Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool

Liverpool emblem
Full name	Liverpool Football Club
Nickname(s)	The Reds
Founded	1892
Ground	Anfield, Liverpool
Capacity	45,400
Chairman	David Moores
Manager	Rafael Benítez
League	FA Premier League
2004-05	FA Premier League 5th
Home colours Away colours

Liverpool Football Club (usually known simply as Liverpool) is an English football club that is based in Liverpool, Merseyside; the current champions of Europe (2005), they are also statistically the most successful English football team of all time. Since being founded in 1892, Liverpool is the only English team to have won the Champions League five times. The club also has 18 Football League titles to its name, as well as being the English club to have won the most number of UEFA Cups, European Supercups and English League Cups. Despite having won the most number of Football League titles, the club have yet to win the FA Premier League since its first season in 1992/3. The club's home ground is the 45,362 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool. Liverpool are the best team in the world because they have such great players as Steven Gerrard who have been votred the premiership player of the year.

The club was founded on March 15 1892 by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent. The original name was to be Everton F.C. but was changed to Liverpool F.C. (after the F.A. refused to recognise the team as Everton). Liverpool were elected to the Football League alongside Woolwich Arsenal two years later.

The club was involved in two of the biggest tragedies in European football — at Heysel in 1985 and Hillsborough in 1989. After Heysel, English clubs were banned from European competition for a period of five years, six in the case of Liverpool.

Liverpool Football Club is not to be confused with Liverpool (Rugby) Football Club which was formed in 1858 and is now known as Liverpool St. Helens.

History

Main article: History of Liverpool F.C.

Early Successes

In 1901 Scottish international Alex Raisbeck was the first Liverpool captain to collect the Football League Championship. Liverpool were league champions again in 1906.

On April 25 1914, Liverpool made their first appearance in the FA Cup final at Crystal Palace but lost 1-0 to Burnley. In 1922, and again in 1923, captained by England full back Ephraim Longworth, Liverpool won the league. In 1946-7, the first season after World War 2, Liverpool became league champions for the fifth time. Their astonishing finish to the season taught then wing-half and future manager, Bob Paisley, never to give up until you can do no more. With seven matches to go they trailed Wolverhampton Wanderers by nine points (in the days of only two points for a win). However, Liverpool dropped only one point from their remaining matches whilst Wolves could take just one point and eventually finished third.

That early post-war success could not be repeated. The only highlight being an FA Cup Final defeat (2-0 to Arsenal). The club finished bottom of the table in 1953-54 and were relegated. With only two teams promoted each season, a succession of third and fourth places kept them in the Second Division for the remainder of the 1950's.

The Bill Shankly Revolution

In January 1959 Liverpoool were knocked out of the FA Cup by non-League Worcester City. By November manager Phil Taylor had resigned. Bill Shankly became Liverpool manager in December 1959 and over the next 15 years he transformed them into one of the finest club sides in Europe. Within a year he had released twenty four players. Fellow Scots Ian St John and Ron Yeats were signed from Motherwell and Dundee United respectively. Striker Roger Hunt, winger Ian Callaghan and full back Gerry Byrne also established themselves in the team. By the beginning of 1961-62 Shankly had assembled the nucleus of the team that would would bring glory to the club. That season, Shankly's third season as manager, they duly won the Second Division championship by eight points and were promoted to the top flight where they have remained ever since, never finishing below eighth in the league.

In 1964, Liverpool lifted the League Championship. It was also the year in which the team adopted its now famous all red strip. They failed to retain the championship trophy the following season but compensation came in the form of a first-ever FA Cup (a 2-1 Final win over Leeds United). Their first ever European Cup campaign ended at the semi-final stage against Inter Milan. In a tie still remembered on Merseyside, Liverpool won the first leg 3-1 only to controversially lose the second leg 3-0, going out 4-3 on aggregate.

The following year Liverpool regained their championship crown. They also reached the European Cup Winners Cup Final - losing 2-1 to Borussia Dortmund. By now Shankly was one of the most highly rated managers in the game and his squad contained some of the finest players in England. Despite this success Shankly was already preparing his team for even greater heights. Future international stars Emlyn Hughes, Ray Clemence and Kevin Keegan were signed from clubs in the lower divisions as the 60's team was gradually dismantled.

