Honors

Liverpool's tally of eighteen Football League championships is a record for English clubs, their nearest challenger being Manchester United with sixteen. Liverpool achieved the League and FA Cup "Double" in 1986 and have won two "Trebles". The first treble of League, League Cup and European Cup was achieved in 1984 and a cup treble was achieved in 2001 comprising the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup.

Liverpool's total of five European Cups is an English record and the third highest total overall, after Real Madrid and AC Milan. The fifth victory in 2005 entitled Liverpool to receive the UEFA badge of honour, thus allowing them to keep the trophy permanently.[62] However, Liverpool have never won the Intercontinental Cup nor the FIFA Club World Cup as of yet despite all the European Cups with many instances involving refusal to take part.

Liverpool's total of three UEFA Cups is an English record, and equal to the overall record, shared with four other clubs. The tallies of seven League Cups and three European Super Cups are also English records.

Domestic

League

* League[63]

Winners (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
Runners-up (11): 1898–89, 1909–10, 1968–69, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1977–78, 1984–85, 1986–87, 1988–89, 2001–02

* Division Two (Level 2)

Winners (3): 1893–94, 1895–96, 1904–05, 1961–62

* Lancashire League

Winners (1): 1892–93

Cups

* FA Cup

Winners (7): 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, 2006
Runners-up (6): 1914, 1950, 1971, 1977, 1988, 1996

* League Cup

Winners (7): 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003
Runners-up (3): 1978, 1987, 2005

* Community Shield[64]

Winners (15):1964 (shared), 1965 (shared), 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977 (shared), 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986 (shared), 1988, 1989, 1990 (shared), 2001, 2006
Runners-up (6): 1922, 1971, 1983, 1984, 1992, 2002

* Screen Sport Super Cup[65]

Winners (1): 1986

European

* European Cup and UEFA Champions League[2]

Winners (5): 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005
Runners-up (2): 1985, 2007

* UEFA Cup

Winners (3): 1973, 1976, 2001

* UEFA Super Cup

Winners (3): 1977, 2001, 2005
Runners-up (2): 1978, 1984

* UEFA Cup Winners' Cup

Runners-up (1): 1966

Records and statistics

For more details on this topic, see Liverpool F.C. statistics.

* Liverpool's first ever competitive game was in the Lancashire League against Higher Walton. The match was won 8–0, with a mostly Scottish team.[66]

* Ian Callaghan holds Liverpool's appearance record, having made 848 over the course of 19 seasons from 1958–78.[67] He also holds the record for League appearances with 640.[44] Of the current squad Jamie Carragher has the most appearances with 455 as of 2 March 2007.

* Liverpool's all time leading scorer is Ian Rush, who scored 346 goals in two spells at the club from 1980–1987 and 1988–1996.[67] Rush holds the record for the most goals in a season with 47 in 1983–84. However, during his career, Rush could not surpass the league goal-scoring record of Roger Hunt, which has stood at 245 since 1970.[44] In the 1961–62 season, Hunt scored 41 goals, setting the club record for league goals in a single season.[44] Gordon Hodgson is the club's third highest scorer with 240 goals,[67] and holds the club record of 17 hat tricks.[68] The most goals scored by a player in a single match is 5, which has been achieved by John Miller, Andy McGuigan, John Evans, Ian Rush and Robbie Fowler.[69] Fowler also holds the club and Premiership record for the fastest hat trick from when he scored three past Arsenal in 4 minutes, 32 seconds in the second game of the 1994–95 season.[70]

* Steven Gerrard (current Liverpool FC Captain) is Liverpool's all-time leading goalscorer in the European Cup with 19 goals.[71]

* Liverpool's biggest ever victory was 11–0 against Strømsgodset I.F. in 1974, in which nine of the ten outfield players scored — a Liverpool record.[44] Rotherham Town were the victims of Liverpool's biggest league win, losing 10–1 in 1896.[44] This margin of victory was matched in the modern era, as Crystal Palace were defeated 9–0 at Anfield in 1989.[72] Liverpool's heaviest defeats were against Huddersfield Town in 1935 (0–8) and Birmingham City in 1954 (1–9).[44]

* Liverpool's victory on 6 November 2007 against Beşiktaş JK in the Champions League holds a record for this medium of competition. The 8-margin victory won by Liverpool with the score of 8-0 is the biggest margin ever occured in the Champions League.

