It is the second most famous international trouncing of all time after Germany's 7-1 win over Brazil.
On April 11 2001, Australia beat American Samoa 31-0 in a 2002 world cup Qualifier to set the record for the biggest professional international win. It has gone down in football folklore since then, but here is few little factoids about the game you may not know or forgotten about.

1. American Samoa had 19players out due to passport issuses
Meaning they only had one player from their usual roster that actually played in the game.
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2. Their backups from the U-20s side couldn't play because of exams
Usually you'd think a world cup Qualifier would be more important than school, but you feel they probably knew they'd get humped.
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3. Some of the American samoa players had apparently never even played a 90minutes game of football
Manager, Tony Langkilde, said " some of the players struggled because they weren't used to playing for such long Length of time".

4. Australia didn't even score until the 10th minute
Which means they actually scored 31goals in 80minutes of football.
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5. American Samoa did actually have one shot on goal
It took until the 86th minute, but Pati Feagiai's name will go in history as that guy who had a shot against Australia. Michael Petkovic was the killjoy keeper who saved it.
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6. Australia didn't even play Mark Viduka
The socceroos knew they would absolutely walk the game so they picked a weakened Team themselves, They even dropped John Aloisi, who had scored six goals in their previous match.
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7. Australia had beaten Tonga 22-0 two days before
Which itself was a world international match-on April 9 2001, The Socceroos recorded the emphatic win over Tonga, meaning in three days they scored 53 goals and conceded none.

8. Archie Thompson scored 13goals out of the 31goals
Which means the country's all time football stats are somewhat skewed. Thompson sits third on the list of top scorers for Australia with 28goals in 53games.
However, 13 of the goals came against one opponent, which doesn't quite seem fair.
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9. No one was actually sure what the score was
The scoreboard at the end of the game had the result at 32-0 but the refree and match officials had the score at 31-0, meaning American Samoa weren't too humiliated.
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10. The Records that tumbled were ridiculous
Not only was it the highest win in an international match, but Thompson's 13goals was also (unsurprisnly) the highest individual goal tally for one game. Thompson also equalled the world record for most goals scored in a senior match, matching the record set in 1885 by John Petrie in Arbroath's 36-0 win over Bon Accord in the Scottish cup

11. It had genuine consequences on world football
Australia weren't even happy by winning the game by such a big margin. For them, it forced the issue that they couldn't keep on playing at such a low level. It led to the introduction of a Preliminary round in the Oceanian zone world cup Qualification group. And helped Australia Secure a move to the Asian Football confedration in 2006.
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Source: https://www.dreamteamfc.com/c/news-gossip/164241/old-but-gold-australia-hammer-american-samoa-31-0/

It is nothing compared to the India 100-1 thrashing of Nigeria, I even heard that the guy that scored the only goal for Nigeria died instantly after talking the shot .

Crofton:
[s]It is nothing compared to the India 100-1 thrashing of Nigeria, I even heard that the guy that scored the only goal for Nigeria died instantly after talking the shot .

is that one a world cup qualification?[/s]

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that match only happened in audio joor

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11. It had genuine consequences on world football
Australia weren't even happy by winning the game by such a big margin. For them, it forced the issue that they couldn't keep on playing at such a low level. It led to the introduction of a Preliminary round in the Oceanian zone world cup Qualification group. And helped Australia Secure a move to the Asian Football confedration in 2006.
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Source: https://www.dreamteamfc.com/c/news-gossip/164241/old-but-gold-australia-hammer-american-samoa-31-0/

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ghettokid1:

is that one a world cup qualification?

Nothing like that . such game never occur

yoged:
Nothing like that . such game never occur

The match only occured in audio

Nigeria won India 99-1

tobechi74:
Nigeria won India 99-1

Nothing like that happened joor

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