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The following table gives detailed results of the games played by Liverpool Football Club in international football competitions (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/Europa League, Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, European/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, European/UEFA Super Cup, Intercontinental Cup and FIFA Club World Championship/Club World Cup).
Statue of Bill Shankly outside Anfield.Shankly was the first Liverpool manager to win a European trophy. Bill Shankly began managing Liverpool in 1959, and it was under him that the team first competed in European competition in 1964–65, qualifying for the European Cup by winning the First Division championship the previous season. [9]
Liverpool is the most successful British club in international football with fourteen trophies, having won the European Cup/UEFA Champions League (UEFA's premier club competition) six times, an English record that is only surpassed by Real Madrid and A.C. Milan.
Liverpool first participated in European competition during the 1964–65 season, a season which represented Liverpool's first FA Cup triumph. [6] They won their first European trophy, the UEFA Cup, during the 1972–73 season. [7] The club won the European Cup during the 1976–77 season and retained the trophy the following year.
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 ...
Liverpool lost 5 of their last 7 league games and drew the other two, yet they finished the season eleven points ahead of the second-placed Watford. After nine years, Bob Paisley had decided to retire after winning six league championships, three European Cups, three League Cups, four FA Charity Shields, one European Super Cup and one UEFA Cup.
The club won its first FA Cup thanks to a 2–1 extra time victory against Leeds United in the final. The club's first final for 15 years saved a season in which Liverpool slipped from first to seventh in the league, and controversially collapsed at the hands of Inter in the European Cup semi-finals, in the club's first season in European ...
November brought mixed results for the Reds. Their Football League Cup quest began in the third round with a 2–1 win over Chelsea after extra time. This was followed by a 4–3 league defeat to Leeds United at Elland Road. In the second round second leg of the UEFA Cup, the Reds eliminated Slovan Liberec to reach the third round.