Liverpool F.C.

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Liverpool
Full name	Liverpool Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Reds
Founded	15 March 1892
Ground	Anfield (Capacity: 45,276)
Owner	Fenway Sports Group
Chairman	Tom Werner
Manager	Jürgen Klopp
Current League	Premier League
2019-20	Premier League, 1st (champions)
Website	Club home page
Current season

Liverpool Football Club are a Premier League football club based in Liverpool, England. The club have won more European trophies than any other English team with five European Cups, three UEFA Cups and three UEFA Super Cups. They have also won 19 League titles (including a Premier League title), seven FA Cups, a record eight League Cups, and 15 FA Community Shields.

The club was founded in 1892 and joined the Football League the following year. They have played at Anfield since its formation. Liverpool established itself as a major force in both English and European football during the 1970s and '80s when Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley led the club to 11 League titles and seven European trophies.

Liverpool was the ninth highest-earning football club in the world for 2013–14, with an annual revenue of €306 million, and the world's eighth most valuable football club in 2015, valued at $982 million. The club holds many long-standing rivalries, most notably with Manchester United and the Merseyside derby with Everton.

The club's supporters have been involved in two major tragedies. The first was the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985, where escaping fans were pressed against a collapsing wall in the Heysel Stadium, with 39 people—mostly Italians and Juventus fans—losing their life, after which English clubs were given a five-year ban from European competition. The second was the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, where 96 Liverpool supporters lost their lives in a crush against perimeter fencing. The team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip in 1964. The club's anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone".

Players

First-team squad

As of 6 October 2020

No. Position Player 1 GK Alisson 3 MF Fabinho 4 DF Virgil van Dijk (3rd captain) 5 MF Georginio Wijnaldum (4th captain) 6 MF Thiago Alcântara 7 MF James Milner (vice-captain) 8 MF Naby Keïta 9 FW Roberto Firmino 10 FW Sadio Mané 11 FW Mohamed Salah 12 DF Joe Gomez 13 GK Adrián 14 MF Jordan Henderson (captain) 15 MF Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain 16 MF Marko Grujić 17 MF Curtis Jones

No. Position Player 18 FW Takumi Minamino 20 FW Diogo Jota 21 DF Kostas Tsimikas 23 MF Xherdan Shaqiri 26 DF Andrew Robertson 27 FW Divock Origi 32 DF Joël Matip 47 DF Nathaniel Phillips 58 MF Ben Woodburn 59 MF Harry Wilson 62 GK Caoimhín Kelleher 66 DF Trent Alexander-Arnold 67 MF Harvey Elliott 72 DF Sepp van den Berg 76 DF Neco Williams

Out on loan

No. Position Player 22 GK Loris Karius (at Union Berlin until 30 June 2021) 54 MF Sheyi Ojo (at Cardiff City until 30 June 2021)

No. Position Player 73 GK Kamil Grabara (at AGF until 30 June 2021) — FW Taiwo Awoniyi (at Union Berlin until 30 June 2021)

Club alumni

Former players

Main article: Liverpool F.C. players

Managers

Main article: Liverpool F.C. managers

Honours

Domestic

League

• First Division/Premier League
  • Winners (19): 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, 2019–20
• Second Division
  • Winners (4): 1893–94, 1895–96, 1904–05, 1961–62

Cups

• FA Cup
  • Winners (7): 1964–65, 1973–74, 1985–86, 1988–89, 1991–92, 2000–01, 2005–06
• Football League Cup
  • Winners (8) (record): 1980–81, 1981–82, 1982–83, 1983–84, 1994–95, 2000–01, 2002–03, 2011–12
• FA Charity / Community Shield
  • Winners (15): 1964*, 1965*, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977*, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986*, 1988, 1989, 1990*, 2001, 2006 (* shared)

European

• European Cup/UEFA Champions League
  • Winners (6) (English record): 1976–77, 1977–78, 1980–81, 1983–84, 2004–05, 2018–19
• UEFA Cup
  • Winners (3) (English record): 1972–73, 1975–76, 2000–01
• European Super Cup/UEFA Super Cup
  • Winners (4) (English record): 1977, 2001, 2005, 2019

Worldwide

• FIFA Club World Cup
  • Winners (1): 2019

Doubles and Trebles

• Doubles:
  • League and FA Cup: 1
    • 1985–86
  • League and League Cup: 2
    • 1981–82, 1982–83
  • European Double (League and European Cup): 1
    • 1976–77
  • League and UEFA Cup: 2
    • 1972–73, 1975–76
  • League Cup and European Cup: 1
    • 1980–81
• Trebles
  • League, League Cup and European Cup: 1
    • 1983–84
  • FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup: 1
    • 2000–01

Especially short competitions, such as the FA Community Shield and the UEFA Super Cup, are not generally considered to contribute towards a Double or Treble.

See also

• Logo history of Liverpool F.C.

External links

• Official website

Independent sites

• LFCHistory.net Statistics website
• Liverpool at Sky Sports
• Liverpool at Premier League