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Liverpool

Full name	Liverpool Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Reds
Founded	3 June 1892; 130 years ago[1]
Stadium	Anfield
Capacity	53,394[2]
Owner	Fenway Sports Group
Chairman	Tom Werner
Manager	Jürgen Klopp
League	Premier League
2021–22	Premier League, 2nd of 20
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 League titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup. The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th League title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Liverpool is one of the most valuable and widely supported clubs in the world. The club has long-standing rivalries with Manchester United and Everton. Under management by Shankly, in 1964 the team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip which has been used ever since. The club’s anthem is «You’ll Never Walk Alone».

The club’s supporters have been involved in two major tragedies. The Heysel Stadium disaster, where escaping fans were pressed against a collapsing wall at the 1985 European Cup Final in Brussels, resulted in 39 deaths. Most of these were Italians and Juventus fans. Liverpool were given a six-year ban from European competition, with all other English clubs received a five-year ban. The Hillsborough disaster in 1989, where 97 Liverpool supporters died in a crush against perimeter fencing, led to the elimination of fenced standing terraces in favour of all-seater stadiums in the top two tiers of English football. Prolonged campaigning for justice saw further coroners inquests, commissions and independent panels that ultimately exonerated the fans.

History

Liverpool F.C. was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, club president and owner of the land at Anfield. After eight years at the stadium, Everton relocated to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded Liverpool F.C. to play at Anfield.^[3] Originally named «Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd» (Everton Athletic for short), the club became Liverpool F.C. in March 1892 and gained official recognition three months later, after The Football Association refused to recognise the club as Everton.^[4]

Liverpool played their first match on 1 September 1892, a pre-season friendly match against Rotherham Town, which they won 7–1. The team Liverpool fielded against Rotherham was composed entirely of Scottish players – the players who came from Scotland to play in England in those days were known as the Scotch Professors. Manager John McKenna had recruited the players after a scouting trip to Scotland – so they became known as the «team of Macs».^[5] The team won the Lancashire League in its debut season and joined the Football League Second Division at the start of the 1893–94 season. After the club was promoted to the First Division in 1896, Tom Watson was appointed manager. He led Liverpool to its first league title in 1901, before winning it again in 1906.^[6]

Liverpool reached its first FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1–0 to Burnley. It won consecutive League championships in 1922 and 1923, but did not win another trophy until the 1946–47 season, when the club won the First Division for a fifth time under the control of ex-West Ham United centre half George Kay.^[7] Liverpool suffered its second Cup Final defeat in 1950, playing against Arsenal.^[8] The club was relegated to the Second Division in the 1953–54 season.^[9] Soon after Liverpool lost 2–1 to non-league Worcester City in the 1958–59 FA Cup, Bill Shankly was appointed manager. Upon his arrival he released 24 players and converted a boot storage room at Anfield into a room where the coaches could discuss strategy; here, Shankly and other «Boot Room» members Joe Fagan, Reuben Bennett, and Bob Paisley began reshaping the team.^[10]

The club was promoted back into the First Division in 1962 and won it in 1964, for the first time in 17 years. In 1965, the club won its first FA Cup. In 1966, the club won the First Division but lost to Borussia Dortmund in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final.^[11] Liverpool won both the League and the UEFA Cup during the 1972–73 season, and the FA Cup again a year later. Shankly retired soon afterwards and was replaced by his assistant, Bob Paisley.^[12] In 1976, Paisley’s second season as manager, the club won another League and UEFA Cup double. The following season, the club retained the League title and won the European Cup for the first time, but it lost in the 1977 FA Cup Final. Liverpool retained the European Cup in 1978 and regained the First Division title in 1979.^[13] During Paisley’s nine seasons as manager Liverpool won 20 trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup, six League titles and three consecutive League Cups; the only domestic trophy he did not win was the FA Cup.^[14]

Paisley retired in 1983 and was replaced by his assistant, Joe Fagan.^[15] Liverpool won the League, League Cup and European Cup in Fagan’s first season, becoming the first English side to win three trophies in a season.^[16] Liverpool reached the European Cup final again in 1985, against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium. Before kick-off, Liverpool fans breached a fence that separated the two groups of supporters and charged the Juventus fans. The resulting weight of people caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing 39 fans, mostly Italians. The incident became known as the Heysel Stadium disaster. The match was played in spite of protests by both managers, and Liverpool lost 1–0 to Juventus. As a result of the tragedy, English clubs were banned from participating in European competition for five years; Liverpool received a ten-year ban, which was later reduced to six years. Fourteen Liverpool fans received convictions for involuntary manslaughter.^[17]

Fagan had announced his retirement just before the disaster and Kenny Dalglish was appointed as player-manager.^[18] During his tenure, the club won another three league titles and two FA Cups, including a League and Cup «Double» in the 1985–86 season. Liverpool’s success was overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster: in an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing.^[19] Ninety-four fans died that day; the 95th victim died in hospital from his injuries four days later, the 96th died nearly four years later, without regaining consciousness, and the 97th, Andrew Devine, died of injuries sustained in the disaster in 2021.^[20][21] After the Hillsborough disaster there was a government review of stadium safety. The resulting Taylor Report paved the way for legislation that required top-division teams to have all-seater stadiums. The report ruled that the main reason for the disaster was overcrowding due to a failure of police control.^[22]

Liverpool was involved in the closest finish to a league season during the 1988–89 season. Liverpool finished equal with Arsenal on both points and goal difference, but lost the title on total goals scored when Arsenal scored the final goal in the last minute of the season.^[23]

Dalglish cited the Hillsborough disaster and its repercussions as the reason for his resignation in 1991; he was replaced by former player Graeme Souness.^[24] Under his leadership Liverpool won the 1992 FA Cup Final, but their league performances slumped, with two consecutive sixth-place finishes, eventually resulting in his dismissal in January 1994. Souness was replaced by Roy Evans, and Liverpool went on to win the 1995 Football League Cup Final.^[25] While they made some title challenges under Evans, third-place finishes in 1996 and 1998 were the best they could manage, and so Gérard Houllier was appointed co-manager in the 1998–99 season, and became the sole manager in November 1998 after Evans resigned.^[26] In 2001, Houllier’s second full season in charge, Liverpool won a «treble»: the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup.^[27] Houllier underwent major heart surgery during the 2001–02 season and Liverpool finished second in the League, behind Arsenal.^[28] They won a further League Cup in 2003, but failed to mount a title challenge in the two seasons that followed.^[29][30]

Houllier was replaced by Rafael Benítez at the end of the 2003–04 season. Despite finishing fifth in Benítez’s first season, Liverpool won the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, beating A.C. Milan 3–2 in a penalty shootout after the match ended with a score of 3–3.^[31] The following season, Liverpool finished third in the Premier League and won the 2006 FA Cup Final, beating West Ham United in a penalty shootout after the match finished 3–3.^[32] American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the owners of the club during the 2006–07 season, in a deal which valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million.^[33] The club reached the 2007 UEFA Champions League Final against Milan, as it had in 2005, but lost 2–1.^[34] During the 2008–09 season Liverpool achieved 86 points, its then-highest Premier League points total, prior to the record-breaking 2018-19 season, and finished as runners up to Manchester United.^[35]

In the 2009–10 season, Liverpool finished seventh in the Premier League and failed to qualify for the Champions League. Benítez subsequently left by mutual consent^[36] and was replaced by Fulham manager Roy Hodgson.^[37] At the start of the 2010–11 season Liverpool was on the verge of bankruptcy and the club’s creditors asked the High Court to allow the sale of the club, overruling the wishes of Hicks and Gillett. John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox and of Fenway Sports Group, bid successfully for the club and took ownership in October 2010.^[38] Poor results during the start of that season led to Hodgson leaving the club by mutual consent and former player and manager Kenny Dalglish taking over.^[39] In the 2011–12 season, Liverpool secured a record 8th League Cup success and reached the FA Cup final, but finished in eighth position, the worst league finish in 18 years; this led to the sacking of Dalglish.^[40][41] He was replaced by Brendan Rodgers,^[42] whose Liverpool team in the 2013–14 season mounted an unexpected title charge to finish second behind champions Manchester City and subsequently return to the Champions League, scoring 101 goals in the process, the most since the 106 scored in the 1895–96 season.^[43][44] Following a disappointing 2014–15 season, where Liverpool finished sixth in the league, and a poor start to the following campaign, Rodgers was sacked in October 2015.^[45]

Rodgers was replaced by Jürgen Klopp.^[46] Liverpool reached the finals of the Football League Cup and UEFA Europa League in Klopp’s first season, finishing as runner-up in both competitions.^[47] The club finished second in the 2018–19 season with 97 points (surpassing the 86 points gained during the 2008–09 season), losing only one game: a points record for a non-title winning side.^[48] Klopp took Liverpool to successive Champions League finals in 2018 and 2019, with the club defeating Tottenham Hotspur 2–0 to win the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final.^[49][50] Liverpool beat Flamengo of Brazil in the final 1–0 to win the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time.^[51] Liverpool then went on to win the 2019–20 Premier League, winning their first top-flight league title in thirty years.^[52] The club set multiple records in the season, including winning the league with seven games remaining making it the earliest any team has ever won the title,^[53] amassing a club record 99 points, and achieving a joint-record 32 wins in a top-flight season.^[54]

Colours and badge

For much of Liverpool’s history, its home colours have been all red. When the club was founded in 1892, blue and white quartered shirts were used until the club adopted the city’s colour of red in 1896.^[3] The city’s symbol of the liver bird was adopted as the club’s badge (or crest, as it is sometimes known) in 1901, although it was not incorporated into the kit until 1955. Liverpool continued to wear red shirts and white shorts until 1964 when manager Bill Shankly decided to change to an all-red strip.^[55] Liverpool played in all red for the first time against Anderlecht, as Ian St John recalled in his autobiography:

He [Shankly] thought the colour scheme would carry psychological impact – red for danger, red for power. He came into the dressing room one day and threw a pair of red shorts to Ronnie Yeats. «Get into those shorts and let’s see how you look», he said. «Christ, Ronnie, you look awesome, terrifying. You look 7 ft tall.» «Why not go the whole hog, boss?» I suggested. «Why not wear red socks? Let’s go out all in red.» Shankly approved and an iconic kit was born.^[56]

The Liverpool away strip has more often than not been all yellow or white shirts and black shorts, but there have been several exceptions. An all grey kit was introduced in 1987, which was used until the 1991–92 centenary season when it was replaced by a combination of green shirts and white shorts. After various colour combinations in the 1990s, including gold and navy, bright yellow, black and grey, and ecru, the club alternated between yellow and white away kits until the 2008–09 season, when it re-introduced the grey kit. A third kit is designed for European away matches, though it is also worn in domestic away matches on occasions when the current away kit clashes with a team’s home kit. Between 2012 and 2015, the kits were designed by Warrior Sports, who became the club’s kit providers at the start of the 2012–13 season.^[57] In February 2015, Warrior’s parent company New Balance announced it would be entering the global football market, with teams sponsored by Warrior now being outfitted by New Balance.^[58] The only other branded shirts worn by the club were made by Umbro until 1985, when they were replaced by Adidas, who produced the kits until 1996 when Reebok took over. They produced the kits for 10 years before Adidas made the kits from 2006 to 2012.^[59] Nike became the club’s official kit supplier at the start of the 2020–21 season.^[60]

Liverpool was the first English professional club to have a sponsor’s logo on its shirts, after agreeing a deal with Hitachi in 1979.^[61] Since then the club has been sponsored by Crown Paints, Candy, Carlsberg and Standard Chartered. The contract with Carlsberg, which was signed in 1992, was the longest-lasting agreement in English top-flight football.^[62] The association with Carlsberg ended at the start of the 2010–11 season, when Standard Chartered Bank became the club’s sponsor.^[63]

The Liverpool badge is based on the city’s liver bird symbol, which in the past had been placed inside a shield. In 1977, a red liver bird standing on a football (blazoned as «Statant upon a football a Liver Bird wings elevated and addorsed holding in the beak a piece of seaweed gules«) was granted as a heraldic badge by the College of Arms to the English Football League intended for use by Liverpool. However, Liverpool never made use of this badge.^[64] In 1992, to commemorate the centennial of the club, a new badge was commissioned, including a representation of the Shankly Gates. The next year twin flames were added at either side, symbolic of the Hillsborough memorial outside Anfield, where an eternal flame burns in memory of those who died in the Hillsborough disaster.^[65] In 2012, Warrior Sports’ first Liverpool kit removed the shield and gates, returning the badge to what had adorned Liverpool shirts in the 1970s; the flames were moved to the back collar of the shirt, surrounding the number 96 for the number who died at Hillsborough.^[66]

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (chest)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
1973–1979	Umbro	None	None
1979–1982	Hitachi
1982–1985	Crown Paints
1985–1988	Adidas
1988–1992	Candy
1992–1996	Carlsberg
1996–2006	Reebok
2006–2010	Adidas
2010–2012	Standard Chartered
2012–2015	Warrior Sports
2015–2017	New Balance
2017–2020	Western Union
2020–	Nike	Expedia[67]

Stadium

For information on Liverpool’s abandoned proposed new stadium, see Stanley Park Stadium.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park.
Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding.^[68] Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.^[69]

The Kop was built in 1906 due to the high turnout for matches and was called the Oakfield Road Embankment initially. Its first game was on 1 September 1906 when the home side beat Stoke City 1–0.^[70] In 1906 the banked stand at one end of the ground was formally renamed the Spion Kop after a hill in KwaZulu-Natal.^[71] The hill was the site of the Battle of Spion Kop in the Second Boer War, where over 300 men of the Lancashire Regiment died, many of them from Liverpool.^[72] At its peak, the stand could hold 28,000 spectators and was one of the largest single-tier stands in the world. Many stadiums in England had stands named after Spion Kop, but Anfield’s was the largest of them at the time; it could hold more supporters than some entire football grounds.^[73]

