Liverpool Football Club Liverpool Football Club is a professional football club based in Liverpool, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. Founded in 1892, the club joined the Football League the following year and has p ...

is an English professional

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club based in

Liverpool Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a popul ...

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, who currently play in the

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. They have played at their current home ground,

Anfield Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England, which has a seating capacity of 53,394, making it the seventh largest football stadium in England. It has been the home of Liverpool F.C. since their formation in 1892. ...

, since their foundation in 1892. Liverpool entered the Lancashire League in their first season, winning the league. The club applied to

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, to become members of the

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in the following season, their application was accepted. Since that time the club's

first team First team may refer to: Sports * First team (association football), the colloquial name given to the most senior team fielded by a football club * The First Team, the first players known to have played the sport of basketball * First Team All-A ...

has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions. Since playing their first competitive match, more than 800 players have made a competitive first-team appearance for the club, of whom 220 players have made at least 100 appearances (including substitute appearances); those players are listed here. Liverpool's record appearance-maker is

Ian Callaghan Ian Robert Callaghan MBE (born 10 April 1942) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He holds the record for most appearances for Liverpool. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) ...

, who made 857 appearances between 1958 and 1978.

Jamie Carragher James Lee Duncan Carragher (; born 28 January 1978) is an English football pundit and former footballer who played as a defender for Premier League club Liverpool during a career which spanned 17 years. A one-club man, he was Liverpool's vic ...

has made the second-most appearances with 737. Eight other players have made more than 600 appearances for the club, every one of them being part of at least one European Cup winning team.

Ian Rush Ian James Rush (born 20 October 1961) is a Welsh former professional footballer who played as a forward. At club level Rush played for Liverpool from 1980–1987 and 1988–1996. He is the club's all-time leading goalscorer, having scored a to ...

is the club's record goalscorer; he scored 346 goals in his 16 years at Liverpool. Rush is the only player to score more than 300 goals for Liverpool; only three other players have scored more than 200 goals for the club.

Players

*Appearances and goals are for first-team competitive matches only, including

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, FA Charity/Community Shield, European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League,

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and

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matches; wartime matches are regarded as unofficial and are excluded, as are matches from the abandoned 1939–40 season. *Players are listed according to the date of their first team début for the club. *Positions are listed according to the tactical formations that were employed at the time. Thus the change in the names of defensive and midfield reflects the tactical evolution that occurred from the 1960s onwards. *Statistics correct . Table headers * Nationality – If a player played international football, the country/countries he played for are shown. Otherwise, the player's nationality is given as their country of birth. * Liverpool career – The year of the player's first appearance for Liverpool to the year of his last appearance. * Starts – The number of games started. * Sub – The number of games played as a substitute. Substitutions were only introduced to the Football League in the 1960s. * Total – The total number of games played, both as a starter and as a substitute. Ian Rush

100 players who shook the Kop

A poll of 110,000 Liverpool F.C. fans in 2006 revealed their opinion on the "100 players who shook the Kop", i.e. whose contribution had a big impact on the club. The overall winner was Kenny Dalglish ahead of Steven Gerrard. (Note: not all of these players made over 100 appearances for the club). British newspapers frequently refer to the list placings when discussing the careers of players included. A second running of the poll in 2013 saw Gerrard replace Dalglish at the top of the list, as well as some new entries (mostly post-2006 players).

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External links

LFCHistory.net
has a list o
Liverpool F.C. players

ThisIsAnfield.com
has
complete list of every Liverpool player since 1892
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