Does that top the list for worst defeat you can remember?

Not even close. The Barca final defeats felt worse as we had a good team then.
This team loses every week so whilst disappointing to lose the final of a second rate European competition, it wasn’t a surprise. Yes we’ve lost out on the ECL but only for a season. Probably a pipe dream, but I’m still hopeful with a few ins & outs over the summer Amorim can get us playing the way he wants. If he doesn’t, well someone else will come in and have a go and that in itself will give us new hope. Wash, rinse & repeat.
 
The worst United defeats are when there is something important on the line but we show up meek and weak.

0-1 vs Wigan in 2012
0-1 vs Spurs in 2025
 
We’ve been so bad I actually took the defeat quite well considering. Was more pissed off when I work up this morning with a hangover and having to work

I was far more gutted when we lost to Villarreal. I liked that team and Ole and was desperate or him to get a trophy
 
Losing to Porto in 2004 was far more brutal than that. This team is such a shitshow i have no expectations, we don't deserve to win and if we did it's only papering over the cracks. Losing that tie in the dying minutes and watching Mourinho run down the touchline, my blood is boiling thinking about it.
 
Definitely the most annoying/disappointing. Getting cuffed off Liverpool or City always hurts but at least you can hold your hands up and say they are much better sides than us currently.

Managing to lose a cup final to a poor team missing it's top players who offered absolutely nothing in the game whilst we coasted through the entire game in first gear is unforgivable.
 
those defeats to Barca are still the worst for me.

thanks to Amorim, we got used to defeats these days. it wasn't like that under SAF.

not to mention nobody really cares about EL trophy, people just want bigger budget for next season.

Vidal and Sneijder transfer sagas damaged me more than our loss yesterday tbh.
 
Only one that comes to mind was the 0-3 loss to liverpool at home, the next season after SAF left, they looked like they were marching towards the title & we were stuck with Moyes. Felt pretty bad at the time.
 
Villereal was a lot worse. Not sure why people mention Barca who were just clearly better than us so to me it was annoying but not that bad. We were clearly still probably the second best team in all of football at the time.

Outside of a final. 6-1 vs City when they went on to win the league. 7-0 to Liverpool only last season? Probably one of the worst defeats I can remember. Not to mention getting our arses handed to us by Liverpool earlier this season
 
Cassidy said:
Villereal was a lot worse. Not sure why people mention Barca who were just clearly better than us so to me it was annoying but not that bad. We were clearly still probably the second best team in all of football at the time.

Outside of a final. 6-1 vs City when they went on to win the league. 7-0 to Liverpool only last season? Probably one of the worst defeats I can remember. Not to mention getting our arses handed to us by Liverpool earlier this season
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Agree with what you've said.
Barca we're better than us, simple as, no shame in losing to them.

Last night as a single result isn't terrible as we probably have the worst squad in living memory, of most fans anyway. It just topped a season of absolute shite.
 
Nope. It was honestly like losing any old march. Didn't even feel like that big of a deal to the players. The rot has reached every part of club, from board to fan base. Yesterday just confirmed what we all know.

Only final I can remember being genuinely pissed about were 09 Champions League, 05 FA Cup and 20 Europa. Those we were good enough to and should have won.
 
Utterly De Ligt'd said:
Losing to Porto in 2004 was far more brutal than that. This team is such a shitshow i have no expectations, we don't deserve to win and if we did it's only papering over the cracks. Losing that tie in the dying minutes and watching Mourinho run down the touchline, my blood is boiling thinking about it.
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The ones with injustice are often the worst, Scholes’s goal being ruled out for offside for that one still annoys me. Plus they only scored from a stupid Howard error. Real Madrid in 2013 too, that ridiculous Nani red card after we’d played so well. Last night it wasn’t a performance that deserved a win and there was no sense of injustice about it, lost fair and square.
 
Can't say I understand the rationale in saying losses under Fergie were worse than last night. Yeah it hurt at the time because we were so used to winning, but at least we knew we'd probably win a trophy or two the next season. It was a pretty amazing time to be a United fan. Now what do we have to look forward to? Relegation probably
 
It's the worst given the importance of the game, were playing a poor team who can play better but was shite last night and United still managed to lose without scoring.
 
Yeah. It's not the losing, it's the manner of the loss when so much was at stake. It's the complete capitulation to a poor side who were without most of their midfield. These players, almost to a man, showed how weak their mentality is.
 
The one single game I’ve ever felt the worst after was the 7-0 at anfield but in the grand scheme of things we finished above them that season and got champions league football.

