https://www.balloon-juice.com/2019/06/12/13-0-and-referee-thoughts/#comment-7311707

38 Captain C says:

June 13, 2019 at 2:32 am

@Felanius Kootea: It was, in 2001, when Australia whomped American Samoa in the Oceanian World Cup qualifying matches by an American football blow-out sounding score of 31-0.

It led to the Oceanian zone implementing a preliminary qualifying round, and eventually (as they wanted) Australia being switched to the Asian confederation, where it would have a chance to qualify for a spot in the finals directly, instead of always having to play a 3rd-5th place team from North or South America, or Africa, or Asia once they won their own confederation.

Striker Archie Thompson scored 13 all by himself in the match. David Zdrillic accounted for another 8, Con Boutsanis had a hat trick, there were three more braces, and eight seven players overall scored. Apparently, this game was a few days after Australia had clobbered Tonga by a then-record score of 22-0. I think they were trying to make a point


Yowza.

Cheers,
Scott.