Liverpool Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, who currently play in the Premier League. They have played at their current home ground, Anfield, since their foundation in 1892. Liverpool joined the Football League in 1894, and were founding members of the Premier League in 1992.
This list encompasses the major honours won by Liverpool, records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Liverpool players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club. Attendance records at Anfield are also included in the list.
The club have won 19 top-flight titles, and also hold the record for the most European Cup victories by an English team, winning the competition six times. The club's record appearance maker is Ian Callaghan, who made 857 appearances between 1958 and 1978. Ian Rush is the club's record goalscorer, scoring 346 goals in total.
All statistics are correct as of 25 May 2024.
Liverpool have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. [1] They have won the English top league 19 times and the League Cup a record ten times. In their first season, 1892–93, they won the Lancashire League title and the Liverpool District Cup, [2] and their most recent success came in 2024, when they won their tenth League Cup title.
Honour | No. | Years |
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Football League First Division/Premier League | 19 | 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, 2019–20 |
Football League Second Division | 4 | 1893–94, 1895–96, 1904–05, 1961–62 |
FA Cup | 8 | 1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, 2006, 2022 |
League Cup | 10 | 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2012, 2022, 2024 |
FA Community/Charity Shield [a] | 16 | 1964*, 1965*, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977*, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986*, 1988, 1989, 1990*, 2001, 2006, 2022 (* shared) |
Football League Super Cup | 1 | 1985–86 |
European Cup/UEFA Champions League | 6 | 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005, 2019 |
UEFA Cup | 3 | 1973, 1976, 2001 |
European/UEFA Super Cup | 4 | 1977, 2001, 2005, 2019 |
FIFA Club World Cup | 1 | 2019 |
Competitive, professional matches only, appearances as substitute in brackets. [8] [9]
Rank | Player | Years | League [b] | FA Cup | League Cup | Other [c] | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 1960–1978 | 640 (4) | 79 (2) | 42 (7) | 96 (1) | 857 (14) |
2 | ![]() | 1996–2013 | 508 (24) | 40 (1) | 35 (7) | 152 (3) | 737 (35) |
3 | ![]() | 1998–2015 | 504 (39) | 42 (5) | 30 (5) | 134 (14) | 710 (63) |
4 | ![]() | 1967–1981 | 470 (0) | 54 (0) | 55 (0) | 86 (0) | 665 (0) |
![]() | 1967–1979 | 474 (0) | 62 (0) | 46 (0) | 83 (0) | 665 (0) | |
6 | ![]() | 1980–1987 1988–1996 | 469 (22) | 61 (5) | 78 (0) | 52 (3) | 660 (30) |
7 | ![]() | 1974–1985 | 455 (2) | 45 (0) | 66 (0) | 81 (0) | 650 (2) |
8 | ![]() | 1962–1978 | 467 (0) | 52 (0) | 30 (0) | 89 (1) | 638 (1) |
9 | ![]() | 1980–1994 | 440 (0) | 62 (0) | 70 (0) | 56 (0) | 628 (0) |
10 | ![]() | 1977–1991 | 434 (0) | 58 (1) | 68 (0) | 60 (1) | 620 (2) |
Competitive, professional matches only. Matches played (including as a substitute) appear in brackets. [28] [29]
Rank | Player | Years | League [b] | FA Cup | League Cup | Other [c] | Total |
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1 | ![]() | 1980–1987 1988–1996 | 229 (469) | 39 (61) | 48 (78) | 30 (52) | 346(660) |
2 | ![]() | 1958–1969 | 244 (404) | 18 (44) | 5 (10) | 18 (34) | 285(492) |
3 | ![]() | 1925–1936 | 233 (358) | 8 (19) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 241(377) |
3 | ![]() | 2017–present | 180 (277) | 6 (12) | 4 (10) | 51 (88) | 241(387) |
5 | ![]() | 1938–1961 | 215 (492) | 13 (42) | 0 (0) | 0 (0) | 228(534) |
6 | ![]() | 1998–2015 | 120 (504) | 15 (42) | 9 (30) | 42 (134) | 186(710) |
7 | ![]() | 1993–2001 2006–2007 | 128 (266) | 12 (24) | 29 (35) | 14 (44) | 183(369) |
8 | ![]() | 1977–1990 | 118 (355) | 13 (37) | 27 (59) | 14 (64) | 172(515) |
9 | ![]() | 1996–2004 | 118 (216) | 8 (15) | 9 (14) | 23 (52) | 158(297) |
10 | ![]() | 1915–1928 | 135 (315) | 16 (28) | 0 (0) | 0 (1) | 151(339) |
UEFA European Championship
Copa America
Africa Cup of Nations
OFC Nations Cup
For consistency, fees in the record transfer tables below are all sourced from BBC Sport's contemporary reports of each transfer.
Rank | Player | From | Fee | Date | Ref. |
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1 | ![]() | ![]() | £75 million | 1 January 2018 | [33] |
2 | ![]() | ![]() | £66.8 million | 19 July 2018 | [34] |
3 | ![]() | ![]() | £64 million | 14 June 2022 | [35] |
4 | ![]() | ![]() | £60 million | 2 July 2023 | [36] |
5 | ![]() | £45 million | 1 July 2018 | [37] |
Rank | Player | To | Fee | Date | Ref. |
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1 | ![]() | ![]() | £105 million | 6 January 2018 | [38] |
2 | ![]() | £75 million | 11 July 2014 | [39] | |
3 | ![]() | ![]() | £50 million | 31 January 2011 | [40] |
4 | ![]() | ![]() | £49 million | 20 July 2015 | [41] |
5 | ![]() | ![]() | £40 million | 31 July 2023 | [42] |
6 | ![]() | ![]() | £30 million | 5 August 2009 | [43] |
7 | ![]() | ![]() | £27.5 million | 22 June 2022 | [44] |
8 | ![]() | ![]() | £27 million | 20 August 2016 | [45] |
9 | ![]() | £26 million | 1 September 2017 | [46] | |
10 | ![]() | ![]() | £23.5 million | 2 October 2020 | [47] |
An attendance of 95,446 was recorded for Liverpool's pre-season friendly against Melbourne Victory in July 2013 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground, Australia; the largest ever crowd for a football match in Victoria at the time, as well as the highest in Liverpool's history [75] In July 2018, Liverpool bested this attendance with a 101,254 strong crowd at Michigan Stadium in a game against Manchester United in the 2018 International Champions Cup [76]
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