Full name: Anfield
Location: Anfield Road, Liverpool, L4 0TH
Opened: September 1884
Capacity: 45,400
Stadium Overview
Anfield is a football amphitheater in Liverpool. The amphitheater has been the home of Liverpool F.C. back the club's accumulation in 1892 and was additionally the home of Everton F.C. until 1892. It has hosted 17 internationals matches at chief level, with the aftermost actuality hosted in 2006. There are affairs to alter Anfield with a fresh amphitheater in Stanley Park and it is appointed to accessible in 2011.
Brief History of LFC
badgeLiverpool Football Club were founded in May 1892 by John Houlding, who endemic the Anfield Road stadium. Everton FC were the occupants at Anfield afore this date but afterward a altercation with Houlding they promptly confused beyond Stanley Park to a fresh home - Goodison Park.
Houlding was larboard with an abandoned amphitheater and so formed Liverpool Football Club. He appointed John McKenna, an Irishman with abounding links in Scottish football, McKenna acclimated his links to anatomy a ’squad’ of 13 players, of which 9 were Scottish.
In their aboriginal analysis the club won the additional analysis championship - afterwards accident a game! The aboriginal of 18 aboriginal analysis championships accustomed at Anfield in analysis 1900-01, now beneath the administration of Tom Watson, the aggregation accomplished two credibility advanced of Sunderland. Five years afore that Liverpool recorded their accomplished anytime Alliance win back they exhausted Rotherham United 10-1 in the additional analysis (Feb 18th 1896).
The Reds won their additional alliance appellation in 1906, and accomplished their aboriginal FA Cup Final in 1914. The bout was played at the old Crystal Palace arena and Liverpool absent 1-0 to Burnely, with ex-Evertonian Burt Freeman scoring the alone goal.
In 1922 the third alliance appellation was anchored and the afterward year the fourth was won - finishing 6 credibility clear. The summertime of 1928 saw a fresh roof on the acclaimed Kop angle at Anfield.
In 1947 addition alliance appellation was won, accident aloof one bout all season. In chase of the bifold The Reds accomplished the semi-final of the FA Cup, but absent afterwards a epitomize to Burnley.
1955 saw Liverpool exhausted Everton 4-0 in an FA Cup tie, but the Jon Welsh could not get the club out of analysis two and so was replaced by Phil Taylor the afterward year.
Taylor had little success and was replaced by Bill Shankly in 1959. Shankly accustomed from Huddersfield and went on to adviser The Reds to abundant championships and cup wins.
Shankly advance the club to their aboriginal FA Cup final at their third attack in 1965, assault Leeds United in the final. That win came was sandwiched by two added championships. European success was on the border and admitting catastrophe as runners-up in the European Cup Winners Cup in 1966 the aliment and adulate of the alliance appellation was won.
1973 was a cogent year for Liverpool FC, beneath the administration of Bill Shankly they won their aboriginal European honour - the UEFA Cup - and their eighth alliance title! Aloof a year afterwards Shankly fabricated the accommodation to leave the club by alternate accord - abundant to the shock of all the Reds adherent fans.
Bob Paisley was answer from the ‘bootroom’, a trend which would abide at the club for decades to come. Any doubts that Paisley was not the appropriate man for the job were dispelled in 1976, back Paisley’s aggregation won the alliance appellation and UEFA Cup in the aforementioned season. The abutting analysis saw the alliance appellation (again!), the European Cup and the European Super Cup all access at Anfield. The trophies kept advancing with addition European Cup in 78 and alliance titles in 79, 80, 82 and 83. These were won with alliance cups in 81, 82 and 83 and a third European Cup in 81. These successes fabricated Bob Paisley the best acknowledged British football administrator ever.
Paisley retired at the of the 1982-83 analysis and fabricated way for Joe Fagan to booty charge. Fagan’s aggregation aerial the alliance title, alliance cup and the European Cup in his aboriginal analysis in allegation - some alpha to a authoritative career!
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Kenny Dalglish was appointed in 1985 afterward Fagan’s retirement and won the clubs’ aboriginal anytime bifold of alliance appellation and FA Cup in 1986. Two added alliance championships followed in 88 and 90 forth with addition FA Cup win in 89.
April 15th 1989 is a date that will alive connected in the anamnesis of Reds admirers through out the World. Liverpool were arena Nottingham Forest in an FA Cup semi final at Sheffield’s Hillsborough Stadium. 96 Liverpool admirers were tragically dead afterward bare policing and stewarding in the Leppings Lane End.
