Liverpool Football Club are an EnglishEngland (pronounced IPA: ) is the largest and most populous constituent countryEngland -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia. URL retrieved on 6 June 2007. of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and is located to the north-west of mainland Europe. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total population of the United Kingdom,National Statistics ...English professional clubA football team is the collective name given to a number of players who play together in a football game, be it Association football (soccer), American football, arena football, Australian rules football, Canadian football, Gaelic football, Rugby league, Rugby union, or other version of ...club based in LiverpoolLiverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. Liverpool is governed by one of five councils within the metropolitan county of Merseyside, and is one of England's core cities and its fifth most populous — 447,500 in 2006, with ...Liverpool, MerseysideMerseyside is a metropolitan county in North West England, with a population of 1,365,900. Taking its name from the River Mersey, the title "Merseyside" came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974, after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972, and the county consists of five metropolitan boroughs adjoining the Mersey estuary, including the City of Liverpool. Merseyside ...Merseyside, who play in the Premier LeagueNo quick definition available. Premier League; they are historically the most successful clubNo quick definition available.most successful club in the history of English footballFootball is the national sport of England, and as such has an important place within English national life. The sport is almost always referred to simply as football; it is unusual for it to be called soccer and it is only referred to as "association football" in very limited circumstances. Any unqualified reference to football in an English context should be read as a reference to association football rather ...English football, having won more trophies than any other English club. They have won the most English League titles with eighteen, their most recent success coming in 1990. They are third in terms of European Cup wins with five, an English record. They have also had success in the other cup competitions. They were a founding member of the G-14The G-14 is an organization of European football clubs. It was founded in September 2000 by 14 leading clubs to provide a unified voice in negotiations with UEFA and FIFA. New members may join by invitation only. In August 2002, four more clubs joined, taking the membership to 18, although the organisation has retained its original name. Essentially a pressure group, they have often been linked to various initiatives to create what the media have called a European Super League, although this is ...G-14 group of leading EuropeanEurope is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, to the southeast by the Caucasus Mountains and the Black Sea and the waterways connecting the Black Sea to the Mediterranean. To the east, Europe is generally divided from Asia by the water ...European football clubs.
Liverpool have played at AnfieldAnfield is a football stadium in the district of Anfield, in Liverpool, England. A UEFA 4-star rated stadium, it is the home of Liverpool F.C. The stadium is well known for the Kop stand on the south-west side of the ground, and the atmosphere fans can create at games. The club plans to replace Anfield with a new Stanley Park Stadium, where construction is set to begin in 2007.Anfield since they were founded in 1892. However, plans have been formed to start work on a new 60,000 all-seater stadium in the summer of 2007 near Stanley ParkAnfield is a proposed title of the planned football stadium to be built in Stanley Park, Liverpool, England. The stadium was given planning permission in February 2003. The stadium has a planned all-seated capacity of about 60,000. Although recent developments mean the stadium design could allow for an eventual constructed ...Stanley Park,
funded by the club's new American owners Tom HicksThomas O. Hicks (born 1946), nicknamed Cheddar Tom, is a Dallas businessman. Hicks co-founded the investment firm, Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, and is chairman of Hicks Inc, which owns and operates Southwest Sports Group, the company that owns the Texas Rangers, the Dallas Stars, Mesquite Championship Rodeo and also owns fifty percent of the English football team Liverpool FC. The father of six children, Hicks and his wife Cinda reside in the Preston Hollow neighborhood ...Tom Hicks and George GillettGeorge N. Gillett Jr. II (born October 22, 1938 in Racine, Wisconsin) is an American businessman, owner of the legendary ice hockey team Montreal Canadiens and co-owner of English Premiership team, Liverpool F.C. Building his fortune through sports franchises and ...George Gillett.
The club's fans have been involved in two major tragedies. At the Heysel StadiumThe Heysel Stadium disaster occurred due to football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on May 29 1985 during a football match between Liverpool F.C. from England and Juventus F.C. from Italy. 39 people were killed, mostly Italian Juventus fans. The match was the final of the 1985 European Cup tournament. About an hour before the scheduled kick-off time, Liverpool fans breached a fence separating the ...Heysel Stadium thirty-nine Juventus F.C.Juventus Football Club (from Latin The name "Juventus" is a literal license in Piedmontese dialect of the Latin substantive iuventus (youth in English language). iuventus: youth, IPA: ), also known as Juventus Turin (or Juventus Torino), Juventus, or simply Juve, is a football club from Turin, Italy. With the exception of one season,. the club has spent its entire history in the top flight of Italian ...Juventus F.C. fans died when a wall collapsed after crowd trouble in the 1985 European Cup FinalThe 1985 European Cup Final was a football match played between the clubs Liverpool F.C. of England and Juventus F.C. of Italy at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium on May 29, 1985. The match was overshadowed by the disaster which took place about an hour before kick off, when Liverpool supporters charged at Juventus supporters, causing a huge crush of people against a stadium wall which subsequently collapsed. 39 people were killed and hundreds injured. It was decided that the ...1985 European Cup Final, and at Hillsborough in 1989The Hillsborough disaster was a deadly human crush that occurred on April 15, 1989, at Hillsborough, a football stadium in Sheffield, England resulting in the deaths of 96 people (all fans of Liverpool Football Club). The inquiry into the disaster, the Taylor Report, named ...Hillsborough in 1989 where ninety-six Liverpool fans lost their lives due to overcrowding.
