Liverpool won the Champions League for the 6th time and they deserve to be honoured with facts that tell all their stories.
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* Liverpool football Club was founded in 1892.
*It has won 6 European Cups, more than any other English club, 3 UEFA Cups, 3 UEFA Super Cups, 18 League titles, 7 FA Cups, a record 8 League Cups, 15 FA Community Shields and 1 Football League Super Cup.
* Liverpool established itself as a major force in English and European football in the 1970s and 1980s when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish led the club to a combined eleven League titles, four European Cups, two UEFA Cups, seven domestic cups and several super cups within a span of eighteen seasons.
* Liverpool's fortunes declined in the 1990s.
* The club's first foreign manager Gérard Houllier completed a cup treble of the domestic cups and the UEFA Cup in 2001.
* Under the management of Rafael Benítez and captained by homegrown star Steven Gerrard, Liverpool became European champions for the fifth time in 2005.
* Managed by Jürgen Klopp, Liverpool won the trophy for the sixth time in 2019.
* Liverpool has also finished second in the league five times.
* Liverpool was the ninth highest-earning football club in the world in 2016–17, with an annual revenue of €424.2 million, and the world's eighth most valuable football club in 2018, valued at $1.944 billion.
* The club's supporters were involved in two major tragedies: the Heysel Stadium disaster, where escaping fans were pressed against a collapsing wall at the 1985 European Cup Final in Brussels. 39 people – mostly Italians and Juventus fans – died.
* Liverpool received a ten-year ban, which was later reduced to six years.
* The Hillsborough disaster happened in 1989, where 96 Liverpool supporters died in a crush against perimeter fencing.
* The team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip in 1964.
* The club's anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone".
* Originally named "Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd" (Everton Athletic for short), the club became Liverpool F.C. in March 1892.
* The team won the Lancashire League in its début season, and joined the Football League Second Division at the start of the 1893–94 season.
* After finishing in first place the club was promoted to the First Division, which it won in 1901 and again in 1906.
* Liverpool reached its first FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1–0 to Burnley.
* It won consecutive League championships in 1922 and 1923.
* Liverpool suffered its second Cup Final defeat in 1950, playing against Arsenal. The club was relegated to the Second Division in the 1953–54 season.
* The club was promoted back into the First Division in 1962 and won it in 1964, for the first time in 17 years.
* In 1965, the club won its first FA Cup. In 1966, the club won the First Division but lost to Borussia Dortmund in the European Cup Winners' Cup final.
* Liverpool won both the League and the UEFA Cup during the 1972–73 season, and the FA Cup again a year later.
* In 1976, Paisley's second season as manager, the club won another League and UEFA Cup double. The following season, the club retained the League title and won the European Cup for the first time, but it lost in the 1977 FA Cup Final.
* During Paisley's nine seasons as manager Liverpool won 21 trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup, six League titles and three consecutive League Cups; the only domestic trophy he did not win was the FA Cup.
* Liverpool won the League, League Cup and European Cup in Joe Fagan's first season, becoming the first English side to win three trophies in a season.
* Liverpool reached the European Cup final again in 1985, against Juventus at the Heysel Stadium.
* Fagan had announced his retirement just before the disaster and Kenny Dalglish was appointed as player-manager.
* During his tenure, the club won another three league titles and two FA Cups, including a League and Cup "Double" in the 1985–86 season.
* Liverpool's success was overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster: in an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing. Ninety-four fans died that day; the 95th victim died in hospital and the 96th died nearly four years later, without regaining consciousness.
* Liverpool finished equal with Arsenal on both points and goal difference during the 1988/89 season, but lost the title on total goals scored when Arsenal scored the final goal in the last minute of the season.
* Graeme Souness replaced Dalglish as coz CNN, and under his leadership Liverpool won the 1992 FA Cup Final, but their league performances slumped, with two consecutive sixth-place finishes, eventually resulting in his dismissal in January 1994.
