EuroMillions Jackpot Winners

Jackpot: €240 Million

The EuroMillions lottery has brought us a new record jackpot! on December 8th, 2023, a winning ticket from Austria brought €240 million to its owner.

This was a results of a SuperDraw that started with a starting jackpot of €200 million. The anonymous winner had chosen the winning numbers: 17-30-42-48-50/04&08.

Jackpot: €230 Million

The capped jackpot of €230 million was reached and scooped by a single ticket purchased in the UK!

According to the EuroMillions rules of February 2020, the following jackpot cap was set at €240 million (€10 million increase each EuroMillions cycle, until it reaches €250 million).

Jackpot: €220 Million

Setting a new record for the biggest jackpot win in the history of the EuroMillions lottery, a woman from French Polynesia scooped the entire top prize displayed for the draw of Friday, October 15th 2021.

The win came after almost a month of rollovers that followed the SuperDraw on September 24th, whose jackpot was of €130 million. Since no participating ticket matched the winning numbers, the top prize continued to grow until it reached the capped amount of €220 million.

Jackpot: €215.8 Million

Joe and Jess Thwaite became the biggest UK EuroMillions winners of all times after the scooped the record amount of €215.8 Million on May 10, 2022.

This win came after 7 rollovers without a winner for the EuroMillions lottery. Joe & Jess were playing every time the jackpot was quite large, for seven years now (since Jess’ father passed away – he was a lottery fan that dreamt of one day winning big!).

Jackpot: €210 Million

After a great year 2020, EuroMillions lottery stepped into 2021 with enthusiasm, proving that it’s the right time to make history. The first SuperDraw of the year 2021 offered a guaranteed jackpot of €130 million. As there were no winning tickets for the draw (or the five that followed), the jackpot got to record heights, breaking record after record. The final prize was worth €210 million. It was won on a a single ticket purchased in Switzerland. The winner will now have to decide whether to stay anonymous or go public with their story as a EuroMillions record jackpot winner.

Jackpot: €200 Million

The 4th EuroMillions Superdraw of 2020 was followed by a rollover streak, who resulted in a record jackpot of €200 million. The EuroMillions draw of December 11^th delivered this jaw-dropping prize to a French ticket holder. This was the 110th top prize won in the France, but that’s not all. Besides setting a new record and a new jackpot cap, the draw of December 11th 2020 marked another milestone since this is the 500th jackpot won across all participating countries since the EuroMillions lottery was launched back in 2004.

Jackpot: €193 Million

2022 has brought us 3 EuroMillions Super Jackpots so far, including 2 which entered in our top of the biggest EuroMillions Jackpots. The third Super Jackpot reached €193 Million on September 23. It started on September 9 with a jackpot of €130 Million.

A player from UK scooped it after choosing the winning numbers: 14-15-22-35-48/03&08.

Jackpot: €190 Million

The fourth and last time that the EuroMillions lottery reached the cap jackpot was in October 2019. On the fourth and final €190 million draw, the prize finally found its winner in the UK. Only a couple of days after the draw, the British winner contacted the National Lottery to begin the prize collection process. However, the identity of the jackpot winner remains unknown. At £170 million, this marks the largest lottery win the UK, topping off the Bayford’s.

Jackpot: €190 Million

The third time that the EuroMillions jackpot reached its cap was in September 2017 and there was only one winning ticket for the big €190 million draw. There was a single winner from Spain, who has collected the prize but chose to keep his identity private, but it was revealed in the news that the €190 million ticket was purchased in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria. This is a very popular vacation spot for people from all over the world, Brits especially. It is still unknown if the winner was in fact of Spanish origins or somebody visiting Las Palmas.

Jackpot: €190 Million

After the Bayford’s became the top winners in the EuroMillions in 2012, the first prize reached €190 million for the second time in October 2014. The entire prize was scooped by a single ticket holder in Castelo Blanco, Portugal. The big winner decided to remain anonymous, but the press revealed that the lucky ticket was purchased from Sobedis Tabacaria in the Alegro Shopping Centre. Graça Nunes, the owner of the shop said that this was the first-ever jackpot-winning ticket they had ever sold there. After the news of the big EuroMillions winner, Sobedis Tabacaria has a significant boost in lottery ticket sales.

