Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is an English football club and the most successful team ever to have played in the English league. Since its founding in 1892, Liverpool has won five European Cups, the most recent in the 2004-5 season, and eighteen Football League titles. The club's home ground is the 45,362 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool.

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.
• FA Cup debut: September 1892 4-0 v Nantwich
• League debut: 2-0 v Middlesbrough Ironopolis F.C. on September 2 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 5th 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.
• Biggest defeat: 0-8 v Huddersfield in 1935 and 1-9 Birmingham City F.C. on 11 December 1954 in Football League Division 2.
• Roger Hunt has the most league goals for one season - in the 1961/62 season he scored 41 goals.
• First European match: on August 17th 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 on September 17th 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 12th 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
• Most career hat tricks: Gordon Hodgson 17 (1926-36)
• 3 consecutive hat tricks: Jack Balmer 1946-7 (his only hat tricks)

Club culture

• The song "You'll Never Walk Alone", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and famously performed by Liverpool musicians Gerry & the Pacemakers, is the anthem of Liverpool FC (and is included in their crest), and has become almost synonymous with the club.
• Celebrity fans of the club include the late DJ John Peel, Ian McCulloch, Elvis Costello, Cherie Blair. The late Pope John Paul II, who played as goalkeeper in Poland like keeper Jerzy Dudek, also professed a fondness for Liverpool, amongst other clubs.

Reserve squad

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

Other

• First broadcast of BBC TV's Match of the Day: on the 22nd August 1964, playing against Arsenal F.C.; the BBC 2 broadcast was presented by Kenneth Wolstenholme http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/match_of_the_day/3135723.stm.