Navata 0-27 Villarreal: If You Watch All 27 Goals You’re a Sadist

I once played for a youth team that lost 24-0. True story, and not a fun way to spend a Sunday morning. I also sort of assumed that a twenty-four goal deficit was the worst beating it was possible to receive in a 90 minute football match. But that was before I heard about the pre-season game in Spain this past weekend, which finished Navata 0-27 Villarreal.

Ouch.
Villarreal, as we all know, are a top flight La Liga team. But in which division do CF Navata play? Took a fair bit of Googling and a whole lot of Google Translating, but I eventually placed Navata in the Tercera Territorial de Catalunya, and learned a bit about the Spanish league pyramid along the way.

The Tercera Territorial de Catalunya is the lowest level of the Catalan regional league system, which puts it a full eight levels below Villarreal and La Liga Primera División. It’s so low, its Wikipedia page is currently non-existenet in English, Spanish and Catalan.

So really these two teams had no business playing each other, and I can’t imagine either got much out of the experience. Villarreal may as well have played against a team of 12 year olds.

If you’re an absolute sadist with 6 minutes 39 seconds to spare, you can watch all 27 goals go in below:

Fortunately, my own 24-0 defeat happened long before the birth of YouTube, so the only place it gets replayed is in my nightmares.

[Thanks to reader Matthew Wright for the tip. If you spot anything that should be posted on The Offside, send an email to tips[at]theoffside[dot]com]

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