Liverpool won their first European trophy in 1973 with a UEFA Cup triumph, as well as winning another league title that season. The UEFA Cup Final appeared over after the first leg with Liverpool worthy 3-0 winners. However, German team Borussia Moenchengladbach fought back in the second leg to win 2-0, giving Liverpool a narrow 3-2 aggregate victory.

They won the FA Cup again a year later with a convincing 3-0 Final win over Newcastle United. Shankly stunned the footballing world soon afterwards by announcing his retirement. The club's players and fans tried to persuade him to carry on, and a local factory even threatened to go on strike. Shankly ignored these pleas and joined the club's fans on The Kop as a spectator, while he handed over his managerial duties to Bob Paisley.

Bob Paisley: The Greatest Glory Days

Bob Paisley was manager of Liverpool F.C. from 1974 until 1983, and during those nine years he became the most successful manager ever to take charge of an English club. His one and only season without winning a trophy was his first, 1974-75. His second season brought the first of six league titles. In 1977 the championship was retained and the team won the European Cup for the first time in its history. The final in Rome was won 3-1 over old foes Borussia Moenchengladbach in what was Kevin Keegan's final game for the club. The European Cup was retained the following year with a 1-0 win in the Final against FC Bruges. The goal was created by future captain Graeme Souness and scored by Keegan's replacement Kenny Dalglish.

1978-79 was a record breaking year as the league title was won with 68 points and only 16 goals conceded in 42 matches. The following season brought another league title. Paisley's third and last European Cup victory came in 1981 with a 1-0 victory in the final over Real Madrid. The unexpected scorer of the winning goal was defender Alan Kennedy. The only domestic trophy to previously elude them, the Milk Cup, was also won that season with another defender Alan Hansen grabbing the winning goal.

In 1981-82 a defeat to Manchester City on Boxing Day saw Liverpool languishing in eleventh place. However, a string of victories brought the title back to Anfield. The Milk Cup was also retained. The emerging star that campaign was Welsh striker Ian Rush. It was more of the same the following year with both the league championship and Milk Cup being retained. Of Liverpool's eight league defeats that year five were recorded after the title was already won. Still the league was won by eleven points.

The big question for fans at the conclusion of that season was who would replace Bob Paisley. Before retiring he won a total of 21 trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup, six league titles and three consecutive League/ Milk Cups during his spell as manager. Under Paisley, a new era of stars emerged. They included Graeme Souness, Ian Rush, Alan Hansen and arguably the greatest player to ever wear Liverpool colours, Kenny Dalglish who is also a Celtic legend.

Joe Fagan: Brief but Glorious

Veteran coach Joe Fagan moved up to the manager's seat on Paisley's retirement, and his first season at the helm saw Liverpool become the first English club to win three major trophies in a single season - the league title, the League Cup and the European Cup. The European Cup final against Roma in Rome was one of the most memorable nights in the club's history. The game ended 1-1, but Liverpool snatched victory in a penalty shootout thanks to the goalline antics of goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar. Unbeknown to all who witnessed Liverpool's dramatic victory it would be twenty one years before they regained the trophy.

Fagan's second season as manager was his last - and it had a traumatic ending. Having lost to neighbours Everton in the race for the league title, Fagan decided to retire and wanted to go out on a high with the European Cup. The Reds had a rare trophyless season as they lost 1-0 to Juventus in the European Cup Final at Heysel Stadium in Brussels. But the disappointment of the defeat was irrelevant, as 39 spectators - nearly all Juventus fans - were crushed to death during crowd trouble before the kick off. Some Liverpool fans were later convicted on manslaughter charges relating to the tragedy. The sequel of the tragedy was a 5-year ban on English clubs in European football, while Liverpool had to serve an extra year once all other English clubs were readmitted.