This game feels worse cause it’s not just about losing a final, it’s the backlash this is going to have. Players that may have come this summer won’t now come, we’re the laughing stock of the premier league and it overall just completely dampings the mood of everyone. We had pinned all our hopes on winning this, we’d gone unbeaten throughout the tournament and ended up losing to Tottenham f*cking Hotspurs.

This is the worst ever.
 
Oranges038 said:
Maybe, it's one of the worst, losing to a team that didn't even attempt to create or have a decent shot on goal.
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We really did well to concede a goal to a team that offered nothing offensively. While also not scoring against a defence that has been conceding loads of goals all season.
 
AndySmith1990 said:
Can't say I understand the rationale in saying losses under Fergie were worse than last night. Yeah it hurt at the time because we were so used to winning, but at least we knew we'd probably win a trophy or two the next season. It was a pretty amazing time to be a United fan. Now what do we have to look forward to? Relegation probably
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But look on the bright side, we could win the Championship the season after.
 
IRELANDUNITED said:
The one single game I’ve ever felt the worst after was the 7-0 at anfield but in the grand scheme of things we finished above them that season and got champions league football.

This game feels worse cause it’s not just about losing a final, it’s the backlash this is going to have. Players that may have come this summer won’t now come, we’re the laughing stock of the premier league and it overall just completely dampings the mood of everyone. We had pinned all our hopes on winning this, we’d gone unbeaten throughout the tournament and ended up losing to Tottenham f*cking Hotspurs.

This is the worst ever.
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Yeah, we've had our lion's share of terrible results of late, but other big name clubs have had their share of bad seasons like Chelsea 15/16 and their 10th placed finish between their title wins, or won a trophy that masked their bad league performances.

This is the first time I've truly felt we're finished as a top club.
 
I was at Old Trafford when Torres wrecked Vidic and we lost 4-1. Easily the worst loss I've seen. Much worse than the freak 7-0 or a City loss where we had a worse team than during the Liverpool loss. SAF didn't even show up for the post-match presser and I had to watch Rafa gloat.

In memory there's the Porto loss in the CL because of the manner we lost it and that we probably would have won the CL if we hadn't. Not helped by Porto and Mourinho being absolute pricks.
 
Not for me at all. I was genuinely over it 20 minutes before the end. I obviously wanted us to win a cup but I didn’t buy the idea this game was hugely significant to our future - we are a very poor football team and winning yesterday wouldn’t have changed that. I think losing means we can get rid of more players due to being able to keep a smaller squad and them earning far less. A part of me also thinks given the absolute shit show throughout the club I didn’t really feel INEOS deserve to claim they’ve managed us to a trophy - this season has been a complete fecking disgrace in so many ways both on and off the field - they don’t get to own any sort of happy ending - the incompetent cnuts. Still pissed we lost but nowhere near the levels of some other defeats.
 
Worst defeat was probably the 1-0 to City in 2012. That was worse than the 6-1 for me because we didn't put up a fight whatsoever. In the 6-1, we weren't actually that bad and could've scored a few more ourselves. We just got caught out at the end by stupidly pushing up instead of seeing out the result.

The worst result in general was the 4-4 against Everton. It was made even worse by watching it with my City supporting brother.
 
Yes of course for several reasons - the opposition, the absolute state of our players, the incompetence of our manager. We weren’t outplayed by a better team on the night like in 2009 and 2011, we didn’t lose because of an individual shitshow like in 2021. We lost because we collectively threw the game before it even started. Shambolic and unforgivable.
 
Gordon S said:
Hard to make a list.
It hurts like a son of a bitch but we had some utterly painful losses over the years.
Robbens goal still haunts me
Conceding 6 goals against City back when Fergie was still here, it just felt like such a power shift in Manchester. They were on the way up and we were slowly going down.
Actually losing 4-0 to Mk dons is up there for me, for some reason it also really hammered home that the glory days was over, it was not going to be quick and easy to come back. Not at all.
7-0 at Anfield hammered home that Erik was the wrong manager. Was absolutely disgusted by that performance.
Pool fans will bring that score up to amuse themselves until the sun is out of gas.
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That fecking game was incredibly embarrassing. Getting hammered by fecking League One or League Two or wherever the feck they were side.
 
AndySmith1990 said:
Can't say I understand the rationale in saying losses under Fergie were worse than last night. Yeah it hurt at the time because we were so used to winning, but at least we knew we'd probably win a trophy or two the next season. It was a pretty amazing time to be a United fan. Now what do we have to look forward to? Relegation probably
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Exactly how I feel. This is the least optimistic I’ve felt about the club since I started following it.
 
Cared the least about this one. The club and fans are dead and buried until the ownership changes.
 
