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Liverpool Football Club |
- Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England.
- The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football.
- Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has played its home games at Anfield since its formation.
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- Domestically, the club has won nineteen League titles, eight FA Cups, a record nine League Cups and fifteen FA Community Shields.
- In international competitions, the club has won six European Cups, three UEFA Cups, four UEFA Super Cups—all English records—and one FIFA Club World Cup.
- The club established itself as a major force in domestic and European football in the 1970s and 1980s, when Bill Shankly, Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan and Kenny Dalglish, led the club to a combined eleven League titles and four European Cups.
- Liverpool won two further European Cups in 2005 and 2019 under the management of Rafael Benítez and Jürgen Klopp, respectively; the latter led Liverpool to a nineteenth League title in 2020, the club's first during the Premier League era.
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- Liverpool is one of the most valuable and widely supported clubs in the world.
- The club has long-standing rivalries with Manchester United and Everton.
- Under management by Shankly, in 1964 the team changed from red shirts and white shorts to an all-red home strip which has been used ever since.
- The club's anthem is "You'll Never Walk Alone".
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