Kenny Dalglish: Success in Exile

Fagan handed over the reins to striker Kenny Dalglish, who had established himself as a world class player and now wanted to prove himself as a top manager. His first season in charge - 1985-86 - could not have been better, as the Reds fought off competition from Everton, West Ham United and Manchester United to win the league title. They also beat neighbours Everton 3-1 in the F.A Cup final to become only the third team to win the league championship/F.A Cup double in the 20th century.

1986-87 was trophyless as Dalglish's men finished league runners-up to Everton and lost to Arsenal in the League Cup final. There were fears that Liverpool's glory days were over when striker Ian Rush was sold to Juventus in a £3.2million deal, but his £750,000 successor John Aldridge silenced the critics by topping the club's goalscoring charts in the 1987-88 season and inspiring the Reds to another championship success - this time achieved with just two defeats all season. New winger John Barnes was credited with the Player of the Year Award. The downside of the season was a shock 1-0 defeat at the hands of Wimbledon in the F.A Cup final. Liverpool had by this stage been one of England's strongest sides for more than 20 years. Wimbledon, meanwhile, had been First Division members for just two seasons and had only joined the league 11 years earlier.

Liverpool came close to repeating the double once more in 1988-89. They lifted the F.A Cup with another victory over Everton in the final, but the league title slipped out of their grasp in the last minute of their last game of the season at home to Arsenal. A last minute goal from Arsenal's Michael Thomas (who later joined Liverpool) gave the league title to the visitors because they had a superior goal difference. But the season was overshadowed by the Hillsborough Stadium tragedy which had struck the club in the F.A Cup semi-final. Hundreds of Liverpool fans were trampled on the terraces at Hillsborough. 94 fans died that day and a 95th fan died in hospital from his injuries four days later. A 96th fan died nearly four years later having never regained consciousness.

Ian Rush had rejoined Liverpool after one miserable season with Juventus, and scored twice in the 1989 FA Cup final. He helped them win their 18th league title in 1989-90, but nobody could have guessed at the time that it would be their last championship success to date. Liverpool have had some glorious moments during the years that followed the 1990 title glory, but life at Anfield has never been the same without the championship trophy in the club's boardroom.

Graeme Souness: FA Cup winners

Kenny Dalglish stunned the football world by resigning as Liverpool manager in February 1991. His Liverpool side looked well placed to win the domestic double, but he quit the club and blamed the pressures of management for his decision to leave. Long-serving coach Ronnie Moran spent two months in temporary charge of the team, but by the time his successor Graeme Souness arrived the league title and F.A. Cup had been whisked away by Arsenal and Tottenham respectively.

Souness had captained Liverpool during the glorious 1980s before taking the Rangers manager's job in 1986, and had brought a host of titles to Ibrox. But his only success as manager at Liverpool came with the FA Cup in 1992, and he was finally ousted in January 1994, parting by mutual consent, after a shock FA Cup defeat at home to Bristol City and three years of reckless spending on players who often failed to live up to expectations. Ian Rush was now the only player remaining from the Paisley era, and the current squad was mostly made up of unfashionable players who just a few seasons earlier would never have pulled on a red jersey. However, there was a promising young striker emerging in the shape of 18-year-old Robbie Fowler.

Roy Evans: The Nearly Men

Boot room veteran Roy Evans took over from Souness, and in his first full season (1994-95) they finished fourth in the Premiership and won the League Cup. Liverpool continued to progress the following season, being within a shout of the domestic double right up to the final few weeks of the season. But they finished third in the Premiership behind champions Manchester United and runners-up Newcastle, and lost 1-0 to Man United in the FA Cup final. Still, Liverpool were recognised as a top team once again, and were starting to attract top players once more. The club's youth system had produced two excellent players in Robbie Fowler and Steve McManaman, and including Jamie Redknapp and Stan Collymore (all of whom went on to play for England), looked to be the most potent attacking force in the Premier League in the mid-late 1990s.

Liverpool led the Premiership at several stages during the 1996-97 season, but in the end they finished fourth and had to settle for a UEFA Cup place. They had been hoping to win the Cup Winners Cup for the first time, but defeat at the hands of Paris St Germain in the semi finals put paid to these hopes.

