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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]
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).
The UEFA Champions League is a seasonal football competition established in 1955. [1] Prior to the 1992–93 season, the tournament was named the European Cup. [1] The UEFA Champions League is open to the league champions of all UEFA (Union of European Football Associations) member associations (except Liechtenstein, which has no league competition), as well as to the clubs finishing from ...
Liverpool have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. [1] They have won the English top league 19 times and the League Cup a record ten times. In their first season, 1892–93 , they won the Lancashire League title and the Liverpool District Cup, [ 2 ] and their most recent success came in 2024, when they won their ...
The club won the European Cup during the 1976–77 season and retained the trophy the following year. Liverpool won a unique treble of the League, the European Cup and League Cup during the 1983–84 season. [8] They won their first double of league championship and FA Cup in 1986, and during the 2000–01 season they won another treble, this ...
The competition has been won fourteen times by teams from Spain, more than any other country. [1] The last champions before the UEFA Cup was renamed to UEFA Europa League were Shakhtar Donetsk, who beat Werder Bremen 2–1 after extra time in the 2009 final. [5] Benfica and Marseille have lost the most finals, with three losses in the competition.
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. Liverpool retained the European Cup in 1978 and regained the First Division title in 1979. [12] During Paisley's nine seasons as manager Liverpool won 20 trophies, including three European Cups, a UEFA Cup ...
A record six English clubs have won Europe's premier club competition: Liverpool six times, the first English team to retain the cup (1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005 and 2019), Manchester United three times and the first English team to win the European Cup (1968, 1999 and 2008), Nottingham Forest twice, being the second English team to retain the ...