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'''Liverpool Football Club''' are a ] football club, and one of the most famous football clubs in the world. Based in ], ], they play at ] and will soon start work on a new 61,000-seater stadium approximately 200 metres away in neighbouring ], following the takeover of the club by American businessmen ] and ].

penis Cups, UEFA Cups, League Cups and European Super Cups than any other English team. The only major competition Liverpool haven't won the most times is the FA Cup, with that record being held by ].</ref> Liverpool have won eighteen ] titles, seven ]s, seven ]s, five ]<ref name=EC>Up until 1992, the premier European competition was named the ]; since then, it has been the ].</ref> and three ]s. Liverpool are also a member of the ] group of leading ]an football clubs.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.g14.com/G14members/index.asp | title=G-14's members | work=g14.com | accessdate=12 September | accessyear=2006}}</ref>

There have been two tragedies that have had an impact on the club. They were at ] in 1985 when thirty-nine Juventus fans died,<ref name="heysel">{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/29/newsid_2733000/2733979.stm | title=On This Day - 29th May 1985: Fans die in Heysel rioting | work=BBC News | accessdate=12 September | accessyear=2006}}</ref> and at ] in 1989 where ninety-six of their own fans lost their lives.<ref name="hillsborough">{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/15/newsid_2491000/2491195.stm | title=On This Day - 15th April 1989: Soccer fans crushed at Hillsborough | work=BBC News | accessdate=12 September | accessyear=2006}}</ref> After the Heysel disaster, English clubs were banned from ] for a period of five years, with Liverpool being excluded for six years.<ref name="heysel"/> The Hillsborough tragedy led to a ] at all top English league clubs, and paved the way for legislation necessitating all-seater stadiums in the top-flight.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/318497.stm | title=A hard lesson to learn | work=BBC News |accessdate=12 September |accessyear=2006}}</ref>





== Stadium ==
{{Main|Anfield}}
]
The Anfield stadium was built in 1884 on a swamp adjacent to ], and was originally inhabited by ] They left the ground in 1892 over a rent dispute. Anfield's owner, ], decided to form a new club to play at the ground, which became Liverpool FC.

In 1906, the banked stand at one end of the ground was formally renamed the ], after a hill in ] that was the site of a battle in the ], where over 300 men of the ] died, many of whom were from Liverpool. Fans that regularly use the Kop are known as ]. At its largest, the stand could hold 28,000 spectators, and was one of the largest single tier stands in the world. Local ] claimed that the fans in the Kop could "suck the ball into the goal" if Liverpool were playing towards that end - and in most games, Liverpool play the second half towards the Kop. The stand was considerably reduced in capacity due to safety measures brought in following the 1989 ], and it was completely rebuilt as an all seater stand in 1994, although it is still a single tier. The current capacity is 12,409.

The Anfield Road Stand is positioned at the opposite end to the Kop and houses the away-fans section. It is the newest stand at Anfield having been rebuilt in 1998 with a capacity of 9,074. The two side stands are the Main Stand, capacity 12,227, and the Centenary Stand, capacity 11,762. The Main Stand is the oldest part of Anfield, having remained largely untouched since it's redevelopment in 1973. It houses the players' changing rooms and the director's box. The ]s are also on this side of the pitch.

The Centenary Stand was previously known as the Kemlyn Road Stand until it was rebuilt for the club's ] in 1992. This redevelopment saw all of the houses in Kemlyn Road demolished and the address become non-existent.

The current overall capacity of the stadium is 45,362.

Anfield is rated as a 4 Star Stadium in the ].

=== New stadium ===
On ] ], ] granted the club planning permission to build a ] just 300 yards away from Anfield at Stanley Park.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liverpoolfc/gronudmove/tm_objectid=14487239%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=reds%2dstadium%2dgets%2dgo%2dahead-name_page.html |title=Reds stadium gets go-ahead |work=Liverpool Echo|accessdate=12 September|accessyear=2006}}</ref> Despite pressure from Governmental and funding bodies, Liverpool refused to share the proposed ground with their local rivals, Everton, and final talks on a groundshare failed in January 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0500liverpoolfc/gronudmove/tm_objectid=15062892%26method=full%26siteid=50061%26headline=both%2dclubs%2dsay%2da%2dfinal%2dno%2dto%2djoint%2dstadium-name_page.html |title=Both clubs say a final no to joint stadium |work=Daily Post|accessdate 12 September|accessyear=2006}}</ref> At that time the club was hoping to start construction in summer 2005 and open the ground in 2007, but agreements with regional funding bodies over the financing of associated regeneration projects proved to be difficult to obtain, and the start of construction delayed as a result. The old stadium will become a public plaza surrounded by apartments, offices, bars, restaurants and a hotel, and possibly including a memorial garden for those who died at Hillsborough. Treatment of the old stadium requires sensitivity as a number of deceased fans have had their ashes officially scattered on the pitch over the years.