1997-98 saw Liverpool finish third in the Premiership, but the big news of the season was the emergence of brilliant young striker Michael Owen - the Premiership's equal top scorer with 18 goals who became the youngest full England international at the time and also won the PFA Young Player of the Year Award.

Gérard Houllier: Cup Kings

The Liverpool directors brought in Frenchman Gérard Houllier to work alongside Roy Evans for the 1998-99 season after Houllier had gained fame as the Technical Director of France's World Cup winning side in 1998. Evans quit in November after failing to settle into the partnership. The Reds finished seventh in the Premiership - their lowest finish since 1994 - and failed to qualify for the UEFA Cup despite Robbie Fowler's return from injury and Michael Owen's continued impressive showings. But 1999-2000 was a bit better, as Liverpool finished fourth and qualified for the UEFA Cup. They would have qualified for the Champions League had it not been for a 1-0 defeat at Bradford on the final day of the season.

2000-01 was Liverpool's best season for many years. The likes of Michael Owen, Robbie Fowler, Steven Gerrard and Sami Hyypia contributed to an excellent season in which the Reds finished third in the Premiership (thus qualifying for the Champions League) as well as completing a unique treble of the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup, followed by the FA Community Shield and European Super Cup later in 2001. Houllier at last won the faith of the club's fans, who were delighted at this triumph.

Liverpool finished Premiership runners-up in 2001-02, their best league finish since 1991, but suffered a humiliating defeat in the League Cup Third Round at the hands of Grimsby Town.

Houllier guided Liverpool to another League Cup triumph in 2003, but, at the end of the 2003-2004 season, Houllier became the first manager in the history of the club to be sacked, for failing to deliver the Premiership title, and, ultimately, because the gap between the champions Arsenal and Liverpool that season was too large to be overlooked (30 points). This was despite having spent large sums of money on players who failed to live up to the potential that Houllier expected of them.

Rafael Benítez: Champions of Europe

Spaniard Rafael Benítez took over from Houllier, and Liverpool eventually finished fifth. However, the season had a glorious ending at the European Cup final in Istanbul. After eliminating favourites Juventus in the quarter finals and English rivals Chelsea F.C. in the semis, the Reds met Italian side AC Milan in the final. Liverpool, having trailed 0-3 at half time, scored three goals in a vibrant second half forcing extra time and then a penalty shoot out, which Liverpool won. This win ironically overwhelmed the hopes of Steven Gerrard to stay with Liverpool Football Club. Steven Gerrard, Liverpool's inspirational captain, is said to be the engine of Liverpool. Following Liverpools poor run in the league, Steven Gerrard almost lost hope with the club, and started to think about his future, but after Liverpool's spectacular european success that season, Steven erased his doubts of his future with the club and decided to extend his contract, turning down offers from Chelsea and Real Madrid. Steven Gerrard's other reasoning for staying was that he felt that Rafael Benitez is the right man for the job and will produce many more successes.

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Club captain Steven Gerrard lifting the European Cup in 2005.

As the UEFA Champions League 2005 winners, Liverpool earned the right to represent UEFA in the FIFA Club World Championship 2005 held in Japan. Liverpool joined the competition at the semi-final stage, courtesy of a bye. The semi-final was played against Deportivo Saprissa, which Liverpool won 3-0 with the goals coming from Peter Crouch (2) and Steven Gerrard. Liverpool's opponent in the final were to be São Paulo. The game was decided by a single goal scored by São Paulo midfielder Mineiro.

Silverware in their sights

On 18 February 2006, Benitez's side broke an 85-year jinx by beating Manchester United 1-0 in an F.A. Cup match at Anfield, their first victory over their arch-rivals in the competition since 1921. The quarter final tie, away to Birmingham City F.C., saw Benitez's highest scoring result with the Reds winning 7-0. On 22 April 2006, Liverpool defeated Chelsea F.C. 2-1 to reach the FA Cup final for the 13th time in club history, where they hope to claim victory against West Ham FC.

