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England recorded their biggest ever World Cup win after comfortably dispatching Panama 6-1 in their second match in Group G on Sunday.

As good as the result was for England, it was far from one of the biggest wins ever recorded in a World Cup match.

In fact there are a whole host of mind-boggling results that make England's result look like a closely contested affair.

Here are the ten biggest wins in World Cup history.

10. Portugal 7-0 North Korea (2010)

North Korea kicked off their 2010 World Cup campaign by only being narrowly defeated by the all-conquering Brazil 2-1 - a genuine surprise given their status as an international minnow.

So impressive was their performance, North Korea leader Kim Jon-Ill apparently sanctioned their second group match against Portugal to be broadcast to the North Korean public.

To say that the decision backfired horribly is an understatement. Portugal absolutely battered the Asian side 7-0.  Raul Meireles, Simao, Hugo Almeida, Liedson and Cristiano Ronaldo all scored once whilst Tiago grabbed two goals.

North Korea finished the tournament with no points and a minus-11 goal difference - the worst in the 2010 tournament.

9. Poland 7-0 Haiti (1974)

Haiti began their World Cup campaign by causing an almighty shock when they took the lead against Italy - finishing Dino Zoff's run of not conceding in 1148 minutes in the process.

They lost the game 3-1 but hopes were high that they could cause a few more upsets in their group.

They didn't and things went dreadfully in their second match against Poland where they took one hell of a pummelling. Andrzej Szarmach grabbed a hat-trick, Grzegorz Lato scored two, and Jerzy Gorgon and Kazimierz Deyna notched one each to compound Haiti's misery. Poland then went on to finish third, their best ever finish.

8. Turkey 7-0 South Korea

South Korea are widely regarded as a pretty decent international side nowadays. But they didn't get off to a great start when they qualified for their first ever World Cup in 1954.

Their second group match was against Turkey and they were on the wrong end of a 7-0 drubbing. Goals from Lefter Kucukandonyadis, Erol Keskin, a brace from Suat Mumat and a hat-trick from Buhran Sargun won the match for Turkey.

Unfortunately for South Korea, this wasn't even the worse result they suffered in 1954 as we will soon find out.

7. Uruguay 7-0 Scotland (1954)

The 1954 World Cup marked the first time Scotland had ever featured at the summer tournament and it was a calamitous debut to say the least.

Scotland took just 13 players to the tournament, two of them being goalkeepers. Unsurprisingly, they were defeated convincingly by a very good Uruguay side who went on to reach the semi-finals of the competition.

Carlos Borges bagged a hat-trick alongside braces from both Oscar Miguez and Julio Abbadie.

6. Germany 8-0 Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia's 5-0 defeat against Russia in the opening match of the 2018 World Cup was pretty dreadful, but it was nothing compared to their 8-0 defeat against Germany in 2002.

Germany ran riot in Japan against a Saudi Arabia side who failed to make a single tackle in the first half. Die Maanschaft went all the way to the final, finishing as runners-up behind Brazil. Saudi Arabia, on the other hand, fell at the first hurdle.

All time World Cup top scorer Miroslav Klose scored a hat-trick, alongside goals from Michael Ballack, Carsten Jancker, Thomas Linke, Oliver Bierhoff and Bernd Schneider.

5. Uruguay 8-0 Bolivia

Uruguay feature on this list for the second time after they defeated fellow South Americans Bolivia 8-0 in 1950.

1950 will forever be a year that is cherished by Uruguayans as it was the year that they won their second World Cup trophy, famously defeating Brazil in the final - at Brazil's home tournament.

The game itself took place in the group stages and was a sign of things to come for Uruguay. Oscar Miguez got a hat-trick, Juan Schiaffino earned a brace and Ernesto Vidal, Julio Perez and Alcides Ghiggia all got one each.

4. Sweden 8-0 Cuba (1938)

This match took place in the quarter-finals of the 1938 tournament, which demonstrates just how embarrassing the defeat was for the Central Americans.

Sweden qualified for the quarter finals by default after their prospective round of 16 opponents, Austria, pulled out of the tournament before even kicking a ball.

They then went on to annihilate Cuba with two players scoring hat-tricks - Harry Andersson and Gustav Wetterstrom. Tore Keller and Arne Nyberg also struck for the Europeans.

3. Hungary 10-1 El Salvador (1982)

Panama's performance against England was bad, but it wasn't anywhere near as bad as their fellow Central Americans El Salvador.

Hungary are the only side to ever reach double figures in a World Cup match when they scored ten in this one. Two more records were broken when substitute Laszlo Kiss scored a seven minute hat-trick. It was the fastest hat-trick ever scored at a World Cup and the only one scored by a substitute. Incredibly, neither side made it out of their group.

Tibor Niyalasi, Gabor Poloskei, Laszlo Fazekas, Jozsef Toth and Lazar Szentes got the other goals.

2. Yugoslavia 9-0 Zaire (1974)

Zaire will forever be remembered as one of the worst teams in World Cup history and their amateurish abilities as a team were summed up as they were drubbed 9-0 by Yugoslavia.

Zaire were the only side from Africa present at the tournament amidst a backdrop of controversy and dictatorship back home.

They lost to Scotland in their opening match then followed it up with an awful display against a Yugoslavia who, in all fairness, were very tidy.

Dusan Bajevic bagged three goals whilst Dragan Dzajic, Ivica Surjak, Josip Katalinski, Vladislav Bogicevic, Branko Oblak and Ilija Petkovic were the other goal scorers.

1. Hungary 9-0 South Korea (1954)

As previously mentioned South Korea feature on this list twice, based on two results from the same tournament.

They did have to come up against Hungary, who were widely regarded as the best team in the world at the time, with the best player to boot - Ferenc Puskas.

Unsurprisingly he got himself on the score sheet with two goals and he was accomponied by Mihaly Lantos, Zoltan Czibor, Peter Palotas and Sandor Kocsics. Kocsics was the star of the show, picking up a hat-trick.

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