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The 2001–02 season was the first in which Liverpool had competed in the UEFA Champions League, ... 18 August 2001 1: Liverpool: 2–1: West Ham United: Liverpool ...
The 2000–2001 season was Liverpool Football Club's 109th season in existence and their 39th consecutive season in the top-flight of English football.This season proved highly successful for Liverpool, with them picking up the League Cup, UEFA Cup and FA Cup under Gerard Houllier, having finished 3rd in the league.
Liverpool won the First Division for the first time in the 1900–01 season, [2] and reached their first |FA Cup Final in 1914, losing 1–0 to Burnley. They won their first back-to-back titles in the 1921–22 and 1922–23 seasons; this was their last success until the 1946–47 season , when they regained the league title.
18 October 2001 – Leeds United sign midfielder Seth Johnson from Derby County for £7 million. 20 October 2001 – Liverpool boost their hopes of a first top division title since 1990 by beating Leicester City 4–1 at Filbert Street, with Robbie Fowler scoring a hat-trick.
In 2001, Houllier's second full season in charge, Liverpool won a "treble": the FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup. [26] Houllier underwent major heart surgery during the 2001–02 season and Liverpool finished second in the League, behind Arsenal. [27]
Having finished second the previous season, Liverpool had high hopes to win their first league title since 1990.Indeed, they topped the Premier League table after their first 12 games (including a seven-game winning streak), picking up 30 points out of a possible 36, a run which saw them four points clear at the top from reigning champions Arsenal.
Liverpool, who were 1–0 down at that point, eventually won the game 2–1 with two goals from Owen. Fowler raised the trophy along with Sami Hyypiä and Jamie Redknapp. Four days later he was a substitute again in Liverpool's third final, the 2001 UEFA Cup Final against Deportivo Alavés. He came on in the 64th minute for Heskey with the ...
Both sides had played several matches already, Bayern had already played four matches in the 2001–02 Bundesliga and were fifth. They had won two matches, drew one and lost one. [7] Liverpool had played two legs in the third qualifying round of the 2001–02 UEFA Champions League. They beat Finnish team FC Haka 9–1 on aggregate. [8]