Losing to Villareal is on par or slightly worse than this, because of my expectation. Difference was I had good expectation that Ole would get the better of Villareal in 90 mins. But Ole froze like a deer in headlights and refused to make subs till everyone was spent. By the time of the penalties, I had lost hope of a win. But overall we had it to win in 90 mins.

In the Spurs game, I had very low expectation. We had lost thrice already. We don't know how to play PL teams. Unlike the Villareal game, Amorim had good subs on the bench. He was just stubborn and refused to sub them on. And that was kinda expected to. Thats his style and has led us to defeat after defeat.
 
People expected united to win seeing how Spurs had already beaten united a few times and that united can come out lucky this time. Also the fact that Spurs had very poor league campaign and struggled to win the semi finals.

Further on, Spurs was without Madison, Kulusevi and Son was a substitute only.

With the amount at stake, this certainly point towards one of the worst defeats ever.
 
0-1 to City at home in 1974. That was by far the worst. Losing to Southampton in 1976 the most shocking. This loss is a bummer but the consequences for the club could be worse than 1974. I don't trust INEOS and I don't trust Amorim. We could be heading for the doldrums yet again. At least with Tommy Doc, we knew he would get us back and we did not have the debt millstone round our necks then,
 
Our financial standing statement at the end of the season/beginning of next will be an interesting read.
 
No because it didnt mean anything to me. If we had won, which I was expecting the players to turn up for one big final before dissappearing again it wouldnt have changed anything. Manager hasnt done well enough, players havent played well enough. If we had won it would just have been paper over the cracked foundation. If anything I thought it was funny to complete 4 out of 4 games against Spurs with a 0 - 4 record.
 
Annihilate Now! said:
Actually the one that might top the whole league for me isn't even a loss, it's the 4-4 draw to Everton, I was absolutely furious that day.
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Came into the thread to say this. We lost to an abysmal Wigan team a week or two before. Those two games saw us throw the title away and hand it to City.

The CL elimination to Real Madrid in 2013 when Nani got sent off unjustly was really hard to take. We'd played really well over both legs, were on top and looked likely to win until the red card, with a pretty winnable run at the trophy after if memory serves me correctly..

I fully expected to lose the EL final to Spurs. That, and I just don't have nearly as much passion for football as I did 10 years ago.
 
Nowhere near. I was over the result almost instantly - was a shit game between 2 shit teams neither of whom deserved to win but they had the slice of luck needed to take it and we didn't. The trophy would've been nice for the fans and maybe it would have put some belief in the squad but ultimately it was always a going to be a bit of a red herring (for both teams)

What the result has done though is allow no respite from the fear of next season and the precarious state were in. Goes without saying that an enormous improvement is required right from the very first whistle of next season and as it stands I see no reason believe it will happen
 
Annihilate Now! said:
It's definitley up there. I think its the worst final defeat in my lifetime.

The FA Cup Final loss to Arsenal in 2005 was pretty bad (because we totally dominated) and the 2007 FA Cup Final to Chelsea (because I was there) - but they're nowhere near the abject level of last night.

In terms of other losses, There's obviously losing to City 6-1 and Liverpool 5-0/7-0 ... but there a bit different because they become a bit comical after a while (well the Liverpool ones did).

Actually the one that might top the whole league for me isn't even a loss, it's the 4-4 draw to Everton, I was absolutely furious that day.
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Thing is theres a completely different context to the 4-4 to others. Werent you 4-2 up? Everton were a decent side and this was Fergie era, there was no banter years as I hear them get called, these were the years where we prayed for a United slip up every week to have a chance at the title.

I remember that game well... hasdnt you lost 1-0 to Wigan the game or two before prior to that being 8 ahead of City? Someone on here made a post named Ch4mpions or something similar and jinxed it!

I think I remember Uniteds games better than our own in that era.:p
 
Slugger O'Toole said:
Came into the thread to say this. We lost to an abysmal Wigan team a week or two before. Those two games saw us throw the title away and hand it to City.

The CL elimination to Real Madrid in 2013 when Nani got sent off unjustly was really hard to take. We'd played really well over both legs, were on top and looked likely to win until the red card, with a pretty winnable run at the trophy after if memory serves me correctly..

I fully expected to lose the EL final to Spurs. That, and I just don't have nearly as much passion for football as I did 10 years ago.
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Don't think we would've won against Bayern that season. But that RM tie was indeed bullshit.
 
On the night, no. There has been many more upsetting defeats.

But the morning after, there is a dread and a feeling of us hitting rock bottom. I also feel that the climb back up is a long one, and it will be a while before we are a consistent UCL team, something I took for granted growing up and watching United.
 
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