The plans needed to go before Liverpool City Council for a second time in March 2006 to ensure that the proposed stadium complied with new planning regulations. It was reported on ] ] that the plans had passed without amendment. The club was then looking for investors to help fund the (estimated) £160m, 61,000 all-seater stadium.<ref>{{cite web | title = Liverpool ground plan re-approved | work = BBC News | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/4901164.stm | accessdate = 23 May | accessyear = 2006 }}</ref>

On ],] Liverpool City Council agreed to give a 999 year lease of part of Stanley Park for construction of the new stadium. Work is intended to start by early April 2007 and to be completed prior to the start of the 2009-10 season.



==Managers==
''As of ], ]. Only competitive matches are counted.''
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center"
|-
!rowspan="2"|Name
!rowspan="2"|Nat
!rowspan="2"|From
!rowspan="2"|To
!colspan="5"|Record
|-
!P!!W!!D!!L!!%
|-
|align=left|] and ] <ref>The official Liverpool website lists Barclay and McKenna as joint managers. Barclay held the post of "secretary-manager" and McKenna held the post of "coach-manager". (Reference: {{cite web | url=http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/team/past_players/managers/barclay/ | title=William E. Barclay: 'Joint Manager' (1892-96) | work=Liverpool official website |accessdate=12 September|accessyear=2006}})</ref>
|{{flagicon|England}} / {{flagicon|Ireland}}
|align=left|August 1892
|align=left|July 1896
||101||58||17||26||{{#expr:58/101*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|August 1896
|align=left|May 1915
||740||327||141||272||{{#expr:327/740*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|December 1920
|align=left|February 1923
||58||25||24||9||{{#expr:25/58*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|Scotland}}
|align=left|February 1923
|align=left|February 1928
||229||94||61||74||{{#expr:94/229*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|February 1928
|align=left|May 1936
||370||139||86||145||{{#expr:139/370*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|May 1936
|align=left|February 1951
||359||143||93||123||{{#expr:143/359*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|March 1951
|align=left|May 1956
||234||82||60||92||{{#expr:82/234*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|May 1956
|align=left|November 1959
||153||77||32||44||{{#expr:77/153*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|Scotland}}
|align=left|December 1959
|align=left|July 1974
||753||393||185||175||{{#expr:393/753*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|July 1974
|align=left|May 1983
||490||275||124||91||{{#expr:275/490*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|May 1983
|align=left|May 1985
||122||65||34||23||{{#expr:65/122*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|Scotland}}
|align=left|May 1985
|align=left|February 1991
||297||180||76||41||{{#expr:180/297*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|] <ref name="care">Ronnie Moran served as ].</ref>
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|February 1991
|align=left|April 1991
||10||4||1||5||{{#expr:4/10*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|Scotland}}
|align=left|April 1991
|align=left|January 1994
||157||65||47||45||{{#expr:65/157*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|England}}
|align=left|January 1994
|align=left|July 1998
||226||116||57||53||{{#expr:116/226*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|Roy Evans and ] <ref>Houllier was brought into Liverpool in the summer of 1998 to share the burden with Evans as joint-managers.</ref>
|{{flagicon|England}} / {{flagicon|France}}
|align=left|July 1998
|align=left|November 1998
||18||7||6||5||{{#expr:7/18*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|Gérard Houllier <ref name="absence">Houllier was absent from October 2001 to February 2002, due to illness. During this time, ] stepped in as temporary manager (P33 W16 D12 L5). These matches are included in Houllier's record.</ref>
|{{flagicon|France}}
|align=left|November 1998
|align=left|May 2004
||306||157||75||74||{{#expr:157/306*100 round 2}}%
|-
|align=left|]
|{{flagicon|Spain}}
|align=left|June 2004
|align=left|Present
||126||72||24||30||{{#expr:71/125*100 round 2}}%
|}

== Honours ==
*''']'''<ref>Up until 1992, the top division of ] was the ]; since then, it has been the ].</ref> '''titles: 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

*''']s and ]'''<ref name=EC>Up until 1992, the premier European competition was named the ]; since then, it has been the ].</ref>''' titles: 5'''
** ] 3-1 vs. ]
** ] 1-0 vs. ]
** ] 1-0 vs. ]
** ] 1-1 (4-2 in penalty shootout) vs. ]
** ] 3-3 (3-2 in penalty shootout) vs. ]
*''']s: 3'''
**], ], ]
*''']s: 7'''
**1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, 2006

*''']s: 7'''
**1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, ], ], ]
*''']s'''<ref>The trophy was known as the ] until 2002, and as the ] since then.</ref>''': 15'''
**1964 (shared), 1965 (shared), 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977 (shared), 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986 (shared), 1988, 1989, 1990 (shared), 2001, 2006
*''']s: 3'''
**1977, 2001, 2005

Liverpool's tally of eighteen Football League championships is a record for English clubs, their nearest challenger being ] with fifteen. Liverpool have also achieved the League and FA Cup "]" in 1986 and two "]". The first treble of League, League Cup and European Cup was achieved in 1984 (the first English club to win three major competitions in a single season) and a cup treble was achieved in 2001 with the winning of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup.

Liverpool's total of five ]<ref name=EC/> is an English record and the third highest total overall, after ] and ]. The fifth victory in 2005 entitled Liverpool to receive the ], thus allowing them to keep the trophy permanently.

Liverpool's total of three UEFA Cups is a record for English clubs and also ties the overall record with ] and ]. The tallies of seven League Cups and three European Super Cups are also English records.





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