Anfield could accommodate more than 60,000 supporters at its peak and had a capacity of 55,000 until the 1990s, when, following recommendations from the Taylor Report, all clubs in the Premier League were obliged to convert to all-seater stadiums in time for the 1993–94 season, reducing its capacity to 45,276.^[74] The findings of the report precipitated the redevelopment of the Kemlyn Road Stand, which was rebuilt in 1992, coinciding with the centenary of the club, and was known as the Centenary Stand until 2017 when it was renamed the Kenny Dalglish Stand. An extra tier was added to the Anfield Road end in 1998, which further increased the capacity of the ground but gave rise to problems when it was opened. A series of support poles and stanchions were inserted to give extra stability to the top tier of the stand after movement of the tier was reported at the start of the 1999–2000 season.^[75]

Because of restrictions on expanding the capacity at Anfield, Liverpool announced plans to move to the proposed Stanley Park Stadium in May 2002.^[76] Planning permission was granted in July 2004,^[77] and in September 2006, Liverpool City Council agreed to grant Liverpool a 999-year lease on the proposed site.^[78] Following the takeover of the club by George Gillett and Tom Hicks in February 2007, the proposed stadium was redesigned. The new design was approved by the Council in November 2007. The stadium was scheduled to open in August 2011 and would hold 60,000 spectators, with HKS, Inc. contracted to build the stadium.^[79] Construction was halted in August 2008, as Gillett and Hicks had difficulty in financing the £300 million needed for the development.^[80] In October 2012, BBC Sport reported that Fenway Sports Group, the new owners of Liverpool FC, had decided to redevelop their current home at Anfield stadium, rather than building a new stadium in Stanley Park. As part of the redevelopment the capacity of Anfield was to increase from 45,276 to approximately 60,000 and would cost approximately £150m.^[81] When construction was completed on the new Main stand the capacity of Anfield was increased to 54,074. This £100 million expansion added a third tier to the stand. This was all part of a £260 million project to improve the Anfield area. Jürgen Klopp the manager at the time described the stand as «impressive.»^[82]

In June 2021, it was reported that Liverpool Council had given planning permission for the club to renovate and expand the Anfield Road stand, boosting the capacity by around 7,000 and taking the overall capacity at Anfield to 61,000. The expansion, which is estimated to cost £60m, was described as «a huge milestone» by managing director Andy Hughes, and would also see rail seating being trialled in the Kop for the 2021–22 Premier League season.^[83]

Support

Liverpool is one of the best supported clubs in the world.^[84][85] The club states that its worldwide fan base includes more than 200 officially recognised Supporters Clubs in at least 50 countries. Notable groups include Spirit of Shankly.^[86] The club takes advantage of this support through its worldwide summer tours,^[87] which has included playing in front of 101,000 in Michigan, U.S., and 95,000 in Melbourne, Australia.^[88][89] Liverpool fans often refer to themselves as Kopites, a reference to the fans who once stood, and now sit, on the Kop at Anfield.^[90] In 2008 a group of fans decided to form a splinter club, A.F.C. Liverpool, to play matches for fans who had been priced out of watching Premier League football.^[91]

The song «You’ll Never Walk Alone», originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and later recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry and the Pacemakers, is the club’s anthem and has been sung by the Anfield crowd since the early 1960s.^[92] It has since gained popularity among fans of other clubs around the world.^[93] The song’s title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly. The «You’ll Never Walk Alone» portion of the Shankly Gates is also reproduced on the club’s badge.^[94]

The club’s supporters have been involved in two stadium disasters. The first was the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster, in which 39 people, mostly Italians and Juventus supporters, were killed. They were confined to a corner by Liverpool fans who had charged in their direction; the weight of the cornered fans caused a wall to collapse. UEFA laid the blame for the incident solely on the Liverpool supporters,^[95] and banned all English clubs from European competition for five years. Liverpool was banned for an additional year, preventing it from participating in the 1990–91 European Cup, even though it won the League in 1990.^[96] Twenty-seven fans were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and were extradited to Belgium in 1987 to face trial.^[97] In 1989, after a five-month trial in Belgium, 14 Liverpool fans were given three-year sentences for involuntary manslaughter;^[98] half of the terms were suspended.^[99]

The second disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989. Ninety-seven Liverpool fans died as a consequence of overcrowding at the Leppings Lane end, in what became known as the Hillsborough disaster. In the following days, The Sun‘s coverage of the event spread falsehoods, particularly an article entitled «The Truth» that claimed that Liverpool fans had robbed the dead and had urinated on and attacked the police.^[100] Subsequent investigations proved the allegations false, leading to a boycott of the newspaper by Liverpool fans across the city and elsewhere; many still refuse to buy The Sun 30 years later.^[101] Many support organisations were set up in the wake of the disaster, such as the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, which represents bereaved families, survivors and supporters in their efforts to secure justice.^[102]

Rivalries

Liverpool’s longest-established rivalry is with fellow Liverpool team Everton, against whom they contest the Merseyside derby. The rivalry stems from Liverpool’s formation and the dispute with Everton officials and the then owners of Anfield.^[103] The Merseyside derby is one of the few local derbies which do not enforce fan segregation, and hence has been known as the «friendly derby».^[104] Since the mid-1980s, the rivalry has intensified both on and off the field and, since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, the Merseyside derby has had more players sent off than any other Premier League game. It has been referred to as «the most ill-disciplined and explosive fixture in the Premier League».^[105] In terms of support within the city, the number of Liverpool fans outweighs Everton supporters by a ratio of 2:1.^[106]

Liverpool’s rivalry with Manchester United stems from the cities’ competition in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.^[107] Connected by the world’s first inter-city railway, by road Liverpool and Manchester are separated by approximately 30 miles (48 km) along the East Lancs Road.^[108] Ranked the two biggest clubs in England by France Football magazine, Liverpool and Manchester United are the most successful English teams in both domestic and international competitions, and both clubs have a global fanbase.^[109][110] Viewed as one of the biggest rivalries in world football, it is considered the most famous fixture in English football.^{[111][112][113]} The two clubs alternated as champions between 1964 and 1967,^[114] and Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, followed by Liverpool’s four European Cup victories.^[115] Despite the 39 league titles and nine European Cups between them^[114] the two rivals have rarely been successful at the same time – Liverpool’s run of titles in the 1970s and 1980s coincided with Manchester United’s 26-year title drought, and United’s success in the Premier League-era likewise coincided with Liverpool’s 30-year title drought,^[116] and the two clubs have finished first and second in the league only five times.^[114] Such is the rivalry between the clubs they rarely do transfer business with each other. The last player to be transferred between the two clubs was Phil Chisnall, who moved to Liverpool from Manchester United in 1964.^[117]

Ownership and finances

As the owner of Anfield and founder of Liverpool, John Houlding was the club’s first chairman, a position he held from its founding in 1892 until 1904. John McKenna took over as chairman after Houlding’s departure.^[118] McKenna subsequently became President of the Football League.^[119] The chairmanship changed hands many times before John Smith, whose father was a shareholder of the club, took up the role in 1973. He oversaw the most successful period in Liverpool’s history before stepping down in 1990.^[120] His successor was Noel White who became chairman in 1990.^[121] In August 1991 David Moores, whose family had owned the club for more than 50 years, became chairman. His uncle John Moores was also a shareholder at Liverpool and was chairman of Everton from 1961 to 1973. Moores owned 51 percent of the club, and in 2004 expressed his willingness to consider a bid for his shares in Liverpool.^[122]

Moores eventually sold the club to American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks on 6 February 2007. The deal valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million. The pair paid £5,000 per share, or £174.1m for the total shareholding and £44.8m to cover the club’s debts.^[123] Disagreements between Gillett and Hicks, and the fans’ lack of support for them, resulted in the pair looking to sell the club.^[124] Martin Broughton was appointed chairman of the club on 16 April 2010 to oversee its sale.^[125] In May 2010, accounts were released showing the holding company of the club to be £350m in debt (due to leveraged takeover) with losses of £55m, causing auditor KPMG to qualify its audit opinion.^[126] The group’s creditors, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, took Gillett and Hicks to court to force them to allow the board to proceed with the sale of the club, the major asset of the holding company. A High Court judge, Mr Justice Floyd, ruled in favour of the creditors and paved the way for the sale of the club to Fenway Sports Group (formerly New England Sports Ventures), although Gillett and Hicks still had the option to appeal.^[127] Liverpool was sold to Fenway Sports Group on 15 October 2010 for £300m.^[128]

Liverpool has been described as a global brand; a 2010 report valued the club’s trademarks and associated intellectual property at £141m, an increase of £5m on the previous year. Liverpool was given a brand rating of AA (Very Strong).^[129] In April 2010 business magazine Forbes ranked Liverpool as the sixth most valuable football team in the world, behind Manchester United, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Barcelona and Bayern Munich; they valued the club at $822m (£532m), excluding debt.^[130] Accountants Deloitte ranked Liverpool eighth in the Deloitte Football Money League, which ranks the world’s football clubs in terms of revenue. Liverpool’s income in the 2009–10 season was €225.3m.^[131] According to a 2018 report by Deloitte, the club had an annual revenue of €424.2 million for the previous year,^[132] and Forbes valued the club at $1.944 billion.^[133] In 2018, annual revenue increased to €513.7 million,^[134] and Forbes valued the club at $2.183 billion.^[135] In 2019 revenue increased to €604 million (£533 million) according to Deloitte, with the club breaching the half a billion pounds mark.^[136]

In April 2020, the owners of the club came under fire from fans and the media for deciding to furlough all non-playing staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[137] In response to this, the club made a U-turn on the decision and apologised for their initial decision.^[138] In April 2021 Forbes valued the club at $4.1 billion, a two-year increase of 88%, making it the world’s fifth-most-valuable football club.^[139]

Liverpool in the media

Liverpool featured in the first edition of BBC’s Match of the Day, which screened highlights of their match against Arsenal at Anfield on 22 August 1964. The first football match to be televised in colour was between Liverpool and West Ham United, broadcast live in March 1967.^[140] Liverpool fans featured in the Pink Floyd song «Fearless», in which they sang excerpts from «You’ll Never Walk Alone».^[141] To mark the club’s appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released the «Anfield Rap», a song featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad.^[142]

A docudrama on the Hillsborough disaster, written by Jimmy McGovern, was screened in 1996. It featured Christopher Eccleston as Trevor Hicks, who lost two teenage daughters in the disaster, went on to campaign for safer stadiums and helped to form the Hillsborough Families Support Group.^[143] Liverpool featured in the 2001 film The 51st State, in which ex-hitman Felix DeSouza (Robert Carlyle) is a keen supporter of the team and the last scene takes place at a match between Liverpool and Manchester United.^[144] The club also featured in the 1984 children’s television show Scully, about a young boy who tries to gain a trial with Liverpool.^[145] The opening scenes of the Doctor Who episode «The Halloween Apocalypse», aired in October 2021, features The Doctor (played by Jodie Whittaker) exiting the TARDIS outside Anfield as she exclaims: «Liverpool? Anfield! Klopp era, classic!».^[146]

Players

First-team squad

As of 1 January 2023^[147]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Alisson Becker 2 DF  ENG Joe Gomez 3 MF  BRA Fabinho 4 DF  NED Virgil van Dijk 5 DF  FRA Ibrahima Konaté 6 MF  ESP Thiago Alcântara 7 MF  ENG James Milner (vice-captain)[148] 8 MF  GUI Naby Keïta 9 FW  BRA Roberto Firmino 11 FW  EGY Mohamed Salah 13 GK  ESP Adrián 14 MF  ENG Jordan Henderson (captain)[149] 15 MF  ENG Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 17 MF  ENG Curtis Jones

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  NED Cody Gakpo 19 MF  ENG Harvey Elliott 20 FW  POR Diogo Jota 21 DF  GRE Kostas Tsimikas 22 DF  SCO Calvin Ramsay 23 FW  COL Luis Díaz 26 DF  SCO Andrew Robertson 27 FW  URU Darwin Núñez 28 FW  POR Fábio Carvalho 29 MF  BRA Arthur Melo (on loan from Juventus) 32 DF  CMR Joël Matip 47 DF  ENG Nat Phillips 62 GK  IRL Caoimhín Kelleher 66 DF  ENG Trent Alexander-Arnold

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 46 DF  ENG Rhys Williams (at Blackpool until 30 June 2023)[150] 72 DF  NED Sepp van den Berg (at Schalke 04 until 30 June 2023)[151]

No. Pos. Nation Player 97 GK  BRA Marcelo Pitaluga (at Macclesfield until 30 June 2023)[152]

Reserves and Academy

Former players

Player records

Club captains

Since the establishment of the club in 1892, 45 players have been club captain of Liverpool F.C.^[153] Andrew Hannah became the first captain of the club after Liverpool separated from Everton and formed its own club. Alex Raisbeck, who was club captain from 1899 to 1909, was the longest serving captain before being overtaken by Steven Gerrard who served 12 seasons as Liverpool captain starting from the 2003–04 season.^[153] The present captain is Jordan Henderson, who in the 2015–16 season replaced Gerrard who moved to LA Galaxy.^[149][154]

Name Period Andrew Hannah 1892–1895 Jimmy Ross 1895–1897 John McCartney 1897–1898 Harry Storer 1898–1899 Alex Raisbeck 1899–1909 Arthur Goddard 1909–1912 Ephraim Longworth 1912–1913 Harry Lowe 1913–1915 Donald McKinlay 1919–1920 Ephraim Longworth 1920–1921 Donald McKinlay 1921–1928 Tom Bromilow 1928–1929 James Jackson 1929–1930 Tom Morrison 1930–1931 Tom Bradshaw 1931–1934

Name Period Tom Cooper 1934–1939 Matt Busby 1939–1940 Willie Fagan 1945–1947 Jack Balmer 1947–1950 Phil Taylor 1950–1953 Bill Jones 1953–1954 Laurie Hughes 1954–1955 Billy Liddell 1955–1958 Johnny Wheeler 1958–1959 Ronnie Moran 1959–1960 Dick White 1960–1961 Ron Yeats 1961–1970 Tommy Smith 1970–1973 Emlyn Hughes 1973–1978 Phil Thompson 1978–1981

Name Period Graeme Souness 1982–1984 Phil Neal 1984–1985 Alan Hansen 1985–1988 Ronnie Whelan 1988–1989 Alan Hansen 1989–1990 Ronnie Whelan 1990–1991 Steve Nicol 1990–1991 Mark Wright 1991–1993 Ian Rush 1993–1996 John Barnes 1996–1997 Paul Ince 1997–1999 Jamie Redknapp 1999–2002 Sami Hyypiä 2001–2003 Steven Gerrard 2003–2015 Jordan Henderson 2015–

Player of the season

Club officials

Honours

Liverpool’s first trophy was the Lancashire League, which it won in the club’s first season.^[5] In 1901, the club won its first League title, while the nineteenth and most recent was in 2020. Its first success in the FA Cup was in 1965. In terms of the number of trophies won, Liverpool’s most successful decade was the 1980s, when the club won six League titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups, one Football League Super Cup, five Charity Shields (one shared) and two European Cups.

