thumb|[[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 of the Premier League in 1992.
This list encompasses the major honours won by Liverpool, records set by the club, their managers and their players. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made the most appearances in first-team competitions. It also records notable achievements by Liverpool players on the international stage, and the highest transfer fees paid and received by the club. Attendance records at Anfield are also included in the list.
The club have won 20 top-flight titles, and also hold the record for the most European Cup victories by an English team, winning the competition six times. The club's record appearance maker is Ian Callaghan, who made 857 appearances between 1958 and 1978. Ian Rush is the club's record goalscorer, scoring 346 goals in total.
All statistics are correct as of 26 August 2025.
Honours
thumb|Liverpool fans' banner dedicated to the club's six European Cup wins.|238x238px
Liverpool have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. They have won the English League title for a joint-record 20 times, the League Cup a record ten times and an English record of six European Cups. In their first season, 1892–93, they won the Lancashire League title and the Liverpool District Cup, and their most recent success came in 2025, when they won their twentieth League title.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|+Liverpool F.C. honours
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!scope=col|No.
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!scope=row|Football League First Division/Premier League
|align=center|20
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!scope=row|Football League Second Division
|align=center|4
|1893–94, 1895–96, 1904–05, 1961–62
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!scope=row|FA Cup
|align=center| 8
|1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992, 2001, 2006, 2022
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!scope=row|League Cup
|align=center| 10
|1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995, 2001, 2003, 2012, 2022, 2024
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!scope=row|FA Community/Charity Shield
|align=center|16
|1964*, 1965*, 1966, 1974, 1976, 1977*, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986*, 1988, 1989, 1990*, 2001, 2006, 2022 (* shared)
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!scope=row|Football League Super Cup
|align=center|1
|1985–86
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!scope=row|European Cup/UEFA Champions League
|align=center| 6
|1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005, 2019
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!scope=row|UEFA Cup
|align=center| 3
|1973, 1976, 2001
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!scope=row|European/UEFA Super Cup
|align=center| 4
|1977, 2001, 2005, 2019
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!scope=row|FIFA Club World Cup
|align=center| 1
|2019
|}
Player records
Appearances
- Most appearances in all competitions: Ian Callaghan, 857
- Most league appearances: Ian Callaghan, 640
- Youngest first-team player: Jerome Sinclair, 16 years and 6 days (against West Bromwich Albion, 26 September 2012)
- Youngest player to reach 100 appearances: Michael Owen. 19 years and 363 days.
- Oldest first-team player: Ned Doig, 41 years and 165 days (against Newcastle United, 11 April 1908)
Most appearances
Competitive, professional matches only, appearances as substitute in brackets.
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|+Players with most appearances for Liverpool F.C.
!scope=col|Rank
!scope=col width="150px"|Player
!scope=col width="100px"|Years
!scope=col width="100px"|League
!scope=col width="100px"|FA Cup
!scope=col width="100px"|League Cup
!scope=col width="100px"|Other
!scope=col width="100px"|Total
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|1
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|2
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|1996–2013
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|3
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|1998–2015
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|rowspan="2"|4
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|1967–1981
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|1967–1979
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|6
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|1980–1987<br />1988–1996
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|7
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|1974–1985
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|8
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|1962–1978
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|9
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|1981–1994
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|10
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|1977–1991
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Goalscorers
thumb|right|upright|[[Robbie Fowler, who scored the fastest hat-trick in Liverpool's history.]]
- Most goals in all competitions: Ian Rush, 346
- Most league goals: Roger Hunt, 244
- First player to score for Liverpool: Malcolm McVean (against Rotherham Town, 1 September 1892)
- Most goals in a season: Ian Rush, 47 (in the 1983–84 season)
- Most goals in a debut season: Mohamed Salah, 44 (in the 2017–18 season)
- Most league goals in a season: Roger Hunt, 41 (in the 1961–62 season)
- Most goals in a season by a Liverpool player in the Premier League era: Mohamed Salah, 44 (in the 2017–18 season)
- Most top-flight league goals in a season: Gordon Hodgson, 36 (in the 1930–31 season)
- Most continental goals in a season: Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino, 11 (in the 2017–18 season)
- Most hat-tricks in a season: Roger Hunt, 5 (in the 1961–62 season)
- Most different goalscorers in a season: 22 (in the 2015–16 season)
- Most hat-tricks: Gordon Hodgson, 17
- Most consecutive home games from the start of a season where a player has scored: Mohamed Salah, 6 (19 August 2023 to 12 November 2023).
- Fastest goal scored in a match: Paul Walsh, 14 seconds, (against West Ham United, 27 August 1984)
- Fastest hat-trick: Robbie Fowler, 4 minutes, 33 seconds, (against Arsenal, 28 August 1994)
- Most consecutive games a player has scored for Liverpool at Anfield: Mohamed Salah, 9 (13 February 2023 to 6 May 2023)
- Most seasons with at least 30 goals in all competitions in Liverpool history: 5 (Roger Hunt, Ian Rush, Mohamed Salah)
- Most consecutive seasons with at least 20 goals in all competitions: Mohamed Salah, 8 (2017–18 to 2024–25)
- Most games for an outfield player without scoring: Ephraim Longworth, 371
- Oldest goalscorer: Billy Liddell, 38 years, 55 days (against Stoke City, 5 March 1960)
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders sortable" style="text-align: center;"
|+Top goalscorers for Liverpool F.C.
