Monday, January 23, 2006

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Liverpool Football Club (often known simply as Liverpool) is an English football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, and are the current champions of Europe and the most successful English football team to date. Since being founded in 1892, Liverpool have won five European Cups, and 18 Football League titles on top of being the English club to have won the most number of UEFA Cups, European Supercups and English League Cups. The club's home ground is the 45,362 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool.

The club was founded on March 15 1892 by John Houlding, the owner of Anfield. Houlding decided to form his own team after Everton left Anfield in an argument over rent. The original name was to be Everton F.C. but was changed to Liverpool F.C. (after the F.A. refused to recognise the team as Everton). Liverpool were elected to the Football League alongside Woolwich Arsenal two years later.

The club was present at two of the biggest tragedies in European football — at Heysel in 1985 and Hillsborough in 1989. After Heysel, English clubs were withdrawn from European competition for a period of five years, six in the case of Liverpool.

For more information about the foodtabll club, please refer to the follwoing website:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liverpool_F.C.


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