Liverpool
- Location: Liverpool, England
- Stadium: Anfield
- Coach: Jürgen Klopp
- Premier League Titles: 1
Current Squad / Roster
- Alisson
- Adrián
- Caoimhin Kelleher
- Harvey Davies
- Joe Gomez
- Virgil van Dijk
- Ibrahima Konaté
- Kostas Tsimikas
- Calvin Ramsay
- Andy Robertson
- Joël Matip
- Stefan Bajcetic
- Nathaniel Phillips
- Luke Chambers
- Trent Alexander-Arnold
- Fabinho
- Thiago
- James Milner
- Naby Keita
- Jordan Henderson
- Curtis Jones
- Harvey Elliott
- Fabio Carvalho
- Arthur
- Bobby Clark
- Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
- Roberto Firmino
- Mohamed Salah
- Diogo Jota
- Luis Díaz
- Darwin Núñez
Championships:
First Division/Premier League Champions: 1900-01, 1905-06, 1921-22, 1922-23, 1946-47, 1936-64, 1965-66, 1972-73, 1975-76, 1976-77, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1985-86, 1987-88, 1989-90, 2019-20.
FA Cup Winners: 1964-65, 1973-74, 1985-86, 1988-89, 1991-92, 2000-01, 2005-06, 2021-22.
European Cup/Champions League Winners: 1970-71, 1997-98.
UEFA Cup Champions: 1972-73, 1975-76, 2000-01.
UEFA Super Cup Winners: 1977, 2001, 2005, 2019,
FIFA Club World Cup Winners: 2019.
Second Division Champions: 1893-94, 1895-96, 2094-05, 1961-62.
League Cup Winners: 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84, 1994-95, 2000-01, 2002-03, 2011-12, 2021-22.
Football League Super Cup: 1985-86.
Charity/Community Shields Winners: 1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977, 2979, 1980, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2006, 2022.
Team History
The club was founded in 1892. Everton Football Club played at Anfield, owned by club president John Houlding.
There was a big dispute between the Everton committee and Houlding, and the team relocated to nearby Goodison Park. Houlding, in turn, founded Liverpool F.C. to play at Anfield.
Name Origin
Originally named Everton Athletic, the Football Association rejected that name, and Houlding switched to the Liverpool name in June 1892.
The team played their first game in September 1892 in the Lancashire League and emerged as league winners.
Second Division
In the Football League Second Division, Liverpool played for two seasons before being promoted to the First Division.
Manager Tom Watson won the first two league titles in team history in 1900-01 and again in 1905-06. They lost in the FA Cup Final in 1914 before World War I paused the league.
After the war, Liverpool won consecutive League titles in 1921-22 and 1922-23. They stayed in the First Division but didn’t win another title before World War II.
When the league resumed after the war, Liverpool won the championship in 1946-47, their fifth title. They were relegated to the Second Division in 1953-54.
Bill Shankly took over in 1959 and rebuilt the team from the ground up. The new-look squad earned a promotion back to the First Division three years later and won a title in 1963-64.
The team won its first FA Cup in 1965 and then took another League title in 1966. They made their first European Final in 1966 as well but lost to Borussia Dortmund in the Winners’ Cup final.
UEFA Cup
They continued to compete under Shankly and had a dream season in 1972-73, nearly winning a treble. They captured the League title and UEFA Cup but didn’t win the FA Cup until 1974.
Shankly retired, and his assistant Bob Paisley won another League/UEFA Cup double in 1976. Paisley came even closer to a treble in 1977, losing in the FA Cup Final while winning the League and European Cup.
Liverpool won in Europe again in 1978 and won the First Division in 1979. Paisley won 20 trophies during his time in charge, retiring in 1983 without a FA Cup title.
Joe Fagan took over, and the team won the League, League Cup, and European Cup for the first three trophy seasons in England’s history.
Liverpool lost to Juventus in the 1985 European Cup Final. Before the game, 39 fans were killed as Liverpool fans breached a retaining wall. Liverpool was banned from Europe for a decade, while all England teams were banned for five years.
Kenny Dalglish became player-manager, and the team won the League/FA Cup double in 1985-86. Nearly 100 Liverpool fans died when they were crushed against fencing at the 1989 FA Cup semifinal.
As a result of the tragedy, all teams in the top division were required to turn their stadiums into all-seater stadiums instead of allowing standing room.
Liverpool lost the 1988-89 title on total goals when Arsenal scored in the final minute of the season. They won the title in 1989-90, a title which would be their last in the league for three decades.