The club has accumulated more top-flight wins and points than any other English team.^[162] Liverpool also has the highest average league finishing position (3.3) for the 50-year period to 2015^[163] and second-highest average league finishing position for the period 1900–1999 after Arsenal, with an average league placing of 8.7.^[164]

Liverpool is the most successful British club in international football with fourteen trophies, having won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA’s premier club competition, six times, an English record and only surpassed by Real Madrid and A.C. Milan. Liverpool’s fifth European Cup win, in 2005, meant that the club was awarded the trophy permanently and was also awarded a multiple-winner badge.^[165][166] Liverpool also hold the English record of three wins in the UEFA Cup, UEFA’s secondary club competition.^[167] Liverpool also hold the English record of four wins in the UEFA Super Cup.^[168] In 2019, the club won the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time, and also became the first English club to win the international treble of Club World Cup, Champions League and UEFA Super Cup.^[169][170]

Minor titles

• Lancashire League: 1
  • Winners (1): 1892–93
• Sheriff of London Charity Shield
  • Winners (1): 1906

Doubles and Trebles

• Doubles:^{[note 2]}
  • League and FA Cup (1): 1985–86
  • League and League Cup (3): 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84
  • League and European Cup (2): 1976–77, 1983–84
  • League and UEFA Cup (2): 1972–73, 1975–76
  • League Cup and European Cup (1): 1980–81
  • FA Cup and League Cup (1): 2021–22

• Trebles:^{[note 2][171]}
  • League, League Cup and European Cup (1): 1983–84
  • FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup (1): 2000–01

See also

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

• Cox, Richard; Russell, Dave; Vamplew, Wray (2002). Encyclopedia of British football. Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-5249-0.
• Crilly, Peter (2007). Tops of the Kops: The Complete Guide to Liverpool’s Kits. Trinity Mirror Sport Media. ISBN 978-1-905266-22-7.
• Graham, Matthew (1985). Liverpool. Hamlyn Publishing Group. ISBN 0-600-50254-6.
• Kelly, Stephen F. (1999). The Boot Room Boys: Inside the Anfield Boot Room. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-218907-0.
• Kelly, Stephen F. (1988). You’ll Never Walk Alone. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0-356-19594-5.
• Liversedge, Stan (1991). Liverpool:The Official Centenary History. Hamlyn Publishing Group. ISBN 0-600-57308-7.
• Moynihan, Leo (2009). The Pocket Book of Liverpool. Turnaround Publisher Services. ISBN 978-1-905326-62-4.</ref>
• Pead, Brian (1986). Liverpool A Complete Record. Breedon Books. ISBN 0-907969-15-1.
• Reade, Brian (2009). 43 Years with the Same Bird. Pan. ISBN 978-1-74329-366-9.

External links

• Official website

Independent websites

• LFCHistory.net Statistics website
• Liverpool F.C. on BBC Sport: Club news – Recent results and fixtures
• Liverpool at Sky Sports
• Liverpool at Premier League

Liverpool

Full name	Liverpool Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Reds
Founded	3 June 1892; 130 years ago[1]
Stadium	Anfield
Capacity	53,394[2]
Owner	Fenway Sports Group
Chairman	Tom Werner
Manager	Jürgen Klopp
League	Premier League
2021–22	Premier League, 2nd of 20
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.

Domestically, the club has won 19 League titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and 16 FA Community Shields. In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup. The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined 11 League titles and four European Cups. Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a 19th League title in 2020, the club’s first during the Premier League era.

Liverpool is one of the most valuable and widely supported clubs in the world. The club has long-standing rivalries with Manchester United and Everton. Under management by Shankly, in 1964 the team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip which has been used ever since. The club’s anthem is «You’ll Never Walk Alone».

The club’s supporters have been involved in two major tragedies. The Heysel Stadium disaster, where escaping fans were pressed against a collapsing wall at the 1985 European Cup Final in Brussels, resulted in 39 deaths. Most of these were Italians and Juventus fans. Liverpool were given a six-year ban from European competition, with all other English clubs received a five-year ban. The Hillsborough disaster in 1989, where 97 Liverpool supporters died in a crush against perimeter fencing, led to the elimination of fenced standing terraces in favour of all-seater stadiums in the top two tiers of English football. Prolonged campaigning for justice saw further coroners inquests, commissions and independent panels that ultimately exonerated the fans.

History

Liverpool F.C. was founded following a dispute between the Everton committee and John Houlding, club president and owner of the land at Anfield. After eight years at the stadium, Everton relocated to Goodison Park in 1892 and Houlding founded Liverpool F.C. to play at Anfield.^[3] Originally named «Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd» (Everton Athletic for short), the club became Liverpool F.C. in March 1892 and gained official recognition three months later, after The Football Association refused to recognise the club as Everton.^[4]

Liverpool played their first match on 1 September 1892, a pre-season friendly match against Rotherham Town, which they won 7–1. The team Liverpool fielded against Rotherham was composed entirely of Scottish players – the players who came from Scotland to play in England in those days were known as the Scotch Professors. Manager John McKenna had recruited the players after a scouting trip to Scotland – so they became known as the «team of Macs».^[5] The team won the Lancashire League in its debut season and joined the Football League Second Division at the start of the 1893–94 season. After the club was promoted to the First Division in 1896, Tom Watson was appointed manager. He led Liverpool to its first league title in 1901, before winning it again in 1906.^[6]

Liverpool reached its first FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1–0 to Burnley. It won consecutive League championships in 1922 and 1923, but did not win another trophy until the 1946–47 season, when the club won the First Division for a fifth time under the control of ex-West Ham United centre half George Kay.^[7] Liverpool suffered its second Cup Final defeat in 1950, playing against Arsenal.^[8] The club was relegated to the Second Division in the 1953–54 season.^[9] Soon after Liverpool lost 2–1 to non-league Worcester City in the 1958–59 FA Cup, Bill Shankly was appointed manager. Upon his arrival he released 24 players and converted a boot storage room at Anfield into a room where the coaches could discuss strategy; here, Shankly and other «Boot Room» members Joe Fagan, Reuben Bennett, and Bob Paisley began reshaping the team.^[10]

The club was promoted back into the First Division in 1962 and won it in 1964, for the first time in 17 years. In 1965, the club won its first FA Cup. In 1966, the club won the First Division but lost to Borussia Dortmund in the European Cup Winners’ Cup final.^[11] Liverpool won both the League and the UEFA Cup during the 1972–73 season, and the FA Cup again a year later. Shankly retired soon afterwards and was replaced by his assistant, Bob Paisley.^[12] In 1976, Paisley’s second season as manager, the club won another League and UEFA Cup double. The following season, the club retained the League title and won the European Cup for the first time, but it lost in the 1977 FA Cup Final. Liverpool retained the European Cup in 1978 and regained the First Division title in 1979.^[13] During Paisley’s nine seasons as manager Liverpool won 20 trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup, six League titles and three consecutive League Cups; the only domestic trophy he did not win was the FA Cup.^[14]

Paisley retired in 1983 and was replaced by his assistant, Joe Fagan.^[15] Liverpool won the League, League Cup and European Cup in Fagan’s first season, becoming the first English side to win three trophies in a season.^[16] Liverpool reached the European Cup final again in 1985, against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium. Before kick-off, Liverpool fans breached a fence that separated the two groups of supporters and charged the Juventus fans. The resulting weight of people caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing 39 fans, mostly Italians. The incident became known as the Heysel Stadium disaster. The match was played in spite of protests by both managers, and Liverpool lost 1–0 to Juventus. As a result of the tragedy, English clubs were banned from participating in European competition for five years; Liverpool received a ten-year ban, which was later reduced to six years. Fourteen Liverpool fans received convictions for involuntary manslaughter.^[17]

Fagan had announced his retirement just before the disaster and Kenny Dalglish was appointed as player-manager.^[18] During his tenure, the club won another three league titles and two FA Cups, including a League and Cup «Double» in the 1985–86 season. Liverpool’s success was overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster: in an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing.^[19] Ninety-four fans died that day; the 95th victim died in hospital from his injuries four days later, the 96th died nearly four years later, without regaining consciousness, and the 97th, Andrew Devine, died of injuries sustained in the disaster in 2021.^[20][21] After the Hillsborough disaster there was a government review of stadium safety. The resulting Taylor Report paved the way for legislation that required top-division teams to have all-seater stadiums. The report ruled that the main reason for the disaster was overcrowding due to a failure of police control.^[22]

Liverpool was involved in the closest finish to a league season during the 1988–89 season. Liverpool finished equal with Arsenal on both points and goal difference, but lost the title on total goals scored when Arsenal scored the final goal in the last minute of the season.^[23]

Dalglish cited the Hillsborough disaster and its repercussions as the reason for his resignation in 1991; he was replaced by former player Graeme Souness.^[24] Under his leadership Liverpool won the 1992 FA Cup Final, but their league performances slumped, with two consecutive sixth-place finishes, eventually resulting in his dismissal in January 1994. Souness was replaced by Roy Evans, and Liverpool went on to win the 1995 Football League Cup Final.^[25] While they made some title challenges under Evans, third-place finishes in 1996 and 1998 were the best they could manage, and so Gérard Houllier was appointed co-manager in the 1998–99 season, and became the sole manager in November 1998 after Evans resigned.^[26] In 2001, Houllier’s second full season in charge, Liverpool won a «treble»: the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup.^[27] Houllier underwent major heart surgery during the 2001–02 season and Liverpool finished second in the League, behind Arsenal.^[28] They won a further League Cup in 2003, but failed to mount a title challenge in the two seasons that followed.^[29][30]

Houllier was replaced by Rafael Benítez at the end of the 2003–04 season. Despite finishing fifth in Benítez’s first season, Liverpool won the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, beating A.C. Milan 3–2 in a penalty shootout after the match ended with a score of 3–3.^[31] The following season, Liverpool finished third in the Premier League and won the 2006 FA Cup Final, beating West Ham United in a penalty shootout after the match finished 3–3.^[32] American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the owners of the club during the 2006–07 season, in a deal which valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million.^[33] The club reached the 2007 UEFA Champions League Final against Milan, as it had in 2005, but lost 2–1.^[34] During the 2008–09 season Liverpool achieved 86 points, its then-highest Premier League points total, prior to the record-breaking 2018-19 season, and finished as runners up to Manchester United.^[35]

In the 2009–10 season, Liverpool finished seventh in the Premier League and failed to qualify for the Champions League. Benítez subsequently left by mutual consent^[36] and was replaced by Fulham manager Roy Hodgson.^[37] At the start of the 2010–11 season Liverpool was on the verge of bankruptcy and the club’s creditors asked the High Court to allow the sale of the club, overruling the wishes of Hicks and Gillett. John W. Henry, owner of the Boston Red Sox and of Fenway Sports Group, bid successfully for the club and took ownership in October 2010.^[38] Poor results during the start of that season led to Hodgson leaving the club by mutual consent and former player and manager Kenny Dalglish taking over.^[39] In the 2011–12 season, Liverpool secured a record 8th League Cup success and reached the FA Cup final, but finished in eighth position, the worst league finish in 18 years; this led to the sacking of Dalglish.^[40][41] He was replaced by Brendan Rodgers,^[42] whose Liverpool team in the 2013–14 season mounted an unexpected title charge to finish second behind champions Manchester City and subsequently return to the Champions League, scoring 101 goals in the process, the most since the 106 scored in the 1895–96 season.^[43][44] Following a disappointing 2014–15 season, where Liverpool finished sixth in the league, and a poor start to the following campaign, Rodgers was sacked in October 2015.^[45]

