Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club in Liverpool, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club has won six European Cups, more than any other English club, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups (both also English records), one FIFA Club World Cup, eighteen League titles, seven FA Cups, a record eight League Cups and fifteen FA Community Shields.
Liverpool
The words "Liverpool Football Club" are in the centre of a pennant, with flames either side. The words "You'll Never Walk Alone" adorn the top of the emblem in a green design, "EST 1892" is at the bottom
Full name
Liverpool Football Club
Nickname(s)
The Reds
Short name
LFC
Founded
3 June 1892; 127 years ago[1]
Ground
Anfield
Capacity
53,394[2]
Owner
Fenway Sports Group
Chairman
Tom Werner
Manager
Jürgen Klopp
League
Premier League
2018–19
Premier League, 2nd of 20
Website
Club website
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours
Current season
Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played at Anfield since its formation. Liverpool established itself as a major force in English and European football in the 1970s and 1980s when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish led the club to a combined eleven League titles and four European Cups. Under the management of Rafael Benítez and captained by homegrown player Steven Gerrard, Liverpool became European champions for the fifth time in 2005, before a sixth title was added under Jürgen Klopp in 2019.
Liverpool was the seventh highest-earning football club in the world in 2019, with an annual revenue of €513.7 million,[3] and the world's eighth most valuable football club in 2019, valued at $2.183 billion.[4] The club is one of the most widely supported teams in the world.[5] Liverpool has long-standing rivalries with Manchester United and Everton.
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, with 39 people – mostly Italians and Juventus fans – dying, after which English clubs were given a five-year ban from European competition, and the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, where 96 Liverpool supporters died in a crush against perimeter fencing.
The team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip in 1964 which has been used ever since. Red has been the main shirt colour ever since 1896.[6] The club's anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone".