic Ibrox record breakers of season 22/23.
22 sides have finished on zero points in the Champions League.
The likes of Marseille, Villarreal, Benfica, Brugge, Anderlecht and Rangers (currently the worst there’s ever been) are among them.
Dinamo Zagreb the only club to make the zero points list twice. pic.twitter.com/I5tEQaozoi
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) November 29, 2023
Please let them be it!
Well at least the scum were able to just about manage a point against a shower of holiday reps and deck chair attendants
They’re making an Aris of themselves…
HH