Rodgers was replaced by Jürgen Klopp.^[46] Liverpool reached the finals of the Football League Cup and UEFA Europa League in Klopp’s first season, finishing as runner-up in both competitions.^[47] The club finished second in the 2018–19 season with 97 points (surpassing the 86 points gained during the 2008–09 season), losing only one game: a points record for a non-title winning side.^[48] Klopp took Liverpool to successive Champions League finals in 2018 and 2019, with the club defeating Tottenham Hotspur 2–0 to win the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final.^[49][50] Liverpool beat Flamengo of Brazil in the final 1–0 to win the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time.^[51] Liverpool then went on to win the 2019–20 Premier League, winning their first top-flight league title in thirty years.^[52] The club set multiple records in the season, including winning the league with seven games remaining making it the earliest any team has ever won the title,^[53] amassing a club record 99 points, and achieving a joint-record 32 wins in a top-flight season.^[54]

Colours and badge

For much of Liverpool’s history, its home colours have been all red. When the club was founded in 1892, blue and white quartered shirts were used until the club adopted the city’s colour of red in 1896.^[3] The city’s symbol of the liver bird was adopted as the club’s badge (or crest, as it is sometimes known) in 1901, although it was not incorporated into the kit until 1955. Liverpool continued to wear red shirts and white shorts until 1964 when manager Bill Shankly decided to change to an all-red strip.^[55] Liverpool played in all red for the first time against Anderlecht, as Ian St John recalled in his autobiography:

He [Shankly] thought the colour scheme would carry psychological impact – red for danger, red for power. He came into the dressing room one day and threw a pair of red shorts to Ronnie Yeats. «Get into those shorts and let’s see how you look», he said. «Christ, Ronnie, you look awesome, terrifying. You look 7 ft tall.» «Why not go the whole hog, boss?» I suggested. «Why not wear red socks? Let’s go out all in red.» Shankly approved and an iconic kit was born.^[56]

The Liverpool away strip has more often than not been all yellow or white shirts and black shorts, but there have been several exceptions. An all grey kit was introduced in 1987, which was used until the 1991–92 centenary season when it was replaced by a combination of green shirts and white shorts. After various colour combinations in the 1990s, including gold and navy, bright yellow, black and grey, and ecru, the club alternated between yellow and white away kits until the 2008–09 season, when it re-introduced the grey kit. A third kit is designed for European away matches, though it is also worn in domestic away matches on occasions when the current away kit clashes with a team’s home kit. Between 2012 and 2015, the kits were designed by Warrior Sports, who became the club’s kit providers at the start of the 2012–13 season.^[57] In February 2015, Warrior’s parent company New Balance announced it would be entering the global football market, with teams sponsored by Warrior now being outfitted by New Balance.^[58] The only other branded shirts worn by the club were made by Umbro until 1985, when they were replaced by Adidas, who produced the kits until 1996 when Reebok took over. They produced the kits for 10 years before Adidas made the kits from 2006 to 2012.^[59] Nike became the club’s official kit supplier at the start of the 2020–21 season.^[60]

Liverpool was the first English professional club to have a sponsor’s logo on its shirts, after agreeing a deal with Hitachi in 1979.^[61] Since then the club has been sponsored by Crown Paints, Candy, Carlsberg and Standard Chartered. The contract with Carlsberg, which was signed in 1992, was the longest-lasting agreement in English top-flight football.^[62] The association with Carlsberg ended at the start of the 2010–11 season, when Standard Chartered Bank became the club’s sponsor.^[63]

The Liverpool badge is based on the city’s liver bird symbol, which in the past had been placed inside a shield. In 1977, a red liver bird standing on a football (blazoned as «Statant upon a football a Liver Bird wings elevated and addorsed holding in the beak a piece of seaweed gules«) was granted as a heraldic badge by the College of Arms to the English Football League intended for use by Liverpool. However, Liverpool never made use of this badge.^[64] In 1992, to commemorate the centennial of the club, a new badge was commissioned, including a representation of the Shankly Gates. The next year twin flames were added at either side, symbolic of the Hillsborough memorial outside Anfield, where an eternal flame burns in memory of those who died in the Hillsborough disaster.^[65] In 2012, Warrior Sports’ first Liverpool kit removed the shield and gates, returning the badge to what had adorned Liverpool shirts in the 1970s; the flames were moved to the back collar of the shirt, surrounding the number 96 for the number who died at Hillsborough.^[66]

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor (chest)	Shirt sponsor (sleeve)
1973–1979	Umbro	None	None
1979–1982	Hitachi
1982–1985	Crown Paints
1985–1988	Adidas
1988–1992	Candy
1992–1996	Carlsberg
1996–2006	Reebok
2006–2010	Adidas
2010–2012	Standard Chartered
2012–2015	Warrior Sports
2015–2017	New Balance
2017–2020	Western Union
2020–	Nike	Expedia[67]

Stadium

For information on Liverpool’s abandoned proposed new stadium, see Stanley Park Stadium.

Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park.
Situated 2 miles (3 km) from Liverpool city centre, it was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park after a dispute over rent with Anfield owner John Houlding.^[68] Left with an empty ground, Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool’s first match at Anfield.^[69]

The Kop was built in 1906 due to the high turnout for matches and was called the Oakfield Road Embankment initially. Its first game was on 1 September 1906 when the home side beat Stoke City 1–0.^[70] In 1906 the banked stand at one end of the ground was formally renamed the Spion Kop after a hill in KwaZulu-Natal.^[71] The hill was the site of the Battle of Spion Kop in the Second Boer War, where over 300 men of the Lancashire Regiment died, many of them from Liverpool.^[72] At its peak, the stand could hold 28,000 spectators and was one of the largest single-tier stands in the world. Many stadiums in England had stands named after Spion Kop, but Anfield’s was the largest of them at the time; it could hold more supporters than some entire football grounds.^[73]

Anfield could accommodate more than 60,000 supporters at its peak and had a capacity of 55,000 until the 1990s, when, following recommendations from the Taylor Report, all clubs in the Premier League were obliged to convert to all-seater stadiums in time for the 1993–94 season, reducing its capacity to 45,276.^[74] The findings of the report precipitated the redevelopment of the Kemlyn Road Stand, which was rebuilt in 1992, coinciding with the centenary of the club, and was known as the Centenary Stand until 2017 when it was renamed the Kenny Dalglish Stand. An extra tier was added to the Anfield Road end in 1998, which further increased the capacity of the ground but gave rise to problems when it was opened. A series of support poles and stanchions were inserted to give extra stability to the top tier of the stand after movement of the tier was reported at the start of the 1999–2000 season.^[75]

Because of restrictions on expanding the capacity at Anfield, Liverpool announced plans to move to the proposed Stanley Park Stadium in May 2002.^[76] Planning permission was granted in July 2004,^[77] and in September 2006, Liverpool City Council agreed to grant Liverpool a 999-year lease on the proposed site.^[78] Following the takeover of the club by George Gillett and Tom Hicks in February 2007, the proposed stadium was redesigned. The new design was approved by the Council in November 2007. The stadium was scheduled to open in August 2011 and would hold 60,000 spectators, with HKS, Inc. contracted to build the stadium.^[79] Construction was halted in August 2008, as Gillett and Hicks had difficulty in financing the £300 million needed for the development.^[80] In October 2012, BBC Sport reported that Fenway Sports Group, the new owners of Liverpool FC, had decided to redevelop their current home at Anfield stadium, rather than building a new stadium in Stanley Park. As part of the redevelopment the capacity of Anfield was to increase from 45,276 to approximately 60,000 and would cost approximately £150m.^[81] When construction was completed on the new Main stand the capacity of Anfield was increased to 54,074. This £100 million expansion added a third tier to the stand. This was all part of a £260 million project to improve the Anfield area. Jürgen Klopp the manager at the time described the stand as «impressive.»^[82]

In June 2021, it was reported that Liverpool Council had given planning permission for the club to renovate and expand the Anfield Road stand, boosting the capacity by around 7,000 and taking the overall capacity at Anfield to 61,000. The expansion, which is estimated to cost £60m, was described as «a huge milestone» by managing director Andy Hughes, and would also see rail seating being trialled in the Kop for the 2021–22 Premier League season.^[83]

Support

Liverpool is one of the best supported clubs in the world.^[84][85] The club states that its worldwide fan base includes more than 200 officially recognised Supporters Clubs in at least 50 countries. Notable groups include Spirit of Shankly.^[86] The club takes advantage of this support through its worldwide summer tours,^[87] which has included playing in front of 101,000 in Michigan, U.S., and 95,000 in Melbourne, Australia.^[88][89] Liverpool fans often refer to themselves as Kopites, a reference to the fans who once stood, and now sit, on the Kop at Anfield.^[90] In 2008 a group of fans decided to form a splinter club, A.F.C. Liverpool, to play matches for fans who had been priced out of watching Premier League football.^[91]

The song «You’ll Never Walk Alone», originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and later recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry and the Pacemakers, is the club’s anthem and has been sung by the Anfield crowd since the early 1960s.^[92] It has since gained popularity among fans of other clubs around the world.^[93] The song’s title adorns the top of the Shankly Gates, which were unveiled on 2 August 1982 in memory of former manager Bill Shankly. The «You’ll Never Walk Alone» portion of the Shankly Gates is also reproduced on the club’s badge.^[94]

The club’s supporters have been involved in two stadium disasters. The first was the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster, in which 39 people, mostly Italians and Juventus supporters, were killed. They were confined to a corner by Liverpool fans who had charged in their direction; the weight of the cornered fans caused a wall to collapse. UEFA laid the blame for the incident solely on the Liverpool supporters,^[95] and banned all English clubs from European competition for five years. Liverpool was banned for an additional year, preventing it from participating in the 1990–91 European Cup, even though it won the League in 1990.^[96] Twenty-seven fans were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter and were extradited to Belgium in 1987 to face trial.^[97] In 1989, after a five-month trial in Belgium, 14 Liverpool fans were given three-year sentences for involuntary manslaughter;^[98] half of the terms were suspended.^[99]

The second disaster took place during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, on 15 April 1989. Ninety-seven Liverpool fans died as a consequence of overcrowding at the Leppings Lane end, in what became known as the Hillsborough disaster. In the following days, The Sun‘s coverage of the event spread falsehoods, particularly an article entitled «The Truth» that claimed that Liverpool fans had robbed the dead and had urinated on and attacked the police.^[100] Subsequent investigations proved the allegations false, leading to a boycott of the newspaper by Liverpool fans across the city and elsewhere; many still refuse to buy The Sun 30 years later.^[101] Many support organisations were set up in the wake of the disaster, such as the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, which represents bereaved families, survivors and supporters in their efforts to secure justice.^[102]

Rivalries

Liverpool’s longest-established rivalry is with fellow Liverpool team Everton, against whom they contest the Merseyside derby. The rivalry stems from Liverpool’s formation and the dispute with Everton officials and the then owners of Anfield.^[103] The Merseyside derby is one of the few local derbies which do not enforce fan segregation, and hence has been known as the «friendly derby».^[104] Since the mid-1980s, the rivalry has intensified both on and off the field and, since the inception of the Premier League in 1992, the Merseyside derby has had more players sent off than any other Premier League game. It has been referred to as «the most ill-disciplined and explosive fixture in the Premier League».^[105] In terms of support within the city, the number of Liverpool fans outweighs Everton supporters by a ratio of 2:1.^[106]

Liverpool’s rivalry with Manchester United stems from the cities’ competition in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century.^[107] Connected by the world’s first inter-city railway, by road Liverpool and Manchester are separated by approximately 30 miles (48 km) along the East Lancs Road.^[108] Ranked the two biggest clubs in England by France Football magazine, Liverpool and Manchester United are the most successful English teams in both domestic and international competitions, and both clubs have a global fanbase.^[109][110] Viewed as one of the biggest rivalries in world football, it is considered the most famous fixture in English football.^{[111][112][113]} The two clubs alternated as champions between 1964 and 1967,^[114] and Manchester United became the first English team to win the European Cup in 1968, followed by Liverpool’s four European Cup victories.^[115] Despite the 39 league titles and nine European Cups between them^[114] the two rivals have rarely been successful at the same time – Liverpool’s run of titles in the 1970s and 1980s coincided with Manchester United’s 26-year title drought, and United’s success in the Premier League-era likewise coincided with Liverpool’s 30-year title drought,^[116] and the two clubs have finished first and second in the league only five times.^[114] Such is the rivalry between the clubs they rarely do transfer business with each other. The last player to be transferred between the two clubs was Phil Chisnall, who moved to Liverpool from Manchester United in 1964.^[117]

Ownership and finances

As the owner of Anfield and founder of Liverpool, John Houlding was the club’s first chairman, a position he held from its founding in 1892 until 1904. John McKenna took over as chairman after Houlding’s departure.^[118] McKenna subsequently became President of the Football League.^[119] The chairmanship changed hands many times before John Smith, whose father was a shareholder of the club, took up the role in 1973. He oversaw the most successful period in Liverpool’s history before stepping down in 1990.^[120] His successor was Noel White who became chairman in 1990.^[121] In August 1991 David Moores, whose family had owned the club for more than 50 years, became chairman. His uncle John Moores was also a shareholder at Liverpool and was chairman of Everton from 1961 to 1973. Moores owned 51 percent of the club, and in 2004 expressed his willingness to consider a bid for his shares in Liverpool.^[122]