* Souness was replaced by Roy Evans, and Liverpool went on to win the 1995 Football League Cup Final.
* In 2001, Gerard Houllier's second full season in charge, Liverpool won a "Treble": the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup.
* Houllier was replaced by Rafael Benítez at the end of the 2003–04 season. Despite finishing fifth in Benítez's first season, Liverpool won the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, beating A.C. Milan 3–2 in a penalty shootout
* The following season, Liverpool finished third in the Premier League and won the 2006 FA Cup Final, beating West Ham United in a penalty shootout.
* American businessmen George Gillett and Tom Hicks became the owners of the club during the 2006–07 season, in a deal which valued the club and its outstanding debts at £218.9 million..
* The club reached the 2007 UEFA Champions League Final against Milan, as it had in 2005, but lost 2–1.
* During the 2008–09 season Liverpool achieved 86 points, its highest Premier League points total, and finished as runners up to Manchester United.
* In the 2009–10 season, Liverpool finished seventh in the Premier League and failed to qualify for the Champions League. Benítez subsequently left by mutual consent and was replaced by Fulham manager Roy Hodgson.
* At the start of the 2010–11 season, Liverpool was on the verge of bankruptcy.
* Poor results during the start of that season led to Hodgson leaving the club by mutual consent and former player and manager Kenny Dalglish taking over.
* In the 2011–12 season, Liverpool secured a record 8th League Cup success and reached the FA Cup final, but finished in eighth position, the worst league finish in 18 years; this led to the sacking of Dalglish.
* He was replaced by Brendan Rodgers, whose Liverpool team in the 2013–14 season mounted an unexpected title charge to finish second behind champions Manchester City and subsequently return to the Champions League, scoring 101 goals in the process, the most since the 106 scored in the 1895–96 season.
* Following a disappointing 2014–15 season, where Liverpool finished sixth in the league, and a poor start to the following campaign, Rodgers was sacked in October 2015.
* Rodgers was replaced by Jürgen Klopp, who in his first season at Liverpool, took the club to the finals of both the Football League Cup and UEFA Europa League, finishing as runner-up in both competitions.
* Liverpool finished second in the 2018–19 Premier League season with 97 points while losing just one game, a points record for a non-title winning side.
* Klopp has taken Liverpool to successive Champions League Finals in 2018 and 2019, with the club defeating Tottenham Hotspur 2–0 to win the 2019 UEFA Champions League Final.
* The city's symbol of the liver bird was adopted as the club's badge in 1901, although it was not incorporated into the kit until 1955.
* Liverpool was the first English professional club to have a sponsor's logo on its shirts, after agreeing a deal with Hitachi in 1979. Since then the club has been sponsored by Crown Paints, Candy, Carlsberg and Standard Chartered. The contract with Carlsberg, which was signed in 1992, was the longest-lasting agreement in English top-flight football.
* Anfield was built in 1884 on land adjacent to Stanley Park. It was originally used by Everton before the club moved to Goodison Park.
* John Houlding founded Liverpool in 1892 and the club has played at Anfield ever since. The capacity of the stadium at the time was 20,000, although only 100 spectators attended Liverpool's first match at Anfield.
* The song "You'll Never Walk Alone", originally from the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel and later recorded by Liverpool musicians Gerry and the Pacemakers, is the club's anthem and has been sung by the Anfield crowd since the early 1960s.
* Liverpool was sold to Fenway Sports Group on 15 October 2010 for £300m.
* In April 2010 business magazine Forbes ranked Liverpool as the sixth most valuable football team in the world, behind Manchester United, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Barcelona and Bayern Munich; they valued the club at $822m (£532m), excluding debt.
* Liverpool's income in the 2009–10 season was €225.3m.
* Since the establishment of the club in 1892, 45 players have been club captain of Liverpool F.C.
* Steven Gerrard served 12 seasons as captain of Liverpool FC, starting from the 2003–04 season. The present captain is Jordan Henderson.
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