In March their defence of the European champions league title ended, as they failed to reach the Champions League quarter finals, being knocked out 3-0 on aggregate by Portuguese side Benfica.

New Stadium

On July 30 2004, Liverpool City Council granted the club planning permission to build a new 60,000 seat stadium, nearby at Stanley Park. Despite pressure from Governmental and funding bodies, Liverpool refused to share the new ground with their local rivals Everton and "final" talks on a groundshare failed in January 2005. At that time the club was hoping to start construction in summer 2005 and open the ground in 2007, but finance has not yet been obtained and the likely completion date is not currently known. The old stadium will become a public plaza surrounded by apartments, offices, bars, restaurants and a hotel, and possibly including a memorial garden. 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, originally approved in February 2005, needed to go before Liverpool City Council for a second time some 12 months later to ensure that the proposed stadium complied with new planning regulations. It was reported on 11 April 2006 that the plans had passed without amendment The club now looks for investors to help fund the £160m, 60,000 all-seater stadium.[1].

Honours

• Football League 18¹
  • 1901, 1906, 1922, 1923, 1947, 1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990
• Football League Second Division 4
  • 1894, 1896, 1905, 1962
• Lancashire League 1
  • 1893
• UEFA Champions League 5¹
  • 1977 3-1 vs. Borussia Mönchengladbach
  • 1978 1-0 vs. Club Brugge
  • 1981 1-0 vs. Real Madrid
  • 1984 1-1 (4-2 in penalty shootout) vs. AS Roma
  • 2005 3-3 (3-2 in penalty shootout) vs. AC Milan
• UEFA Cup 3¹
  • 1973, 1976, 2001
• FA Cup 6
  • 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001
• FA Youth Cup 2
  • 1996, 2006
• League Cup 7¹
  • 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003
• FA Community Shield 14
  • 1964², 1965², 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977², 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986², 1988, 1989, 1990, 2001
• European Super Cup 3¹
  • 1977, 2001, 2005
• Super Cup 1¹
  • 1986
• Reserves Division One 16
  • 1957, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985, 1990, 2000

¹ More than any other English club

² Title shared

Miscellaneous Facts and Figures

Match statistics

• Liverpool's first ever competitive game was in the Lancashire League against Higher Walton. They won 8-0. Their side did not have one English player, consisting largely of Scottish imports.
• FA Cup debut: September 1892 4-0 v Nantwich
• League debut: 2-0 v Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C. on 2 September 1893 (Division 2)
• First Honour: in the 1893/94 season they became the Second Division champions.
• Liverpool played against Blackburn Rovers F.C. on September 5 1896. Rovers won 1-0, but six goals were disallowed during this game.
• December 1909 Newcastle United led 5-2 at Anfield, but the reds rallied to win 6-5.
• In 1910 Liverpool won the first match at Old Trafford beating Manchester United 4-3.
• The record for most hat tricks is held by Gordon Hodgson who between 11 September 1926 and 2 February 1935 notched up an incredible 17 hat tricks.
• Biggest defeat: 0-8 v Huddersfield in 1935 and 1-9 Birmingham City F.C. on 11 December 1954 in Football League Division 2.
• 3 consecutive hat tricks: Jack Balmer 1946-7 (his only hat tricks)
• Roger Hunt has the most league goals for one season - in the 1961/62 season he scored 41 goals.
• First European match: on August 17 1964 they played against KR Reykjavik, Iceland, for the European Cup, and won 5-0 away.
• Only 14 first team players were used in the 1965/66 season, when Liverpool won the League.
• Biggest win: 11-0 v Strømsgodset I.F. on September 17 1974.
• Ian Rush holds the record in Liverpool FC for most goals in all competitions for one season - he scored 47 goals in the 1983/84 season.
• Biggest league win: 9-0 v Crystal Palace F.C. on September 12 1989.
• Only four people have scored 5 goals in one match. These are:
  • Andy McGuigan, 1901/02
  • John Evans, 1954/55
  • Ian Rush, 1983/84
  • Robbie Fowler, 1993/94
• Quickest Premiership hat trick: Robbie Fowler vs Arsenal F.C. 1994-5, 4 minutes, 32 seconds
• Liverpool's longest distance goal was scored by Xabi Alonso vs Luton Town F.C., 65 yards from goal on January 7 2006 in an FA Cup 3rd Round match
• Liverpool were the first team to negotiate all three rounds of qualification and reach the Champions League knockout phase (2005/2006)