Moores eventually sold the club to American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks on 6 February 2007. The deal valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million. The pair paid £5,000 per share, or £174.1m for the total shareholding and £44.8m to cover the club’s debts.^[123] Disagreements between Gillett and Hicks, and the fans’ lack of support for them, resulted in the pair looking to sell the club.^[124] Martin Broughton was appointed chairman of the club on 16 April 2010 to oversee its sale.^[125] In May 2010, accounts were released showing the holding company of the club to be £350m in debt (due to leveraged takeover) with losses of £55m, causing auditor KPMG to qualify its audit opinion.^[126] The group’s creditors, including the Royal Bank of Scotland, took Gillett and Hicks to court to force them to allow the board to proceed with the sale of the club, the major asset of the holding company. A High Court judge, Mr Justice Floyd, ruled in favour of the creditors and paved the way for the sale of the club to Fenway Sports Group (formerly New England Sports Ventures), although Gillett and Hicks still had the option to appeal.^[127] Liverpool was sold to Fenway Sports Group on 15 October 2010 for £300m.^[128]

Liverpool has been described as a global brand; a 2010 report valued the club’s trademarks and associated intellectual property at £141m, an increase of £5m on the previous year. Liverpool was given a brand rating of AA (Very Strong).^[129] In April 2010 business magazine Forbes ranked Liverpool as the sixth most valuable football team in the world, behind Manchester United, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Barcelona and Bayern Munich; they valued the club at $822m (£532m), excluding debt.^[130] Accountants Deloitte ranked Liverpool eighth in the Deloitte Football Money League, which ranks the world’s football clubs in terms of revenue. Liverpool’s income in the 2009–10 season was €225.3m.^[131] According to a 2018 report by Deloitte, the club had an annual revenue of €424.2 million for the previous year,^[132] and Forbes valued the club at $1.944 billion.^[133] In 2018, annual revenue increased to €513.7 million,^[134] and Forbes valued the club at $2.183 billion.^[135] In 2019 revenue increased to €604 million (£533 million) according to Deloitte, with the club breaching the half a billion pounds mark.^[136]

In April 2020, the owners of the club came under fire from fans and the media for deciding to furlough all non-playing staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[137] In response to this, the club made a U-turn on the decision and apologised for their initial decision.^[138] In April 2021 Forbes valued the club at $4.1 billion, a two-year increase of 88%, making it the world’s fifth-most-valuable football club.^[139]

Liverpool in the media

Liverpool featured in the first edition of BBC’s Match of the Day, which screened highlights of their match against Arsenal at Anfield on 22 August 1964. The first football match to be televised in colour was between Liverpool and West Ham United, broadcast live in March 1967.^[140] Liverpool fans featured in the Pink Floyd song «Fearless», in which they sang excerpts from «You’ll Never Walk Alone».^[141] To mark the club’s appearance in the 1988 FA Cup Final, Liverpool released the «Anfield Rap», a song featuring John Barnes and other members of the squad.^[142]

A docudrama on the Hillsborough disaster, written by Jimmy McGovern, was screened in 1996. It featured Christopher Eccleston as Trevor Hicks, who lost two teenage daughters in the disaster, went on to campaign for safer stadiums and helped to form the Hillsborough Families Support Group.^[143] Liverpool featured in the 2001 film The 51st State, in which ex-hitman Felix DeSouza (Robert Carlyle) is a keen supporter of the team and the last scene takes place at a match between Liverpool and Manchester United.^[144] The club also featured in the 1984 children’s television show Scully, about a young boy who tries to gain a trial with Liverpool.^[145] The opening scenes of the Doctor Who episode «The Halloween Apocalypse», aired in October 2021, features The Doctor (played by Jodie Whittaker) exiting the TARDIS outside Anfield as she exclaims: «Liverpool? Anfield! Klopp era, classic!».^[146]

Players

First-team squad

As of 1 January 2023^[147]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  BRA Alisson Becker 2 DF  ENG Joe Gomez 3 MF  BRA Fabinho 4 DF  NED Virgil van Dijk 5 DF  FRA Ibrahima Konaté 6 MF  ESP Thiago Alcântara 7 MF  ENG James Milner (vice-captain)[148] 8 MF  GUI Naby Keïta 9 FW  BRA Roberto Firmino 11 FW  EGY Mohamed Salah 13 GK  ESP Adrián 14 MF  ENG Jordan Henderson (captain)[149] 15 MF  ENG Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 17 MF  ENG Curtis Jones

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 FW  NED Cody Gakpo 19 MF  ENG Harvey Elliott 20 FW  POR Diogo Jota 21 DF  GRE Kostas Tsimikas 22 DF  SCO Calvin Ramsay 23 FW  COL Luis Díaz 26 DF  SCO Andrew Robertson 27 FW  URU Darwin Núñez 28 FW  POR Fábio Carvalho 29 MF  BRA Arthur Melo (on loan from Juventus) 32 DF  CMR Joël Matip 47 DF  ENG Nat Phillips 62 GK  IRL Caoimhín Kelleher 66 DF  ENG Trent Alexander-Arnold

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 46 DF  ENG Rhys Williams (at Blackpool until 30 June 2023)[150] 72 DF  NED Sepp van den Berg (at Schalke 04 until 30 June 2023)[151]

No. Pos. Nation Player 97 GK  BRA Marcelo Pitaluga (at Macclesfield until 30 June 2023)[152]

Reserves and Academy

Former players

Player records

Club captains

Since the establishment of the club in 1892, 45 players have been club captain of Liverpool F.C.^[153] Andrew Hannah became the first captain of the club after Liverpool separated from Everton and formed its own club. Alex Raisbeck, who was club captain from 1899 to 1909, was the longest serving captain before being overtaken by Steven Gerrard who served 12 seasons as Liverpool captain starting from the 2003–04 season.^[153] The present captain is Jordan Henderson, who in the 2015–16 season replaced Gerrard who moved to LA Galaxy.^[149][154]

Name Period Andrew Hannah 1892–1895 Jimmy Ross 1895–1897 John McCartney 1897–1898 Harry Storer 1898–1899 Alex Raisbeck 1899–1909 Arthur Goddard 1909–1912 Ephraim Longworth 1912–1913 Harry Lowe 1913–1915 Donald McKinlay 1919–1920 Ephraim Longworth 1920–1921 Donald McKinlay 1921–1928 Tom Bromilow 1928–1929 James Jackson 1929–1930 Tom Morrison 1930–1931 Tom Bradshaw 1931–1934

Name Period Tom Cooper 1934–1939 Matt Busby 1939–1940 Willie Fagan 1945–1947 Jack Balmer 1947–1950 Phil Taylor 1950–1953 Bill Jones 1953–1954 Laurie Hughes 1954–1955 Billy Liddell 1955–1958 Johnny Wheeler 1958–1959 Ronnie Moran 1959–1960 Dick White 1960–1961 Ron Yeats 1961–1970 Tommy Smith 1970–1973 Emlyn Hughes 1973–1978 Phil Thompson 1978–1981

Name Period Graeme Souness 1982–1984 Phil Neal 1984–1985 Alan Hansen 1985–1988 Ronnie Whelan 1988–1989 Alan Hansen 1989–1990 Ronnie Whelan 1990–1991 Steve Nicol 1990–1991 Mark Wright 1991–1993 Ian Rush 1993–1996 John Barnes 1996–1997 Paul Ince 1997–1999 Jamie Redknapp 1999–2002 Sami Hyypiä 2001–2003 Steven Gerrard 2003–2015 Jordan Henderson 2015–

Player of the season

Club officials

Honours

Liverpool’s first trophy was the Lancashire League, which it won in the club’s first season.^[5] In 1901, the club won its first League title, while the nineteenth and most recent was in 2020. Its first success in the FA Cup was in 1965. In terms of the number of trophies won, Liverpool’s most successful decade was the 1980s, when the club won six League titles, two FA Cups, four League Cups, one Football League Super Cup, five Charity Shields (one shared) and two European Cups.

The club has accumulated more top-flight wins and points than any other English team.^[162] Liverpool also has the highest average league finishing position (3.3) for the 50-year period to 2015^[163] and second-highest average league finishing position for the period 1900–1999 after Arsenal, with an average league placing of 8.7.^[164]

Liverpool is the most successful British club in international football with fourteen trophies, having won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA’s premier club competition, six times, an English record and only surpassed by Real Madrid and A.C. Milan. Liverpool’s fifth European Cup win, in 2005, meant that the club was awarded the trophy permanently and was also awarded a multiple-winner badge.^[165][166] Liverpool also hold the English record of three wins in the UEFA Cup, UEFA’s secondary club competition.^[167] Liverpool also hold the English record of four wins in the UEFA Super Cup.^[168] In 2019, the club won the FIFA Club World Cup for the first time, and also became the first English club to win the international treble of Club World Cup, Champions League and UEFA Super Cup.^[169][170]

Minor titles

• Lancashire League: 1
  • Winners (1): 1892–93
• Sheriff of London Charity Shield
  • Winners (1): 1906

Doubles and Trebles

• Doubles:^{[note 2]}
  • League and FA Cup (1): 1985–86
  • League and League Cup (3): 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84
  • League and European Cup (2): 1976–77, 1983–84
  • League and UEFA Cup (2): 1972–73, 1975–76
  • League Cup and European Cup (1): 1980–81
  • FA Cup and League Cup (1): 2021–22

• Trebles:^{[note 2][171]}
  • League, League Cup and European Cup (1): 1983–84
  • FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup (1): 2000–01

See also

References

Footnotes

Bibliography

• Cox, Richard; Russell, Dave; Vamplew, Wray (2002). Encyclopedia of British football. Routledge. ISBN 0-7146-5249-0.
• Crilly, Peter (2007). Tops of the Kops: The Complete Guide to Liverpool’s Kits. Trinity Mirror Sport Media. ISBN 978-1-905266-22-7.
• Graham, Matthew (1985). Liverpool. Hamlyn Publishing Group. ISBN 0-600-50254-6.
• Kelly, Stephen F. (1999). The Boot Room Boys: Inside the Anfield Boot Room. HarperCollins. ISBN 0-00-218907-0.
• Kelly, Stephen F. (1988). You’ll Never Walk Alone. Queen Anne Press. ISBN 0-356-19594-5.
• Liversedge, Stan (1991). Liverpool:The Official Centenary History. Hamlyn Publishing Group. ISBN 0-600-57308-7.
• Moynihan, Leo (2009). The Pocket Book of Liverpool. Turnaround Publisher Services. ISBN 978-1-905326-62-4.</ref>
• Pead, Brian (1986). Liverpool A Complete Record. Breedon Books. ISBN 0-907969-15-1.
• Reade, Brian (2009). 43 Years with the Same Bird. Pan. ISBN 978-1-74329-366-9.

External links

• Official website

Independent websites

• LFCHistory.net Statistics website
• Liverpool F.C. on BBC Sport: Club news – Recent results and fixtures
• Liverpool at Sky Sports
• Liverpool at Premier League

C «Ливерпулем» творится что-то странное. Почему команду снова колбасит?

2023 год начинается грустно для Клоппа.

«Ливерпуль» снова проиграл. На этот раз «Брайтону». Причём поражение получилось абсолютным и безапелляционным.

Не мог же Клопп, который проделывал блестящую работу последние четыре года, разучиться тренировать? Тем не менее команда не просто на спаде, а будто даже в кризисе. И как раз поведение главного тренера наиболее показательно. Его пресс-конференции получаются достаточно нервными. На днях он наехал на журналиста за вполне корректный вопрос о том, насколько трансферы могут закрыть проблемы в команде. Теперь же в Брайтоне Клопп улыбался, глядя на пропущенные мячи. Кажется, это уже нервное.

После игры тренер вообще словно молился перед трибуной фанатов «Ливерпуля». Видимо, таким образом извинялся, потому что после матча сказал: «Я не могу вспомнить игры хуже. И я про всю карьеру, а не только «Ливерпуль».

И речь не о том, что Клоппа нужно убирать. Явно нет. Вероятно, без него будет сложнее вернуться на тот уровень, который был у команды в последние годы. Другое дело, что конкретно этот сезон АПЛ близок к тому, чтобы пропасть. Очень тяжело представить себе «Ливерпуль», который вообще не попал в еврокубки. Это какая-то аномалия. Такого вроде не может быть, но именно к этому всё идёт.

У этого термина существуют и другие значения, см. Ливерпуль.

Ливерпуль
Полное название	Футбольный клуб «Ливерпуль» (англ. Liverpool Football Club)
Прозвища	Красные Мерсисайдцы (англ. The Merseysides Reds)
Основан	3 июня 1892 (120 лет)[1]
Стадион	Энфилд, Ливерпуль
Вместимость	45,522[2]
Владелец	Джон Генри
Президент	Том Вернер
Тренер	Брендан Роджерс
Капитан	Стивен Джеррард
Рейтинг	18-е место в рейтинге УЕФА[3]
Сайт	www.liverpoolfc.com
Соревнование	Премьер-лига
2011/12	8
Основная форма Гостевая форма Резервная форма
Текущий сезон

Футбольный клуб «Ливерпу́ль» (англ. Liverpool Football Club; английское произношение: [ˈlɪvəpuːl]) — английский футбольный клуб, базирующийся в Ливерпуле, графство Мерсисайд.

«Ливерпуль» является одним из самых успешных футбольных клубов мира — это единственный английский клуб, добивавшийся победы в Кубке чемпионов 5 раз, также им принадлежит английский рекорд по количеству выигранных европейских титулов. «Ливерпуль» 11 раз выигрывал еврокубки (с учётом суперкубков) — это четвертый результат после «Барселоны», «Милана» и «Реала» они выигрывали еврокубки 12 раз.Кроме того, «красные» 18 раз выигрывали чемпионат Англии — (второй результат после «Манчестер Юнайтед»).

