Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is an English professional football club based in Anfield, Liverpool. The club currently plays in the Premier League, of which it was a founding member in 1992, and has competed in European competition every year since the 1999-2000 season. The club were founded in 1892 after Everton moved to Goodison Park from Anfield, after a dispute over rent. Liverpool have played at Anfield since their foundation, plans to move to a new stadium in Stanley Park have been put on hold because of the lack of funds due to the current economic climate.

Having won a joint-record 18 league titles, seven FA Cups and a record seven League Cups, Liverpool is is the joint most successful club in the history of English football and one of the wealthiest and most widely supported football teams in the world.[2] The club was purchased in 2007 by George Gillett and Tom Hicks in a deal that valued the club at £218.9 million.

The Heysel Stadium disaster made the club infamous in Europe; 39 Juventus fans died after a wall collapsed as they fled from charging Liverpool fans. The club were involved in a worse disaster four years later — the Hillsborough Disaster — which saw the death of 96 Liverpool fans in a crush against perimeter fencing. Both disasters have had wide-ranging impacts on English and European football, and the club, to this day.

Liverpool have played at Anfield since forming. Plans to move to a new stadium in Stanley Park by 2011 have been put on hold until economic conditions improve. Liverpool have a very large fan base which holds long-standing rivalries with Manchester United and Everton, against whom they contest the Merseyside derby.