See also Liverpool F.C. - Statistics

Premiership performance

• Liverpool have won 18 Football League championships in the top flight of English Football, more than any other club[2]. They are one of three clubs (the others being Arsenal and Manchester United) that have finished first more often than in any other one table spot in the top division. This table shows their performance in the FA Premier League since its introduction in 1992/93.
• Liverpool is one of an elite group of 7 clubs that has played in every Premiership season, They are: Arsenal, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur.

Season	Points Total	Position
2004/05	58	5th
2003/04	60	4th
2002/03	64	5th
2001/02	80	2nd
2000/01	69	3rd
1999/00	67	4th
1998/99	54	7th
1997/98	65	3rd
1996/97	68	4th
1995/96	71	3rd
1994/95*	74	4th
1993/94*	60	8th
1992/93*	59	6th

* From 42 games. Successive seasons from 38 games.

Club culture

• The song "You'll Never Walk Alone", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and famously recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry & The Pacemakers, is the anthem of Liverpool FC (and is included in their crest) and has been sung since the early 1960s. The song has since gained popularity among the fans of other clubs, most notably Celtic, Ajax and Milan. Other German, Dutch and Northern Irish clubs have also adopted the song. Claims that the singing of You'll Never Walk Alone was started by fans of other clubs before those of Liverpool are dismissed as untrue. [3] The song's title also adorns the top of the Shankly Gates which were unveiled 26 August 1982 in memory of former manager, Bill Shankly.
• Liverpool fans, singing "You'll Never Walk Alone," were featured in the Pink Floyd song, "Fearless."
• Other popular chants include "Fields of Anfield Road" (to the tune of "The Fields of Athenry"), "Poor Scouser Tommy", "Liverbird Upon My Chest", "We've Won It Five Times", and "Ring of Fire".
• Under Benitez, today's Liverpool F.C. has a strong Spanish influence. As well as having a Spanish manager, there are 5 Spaniards in the current squad and 10 players in total brought to Liverpool directly from La Liga. The six English players he has brought in are strikers Peter Crouch and Robbie Fowler, goalkeepers Scott Carson and David Martin, and youth players Jack Hobbs and Paul Andersons.

Current squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	POL	Jerzy Dudek
2	DF	NED	Jan Kromkamp
3	DF	EIR	Steve Finnan
4	DF	FIN	Sami Hyypiä
5	DF	DEN	Daniel Agger
6	DF	NOR	John Arne Riise
7	MF	AUS	Harry Kewell
8	MF	ENG	Steven Gerrard (captain)
9	ST	FRA	Djibril Cissé
10	MF	ESP	Luis García
11	ST	ENG	Robbie Fowler
14	MF	ESP	Xabi Alonso
15	ST	ENG	Peter Crouch
16	MF	GER	Dietmar Hamann
19	ST	ESP	Fernando Morientes

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	DF	MLI	Djimi Traoré
22	MF	MLI	Mohamed Sissoko
23	DF	ENG	Jamie Carragher
25	GK	ESP	Pepe Reina
26	MF	ENG	Paul Anderson
27	DF	ESP	Miki Roque
28	DF	ENG	Stephen Warnock
30	MF	NED	Boudewijn Zenden
32	MF	AUT	Besian Idrizaj
33	ST	ENG	Neil Mellor
35	MF	ENG	Danny Guthrie
36	DF	ESP	Antonio Barragán
38	MF	ENG	David Mannix
TBA	DF	ARG	Gabriel Paletta (to arrive in July 2006)