Болельщики «Ливерпуль» были участниками двух крупнейших футбольных катастроф: в 1985 «Эйзельской трагедии», когда из-за обрушения стены стадиона погибло 39 фанатов «Ювентуса», и в 1989 «Трагедия на Хиллсборо», тогда из-за ограждений по периметру трибун, в давке погибло 96 фанатов «Ливерпуля». Двумя самыми непримиримыми соперниками «Красных», с давних времен являются «Эвертон» и «Манчестер Юнайтед». Гимном клуба является песня «You’ll Never Walk Alone». По данным «Forbes» на 2012 год, «Ливерпуль» является 8-й самой высокооплачиваемой командой мира.

История

1892—1959

Основная статья: История футбольного клуба «Ливерпуль» (1892–1959)

Ливерпуль был основан из-за спора вокруг арендной платы, между комитетом «Эвертона» и Джоном Хоулдингом, президентом клуба и владельцем земли на «Энфилде». Хоулдинг был обвинен в использовании своего положения для личной наживы. После восьми лет на стадионе, Эвертон переехал в «Гудисон Парк» в 1892 году, а Хоулдинг основал Ливерпуль для того что команда играла на «Энфилде».^[4] Первоначально название «Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd» (Эвертон Атлетик), клуб был переименован в Ливерпуль, в июне 1892 после того, как Футбольная Ассоциация отказалась признать клуб, как Эвертон. В результате команда была названа в честь города — «Ливерпуль».^[5]

Выступления новый клуб начал в Ланкаширской лиге. Уже через два года клуб входит в Футбольную лигу, попав во Второй дивизион в сезоне 1893/94. Сходу выиграв его, «Ливерпуль» выходит в Первый дивизион, но закрепился в нём лишь со второй попытки — в сезоне 1896/97.

Они выиграли свой первый чемпионский титул в сезоне 1900/01, повторив достижение через 5 лет — в сезоне 1905/06.^[6] Первого своего финала Кубка Англии красные достигли в 1914 году, но проиграли 0:1 «Бернли». Затем выиграл ещё два чемпионата в сезонах 1921/22 и 1922/23, но после этого «Ливерпуль» не выиграл ни одного трофея до 1947 года, когда они выиграли чемпионат в пятый раз. Клуб вновь достиг финала Кубка Англии в 1950 году, но уступил «Арсеналу» 0:2.

«Ливерпуль» вылетел во вторую лигу в сезоне 1953/54. В течение этого периода они ухитрились потерпеть поражение от непрофессионального клуба «Вустер Сити» в Кубке Англии сезона 1958/59.

1959—1985

Основная статья: История футбольного клуба «Ливерпуль» (1959–1985)

Вскоре после этого печально известного результата, менеджером был назначен Билл Шенкли. Состав команды серьёзно обновился — пришло сразу 24 новых игрока. Кроме того, он превратил помещение на «Энфилде», первоначально использовавшееся как кладовка, в комнату, где тренеры могли обсуждать тактику за чаем (или другими напитками). Там Шенкли, а также другие основатели Комнаты Бутс (Boot Room) Джо Фэган, Робин Беннетт и Боб Пейсли начали перестройку команды.

Возвращение в Первый Дивизион было достигнуто в сезоне 1961/62, затем клуб выиграл Лигу впервые за 17 лет в сезоне 1963/64. Затем в 1966 году «Ливерпуль» выиграл 7-й чемпионат Англии, а годом ранее, выиграв в дополнительное время у «Лидс Юнайтед», красные выиграли свой первый Кубок Англии. Клуб выиграл чемпионат и Кубок УЕФА, разгромив в финале «Боруссию Мёнхенгладбах» 3:0, в 1973 году и Кубок Англии на следующий год. После этого Шенкли решил уйти и был заменен своим помощником Бобом Пейсли.

Пейсли был ещё более успешным, чем Шенкли, и клуб выиграл чемпионат и Кубок УЕФА в сезоне 1975/76 во второй его сезон в качестве менеджера. В следующем сезоне они сохраняют за собой звание чемпиона, выиграли Кубок европейских чемпионов в первый раз, вновь переиграв в финале мёнхенгладбахскую «Боруссию» — на этот раз 3:1. «Ливерпуль» сохранил Кубок европейских чемпионов в следующем сезоне, и выиграл чемпионат, пропустив лишь 16 мячей в 42 матчах. За девять сезонов под руководством Пейсли «Ливерпуль» выиграл 21 трофей, в том числе три Кубка европейских чемпионов, Кубок УЕФА, 6 чемпионатов Англии и три подряд Кубка Футбольной лиги. Единственным отечественным трофеем, не выигранным Пейсли, был Кубок Англии.

Пейсли ушёл в отставку в 1983 году и (как и Шенкли) передал бразды правления соратнику по Boot Room, своему помощнику Джо Фэгану. «Ливерпуль» выиграл три трофея в первый сезон Фэгана: чемпионат, Кубок Футбольной лиги и Кубок европейских чемпионов, став первой английской командой, выигравшей три трофея за сезон. Ливерпуль снова достиг финала Кубка европейских чемпионов в 1985 году. Матч против «Ювентуса» проходил в Брюсселе на стадионе «Эйзель». До начала матча произошла трагедия: фанаты «Ливерпуля» сломали ограды, которые отделяли две группы болельщиков и накинулись на фанатов «Ювентуса». В результате началась давка, в которой погибли 39 человек, в основном итальянцы. Матч все же решено было не отменять. «Ливерпуль» проиграл 0:1. Английским клубам было запрещено участвовать в еврокубках в течение пяти лет, «Ливерпуль» получил 10-летний запрет, который впоследствии был сокращен до шести лет. Четырнадцать фанатов получили судимость за непредумышленное убийство.

1985—настоящее время

Основная статья: История футбольного клуба «Ливерпуль» (1985–настоящие время)

Фаган ушёл в отставку после катастрофы, и Кенни Далглиш был назначен играющим тренером. Во время его правления, клуб выиграл ещё три чемпионата и два Кубка Англии, в том числе кубковый дубль (Кубок Футбольной лиги и Кубок Англии) в сезоне 1985/86. Успех Ливерпуля был омрачен трагедией на стадионе «Хиллсборо»: в Шеффилде в полуфинале Кубка Англии против «Ноттингем Форест» 15 апреля 1989 года в результате давки пострадали сотни поклонников «Ливерпуля». 93 человека умерли в тот день, ещё двое скончались в больнице от полученных травм, и 96-й умер почти четыре года спустя, не приходя в сознание. После «Хиллсборо» была правительственная проверка безопасности на стадионах. В докладе комиссия признала, что основной причиной катастрофы был провал полицейского контроля.

1989 год запомнился болельщикам «Ливерпуля» и участием в самой драматической концовке сезона за все время. Клуб уступил титул по разнице голов, в последнем туре сезона дома проиграв будущему чемпиону — «Арсеналу». Далглишу припомнили «Хиллсборо» и его последствия, что послужило поводом для отставки в 1991 году. Он был заменен бывшим игроком «Ливерпуля» и сборной Шотландии Грэмом Сунессом. Помимо победы в Кубке Англии в 1992 году, Сунесс не добился успехов и был заменен бывшим членом Boot Room, Роем Эвансом в 1994 году. Эванс отработал немногим лучше: победа в Кубке Футбольной лиги в 1995 году была единственным его трофеем. Одним из знаменательных событий было победа 4:3 над «Ньюкасл Юнайтед» на «Энфилде» 3 апреля 1996 года, которая была названа в апреле 2003 года матчем десятилетия в Премьер-лиге. Жерар Улье был назначен со-менеджером в сезоне 1998/99, но остался единственным после того как Эванс ушёл в отставку в ноябре 1998 года.

В своем втором сезоне в «Ливерпуле» Улье выиграл сразу три трофея: Кубок Англии, Кубок Футбольной лиги и Кубок УЕФА. В сезоне 2001/02, в течение которого Улье пережил операции на сердце, «Ливерпуль» занял второе место за «Арсеналом». Следующие сезоны не оправдали ожиданий и Улье был заменен Рафаэлем Бенитесом. Клуб финишировал пятым в своём первом сезоне при новом менеджере, но победил в Лиге чемпионов УЕФА, обыграв в финале «Милан» 3:2 в серии пенальти после 3:3 в основное время. В следующем сезоне «Ливерпуль» занял третье место с 82 очками — рекордными с 1988 года. Они выиграли Кубок Англии, повторив лигочемпионский результат в предыдущем сезоне, переиграв «Вест Хэм Юнайтед» в серии пенальти 3:3 в матче. В сезоне 2006/07, клуб в поисках инвестиций подошёл к концу, когда американские бизнесмены Джордж Жиллетт и Том Хикс стали владельцами «Ливерпуля», совершив сделку, которая оценила клуб и его долги на 219 млн фунтов стерлингов. В том сезоне, клуб вновь достиг финала Лиги чемпионов УЕФА и снова встретился с «Миланом», но на этот раз они проиграли 2:1. В сезоне 2008/09 Ливерпуль добился рекордных 86 очков и занял второе место вслед за «Манчестер Юнайтед».

3 июня 2010 года было объявлено, что Бенитес покинул свой пост после седьмого места в Премьер-лиге и отсутствии квалификации в Лигу чемпионов УЕФА. 1 июля 2010 года «Ливерпуль» объявил о назначении бывшего рулевого «Фулхэма» Роя Ходжсона менеджером с заключением контракта сроком на три года. Однако, проработав чуть более семи месяцев, 8 января 2011 года Рой Ходжсон по взаимному согласию сторон оставил пост главного тренера «Ливерпуля». Команда под его руководством провела 20 матчей в Премьер-лиге, набрав 25 очков, что позволяло ей занимать всего лишь 12-е место. Уходя, Ходжсон отметил, что последние месяцы работы с «Ливерпулем» стали одними из самых сложных в его тренерской карьере. «Жаль, что мне не удалось создать команду», — сказал он. Место наставника до конца сезона занял уже выигрававший с «Ливерпулем» чемпионат Англии шотландец Кенни Далглиш. Его приход стал первым в истории клуба тренерским возвращением. 12 мая 2011 года футбольным клубом Ливерпуль было объявлено, что с Далглишом был подписан контракт, согласно которому он связан с Ливерпулем на три сезона.^[7] 27 февраля 2012 года Далглиш принес мерсисайдцам первый за 6 лет трофей, Кубок английской Лиги. «Ливерпуль» переиграл в финале «Кардифф Сити».

15 мая 2012 появились слухи об увольнении главного тренера Кенни Далглиша. На следующий день руководство выступило с официальным подтверждением отставки шотландского специалиста. 1 июня 2012 года новым тренером «Ливерпуля» стал Брендан Роджерс, хорошо зарекомендовавший себя по работе с «Суонси Сити».

Стадион

Домашний стадион «Ливерпуля» — «Энфилд», вмещающий 45 522 человека, расположен в трёх милях от центра Ливерпуля. Стадион был построен в 1884 году и был первоначально домашней ареной «Эвертона». Есть планы заменить «Энфилд» новым стадионом в Стэнли Парк, который вмещал бы большее количество зрителей, приблизительно 70 000. Строительство на соседнем к существующему стадиону участке приведет к разрушению «Энфилда». Открытие нового стадиона намечалось на 2011 год, но экономический кризис 2008 года и разногласия между американскими совладельцами клуба не позволили воплотить в жизнь эти планы.

Цвета и символика

• Здесь представлена эволюция клубной формы «Ливерпуля» с момента основания и до сегодняшнего дня.^[8][9]

1892—1896

1896—1907

1907—1910

1910—1933

1959—1964

с 1964

«Ливерпуль» традиционно играет в полностью красной форме, но это утвердилось лишь в середине 1960-х. Первоначальными цветами клуба были синий и белый, взятые с «Эвертона». Формы команд были практически идентичны в то время. В 1894 «Ливерпуль» выбрал красный и белый цвета, а в 1901 г. гербом клуба стала птица Лайвер — один из символов города. Позднее над птицей появилось изображение ворот Шенкли с надписью «You’ll Never Walk Alone». В течение следующих 60 лет в форму «Ливерпуля» входили красные майки с белыми трусами. Цвет гетр постоянно менялся на протяжении многих лет: красный, чёрный, белый, и снова красный. «Ливерпуль» был первым британским профессиональным клубом, разместившем логотип спонсора на футболке, после того как они согласились на сделку с Hitachi в 1979 году.

С 1992 по 2010 годы титульным спонсором клуба являлась датская пивоваренная компания Carlsberg, но в сентябре 2009 года стало известно, что с сезона 2010/11 вступает в силу четырёхлетнее соглашение между «Ливерпулем» и банком Standard Chartered, по которому клуб в течение этого времени получит 80 миллионов фунтов за размещение на своих футболках логотипа банка^[10]. Таким образом семнадцатилетнее сотрудничество между английским клубом и датской компанией (самое продолжительное в истории британского футбола) подошло к концу^[10]. 14 сентября «Ливерпуль» и Standard Chartered официально анонсировали подписание контракта^[11]

Гимном клуба с 1960-х годов является песня «You’ll Never Walk Alone», название которой можно увидеть на гербе клуба и на Воротах Шенкли, ведущих на стадион «Энфилд».

Технические и титульные спонсоры

Форма

Годы	Производители формы
1973—1985	Umbro
1985—1996	Adidas
1996—2006	Reebok
2006—2012	Adidas
2012—2018	Warrior

Спонсоры

Годы	Титульные спонсоры
1979-1982	Hitachi
1982-1988	Crown Paints
1988-1992	Candy
1992-2010	Carlsberg
2010-2014	Standard Chartered

Игроки

Текущий состав

По состоянию на 15 октября 2012 года^[12].

