Liverpool F.C.(Football Club) won the 2019-20 season title for the first time in 30 years. On

June 6, 2020, Chelsea F.C. beat Manchester City, 2 to 1, allowing Liverpool F.C. to clinch its first Premier League title in 30 years with seven games remaining in the league. Liverpool F.C.’s last league title was during the 1989-90 season. This is Liverpool F.C.’s 19th career league title, and it has managed to close the gap with Manchester United, the team with the most wins in history.

1. What is Liverpool F.C.?

Liverpool F.C. is a professional football club in the English PremierLeague, and homes in Liverpool, England’s Merseyside. John Houlding founded Liverpool F.C. on June 3, 1892, so the team celebrated its 128th anniversary this year. When Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley were coaches, they experienced aheyday called the Red Empire. They were also the heroes of Istanbul’s miracle and Anfield’s miracle. These games are part of the history of football. It is the only club in England with a record of six UEFA Champions League titles and 19 league Div.1 titles. Liverpool F.C.’s star players include Mohamed Salah, Steven Gerrard, Ian Rush, Kenny Dalglish, and Jamie Carragher.

2. What is the ‘Kop’?

‘Kop’ is a word commonly used to refer to Liverpool F.C.’s supporters. Kop’s
passionate support at Liverpool’s home stadium, Anfield, gave Liverpool plenty of
strength and pressure. After Liverpool F.C. won its second league Div.1 title in 1906,
the club built a new stand and named it ‘Spion Kop.’ ‘Spion’ was the place where many
soldiers from Liverpool died during the Boer War. In the match against Blackpool F.C.,
thousands of spectators cheering for Liverpool gathered at the Spion Kop Stand to cheer
for Liverpool F.C. Those who saw their passionate support started to call Liverpool
supporters, Kop, named after the stand.

3. 1990s’ Liverpool F.C.

Since the Premier League was launched, Liverpool has won many trophies in the UEFA Champions League,
along with the FA Cup and the League Cup. But they have only won four semifinals in the league. Of course, there were events that played a crucial role in bringing Liverpool into the dark ages. They included the “Heysel Stadium disaster” and the “Hillsborough disaster,” an accelerator to transition from Football League 1 to the Premier League. Although the Hillsborough disaster was seen as the fault of the police, not the club and its fans, after 27 years, Liverpool F.C. was cleared of the stigma. But the two incidents shocked England’s soccer community and Liverpool F.C. Liverpool F.C. became “the fallen illustrious house,” leaving behind its glorious past.

4. 2011-12’s Liverpool F.C.

The 2011-12 season is remembered as the worst season in Liverpool’s history. However, in the preseason, the atmosphere in Liverpool
was good. It had been revived with the recruit of star players, and Andy Carroll’s comeback from injury made fans excited. But the poor offense, which was second to none, did not make it to Anfield, where they were strangely unbeaten, and the club was gradually
relegated while still winning the League Cup. In the second half of the season, Suarez was severely punished for a racist scandal, and
Downing was also involved in an assault. The team’s performance fell so vertically that they couldn’t afford to set the bad mood for
the team. Further pitfalls occurred, including the much-anticipated FA Cup title match won by Chelsea F.C., which had been undefeated since the last season.

5. Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool F.C. & Red Empire

 Klopp was the last hope for Liverpool, which was really on the verge of being relegated to become a mid-tier club after a series of failed manager changes. Klopp slowly revived Liverpool F.C. Liverpool was ranked eighth in the league in the middle of the 2015-16 season, but Klopp saw the possibility of reaching the UEFA Europa League final. Starting in the 2016-17 season, he successfully brought his team back to the Champions League by advancing to the fourth place. And in the 2017-18 season, he showed his potential to reach the finals for the first time in a long time. In the 2018-19 season, the team advanced to second place in the league, and won the UEFA Champions League title for the first time in 14 years, giving the team its sixth big year in history, and bringing the team back to the top of Europe. Furthermore, in the 2019-20 season, the team finally won their first Premier League title in 30 years and their 19th career title in the league Div. 1. It is no exaggeration to say that its coach, Jürgen Klopp, has begun a new heyday for the Red Empire.

Yang Yoon-seon (ST Reporter)
jane6654@soongsil.ac.kr

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