Out on loan

• Mark González (on loan to Real Sociedad)
• Bruno Cheyrou (on loan to Bordeaux)
• Salif Diao (on loan to Portsmouth)
• Chris Kirkland (on loan to West Brom)
• Anthony Le Tallec (on loan to Sunderland)
• Carl Medjani (on loan to Metz)
• David Raven (on loan to Tranmere Rovers)
• Florent Sinama-Pongolle (on loan to Blackburn Rovers)
• Darren Potter (on loan to Southampton)
• Zak Whitbread (on loan to Millwall)
• Paul Willis (on loan to Stockport County)
• Scott Carson (on loan to Sheffield Wednesday)

Reserves

• Godwin Antwi
• Charlie Barnett
• Paul Barrett
• Michael Burns
• Ramon Calliste
• Robbie Foy
• James Frayne
• Adam Hammill
• Jack Hobbs
• David Martin
• Michael Nardiello
• Danny O'Donnell
• Lee Peltier
• Conal Platt
• David Roberts
• James Smith
• Calum Woods

Liverpool's reserve team plays its home games at the Racecourse Ground, the home stadium of Wrexham A.F.C..

See also List of Liverpool F.C. players

Staff

Manager	Rafael Benítez
Assistant manager	Pako Ayesteran
First team coach	Alex Miller
Reserve team manager and coach	Paco Herrera, Hughie McAuley
Goalkeeping coach	Jose Ochotorena
Chief scout	Paco Herrera
Scout	Ron Yeats
Academy director	Steve Heighway
Assistant Physiotherapist	Mark Browes
Club Masseur	John Wright
Masseur	Paul Small, Stuart Welsh
Club Doctor	Mark Waller
Kit Manager	Graham Carter

Noted Players

1892 to 1959: Alan A'Court Matt Busby Sam Hardy Gordon Hodgson Billy Liddell Jimmy Melia Bob Paisley Alex Raisbeck Elisha Scott Cyril Sidlow Albert Stubbins 1960 to 1990 Gary Ablett John Aldridge John Barnes Peter Beardsley Jim Beglin David Burrows Gerry Byrne Ian Callaghan Jimmy Case Ray Clemence

Peter Cormack Kenny Dalglish Alun Evans Roy Evans David Fairclough Howard Gayle Gary Gillespie Bruce Grobbelaar Alan Hansen Steve Heighway David Hodgson Emlyn Hughes Roger Hunt David Johnson Craig Johnston Kevin Keegan Alan Kennedy Ray Kennedy Chris Lawler Tommy Lawrence Mark Lawrenson Alec Lindsay Larry Lloyd Kevin MacDonald

Mike Marsh Terry McDermott Steve McMahon Jan Mølby Ronnie Moran Phil Neal Steve Nicol Michael Robinson Ronnie Rosenthal Ian Rush Ian St. John Tommy Smith Graeme Souness Nigel Spackman Steve Staunton Peter Thompson John Toshack Barry Venison Paul Walsh John Wark Ronnie Whelan Ron Yeats

1990 to present Xabi Alonso Milan Baros Patrik Berger Stig Inge Bjørnebye Jamie Carragher Steve Finnan Robbie Fowler Luis García Steven Gerrard Sami Hyypia Paul Ince David James Rob Jones Oyvind Leonhardsen Jari Litmanen Gary McAllister Jason McAteer Steve McManaman Fernando Morientes Michael Owen Jamie Redknapp John Arne Riise Vladimír Šmicer

Michael Thomas Sander Westerveld Mark Wright Abel Xavier

See also List of Liverpool F.C. players

Managers

W. E. Barclay	1892 - 1896
Tom Watson	1896 - 1915
David Ashworth	1920 - 1923
Matt McQueen	1923 - 1928
George Patterson	1928 - 1936
George Kay	1936 - 1951
Don Welsh	1951 - 1956
Phil Taylor	1956 - 1959
Bill Shankly	1959 - 1974
Bob Paisley	1974 - 1983
Joe Fagan	1983 - 1985
Kenny Dalglish	1985 - 1991
Graeme Souness	1991 - 1994
Roy Evans	1994 - 1998
Gérard Houllier	1998 - 2004
Rafael Benítez	2004 - Present

External links

Official Websites

• Liverpool F.C. Official Site
• Official supporters club

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