№ Позиция Имя Год рождения 1 Вр Брэд Джонс 1982 2 Защ Глен Джонсон 1984 3 Защ Хосе Энрике 1986 4 ПЗ Нури Шахин 1988 5 Защ Даниэль Аггер 1984 7 Нап Луис Суарес 1987 8 ПЗ Стивен Джеррард 1980 10 ПЗ Джо Коул 1981 11 Нап Усама Ассаиди 1988 12 ПЗ Даниэль Пачеко 1991 14 ПЗ Джордан Хендерсон 1990 16 Защ Себастьян Коатес 1990 19 ПЗ Стюарт Даунинг 1984 21 ПЗ Лукас Лейва 1987 23 Защ Джейми Каррагер 1978 24 ПЗ Джо Аллен 1990 25 Вр Пепе Рейна 1982

№ Позиция Имя Год рождения 29 Нап Фабио Борини 1991 30 Нап Сусо 1993 31 ПЗ Рахим Стерлинг 1994 32 Вр Дони 1979 33 ПЗ Джонджо Шелви 1992 34 Защ Мартин Келли 1990 35 ПЗ Конор Коуди 1994 36 Нап Самед Ешиль 1994 37 Защ Мартин Шкртел 1984 38 Защ Джон Флэнаган 1993 42 Вр Петер Гулачи 1990 43 Защ Райан Маклафлин 1994 45 Защ Штефан Сама 1993 47 Защ Андре Уиздом 1993 48 Нап Джером Синклер 1996 49 Защ Джек Робинсон 1993 50 Нап Адам Морган 1994

Резервисты и Академия

Игроки в аренде

Трансферы 2012/2013

Пришли

Позиция	Игрок	Прежний клуб
ПЗ	Джо Коул**	Лилль
ПЗ	Альберто Аквилани**	Милан
Нап	Даниэль Пачеко**	Райо Вальекано
Нап	Фабио Борини	Рома
ПЗ	Джо Аллен	Суонси Сити
Нап	Усама Ассаиди	Херенвен
ПЗ	Нури Шахин*	Реал Мадрид
Нап	Самед Ешиль	Байер 04

Ушли

Позиция	Игрок	Новый клуб
Защ	Стивен Дарби***	Брэдфорд Сити
Защ	Фабио Аурелио***	Гремио
ПЗ	Макси Родригес***	Ньюэллс Олд Бойз
Нап	Дирк Кёйт	Фенербахче
ПЗ	Альберто Аквилани	Фиорентина
Нап	Крейг Беллами***	Кардифф Сити
ПЗ	Чарли Адам	Сток Сити
Нап	Натан Экклстон	Блэкпул

* В аренду
** Из аренды
*** Свободный агент

Тренеры

Тренерские достижения

• Следующие главные тренеры выиграли хотя бы один турнир с «Ливерпулем».^[17]

Имя	Период	Показатели	Выигранные турниры
М	В	Н	П	МЗ	МП	%
Уильям Барклай Джон Маккена	1892—1896	131	80	20	31	344	148	61,07	2 чемпионских титула Второго дивизиона
Том Уотсон	1896—1915	742	329	141	272	1226	1056	44,34	2 чемпионских титула Первого дивизиона, 1 Второго дивизиона
Дэвид Эшуорт	1919—1923	139	70	40	29	220	118	50,36	1 чемпионский титул Первого дивизиона
Мэтт Маккуин	1923—1928	229	93	60	76	354	307	40,61	1 чемпионский титул Первого дивизиона
Джордж Кэй	1936—1951	357	142	93	122	551	511	39,78	1 чемпионский титул Первого дивизиона
Билл Шенкли	1959—1974	783	407	198	178	1307	766	51,98	3 чемпионских титула Первого дивизиона, 1 Второго дивизиона, 2 Кубка Англии 3 Суперкубка Англии, 1 Кубок УЕФА
Боб Пейсли	1974—1983	535	307	132	96	955	406	57,38	6 чемпионских титула Первого дивизиона, 3 Кубка Лиги, 6 Суперкубков Англии 3 Кубка европейских чемпионов, 1 Кубок УЕФА, 1 Суперкубок УЕФА
Джо Фэган	1983—1985	131	70	37	24	225	97	53,44	1 чемпионский титул Первого дивизиона, 1 Кубок Лиги, 1 Кубок европейских чемпионов
Кенни Далглиш	1985—1991 2011—2012	307	187	78	42	617	259	60,91	3 чемпионских титула Первого дивизиона, 2 Кубка Англии, 4 Суперкубка Англии, 1 Кубок Футбольной лиги
Грэм Сунесс	1991—1994	157	65	47	45	248	186	41,40	1 Кубок Англии
Рой Эванс	1994—1998	226	116	57	53	375	216	51,33	1 Кубок Футбольной лиги
Жерар Улье	1998—2004	307	158	75	74	516	298	51,47	2 Кубка Лиги, 1 Кубок Англии, 1 Суперкубок Англии, 1 Кубок УЕФА, 1 Суперкубок УЕФА
Рафаэль Бенитес	2004—2010	249	141	53	55	407	206	56,63	1 Кубок Англии, 1 Суперкубок Англии, 1 Лигу чемпионов УЕФА, 1 Суперкубок УЕФА

Тренерский штаб

• По данным официального сайта^[18].

Главный тренер	Брендан Роджерс
Помощник главного тренера	Колин Паско
Тренер первой команды	Майк Марш
Тренер вратарей	Джон Ахтенберг
Главный тренер резерва	Джон Макмахон
Технический аналитик	Дэйв Макдонох
Тренер по физической подготовке	Глен Дрисколл
Тренер по физической подготовке	Даррен Берджес
Глава скаутской службы	Эдуардо Масиа
Помощник главы скаутской службы	Майк Макглинн
Клубный врач	Зафар Икбал
Старший физиотерапевт	Роб Прайс
Старший физиотерапевт	Пауло Баррейра
Физиотерапевт	Крис Морган
Спортивный терапевт	Феликс Фернандес Ледесма
Массажист	Пол Смолл
Массажист	Сильвен Ричардсон
Администратор	Грэм Картер
Помощник администратора	Джон Райт

• По данным официального сайта.^[19]

Клубу «Ливерпуль» принадлежат рекорды по количеству побед среди английских команд в Лиге чемпионов УЕФА (5 титулов), Кубке УЕФА (3 титула), Суперкубке УЕФА (3 титула) и в Кубке Футбольной лиги (8 побед). Кроме того, «Ливерпуль» один раз в своей истории выигрывал «дубль» (победы в чемпионате и кубке в течение одного сезона).

Национальные

• Первый дивизион
  • Чемпион (18): 1900/01, 1905/06, 1921/22, 1922/23, 1946/47, 1963/64, 1965/66, 1972/73, 1975/76, 1976/77, 1978/79, 1979/80, 1981/82, 1982/83, 1983/84, 1985/86, 1987/88, 1989/90
  • Вице-чемпион (12): 1898/99, 1909/10, 1968/69, 1973/74, 1974/75, 1977/78, 1984/85, 1986/87, 1988/89, 1990/91, 2001/02, 2008/09

•       Второй дивизион
  • Чемпион (4): 1893/94, 1895/96, 1904/05, 1961/62

• Кубок Футбольной ассоциации
  • Обладатель (7): 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, 2006
  • Финалист (7): 1914, 1950, 1971, 1977, 1988, 1996, 2012

• Кубок Футбольной лиги

• Суперкубок Англии
  • Обладатель (15): 1964*, 1965*, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977*, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986*, 1988, 1989, 1990*, 2001, 2006
  • Финалист (6): 1922, 1971, 1983, 1984, 1992, 2002

•       Ланкаширская лига
  • Чемпион (1): 1893

Международные

• Лига чемпионов УЕФА / Кубок европейских чемпионов

• Кубок УЕФА
  • Обладатель (3): 1973, 1976, 2001

• Суперкубок УЕФА

 * Разделённые победы в Суперкубке (в матчах была зафиксирована ничья и победителями объявлялись оба клуба-участника)

Дубли и Треблы

• Дубль:^[20]
  • Чемпионат и Кубок Англии: 1
    • 1985-86
  • Чемпионат и Кубок Лиги: 2
    • 1981-82, 1982-83
  • Еврокубковый Дубль (Чемпионат и Кубок Чемпионов): 2
    • 1976-77
  • Чемпионат и Кубок УЕФА: 2
    • 1972-73, 1975-76
  • Кубок Лиги и Кубок Чемпионов: 1
    • 1980-81
• Требл^[20]
  • Чемпионат, Кубок Лиги и Кубок Чемпионов: 1
    • 1983-84
  • Кубок Англии, Кубок Лиги и Кубок УЕФА: 1
    • 2000-01

Рекорды

• Первый свой официальный матч «Ливерпуль» провёл в Ланкаширской лиге против «Хайер Уолтон». «Красные» победили 8:0. В их составе не было ни одного английского игрока, в основном играли шотландцы.
• Дебют в Кубке Англии: сентябрь 1892 4:0 против «Нантвич Таун».
• Дебют в Футбольной лиге: 2 сентября 1893 2:0 против «Мидлсбро» (Второй дивизион).
• Первый трофей: в сезоне 1893/94 «Ливерпуль» стал чемпионом Второго дивизиона.
• 5 сентября 1896 «Ливерпуль» встречался с «Блэкберн Роверс». «Роверс» выиграли 1:0, но шесть голов в ходе матча были отменены.
• В декабре 1909 «Ньюкасл Юнайтед» выигрывал на «Энфилде» со счётом 2:5, но «красные» сумели вырвать победу 6:5.
• В 1910 «Ливерпуль» выиграл свой первый матч на стадионе «Олд Траффорд», обыграв «Манчестер Юнайтед» со счётом 4:3.
• Рекорд по количеству хет-триков принадлежит Гордону Ходжсону, который за период между 11 сентября 1926 и 2 февраля 1935 сделал 17 хет-триков.
• Крупнейшее поражение: 0:8 от «Хаддерсфилд Таун» в 1935 и 1:9 от «Бирмингем Сити» 11 декабря 1954 во второй футбольной лиге.
• Три подряд хет-трика: Джек Балмер в сезоне 1946/47 (больше хет-триков он не делал).
• Роджер Хант забил больше всего голов в лиге за один сезон — в сезоне 1961/62 он отличился 41 раз.
• Первый европейский матч: 17 августа 1964 в Кубке европейских чемпионов «Ливерпуль» обыграл исландский «Рейкьявика» со счётом 5:0.
• В сезоне 1965/66 «Ливерпуль» выиграл чемпионат Англии, используя лишь 14 игроков за весь сезон.
• Крупнейшая победа: 11:0 против «Стрёмсгодсета» 17 сентября 1974. Девять из десяти полевых игроков отличились забитыми голами.
• Иану Рашу принадлежит рекорд «Ливерпуля» по забитым голам во всех турнирах за один сезон — в сезоне 1983/84 он забил 47 голов
• Крупнейшая победа в чемпионате: 9:0 против «Кристал Пэлас» 12 сентября 1989
• Четыре игрока забивали 5 голов в одном матче:
  • Энди Макгайган, 1901/02
  • Джон Эванс, 1954/55
  • Иан Раш, 1983/84
  • Робби Фаулер, 1993/94.
• Самый быстрый хет-трик: Робби Фаулеру в матче против «Арсенала» в сезоне 1994/95 понадобилось всего 4 минуты и 32 секунды, чтобы забить 3 гола.
• Самый дальний гол «Ливерпуля» забил Хаби Алонсо, запустив мяч в ворота «Лутон Таун» с 65 ярдов 7 января 2006 в матче Кубка Англии.
• «Ливерпуль» — вторая команда, прошедшая все раунды квалификации и дошедшая до плей-офф Лиги чемпионов УЕФА (2005/06) после киевского «Динамо» (в сезоне 1998/99 «Динамо» добралось до полуфинала, начав свой путь в первом квалификационном этапе Лиги Чемпионов).
• Роджер Хант в сезоне 1961/62 и Фернандо Торрес в сезоне 2007/08 забивали в восьми матчах на «Энфилде» подряд.
• 6 ноября 2007 года «Ливерпуль» в Лиге чемпионов УЕФА одержал победу над «Бешикташем» со счетом 8:0. Этот результат является 2 рекордом в данном соревновании.

Наибольшее число матчей

Только официальные матчи в соревнованиях для профессиональных команд; выходы на замену указаны в скобках.^[21][22]

#	Имя	Годы	Лига[C]	Кубок Англии	Кубок лиги	Другие[D]	Всего
1	Иан Каллаган	1960—1978	640 (4)	79 (2)	42 (7)	96 (1)	857 (7)
2	Джейми Каррагер	1996—н. в.	462 (14)	34 (1)	28 (5)	143 (1)	668  (21)
3-4	Рэй Клеменс	1967—1981	470 (0)	54 (0)	55 (0)	86 (0)	665 (0)
3-4	Эмлин Хьюз	1967—1979	474 (0)	62 (0)	46 (0)	83 (0)	665 (0)
5	Иан Раш	1980—1987 1988—1996	469 (22)	61 (5)	78 (0)	45 (3)	660 (30)
6	Фил Нил	1974—1985	455 (2)	45 (0)	66 (0)	81 (0)	650 (2)
7	Томми Смит	1962—1978	467 (0)	52 (0)	30 (0)	89 (1)	638 (1)
8	Брюс Гроббелар	1980—1994	440 (0)	62 (0)	70 (0)	46 (0)	628 (0)
9	Алан Хансен	1977—1991	434 (0)	58 (1)	68 (0)	53 (1)	620 (2)
10	Стивен Джеррард	1998—н. в.	387 (0)	29 (0)	20 (0)	120 (0)	600   (0)

Лучшие бомбардиры

Только официальные матчи в соревнованиях для профессиональных команд; количество проведённых матчей (в том числе в качестве игрока, вышедшего на замену) указано в скобках.^[23][24]

#	Имя	Годы	Лига[C]	Кубок Англии	Кубок лиги	Другие[D]	Всего
1	Иан Раш	1980—1987 1988—1996	229 (469)	39 (61)	48 (78)	23 (45)	346 (660)
2	Роджер Хант	1958—1969	245 (404)	18 (44)	5 (10)	18 (34)	286 (492)
3	Гордон Ходжсон	1925—1936	233 (358)	8 (19)	0 (0)	0 (0)	241 (377)
4	Билли Лиддел	1938—1961	215 (492)	13 (42)	0 (0)	0 (0)	228 (534)
5	Робби Фаулер	1993—2001 2006—2007	128 (266)	12 (24)	29 (35)	14 (44)	183 (369)
6	Кенни Далглиш	1977—1990	118 (355)	13 (37)	27 (59)	12 (58)	172 (515)
7	Майкл Оуэн	1996—2004	118 (216)	8 (15)	9 (14)	23 (52)	158 (297)
8	Харри Чамберс	1915—1928	135 (315)	16 (28)	0 (0)	0 (1)	151 (339)
9	Стивен Джеррард	1998—н. в.	84 (387)	10 (29)	7 (20)	39 (120)	150 (584)
10	Джек Паркинсон	1903—1914	125 (200)	5 (19)	0 (0)	0 (1)	130 (220)

Известные игроки

Зал славы «Ливерпуля»

• Список составлен по данным официального сайта^[25].

