Liverpool Football Club is an English Premier League football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. Liverpool has won eighteen League titles, second most in English football, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups. Liverpool has won more European titles than any other English club, with five European Cups/UEFA Champions Leagues, three UEFA Cups and three UEFA Super Cups.
Liverpool was founded in 1892 and admitted into the Football League the following year. The club has played at its home ground, Anfield since. The most successful period in Liverpool’s history was the 1970s and ’80s, when Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley led the club to eleven league titles and seven European trophies.
Liverpool has long-standing rivalries with neighbours Everton and with Manchester United. The team has played in an all-red home strip since 1964. The club’s anthem is “You’ll Never Walk Alone”.
The statue of former manager Bill Shankly, has been placed outside Anfield
Liverpool won both the League and the UEFA Cup during the 1972–73 season, and the FA Cup again a year later. Shankly retired soon afterwards and was replaced by his assistant, Bob Paisley In 1976, Paisley’s second season as manager; the club won another League and UEFA Cup double. The following season, the club retained the League title and won the European Cup for the first time, but it lost in the 1977 FA Cup Final. Liverpool retained the European Cup in 1978 and regained the First Division title in 1979During Paisley’s nine seasons as manager Liverpool won 21 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.[11]
Paisley retired in 1983 and was replaced by his assistant
Kenny Dalglish was appointed as player-manager during his reign; the club won another three League Championships and two FA Cups, including a League and Cup “Double” in the 1985–86 season.
