Li­ver­pool FC

The most suc­cess­ful Eng­lish team in Eu­rope­an foot­ball (as­so­ci­a­ti­on foot­ball) tour­na­ment his­to­ry is Li­ver­pool FC. Based in the city of Li­ver­pool, the team has won six Eu­rope­an Cup/Cham­pi­ons Le­ague tro­phies. It has also won the Eng­lish top-​division le­ague title 19 times. The clubs home is the An­field Sta­di­um.

In 1906 An­field’s newly con­struc­ted ter­race grand­stand was la­be­led Spion Kop for its re­sem­blan­ce to a hill where a fa­mous batt­le of the Boer War (1899–1902) had been fought. This led to the well-​known nick­na­me Ko­pi­tes for Li­ver­pool’s fans.

A tra­ge­dy struck the club in 1989 when, du­ring a Foot­ball As­so­ci­a­ti­on (FA) Cup se­mi­fi­nal match at the Hills­bo­rough sta­di­um in Shef­field, 96 Li­ver­pool fans were crus­hed to death by over­c­row­ding in Eng­land’s dead­liest sporting dis­as­ter.

Since that tur­bu­lent pe­ri­od, Li­ver­pool has won a third UEFA Cup com­pe­ti­ti­on (2001) and Cham­pi­ons Le­ague tit­les in 2005 and 2019. The club gar­ne­red its 19th Eng­lish top-​division le­ague title in 2019–20, clai­ming the Pre­mier Le­ague crown. It has also cap­tu­red a total of eight FA Cup and nine Le­ague Cup vic­to­ries. In 2001 and again in 2022, Li­ver­pool achie­ved the do­me­stic cup “dou­ble” (win­ning both the FA Cup and Le­ague Cup in the same se­a­son). Suc­cess­ful Li­ver­pool teams were re­now­ned for a solid de­fen­se that set the table for ex­ci­ting for­wards such as Roger Hunt, Kevin Kee­gan, Ian Rush, Kenny Dal­g­lish (who ma­na­ged the club from 1985 to 1991), and Mi­cha­el Owen. Ste­ven Ger­r­ard, who play­ed with Li­ver­pool from 1998 to 2015, was one of the club’s gre­a­test mid­fiel­ders. For­ward Mo­ha­med Salah was named the Pre­mier Le­ague’s play­er of the se­a­son in 2017–18. De­fen­der Vir­gil Van Dijk was awar­ded that honor for the 2018–19 se­a­son.