В 2002 году футбольный клуб «Ливерпуль» объявил о создании Зала славы «Ливерпуля». В него вошло 22 игрока: по два игрока из каждого десятилетия

Чемпионы мира

Следующие футболисты становились чемпионами мира, являясь игроками «Ливерпуля»:

Чемпионы Европы

Следующие футболисты становились чемпионами Европы, являясь игроками «Ливерпуля»:

Обладатели «Золотого мяча»

Следующие футболисты получили «Золотой мяч», выступая за «Ливерпуль»:

• Майкл Оуэн — 2001^[32].

Обладатели «Золотой бутсы»

Следующие футболисты получили «Золотую бутсу», выступая за «Ливерпуль»:

• Иан Раш — 1984 (32 гола)^[33]

Футболисты года по версии УЕФА

Следующие футболисты были признаны футболистами года по версии УЕФА, выступая за «Ливерпуль»:

• Стивен Джеррард — 2005^[34]

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

	Футбольный клуб «Ливерпуль» на Викискладе?

• Официальный сайт  (англ.)

Футбольный клуб «Ливерпуль» — текущий состав

1 Джонс (в) • 2 Джонсон • 3 Энрике • 4 Шахин • 5 Аггер • 7 Суарес • 8 Джеррард (к) • 10 Коул • 11 Ассаиди • 12 Пачеко • 14 Хендерсон • 16 Коатес • 19 Даунинг • 21 Лукас • 23 Каррагер • 24 Аллен • 25 Рейна (в) • 29 Борини • 30 Сусо • 31 Стерлинг • 32 Дони (в) • 33 Шелви • 34 Келли • 35 Коуди • 36 Ешиль • 37 Шкртел • 38 Флэнаган • 42 Гулачи (в) • 47 Уиздом • 49 Робинсон • 50 Морган • Тренер: Брендан Роджерс

Тренеры футбольного клуба «Ливерпуль»

Барклай и Маккена (1892–1896) • Уотсон (1896–1915) • Эшуорт (1919–1923) • Маккуин (1923–1928) • Паттерсон (1928–1936) • Кей (1936–1951) • Уэлш (1951–1956) • Тейлор (1956–1959) • Шенкли (1959–1974) • Пейсли (1974–1983) • Фэган (1983–1985) • Далглиш (1985–1991) • Сунесс (1991–1994) • Эванс (1994–1998) • Эванс и Улье (1998) • Улье (1998–2004) • Бенитес (2004–2010) • Ходжсон (2010–2011) • Далглиш (2011–2012) • Роджерс (2012–)

Футбольный клуб «Ливерпуль»
Тренеры  · Резервисты и Академия  · Статистика и рекорды  · Трофеи  · Текущий сезон
История	1892–1959 · 1959–1985 · 1985–настоящие время · Сезоны  · Международные турниры
Домашний стадион	Энфилд · Стэнли Парк · Прентон Парк
Тренировочные базы	Мелвуд
Игроки	Сыгравших 100 и более матчей · Сыгравших 25-99 матчей · Сыгравших 1-24 матча
Соперничества	Мерсисайдское дерби · Соперничество с «Манчестер Юнайтед»
Трагедии	Трагедия на Эйзеле · Трагедия на Хиллсборо
Песни и кричалки	You’ll Never Walk Alone · The Fields of Anfield Road · Ring of Fire · Anfield Rap
Связанные статьи	Бутрум · LFC TV · Ливерпуль Ледис · G-14 · Спайс Бойз · Спион Коп · Все статьи
Категория: «Ливерпуль» · Портал: Английский футбол · Википроект: «Ливерпуль» · Викисклад: «Ливерпуль»

Английская Премьер-лига
Сезон 2012/13	Арсенал · Астон Вилла · Вест Бромвич Альбион · Вест Хэм Юнайтед · Куинз Парк Рейнджерс · Ливерпуль · Манчестер Сити · Манчестер Юнайтед · Норвич Сити · Ньюкасл Юнайтед · Рединг · Сандерленд · Саутгемптон · Сток Сити · Суонси Сити · Тоттенхэм Хотспур · Уиган Атлетик · Фулхэм · Челси · Эвертон
Бывшие участники	Барнсли · Бернли · Бирмингем Сити · Блэкберн Роверс · Блэкпул · Болтон Уондерерс · Брэдфорд Сити · Вулверхэмптон Уондерерс · Дерби Каунти · Ипсвич Таун · Ковентри Сити · Кристал Пэлас · Лестер Сити · Лидс Юнайтед · Мидлсбро · Ноттингем Форест · Олдем Атлетик · Портсмут · Суиндон Таун · Уимблдон · Уотфорд · Халл Сити · Чарльтон Атлетик · Шеффилд Уэнсдей · Шеффилд Юнайтед
Статистика и награды	Рекорды · Сводная таблица · Золотая бутса · Золотая перчатка · Хет-трики · Игрок месяца · Тренер месяца · Тренер сезона
Финансы	Владельцы клубов
Связанные турниры	Суперкубок Англии · Кубок Англии · Кубок Футбольной лиги · Лига чемпионов УЕФА · Лига Европы УЕФА · Резервная Премьер-лига
Сезоны	Футбольная лига · 1992/93 · 1993/94 · 1994/95 · 1995/96 · 1996/97 · 1997/98 · 1998/99 · 1999/00 · 2000/01 · 2001/02 · 2002/03 · 2003/04 · 2004/05 · 2005/06 · 2006/07 · 2007/08 · 2008/09 · 2009/10 · 2010/11 · 2011/12 · 2012/13
Игроки · Стадионы · Судьи

Чемпионы Англии по футболу

Манчестер Юнайтед (19) · Ливерпуль (18) · Арсенал (13) · Эвертон (9) · Астон Вилла (7) · Сандерленд (6) · Ньюкасл Юнайтед (4) · Челси (4) · Шеффилд Уэнсдей (4) · Блэкберн Роверс (3) · Вулверхэмптон Уондерерс (3) · Лидс Юнайтед (3) · Манчестер Сити (3) · Хаддерсфилд Таун (3) · Бернли (2) · Дерби Каунти (2) · Портсмут (2) · Престон Норт Энд (2) · Тоттенхэм Хотспур (2) · Вест Бромвич Альбион (1) · Ипсвич Таун (1) · Ноттингем Форест (1) · Шеффилд Юнайтед (1)

Лига Европы УЕФА 2012/13
Клубы 3-го квалиф. раунда	Атлетик Бильбао · Славен Белупо|Анжи · Витесс|Астерас (Триполи) · Маритиму|Рапид (Бухарест) · Херенвен|Рух (Хожув) · Виктория (Пльзень)|Хорсенс · Эльфсборг|АПОЭЛ · Олесунн|Интернационале · Хайдук (Сплит)|Войводина · Рапид Вена|Генк · Актобе|Тромсё · Металлург (Донецк)|Твенте · Млада Болеслав|Бней Иегуда · ПАОК|Дила · Анортосис|Видеотон · Гент|АИК · Лех|Эскишехирспор · Олимпик|Црвена Звезда · Омония|Сараево · Зета|Адмира Ваккер · Спарта|Кальмар · Янг Бойз|Данди Юнайтед · Динамо|Арсенал (Киев) · Мура 05|Бурсаспор · КуПС|Стяуа · Спартак (Трнава)|Гомель · Ливерпуль|Рид · Легия|Сент-Патрикс Атлетик · Ганновер|Серветт · Русенборг
Клубы 2-го квалиф. раунда	Хазар-Ленкорань · Сент-Джонстон · Сконто · Хабнарфьордюр · Ренова · Нафтан · Судува · Ювяскюля · Зимбру · Локомотив (Пловдив) · Тирана · Челик (Никшич) · Маккаби (Нетания) · Тор · Левадия · Милсами · Портадаун · Гандзасар (Капан) · Интер (Турку) · Жальгирис · Осиек · Слован (Братислава) · МюПа-47 · Металлург (Рустави) · ЦСКА (София) · Интер (Баку) · Дифферданж 03 · Гонвед · Левски · Металлург (Лиепая) · Шахтёр (Солигорск) · Ширак · Ордабасы · Слайго Роверс · Дачия (Кишинёв) · Широки Бриег · Сеница · Металлург (Скопье) · Орхус · Олимпия (Любляна)
Выбыли в 1 квалиф. раунде	Нарва-Транс · МТК · Гревенмахер · Торпедо (Кутаиси) · Борац (Баня-Лука) · Баку · Флориана · Либертас · Санта-Колома · Ягодина · НСИ · Крузейдерс · Сефн Друидс · Шяуляй · Богемианс (Дублин) · Хибернианс · Унио Эспортива · Рудар (Плевля) · Фламуртари · Целе · Даугава (Даугавпилс) · Лланелли · Клифтонвилл · Викингур (Гота) · Эшен-Маурен · Жетысу · Нымме Калью · Биркиркара · Пюник · Теута · Женесс (Эш) · ЭБ/Стреймур · Вестманнаэйяр · Ла Фиорита · Стабек · Бангор Сити · Шкендия
Даты жеребьёвок и матчей · Квалификация · Групповой этап · Плей-офф · Финал

Обладатели Суперкубка УЕФА

Милан (Италия) · Барселона (Испания) · Ливерпуль (Англия) · Андерлехт (Бельгия) · Атлетико Мадрид (Испания) · Аякс Амстердам (Нидерланды) · Валенсия (Испания) · Ювентус (Италия) · Абердин (Шотландия) · Астон Вилла (Англия) · Галатасарай (Турция) · Динамо Киев (СССР) · Зенит Санкт-Петербург (Россия) · Лацио (Италия) · Манчестер Юнайтед (Англия) · Мехелен (Бельгия) · Ноттингем Форест (Англия) · Парма (Италия) · Порту (Португалия) · Реал Мадрид (Испания) · Севилья (Испания) · Стяуа (Румыния) · Челси (Англия)

Победители Кубка УЕФА и Лиги Европы УЕФА

Интернационале (Италия) · Ливерпуль (Англия) · Ювентус (Италия) · Атлетико Мадрид (Испания) · Боруссия Мёнхенгладбах (Германия) · Гётеборг (Швеция) · Парма (Италия) · Порту (Португалия) · Реал Мадрид (Испания) · Севилья (Испания) · Тоттенхэм Хотспур (Англия) · Фейеноорд (Нидерланды) · Айнтрахт Франкфурт (Германия) · Андерлехт (Бельгия) · Аякс Амстердам (Нидерланды) · Бавария (Германия) · Байер 04 (Германия) · Валенсия (Испания) · Галатасарай (Турция) · Зенит Санкт-Петербург (Россия) · Ипсвич Таун (Англия) · Наполи (Италия) · ПСВ (Нидерланды) · ЦСКА Москва (Россия) · Шальке 04 (Германия) · Шахтёр Донецк (Украина)

Клубы-основатели английской Премьер-лиги, сезон 1992/93
Арсенал · Астон Вилла · Блэкберн Роверс · Ипсвич Таун · Ковентри Сити · Кристал Пэлас · Куинз Парк Рейнджерс · Ливерпуль · Лидс Юнайтед · Манчестер Сити · Манчестер Юнайтед · Мидлсбро · Норвич Сити · Ноттингем Форест · Олдем Атлетик · Саутгемптон · Тоттенхэм Хотспур · Уимблдон · Челси · Шеффилд Юнайтед · Шеффилд Уэнсдей · Эвертон

Победители Кубка европейских чемпионов и Лиги чемпионов УЕФА

Реал Мадрид (Испания) · Милан (Италия) · Ливерпуль (Англия) · Аякс Амстердам (Нидерланды) · Бавария (Германия) · Барселона (Испания) · Интернационале (Италия) · Манчестер Юнайтед (Англия) · Бенфика Лиссабон (Португалия) · Ноттингем Форест (Англия) · Порту (Португалия) · Ювентус (Италия) · Астон Вилла (Англия) · Боруссия Дортмунд (Германия) · Гамбург (Германия) · Марсель (Франция) · ПСВ (Нидерланды) · Селтик (Шотландия) · Стяуа (Румыния) · Фейеноорд (Нидерланды) · Црвена Звезда (Югославия) · Челси (Англия)