Notable players

In the period before the Second World War several players played for Liverpool for lengthy periods of time, earning themselves great admiration. Among these were Ephraim Longworth, a solid full-back who became Liverpool's first England captain in 1921, and Elisha Scott, who played in goal for Liverpool for 22 years, making him the longest serving Liverpool player ever. In front of goal, of particular note is Gordon Hodgson, who scored a record 17 hat tricks playing for the club in the 20s and 30s.

In the 1960s, as Bill Shankly transformed the club into a European power, among the players who established themselves as key elements of Liverpool's success were Ron Yeats, who Shankly famously described as his "colossus", and Roger Hunt, who scored 245 league goals (still a club record) as well as being part of England's World Cup winning team in 1966.

Paisley's additions to the squad were an important factor in Liverpool's success during the 70s and 80s. Two Scottish signings of 1977 had a particular impact: Alan Hansen, who was a part of 3 European Cup winning teams, and Kenny Dalglish, known to fans as 'King Kenny', would excel as a Liverpool player before becoming Liverpool's first Double-winning manager. In 1980 Paisley signed 19 year old Ian Rush, who progressed to become the club's leading goalscorer.

More recently famous players have emerged from Liverpool's youth set up. In the early 1990s Steve McManaman and Robbie Fowler emerged to play as winger and striker for the club, while later in the decade Michael Owen, current captain Steven Gerrard and vice-captain Jamie Carragher came through the Liverpool Academy.


First team players
No. Position Player

3 DF Steve Finnan
4 DF Sami Hyypiä
5 DF Daniel Agger
6 DF John Arne Riise
7 MF Harry Kewell
8 MF Steven Gerrard (captain)
9 FW Fernando Torres
10 FW Andriy Voronin
11 MF Yossi Benayoun
12 DF Fábio Aurélio
14 MF Xabi Alonso
15 FW Peter Crouch
16 MF Jermaine Pennant
17 DF Álvaro Arbeloa
18 FW Dirk Kuyt
19 MF Ryan Babel

No. Position Player
20 MF Javier Mascherano
21 MF Lucas
22 MF Mohamed Sissoko
3 DF Jamie Carragher (vice-captain)
25 GK José Manuel Reina
30 GK Charles Itandje
33 MF Sebastián Leto
34 MF Jay Spearing
35 MF Ray Putterill
36 MF Ryan Flynn
39 DF Stephen Darby
40 GK David Martin
42 MF Nabil El Zhar
46 DF Jack Hobbs
48 DF Emiliano Insúa



Players out on loan
No. Position Player
GK Scott Carson (Aston Villa - to the end of 2007-08 season)
GK Nikolay Mihaylov (FC Twente - to the end of 2007-08 season)
DF Godwin Antwi (Hartlepool United - to the end of 2007-08 season)
DF Lee Peltier (Yeovil Town - to the end of December 2007)
DF Miki Roque (Xerez CD - to the end of 2007-08 season)
DF Robbie Threlfall (Hereford United - to the end of January 2008)

No. Position Player
MF Paul Anderson (Swansea City - to the end of 2007-08 season)
MF Danny Guthrie (Bolton Wanderers - to the end of 2007-08 season)
MF Adam Hammill (Southampton - to the end of 2007-08 season)
FW Besian Idrizaj (Crystal Palace - to the end of 2007-08 season)
FW Anthony Le Tallec (Le Mans - to the end of 2007-08 season)
FW Craig Lindfield (Notts County - to the end of November 2007)

For recent transfers, see Liverpool F.C. season 2007-08.



Technical staff
Name Role
Rafael Benítez Manager
Alex Miller First Team Coach
Xavi Valero Goalkeeping Coach
Antonio Gomez Fitness Coach
Paco De Miguel Fitness Coach
Gary Ablett Reserve Team Manager
Angel Vales Reserve Team Coach / Head of Technical Analysis
Dave McDonough Technical Analyst
Eduardo Macia Chief Scout

Name Role
Mike McGlynn Assistant Chief Scout
Mark Waller Club Doctor
Rob Price Senior Physiotherapist
Louise Fawcett Physiotherapist
Victor Salinas Physiotherapist
Chris Morgan Physiotherapist
Paul Small Masseur
Graham Carter Kit Manager
John Wright Kit Man

Managers
W. E. Barclay and McKenna, JohnJohn McKenna
Tom Watson
David Ashworth
McQueen, MattMatt McQueen
George Patterson
George Kay
Don Welsh
Phil Taylor
Bill Shankly
Bob Paisley
Joe Fagan
Kenny Dalglish
Ronnie Moran
Graeme Souness
Roy Evans
Roy Evans and Houllier, GérardGérard Houllier
Gérard Houllier
Rafael Benítez

Historia del Liverpool FC

El Liverpool Football Club es un club de fútbol de Inglaterra, de la ciudad de Liverpool en Merseyside. Fue fundado en 1892 y juega en la FA Premier League inglesa.