!scope=col|Rank
!scope=col width="150px"|Player
!scope=col width="100px"|Years
!scope=col width="100px"|League
!scope=col width="100px"|FA Cup
!scope=col width="100px"|League Cup
!scope=col width="100px"|Other
!scope=col width="100px"|Total
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|1
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|<br />1988–1996
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|2
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|1958–1969
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|3
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|2017–present
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|4
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|1925–1936
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|5
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|1938–1961
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|6
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|1998–2015
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|7
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|1993–2001<br />2006–2007
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|8
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|1977–1990
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|9
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|1996–2004
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|10
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|1915–1928
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International
- First capped player: Frank Becton, for England on 29 March 1897
- Most international caps while being a Liverpool player: Steven Gerrard, 114 for England
- Most international goals while being a Liverpool player: Mohamed Salah, 32 for Egypt.
- Most World Cup appearances while a Liverpool player: Steven Gerrard, 12 for England in 2006, 2010 and 2014
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|2
!scope=row| Florian Wirtz
| Bayer Leverkusen
|£116 million
|20 June 2025
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|3
!scope=row| Virgil van Dijk
| Southampton
|£75 million
|1 January 2018
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|4
!scope=row| Hugo Ekitike
| Eintracht Frankfurt
|£69 million
|23 July 2025
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|5
!scope=row| Alisson
| Roma
|£66.8 million
|19 July 2018
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Record transfer fees received
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|+Record transfer fees received by Liverpool F.C.
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!scope=col|Rank
!scope=col|Player
!scope=col|To
!scope=col|Fee
!scope=col|Date
!scope=col|Ref.
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|1
!scope=row| Philippe Coutinho
|rowspan="2"| Barcelona
|£145 million
|6 January 2018
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|2
!scope=row| Luis Suárez
|£75 million
|11 July 2014
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|3
!scope=row| Luis Díaz
| Bayern Munich
|£65.5 million
|30 July 2025
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|4
!scope=row| Fernando Torres
| Chelsea
|£50 million
|31 January 2011
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|5
!scope=row| Raheem Sterling
| Manchester City
|£49 million
|20 July 2015
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Managerial records
thumb|237x237px|[[Bob Paisley is Liverpool's most successful manager of all time.]]
- First managers: William Edward Barclay and John McKenna, from 15 February 1892 to 16 August 1896
- Longest-serving manager by time: Tom Watson, from 17 August 1896 to 6 May 1915 (18 years, 262 days)
- Most matches won as manager: 407, Bill Shankly
- First Lancashire League match: Liverpool 8–0 Higher Walton, 3 September 1892
- Record home league win: 9–0 against Crystal Palace in First Division, 12 September 1989 and 9–0 against Bournemouth in the Premier League, 27 August 2022
- Record FA Cup win: 9–0 against Newtown in the second qualifying round, 29 October 1892
- Fewest league wins in a season: 7 wins from 30 games (in the 1894–95 season)
- Most league wins away from home in a season: 14 (in the 2019–20 season)
- Most league defeats in a season: 23 defeats from 42 games (in the 1953–54 season)
- Record consecutive league wins: 18 (27 October 2019 – 24 February 2020)
- Record consecutive league wins from start of season: 8 (in the 1990–91 and 2019–20 seasons)
- Record consecutive defeats: 9 (29 April – 14 October 1899)
- Record consecutive league matches without a defeat: 44 (12 January 2019 – 24 February 2020)
- Record consecutive home league wins: 24 (9 February 2019 – 5 July 2020)
- Record consecutive draws: 6 (19 February – 19 March 1975)
- Record consecutive home matches without defeat: 85 (7 February 1978 – 31 January 1981)
- Record consecutive home league matches without defeat: 68 (7 May 2017 – 17 January 2021)
- Record consecutive matches in which Liverpool have scored a goal: 34 (19 April 2021 – 22 December 2021)
- Record consecutive matches without conceding a goal: 11 (29 October – 18 December 2005)
- Record consecutive home league defeats: 6 (21 January – 7 March 2021)
Goals
- Most goals scored in a season: 147 during the 2021–22 season.
- Most league goals scored in a season: 106 in 30 games (in the 1895–96 season, Second Division)
- Most consecutive league matches with a Liverpool goal since the start of a season: 27 (in the 2019–20 season)
Points
- Most points in a season:
: Two points for a win: 68 (in 42 games in 1978–79, First Division)
: Three points for a win: 99 points in 38 games in 2019–20, Premier League)
Attendances
- Record highest home attendance: 61,905 (against Wolverhampton Wanderers in the 1951–52 FA Cup)
- Highest league home attendance: 60,420 (against Ipswich Town, Premier League in the 2024-25 season)
- Highest League Cup home attendance: 60,044 (against West Ham United, in the 2024–25 season)
- Highest European home attendance: 59,916 (against Real Madrid, UEFA Champions League Group Phase, in the 2025-26 season)
- Record lowest home attendance: 1,000 (against Loughborough, Second Division in the 1895–96 season) In July 2018, Liverpool bested this attendance with a 101,254 strong crowd at Michigan Stadium in a game against Manchester United in the 2018 International Champions Cup
European statistics
Footnotes
References
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