Premier League Standings
Dalglish resigned in 1991, and Liverpool won the 1992 FA Cup under Graeme Souness as they were Premier League founders. Roy Evans led the team to the 1995 League Cup and a pair of third-place finishes in the Premier League standings.
Gerard Houllier managed the team to a FA Cup title in 2001, and they also won the UEFA Cup. Houllier also won back-to-back League Cups but was replaced by Rafael Benitez after the 2003-04 season.
Benitez won the Champions League in 2004-05 with a shootout win over A.C. Milan. They also used penalty kicks to win the FA Cup in 2006.
The team was sold to Americans George Gillett and Tom Hicks in 2006-07. They posted an impressive 86 points in 2008-09 but finished behind Manchester United in the Premier League standings.
With the team about to go bankrupt, it sold in 2010 to the Fenway Sports Group, fronted by John W. Henry. Brendan Rodgers took over in 2013-14 for a second-place finish, but he was fired in 2015, and replaced by Jurgen Klopp.
The team had a major renaissance under Klopp. They finished runner-up in the League Cup and Europa League in the first season, then second in the Premier League in 2018-19.
Premier League Title in 2019-20
They also won the Champions League in 2019 and went on to win the FIFA Club World Cup as well. They broke a 30-year drought with a Premier League title in 2019-20 before two straight second-place finishes and a Champions League runner-up in 2022.
Liverpool contests major rivalries that impact the fans even if they don’t have a role in the Premier League standings.
The Reds play in the Merseyside derby against Everton, with the two stadiums located at the same park in town.
They also have a fierce rivalry with Manchester United that is so intense the teams haven’t transferred players between them since 1964.
Liverpool Records
Looking at the Liverpool stats and Premier League stats, Ian Callaghan holds the team records for most appearances (857) and most league appearances (640).
Phil Neal holds the team record of playing 417 consecutive games between 1976 and 1983, and he played every minute of every game in nine straight seasons from 1977-84.
Ian Rush holds the team record for most goals in all competitions with 346. Roger Hunt has the career record for most league goals with 244.
Rush also has the single-season record with 47 goals in 1983-84, while Hunt scored a record 41 league goals in 1961-62.
In addition to Rush and Hunt, George Hodgson (241) and Billy Liddell (228) also scored more than 200 career goals.
Looking at the Liverpool stats for transfers, their biggest transfer paid is £75 million for Virgil van Dijk from Southampton in 2018.
They also spent £66.8 million in 2018 to bring in Allisson from Roma and £64 million to add Darwin Nunez from Benfica in 2022.
The most money they have received for a transfer is £142 million from Barcelona for Philippe Coutinho in 2018. Prior to that record, they received £75 million to send Luis Suarez to Barcelona in 2014.
What are the Liverpool 2022-23 Transfers?
Heading into the 2022-23 Premier League season, Liverpool made some major additions that helped those who like Liverpool bet on the Premier League odds.
They brought in striker Darwin Nunez from Benfica for £65 million. They also added striker Fabio Carvalho from Fulham for £5 million and defender Calvin Ramsay from Aberdeen for £4 million.
Liverpool let a few players walk for free as their contracts ended, including Divock Origi, who went to A.C. Milan.
They sold Sadio Mane to Bayern Munich for £27.5 million, Neco Williams to Nottingham Forest for £13 million, and Takumi Minamino to Monaco for £3 million.
Who are the Liverpool Best Coaches?
Bill Shankly
The manager with the longest time in charge of Liverpool was Bill Shankly, who managed 783 games between 1959-74. He won 407 games and drew 198, both Liverpool records.
Shankly won three First Division titles, one Second Division title, two FA Cups, one UEFA Cup, and three Charity Shields.
Tom Watson
From 1896-1915 Tom Watson managed 742 games with 329 wins and 141 draws. He won the first titles in team history with one Second Division title and two First Division crowns.
Bob Paisley
Bob Paisley was the manager from 1974-83, winning 308 games and drawing 131 in 535 played. Paisley won a record 20 trophies during his time at Liverpool.
No team manager has more First Division titles than his six, and he added three League Cups and three European Cups.
Jurgen Klopp
Current skipper Jurgen Klopp has 240 wins, and 78 draws from 2015-22. He has won a Liverpool record 62% of his games and has seven trophies, including the first Premier League trophy.
Kenny Dalgish
Kenny Dalglish coached the team twice, from 1985-91 and again from 2011-12. He won 222 games and drew 95 while being in charge for 381 contests. He won nine trophies, including three First Division titles and two FA Cups.