Es el equipo más laureado del fútbol inglés. Ha ganado 5 Copas de Europa y 18 títulos de liga. Su estadio, con capacidad para 45362 personas, se conoce como Anfield Road y está situado en el barrio de Everton a unos 5 kilómetros del centro de Liverpool.

Disputa el clásico de la ciudad ante el Everton FC, con quien mantiene una gran rivalidad histórica.

El club fue fundado el 15 de marzo de 1892 por John Houlding, el propietario de Anfield. Houlding decidió formar su propio equipo después de que el Everton FC fuera desahuciado de Anfield por problemas con el alquiler. El nombre original, Everton FC, cambió a Liverpool FC después de que The Football Association rechazase reconocer al equipo como Everton.
You´ll Never Walk Alone, lema del club y su afición.
You´ll Never Walk Alone, lema del club y su afición.

En 1901 conquistan su primera liga, y en 1965, su primera Copa inglesa. Desde ese instante se ha forjado un nombre en su país, y posteriormente en Europa. Sin embargo, sus primeros títulos europeos llegaron en 1973 y en 1976, con la consecución de la Copa UEFA (actualmente tiene tres) y posteriormente, el máximo trofeo de clubes de Europa, la entonces Copa de Europa, actual "Champions League", que posee en número de 5 (conquistadas en los años 1977; 1978; 1981; 1984 y 2005).

El 29 de mayo de 1985 vivió uno de los episodios más oscuros de su historia, con motivo de la final de la Copa de Europa disputada ante la Juventus en el estadio Heysel de Bruselas. No porque perdiese la final, por 1-0, sino porque en los prolegómenos de la final ocurrió la llamada "Tragedia de Heysel", en la que murieron 39 aficionados de la Juventus por culpa de una avalancha provocada por los "hooligans", los hinchas más violentos del Liverpool. Como consecuencia de aquella tragedia, la UEFA impuso al Liverpool una sanción que le prohibía participar, durante 10 años, en competiciones internacionales. Al final, la sanción se redujo a seis años, por lo que el Livepool no pudo participar en las competiciones europeas hasta 1991.

La tragedia volvió a teñir la historia del Liverpool FC el 15 de abril de 1989 cuando 96 seguidores del club fallecieron aplastados en el estadio de Hillsborough, en Sheffield (Inglaterra), en el transcurso del partido de fútbol entre el Liverpool FC y el Nottingham Forest, correspondiente a las semifinales de la Copa de la Asociación de Inglaterra. Los hechos son conocidos como la "Tragedia de Hillsborough".

El 30 de julio de 2004, el ayuntamiento de Liverpool concedió el permiso al club para construir un nuevo estadio con 60.000 asientos cerca del parque Stanley. Al principio parecía que el estadio sería compartido con los rivales locales del Everton pero, en enero de 2005, se rompieron los acuerdos por lo que el Liverpool tendrá un estadio propio sin compartirlo con el Everton. Se prevé que la construcción del nuevo estadio empezará en verano de 2007 y el estadio se inaugurará en 2010. El antiguo estadio pasará a ser un lugar público con apartamentos, oficinas, bares, restaurantes y un hotel.
Steven Gerrard, uno de los jugadores emblema del Liverpool, especialmente en la consecución de los últimos títulos del club, tanto en competiciones nacionales, como internacionales.
Steven Gerrard, uno de los jugadores emblema del Liverpool, especialmente en la consecución de los últimos títulos del club, tanto en competiciones nacionales, como internacionales.

En el verano de 2004 el Liverpool se tiñe de español al fichar a Rafa Benítez, que posteriormente traería al club a talentos como Xabi Alonso, Pepe Reina, Luis García, Álvaro Arbeloa y Miki Roque. Muy pronto llegarían los éxitos: Liga de Campeones junto con la Supercopa europea (2005) y la Copa inglesa (2006).

