The Biggest EuroMillions Jackpots

EuroMillions is a pan-European lottery launched in 2004. The first draw took place on Friday 13th February 2004 in Paris.

The odds against winning a jackpot in EuroMillions are 1 in 116,531,800. This is many times greater than the odds against winning the UK’s Lotto draw and for that reason, EuroMillions is prone to having many more rollovers.

EuroMillions also have Super Draws and Event Draws. These are special draws where the jackpot is set at a certain amount regardless of the normal expected jackpot. these jackpots can sometimes be as high as £100 million.

With a Super Draw, the winnings are rolled over if not won, whereas with an event draw, the winnings are shared amongst the winners of the next lowest tier if not won.

The first Superdraw in 2011 took place on May 10th as an introduction to the new Tuesday EuroMillions draw that began on that date.

Previous Super Draws took place on…

1st October 2010 with a jackpot of €100 million
5 February 2010 with a jackpot of €100 million
18 September 2009 with a jackpot of €100 million
6 March 2009 with a jackpot of €100 million
26 September 2008 with a jackpot of €130 million
8 February 2008 with a jackpot of €130 million
28 September 2007 with a jackpot of €130 million
9 February 2007 with a jackpot of €100 million
Below is a list of the most notable winners
Previous winners include:

13 May 2011 – One Spanish winner of the €121,019,633 Jackpot; Won by a 30-year-old baker Francisco Delgado Rodríguez from Pilas near Seville.
08 October 2010 – One UK winner of the £113,019,926 jackpot; winner was anonymous.
14 May 2010 – One UK winner of the £84,451,321 jackpot; winner was anonymous.
12 February 2010 – Two winners of the £112,016,226 jackpot (Spain and UK); The UK winners were Nigel Page and Justine Laycock from Cirencester who went public when they won £56,008,113.20.
6 November 2009 – Two UK winners of the £91,141,671 jackpot; On this occasion two winners shared the jackpot prize, receiving just over £45.5 million each, at that time they were the largest lottery prizes ever paid out in the UK. One of the winning tickets belonged to a syndicate of 7 people from Liverpool who each received £6.5 million, the other by a lucky couple living in Wales.
18 September 2009 – Syndicate wins €100 million or £89 million jackpot; Syndicate of 15 players Each member of the syndicate won more than €6 million.
8 May 2009 – One Spanish winner of the €126 million jackpot; On this occasion the jackpot had been rolled over six weeks running. With there being only one winner, this, at the time was the largest ever jackpot to have been won by a single ticket holder since EuroMillions began.
6 March 2009 – Two winners of the €100 million jackpot; Two winners shared the jackpot prize, receiving a whooping €50 million each.
26 September 2008 – 15 People won the €130 million jackpot; As there was no winner with all 5 numbers and two lucky stars, the super-draw jackpot of was won by those players who had 5 numbers and 1 lucky star, each winning a total of almost €9.2 million.
5 September 2008 – Two winners of the €119 million jackpot; Two winners shared the jackpot prize, receiving nearly €60 million each.
8 February 2008 – No winner of the €130 million jackpot; There was no winner with all 5 numbers and both lucky stars. The super-draw jackpot of was won by those people who had 5 numbers and 1 lucky star, winning a total of over €8.6 million each.
28 September 2007 – No winner of the €130 million jackpot; There was no winner with all 5 numbers and both lucky stars. The super-draw jackpot of was won by those people who had 5 numbers and 1 lucky star, winning a total of over €9.8 million each.
31 August 2007 – One winner of the €39 million or £29.1 million jackpot; the player remains anonymous.
10 August 2007 – One UK winner of the €52.6 million or £35.4 million jackpot; Angela Kelly, a 40-year-old former Royal Mail postal administrator from East Kilbride Scotland, won which was at the time the largest lottery win of its kind in the UK.
9 February 2007 – One Belgian winner won €100 million or £67.9 million; He won the EuroMillions jackpot with a ticket bought in Tienen Belgium. This at the time was the biggest ever lottery win in Belgium and the third-biggest individual win in EuroMillions history.
17 November 2006 – No single winner of the €183 million or £124 million jackpot; 20 people (7 British, 4 French, 3 Spanish, 3 Portuguese, 2 Irish, 1 Belgian) After eleven consecutive rollovers, again no ticket matched all the winning numbers, so the jackpot was shared amongst the twenty tickets that matched five numbers and one lucky star. The jackpot amount of £124 million was added to the regular prize fund for matching 5 numbers and one lucky star bringing the total to almost £134 million. Each ticket holder winning over €9.6 million or £7.1 million.
31 March 2006 – One Belgian winner won €75,753,123 or £56,608,222; After six consecutive rollovers, the EuroMillions jackpot was eventually won by an unnamed Belgian man. This became the second biggest win ever in Belgium, and the third-biggest win by an individual.
3 February 2006 – Three winners took the €183 million or £134 million; 3 people (2 French, 1 Portuguese). After eleven rollovers, the EuroMillions jackpot was won by three ticket holders, each receiving over €60 million.
29 July 2005 – One winner taking €115 million or £77 million; Dolores McNamara. After rolling over nine times in a row, the EuroMillions jackpot was won by a lady from Garryowen, Limerick, Ireland. A 45-year-old mother of six Dolores became at that time, the biggest individual winner in EuroMillions history.
As you can see, EuroMillions regularly has multiple rollovers and produces some mind boggling jackpot prizes.

Our tip would be to get as many entries into those large jackpot draws as possible. Even joining a syndicate of 100 people could win you a life changing amount of money.