Jackpot: €190 Million

Adrian and Gillian Bayford played the lottery on a regular basis and on August 10th, 2012 it paid off in a very big way. Much to their surprise, they had all the five main numbers and both Lucky Stars on their ticket. They had won the entire jackpot worth €190 million! The couple planned to donate generously to charity. They also talked about taking a train trip through the Canadian Rockies and going to Disney World with their children. However, only 15 months after their record win, the Bayford’s got a divorce. Adrian Bayford is still very invested in his movie and music memorabilia shop, which he owned prior to winning the lottery. He currently has the largest collection of Lady Gaga memorabilia in the whole of UK.

Jackpot: €187 Million

The EuroMillions held one of its fantastic SuperDraws on June 7^th, 2013, which came with a huge jackpot of €100 million. There was no winner that evening and then the jackpot rolled over for another five draws until it reached a whopping €187 million on June 25^th, 2013. This time, there were two winning tickets for the pot – one from Dublin, Ireland and one from Limburg, Belgium. The two lucky winners got an equal share of the Euromillions prize, worth €93 million. Both winners chose to keep their identities private, but they will always be part of the lottery’s Hall of Fame.

Jackpot: €183 million

On February 3^rd, 2006, the EuroMillions jackpot reached €183 million after 11 successive rollovers. According to the EuroMillions rules of 2006, jackpots could only roll over for 12 draws before the pot had to be won. On the 12^th and final draw, there were three jackpot winners, two from France and one from Portugal. The prize was split evenly between the three winners and each of them got a €61 million share. All three of the winners opted to keep their identities private after the win.

Jackpot: €183 million

After the big win in February 2006, the EuroMillions jackpot had another rollover streak. The 12^th rollover, with a running jackpot of €183 million, took place on November 17^th, 2006 and this time there was no first prize winner. Since this was a must-be-won draw, the entire jackpot was transferred to the second prize fund and it was split between twenty ticket-holders who matched the 5 main numbers and one of the Lucky Stars. Each of them scooped a €9.6 million share of the pot. There were 7 winners from the UK, 4 from France, 3 from Spain, 3 from Portugal, 2 from Ireland and 1 from Belgium.

Jackpot: €175 million

A family syndicate from Dublin, Ireland won a whopping €175 million on February 19th, 2019, thus becoming the biggest EuroMillions syndicate winners of all time. After the Superdraw of February 1st, which brought a €120-million pot, did not render a winner, the first prize rolled over until it reached this fabulous amount. The EuroMillions syndicate wished to stay away from the lime light and they assigned a family representative to collect the prize. “This is unbelievable – it will take us some time to get our heads around this win and to organize ourselves”, he told the press. The Naul family wants to share their fortune with the entire family, but keep their lives as normal as possible after their big break.

Jackpot: €169 Million

November 13th, 2012 saw one very lucky Frenchman become a man of means when he was the sole winner of a €169.8 million jackpot! The man wished to remain anonymous and avoid some of the pitfalls of being a lotto winner. However, he wanted Francais des Jeux, the French lottery operator, to publish the name of the store where he bought his ticket. They refused to do that, so he granted an interview to his local paper in Nice. From this interview, it was revealed that the winner, Jacques, is a ‘self-taught man of culture’. He was 63 years old at the time of his win and set up a charitable foundation to benefit community projects in France.

Jackpot: €168 million

On October 11^th, 2016, the jackpot reached a whopping €168 million, following one of the EuroMillions Superdraws. The entire pot was scooped by a single player from Belgium, who bought the ticket at the Librairie de l’Europe shop in Schaerbeek, Brussels. While the winner decided to stay anonymous, it was revealed that he was a father-of-four who immigrated from Kosovo, Albania. He moved to Brussels where he worked for the city’s waste management service. He said that he would want to donate part of his EuroMillions prize to charity.