Liverpool FC

Liverpool

Liverpool F.C. were formed by John Houlding in 1892, being elected to the Football League alongside Woolwich Arsenal two years later. In 1901 Scottish international Alex Raisbeck was the first Liverpool captain to collect the Football League Championship, and Liverpool were league champions again in 1906.
In 1914,Liverpool made their first appearance in the FA Cup final but lost to Burnley. In 1922, and again in 1923, captained by England full back Ephraim Longworth, Liverpool won the league. In 1946-7, the first season after World War 2, Liverpool were surprise league champions. Over a decade of mediocrity was to follow..
Bill Shankly is largely credited with bringing Liverpool from relative obscurity to the forefront of English football. He was appointed manager of Liverpool before the start of the 1959-60 season when they were in the Football League Second Division. Promotion to the First Division was achieved in 1962 when Liverpool won the Second Division championship. Liverpool won the First Division Championship in 1964 and regained it two years later (1966), winning their first FA Cup in the season between their two title triumphs (1965). Liverpool won their first European trophy, the UEFA Cup, in 1973..
Bob Paisley, Liverpool's most successful manager, succeeded Shankly from the 1974-75 season. In the nine seasons until his retirement in May 1983, Liverpool won six Football League Championships, three European Cups, one UEFA Cup, three successive League Cups, one European Super Cup and three Charity Shields - a total of 21 trophies. Paisley's number of trophies won remained unsurpassed in English football until Sir Alex Ferguson won his seventh Premiership title with Manchester United in 2001.

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