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Arbroath 36–0 Bon Accord is the result of a football match between Arbroath and Bon Accord which took place on 12 September 1885. It holds the largest margin of victory in an unrigged professional football match.
Bon Accord Football Club was a football team from Aberdeen, Scotland who suffered the worst defeat in any Scottish senior football match, losing 36–0 to Arbroath on 12 September 1885 in a first round match of the 1885–86 Scottish Cup. Thirteen goals were scored by centre-forward John Petrie, a Scottish Cup and joint world record.
Arbroath set a world record in the first round when they defeated Bon Accord 36–0 on 12 September 1885. The score remains a record in British senior football and globally for a match that was not fixed or thrown.
Arbroath Football Club is a semi-professional Scottish football club based in the town of Arbroath, ... 36–0 vs Bon Accord, 12 September 1885, Scottish Cup ...
In September 1885, Arbroath played Bon Accord in the Scottish Cup at Gayfield and won 36–0, which remains a British record score for a senior football match. [2] Arbroath joined the Scottish Football League in 1921, with the first League match at Gayfield being against Johnstone. The club's plans to construct a "Greater Gayfield" led to the ...
During the summer of 1885, there was pressure put on the Football Association to accept professionalism in English football, culminating in a special meeting on 20 July, after which it was announced that it was "in the interests of Association Football, to legalise the employment of professional football players, but only under certain restrictions".
Ross County v Hibernian has been given the green light after a Saturday morning pitch inspection at the Dingwall ground. The League 1 match between Arbroath and Kelty Hearts was called off on ...
The contemporary reports however do not mention any disallowed goals, unlike for the Arbroath v Bon Accord match. Dundee Harp full back Tom O'Kane was an ex-Arbroath player, and persuaded the Dundee club's officials to send a telegram to his former colleagues at Gayfield Park boasting of his team's record breaking achievement.