Liverpool F.C. facts for kids
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Full name | Liverpool Football Club | |||
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Nickname(s) | The Reds | |||
Short name | LFC | |||
Founded | 3 June 1892 | |||
Ground | Anfield | |||
Capacity | 53,394 | |||
Owner | Fenway Sports Group | |||
Chairman | Tom Werner | |||
Manager | Jürgen Klopp | |||
League | Premier League | |||
Premier League, 2nd of 20 | ||||
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Liverpool Football Club is a professional association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. They play in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The club has won 6 European Cups, an English club record, 3 UEFA Cups, 4 UEFA Super Cups, 19 League titles (Including 1 Premier League), 7 FA Cups, a record 8 EFL Cups, 15 FA Community Shield, title and 1 FIFA Club World Cup title. Liverpool's anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone".
History
Liverpool won their first League championship in 1901, and their second in 1906. They played their first FA Cup final in 1914, losing 1–0 to Burnley. The last domestic trophy they won was the EFL Cup in February 2012, after beating Cardiff City. They have also won the Champions League six times, the most of any British side. Their 5th success was in Istanbul in 2005. The game was won after Liverpool tied 3–3 with A.C. Milan, after being down 3–0 at half-time. The Reds then won the penalty shootout, partly due to goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek's saves. Their 6th and most recent success was in 2019 when they beat fellow Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur 2-0 in Madrid. Liverpool F.C. have won England's top football league 18 times. The club won the 2019-20 Premier League title, thirty years after their last first division title win in the 1989-90 season.
Liverpool has had two tragedies in their history. The first was the Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985, which led to the death of 39 Juventus fans and the second was the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, which lead to the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans.
Images for kids
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Statue of Bill Shankly outside Anfield. Shankly won promotion to the First Division and the club's first league title since 1947.
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The Hillsborough memorial, which is engraved with the names of the 96 people who died in the Hillsborough disaster.
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Anfield, home of Liverpool F.C.
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The Shankly Gates, erected in honour of former manager Bill Shankly
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The Merseyside derby at Anfield in 2006
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John W. Henry of Fenway Sports Group, the parent company of Liverpool
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Steven Gerrard, four-time winner of the award
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Luis Suárez, two-time winner of the award
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Replicas of the four European Cups Liverpool won from 1977 to 1984 on display in the club's museum