El 6 de febrero de 2007 dos multimillonarios estadounidenses compran el club por valor de unos 266 millones de euros.Estos nuevos propietarios son George Gillett y Tom Hicks.

El día 4 de julio de 2007 se produjo el fichaje más caro de la historia del club en sus 115 años de historia al incorporar a sus filas al delantero español Fernando Torres de 23 años, por 30 millones de euros pagados al Atlético de Madrid, club en el que el atacante militó desde los 11 años.

Liverpool F.C. History

Liverpool Football Club are an English professional football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool play in the Premier League, and are the most successful club in the history of English football, having won more trophies than any other English club. They have won a record eighteen English League titles, although the last time they won the title was in 1990. Liverpool have also won five European Cups,which is an English record. Only A.C. Milan and Real Madrid have won Europe's premier club competition more times. They have also won the FA Cup and League Cup seven times. Liverpool were a founding member of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs.

Liverpool have played at Anfield since they were founded in 1892. However, plans have been formed to start work on a new 60,000 all-seater stadium, which could be raised to 80,000 depending on planning permission, in the summer of 2010 near Stanley Park. The venture will be funded by Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who became the club's owners on February 6, 2007.

The club's fans have been involved in two major disasters. At the Heysel Stadium 39 Juventus F.C. fans died when a wall collapsed after crowd trouble in the 1985 European Cup Final, and at Hillsborough in 1989, 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives due to overcrowding.

In 1891 John Houlding, the leaseholder of Anfield stadium, purchased the ground outright and proposed increasing the rent from £100 to £250 per year.[10] Everton F.C. moved to Goodison Park after a seven year tenancy. Liverpool F.C. were founded by Houlding on 15 March 1892 to play in his vacated Anfield. The original name was to be Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds, Ltd., or Everton Athletic for short, but was changed to Liverpool F.C. when The Football Association refused to recognise the team as Everton. John McKenna was appointed director and signed thirteen Scottish professionals for the new club.

In their first season Liverpool won the Lancashire League, and were elected to the Football League Second Division for the 1893–94 season. Liverpool ended the season unbeaten as Second Division Champions,[11] and were promoted to the First Division, the highest level of English football. Liverpool won their first Football League championship in 1901, and were champions again in 1906. Liverpool played their first FA Cup final in 1914, but lost 1–0 to Burnley.
Fans on the Kop hold aloft the team badge
Fans on the Kop hold aloft the team badge

In 1922 and 1923 Liverpool won their first back-to-back League titles, captained by England full-back Ephraim Longworth.This was then followed by the longest spell without a trophy in the team's history, which only ended when Liverpool won the league once again in 1947. However, Liverpool struggled in the years following this success, and were relegated to the Second Division in 1954, where they suffered their record defeat, 9–1 against Birmingham City in December 1954.

In December 1959, Bill Shankly was appointed manager. Over the next fifteen years he transformed Liverpool into one of the top club sides in Europe. In his first year, he released twenty-four players and reshaped the squad. In 1962, his third season as manager, Liverpool won the Second Division Championship by eight points and were promoted to the top division, where they have remained ever since.

Having started the 1960s in the Second Division, Liverpool would end the decade as a major domestic power. In 1964, Liverpool lifted the League Championship for the first time in seventeen years. Liverpool were League Champions again in 1966, having won their first FA Cup in the previous season, beating Leeds United 2–1 in the final. Liverpool won their eighth league title and defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach to win their first European trophy, the UEFA Cup, in 1973. However, a year later, following another FA Cup victory, Shankly retired. His assistant, Bob Paisley, was offered the chance to manage the team.

In 1976, at the end of Paisley's second season in charge, Liverpool became champions, and also won the UEFA Cup. The following year, Liverpool retained their League Championship, lost the FA Cup Final, but won their first European Cup. The final was played in Rome, and Liverpool defeated Borussia Mönchengladbach 3–1. In 1978 Liverpool retained the trophy, beating Club Brugge 1–0 in the final at Wembley, and in 1979 they broke another domestic record by winning the league title with sixty-eight points and only sixteen goals conceded in forty-two matches.