Dalglish larboard the club in 1991 and Graeme Souness took the helm. His aboriginal analysis saw The Reds aerial the FA Cup, assault Sunderland 2-0. But Souness’ administration at the club was not to be a acknowledged one and afterwards several bootless attempts to win the alliance and abounding poor finishes, he fabricated way for Roy Evans in 1994.
1994 additionally saw the aftermost anytime bold in advanced of the Kop stand. Norwich City were the visitors as 44,339 admirers arranged in to Anfield. Abounding of them had angry out to see legends such as Paisley and Dalglish. The date of April 30th 1994 will go bottomward in Liverpool history - but not for the result. Norwich won 1-0 address of a Jeremy Goss bang at the Kop End.
Evans’ administration started in accustomed appearance to Souness’ with a Alliance Cup win in 1995. But already afresh the club bootless to alive up to expectations with afflicted European campaigns and connected alliance inconsistencies.
In the summertime of 1998 Gerard Houllier was appointed collective administrator with Roy Evans. But that collective affiliation was consistently destined to end in abortion and afterwards four months calm Roy Evans larboard the club.
Houllier began to body a band of players accessible to claiming at the top. Success was not actual but afterwards two seasons in sole allegation three trophies accustomed together. Alliance Cup success over Birmingham was the clubs aboriginal bays for 6 years and this was anon followed by FA Cup and UEFA Cup joy two months later. A memorable UEFA Cup Final saw Houllier’s aggregation exhausted Spanish underdogs 5-4 afterwards added time.
In the summertime of 1998 Gerard Houllier was appointed collective administrator with Roy Evans. But that collective affiliation was consistently destined to end in abortion and afterwards four months calm Roy Evans larboard the club. Roy a abundant assistant to the club was never a man to put himself afore the club whom he accurate as a boy and formed himself up from binding amateur to aboriginal aggregation manger. He afterwards claimed in one of his aftermost interviews that he didn’t appetite to be a “Ghost on the Wall” which Is infact what his Autobiography appellation for his book which was appear in 2004.
Houllier now sole administrator had a big assignment on his easily to restore aplomb and conduct in his players. He affiliated a aggregation who were acclimated to Roy Evans’s “one of the boys“ attitude appear administration but boring but absolutely he began to body a band of players that Liverpool already afresh could be appreciative of. Players such as Paul Ince and afterwards Robbie Fowler were apparent the aperture as they were never activity to be allotment of Houlliers fresh adverse advancing and acclimatized squad. In came players such as Gary McAllister, Milan Baros, Sami Hyypia, Stephane Henchoz, John Arne Riise, Emile Heskey and the admittance of up and advancing starlet Stephan Gerrard to name some.
Immediately things began to attending a accomplished lot brighter and afterwards two seasons of laying bottomward the foundations to a aggregation in his cast his aggregation won three trophies in one season. The Alliance Cup success over Birmingham was the clubs aboriginal bays for 6 years and this was anon followed by FA Cup and UEFA Cup joy two months later. A memorable UEFA Cup Final saw Houlliers aggregation exhausted Spanish underdogs Alaves 5-4 in a blood-tingling added time encounter.
Success was cursory admitting as growing agitation at Liverpool’s abrupt acknowledgment to mediocrity and little advance affected supporters to alarm for his abandonment which 2 seasons beforehand would accept seemed inconceivable. Liverpool were now perceived as abiding underperformers and the alliance table showed it. Expensive signings such as El-Hadji Diouf and Emile Heskey to name a brace were slated as flops and Houllier afterwards went on almanac as adage signing Diouf was a huge mistake.
After such achievement and abundance in his aboriginal few seasons Houllier was affably apparent the door.
During a pre-season abounding of belief Liverpool fabricated the massive accomplishment in signing able adolescent administrator Rafael Benitez from Valencia. ’Rafa’ as he is accepted faced an appropriately big assignment in bringing calm a band blowzy with audibly boilerplate players from the Houllier era.
Purchases such as Luis Garcia, Xabi Alonso and Fernando Morientes bigger the angle but the accident of Michael Owen to Real Madrid bedridden Benitez’s aperture months.
Rafa Benitez’s aboriginal analysis in allegation saw the Reds acreage their aboriginal European Cup for 21 years, acquisition AC Milan adjoin the allowance in the greatest European Final anytime witnessed
