Tellia 62–0 Franklin Islands

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Date 8 April 2020
Venue Stadio di Romero, Romero

On 8 April 2020, Tellia played a football match against the Franklin Islands as part of the qualifying competition for the 2020 Benacia Cup. Held at the Stadio di Romero, the match's final scoreline of 62–0 set a new world record for the most goals in any match and the largest margin of victory in FMF history.

Background

The match took place in the fourth scheduled round of Group C qualifying fixtures for the year's Benacia Cup finals. Ahead of kick-off, Tellia stood atop the four-team group with three wins from three, while the Franklin Islands had lost each of their first three matches and were bottom. The two teams had played once previously, in the opening round of matches, where Tellia had secured a 41–0 victory to break the record score for a competitive match, though this score fell short of the Franklin Islands' 57–0 loss to Nova England in their 2014 début exhibition game. This prior meeting was the Tellians' first match since the team's underwhelming elimination in the 2019 FMF World Cup group stages as reigning champions, and was reported as being a ruthless attempt at restoring some pride. That fixture also took place on Tellian soil, at Rossavro's DaeZoom Arena, due to the Franklin Islands' own lack of home facilities and through an agreement with the FGGC.

Despite being the lowest-ranked international side in the FMF, the Franklin Islands were weakened further by a mystery illness that had affected its population shortly ahead of the match. Ultimately only nine players were declared fit enough to travel and an incomplete line-up, including players from an unprecedented four different generations of the same family, was fielded against one of the strongest footballing nations on Micras.

Match summary

8 April 2020
Tellia Tellia 62 – 0 Franklin Islands Franklin Islands

Records

The result broke the 57–0 senior record that had stood since October 2014 after the Franklin Islands' first ever match, and the competitive record of the two teams' 41–0 meeting ten weeks earlier. The individual scoring record from the 57–0 was also bested, as Armando Uggè's 22-goal haul was two better than Paul Gimbel's in 2014.

Aftermath