In 1980, Liverpool won the league title for the fourth time in five seasons, and Paisley's third European Cup victory came in 1981 with a 1–0 victory in the final against Real Madrid in Paris. In the following two seasons, Liverpool won a League Championship and League Cup "double". In the nine seasons Paisley managed the club, Liverpool won a total of twenty-one trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup, six league titles and three consecutive League Cups. The only domestic trophy to elude him was the FA Cup.

The succession of managers appointed from within the club's staff is worthy of note. These managers are often referred to as "the boot room boys" after a part of Anfield where the Liverpool staff discussed strategy and allegedly stored gin. Just as Shankly had been succeeded by Paisley, so too Paisley handed the reins to his assistant, veteran coach Joe Fagan. He was 63 when he became manager in 1983. In his first season in charge, Liverpool become the first English club to win three major trophies in a single season — the League title, the League Cup and the European Cup.

In 1985 Liverpool again reached the European Cup final. The match was against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium but before kick-off, disaster struck. Liverpool fans breached a fence separating the two groups of supporters and charged the Juventus fans. The resulting weight of people caused a retaining wall to collapse, killing thirty-nine fans, mostly Italians. This tragedy is known as the Heysel Stadium disaster. The match was played regardless and Liverpool lost 1–0 to Juventus. English clubs were consequently banned from participating in European competition for five years, with Liverpool receiving a ban for ten years, which was later reduced to six. Fourteen of their fans received convictions for involuntary manslaughter.

In 1985 Kenny Dalglish became Liverpool's first player-manager. His reign saw the club win another three League Championships and two FA Cups including a league and cup double in 1985–86. However, Liverpool's successes were overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster. On 15 April 1989, when Liverpool were playing Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi–final, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing. 94 fans died that day and another fan died in hospital from his injuries four days later, and a fan died nearly four years later having never regained consciousness, to make the total 96.

After the Hillsborough tragedy there was a governmental review of stadium safety. Known as the Taylor Report, it paved the way for legislation requiring all-seater stadiums in the top-flight. The report ruled that the main reasons for the disaster were overcrowding due to a failure of police control.

1991 saw Graeme Souness installed as manager. However, apart from an FA Cup win in his first season, his reign was not successful. After a shock exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Bristol City at Anfield, "Boot room" veteran Roy Evans took over. While his tenure saw some improvement in league form, in his five seasons the club never finished higher than third. Evans' only trophy was the 1995 League Cup. Gérard Houllier, the former French national coach, was drafted into the Liverpool management team for the 1998–99 season to work alongside Roy Evans, but the partnership did not work out and Evans resigned in November 1998.
Steven Gerrard holding aloft the European Cup in Istanbul in May 2005
Steven Gerrard holding aloft the European Cup in Istanbul in May 2005

2000–01 was Liverpool's best season for many years as the team completed a unique treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. They finished second in 2002, a year in which Houllier suffered heart problems throughout the season and this resulted in him having to miss a match with Leeds and undergo major heart surgery. Liverpool looked like becoming a force in English Football once again, but Houllier would only win one more trophy in his time in charge, another League Cup in 2003. Against a background of growing disquiet amongst Liverpool supporters, Houllier and Liverpool parted by mutual consent at the end of the 2003–04 season.

Spaniard Rafael Benítez took over and in his first season Liverpool finished a disappointing fifth in the Premier League. The season had a surprising ending, however, as Liverpool won their fifth European Cup final in Istanbul. The Reds met the heavily favoured Italian club A.C. Milan in an astonishing final. Liverpool trailed 3–0 at half time, but made a dramatic comeback by scoring three goals in a period of only six minutes in the second half, forcing extra time. Liverpool went on to win the penalty shoot-out, with goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek conceding only two of Milan's five penalties.

In 2005–06 Liverpool picked up eighty-two points in the Premiership, their highest points total in the top-flight since 1988. They ended the season by winning the FA Cup in yet another dramatic final, this time against West Ham. Liverpool trailed 3–2 until Captain Steven Gerrard scored an equalizer from 35 yards as the PA system was announcing injury time. Liverpool went on to win the match in a penalty shoot-out.

On February 6, 2007, the club's search for investment came to an end when American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the owners of Liverpool F.C. in a deal worth £470 million. Liverpool finished the season in third place in the Premiership for the second consecutive season. Benitez did guide Liverpool to the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League final on May 23, 2007 after Pepe Reina made two saves in the penalty kick shootout in the semi-final against Chelsea F.C. Facing AC Milan once again in the final, Liverpool lost 2–1.