Liverpool FC

Official Club Name: Liverpool Football Club
Year of Establishment: 1892
Home/Stadium: Liverpool / Anfield Road (capacity: 46,000)
Head Coach: Rafael Benitez
Significant Players: Steven Gerrard, Peter Crouch, Fernando Morientes, Dietmar Hamann

Liverpool is the team that has the most championship trophies in the English Premier League. The team had started as a small church soccer club called St. Domingo Club in 1878. When soccer had become popular in the city of Liverpool, the club changed its name to Everton Club and became a professional team. Then in 1892, the club had divided into two, which are Everton and Liverpool. The team is considered as one of the three best teams in the league, and Steven Gerrard, an incrediblly fast and skilled midfielder of England, is the team's franchise player.

The European champions boast passionate global support and the kind of history and brand values money can’t buy. The Anfield coffers were hit hard by failure to qualify for the 2003-04 Champions League and income fell last year by 7%. But the future looks brighter after the club’s unexpected triumph in last season’s competition. A place in Europe’s premier club competition is worth an estimated £10m and Liverpool’s path to the final could earn the club as much as £40m in TV rights, prize money and merchandising.

A new £100m kit deal with Reebok will further boost the club’s balance sheet and the wage bill has been steadied under new boss Rafael Benitez – even after captain Steven Gerrard’s £100,000-a-year contract extension. The club remains the subject of takeover speculation.

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