Liverpool Football Club are 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. This list details
Liverpool's achievements in major competitions, together with the top scorers and the average attendances for each season. Details of the abandoned
1939–40 season and unofficial
Second World War leagues are not included.
The club has won the
League Championship eighteen times, the
FA Cup and
League Cup seven times, the
Community Shield fifteen times (including five shared), the
European Cup five times, and the
UEFA Cup and
UEFA Super Cup each three times.
History
Liverpool F.C. were formed in 1892, following a rent dispute between the leaseholder of
Anfield,
John Houlding, and
Everton Football Club, which left Houlding with a ground but no club playing in it. In their first season Liverpool won the
Lancashire League, and were elected to the
Football League Second Division for the
1893–94 season, Their first season in the
First Division ended in relegation, before they were promoted back the following season. Liverpool won the First Division for the first time in the
1900–01 season, and reached their first
FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1–0 to...
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