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Liverpool's team during its first season, 1892–93. Liverpool Football Club is an English association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside. The club was formed in 1892 following a disagreement between the board of Everton and club president John Houlding, who owned the club's ground, Anfield.
Liverpool also has the highest average league finishing position (3.3) for the 50-year period to 2015 [174] and second-highest average league finishing position for the period 1900–1999 after Arsenal, with an average league placing of 8.7.
Ian Callaghan holds the record for the most appearances made for Liverpool with 857. 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 ...
Despite a 11-game unbeaten run in the league at the end of the season – including 7 straight victories – this was not enough to secure a top-four position and Liverpool ultimately finished 5th, failing to qualify for the next season's Champions League for the first time in seven years. Overall, the team's form was poor all season, which ...
[152] [153] Liverpool reached the Champions League final for the second consecutive year after overcoming a 3–0 first-leg deficit by beating Barcelona 4–0 in the second leg at Anfield. [154] In the 2019 final, Liverpool defeated Tottenham Hotspur 2–0 to secure the club's sixth European title and end a seven-year trophy drought. [155]
The season given as the "first" denotes the season in which Liverpool first played a league match against that team. The season given as the "last" denotes the season in which Liverpool last played a league match against that team. † Teams with this background and symbol in the "Club" column are current divisional rivals of Liverpool.
English teams have participated in UEFA competitions every year save for 1955–56 and the years between 1985 and 1990, when in the aftermath of the Heysel Stadium disaster all English clubs were banned from Europe by UEFA; Liverpool, who had been playing at the Heysel Stadium against Italian side Juventus, were banned for six years, until 1991.
The 2019–20 season was Liverpool Football Club's 128th season in existence and the club's 58th consecutive season in the top flight of English football. Liverpool also competed in the FA Cup, EFL Cup, FA Community Shield, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and the FIFA Club World Cup.