Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry

The Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry is a high-profile inter-city rivalry between English professional association football clubs Liverpool and Manchester City.

Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry
Bus poster promoting the fixture in the International Champions Cup of 2018
LocationNorth West England
TeamsLiverpool
Manchester City
First meeting16 September 1893
Football League Second Division
Ardwick 0–1 Liverpool
Latest meeting16 April 2022
FA Cup
Manchester City 2–3 Liverpool
StadiumsAnfield (Liverpool)
City of Manchester Stadium (Manchester City)
Statistics
Meetings total188
All-time seriesLiverpool: 89
Drawn: 51
Manchester City: 48
Largest victoryLiverpool 6–0 Manchester City
(28 October 1995)
Manchester City 6–0 Liverpool
(11 September 1935)

Though the two clubs had been involved in a title race in the 1976–77 season, Liverpool and Manchester City's modern rivalry began in the 2010s, with City beating Liverpool to the 2013–14 title by just two points on the final day of the season.[1] In the final of the 2015–16 Football League Cup, City beat Liverpool on penalties. Liverpool and Manchester City met in European competition for the first time in the 2017–18 UEFA Champions League quarter-finals, where Liverpool won 5–1 on aggregate, reaching the final, and winning the competition a year later.[2][3] In the 2018–19 season, City again won the title on the final day, with City's 98 points and Liverpool's 97 being the third- and fourth-highest Premier League points totals ever.[4] The following season, Liverpool won the title, recording 99 points (the second-highest Premier League total ever) to finish 18 points above runners-up City.

Pep Guardiola of City and Jürgen Klopp of Liverpool were the managers during the era in which the rivalry between the two clubs intensified, as they began to dominate English football. The rivalry is also notable for showcasing the two most dominant players in the Premier League since 2017-18: City's Kevin De Bruyne and Liverpool's Mohamed Salah.[5][6][7] In 2022, former Liverpool defender and now pundit Jamie Carragher said that the rivalry is the 'greatest in English football history'.[8]

Inter-city rivalry
Main article: Liverpool–Manchester rivalry
Locations of the cities, in England

The cities of Liverpool and Manchester are located in the north west of England, 35 miles (56 km) apart. Since the industrial revolution there has been a consistent theme of rivalry between the two cities based around economic and industrial competition. Manchester through to the 18th century was the far more populous city, and held a position of significance and notability as representative of the north. By the late 18th century, Liverpool had grown as a major sea port – critical to the growth and success of the northern cotton mills. Over the next century, Liverpool grew to supersede Manchester and throughout the late 19th and early 20th century was often described as the British Empire's second city.[9] The links between the two cities were strengthened with the construction of the Bridgewater Canal, the Mersey and Irwell Navigation, and the world’s first inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, for the transport of raw materials inland.[10]

The construction of the Manchester Ship Canal, funded by Manchester merchants, was opposed by Liverpool politicians and bred resentment between the two cities. Tension between working class Liverpool dockers and labourers in Manchester was heightened after its completion in 1894, just three months prior to the first meeting between Liverpool and Newton Heath in a play-off match that would see Newton Heath relegated to the Second Division.[11]

Today, the crests of both the city of Manchester and Manchester City include stylised ships representing the Manchester Ship Canal and Manchester's trade roots. The ship is also included on the crest of many other Mancunian institutions such as Manchester City Council and rivals Manchester United.

Post-war shifts in economic ties, reliance on regional coal, and shifts in transatlantic trade patterns caused by the growth of Asian labour markets caused the gradual decline of British manufacturing. While the city of Liverpool suffered the loss of its primary source of income to southern port cities, Manchester maintained some of its manufacturing heritage. This reversal of fortunes happened against the backdrop of shifting political backgrounds and significant events in British culture and society in the second half of the 20th century.

Both cities were part of the county of Lancashire until March 1974, upon the enactment of the Local Government Act 1972. Since then, Liverpool and Manchester each respectively anchor the neighbouring metropolitan counties of Merseyside and Greater Manchester.

The two cities continue to be strong regional rivals, vying for influence of surrounding areas. Their continued importance to the UK economy has been reflected with the awarding of the 2002 Commonwealth Games to Manchester, while Liverpool was awarded the title of 2008 European Capital of Culture as part of its ongoing regeneration.

More recent projects by Peel Ports have sought to re-establish the economic links between the Port of Liverpool and Port of Manchester, including re-developing trade links via the Manchester Ship Canal.

Football rivalry

Liverpool and Manchester City were not traditional rivals, with Liverpool having had much more success historically. At the time of the Abu Dhabi United Group takeover of City in 2008, Liverpool had won five European Cups, a record eighteen domestic top-flight league titles, seven FA cups and a record seven Football League Cups; City, conversely had won no European Cups, two domestic top-flight league titles, four FA Cups and two Football League Cups. By 2008, however, neither team were dominant domestically, with Liverpool having not won a top-flight league title since 1990, and City since 1968.

When the teams played each other in the 2014 International Champions Cup in the United States, the rivalry took on another sporting angle in the host country due to the ownership of the two clubs; City Football Group's partners in their Major League Soccer team New York City FC – Yankee Global Enterprises – own the New York Yankees Major League Baseball franchise, who have a strong rivalry with the Boston Red Sox – a subsidiary of Fenway Sports Group, the owners of Liverpool.[12]

Manchester City consecutively won the 2017–18 and 2018–19 seasons, the latter season in which Liverpool were challenging for the title and putting up an intensive battle against the winners. These seasons are considered the escalating point in the rivalry between the two clubs (though the rivalry had already begun in the early 2010s during Manchester City's dramatic rise to success), with both having been the mutual rival of Manchester United for decades. Prior to this, the 2013–14 season was the last one to have both Manchester City and Liverpool compete against each other at the top for the title, with the former having won it for the fourth time in their history.

Players from Liverpool and City have dominated the individual awards in English football since 2018, with each Premier League Player of the Season award, FWA Footballer of the Year award and PFA Players' Player of the Year award going to players from the two clubs.

Rivalry between managers
Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola, rival managers since their days partaking in Der Klassiker. Klopp took charge at Anfield in 2015, while Guardiola became City boss the following year.

Jürgen Klopp and Pep Guardiola, the managers of Liverpool and Manchester City respectively, in the mid-2010s have developed a rivalry, having been the respective managers of Der Klassiker rivals Borussia Dortmund and Bayern Munich in the Bundesliga previously.[13] At the end of the 2018–19 season, Guardiola described his relationship with Klopp as a "beautiful rivalry"[14] and called Klopp's Liverpool team "the strongest opponents I have faced in my career as a manager".[15] In September 2019, Klopp hailed Guardiola for being his 'greatest rival ever', after both the two were nominated for the FIFA Men's Coach of the Year award in 2019, which Klopp won.[16][17]

Honours

Liverpool has historically won more trophies than Manchester City, with the latter achieving a breakthrough in success only in the 2010s following their purchase by the Abu Dhabi United Group. Liverpool has more European honours, but Manchester City have been more successful domestically in the modern era, winning five league titles since 2011 while Liverpool ended a 30-year title drought by winning the 2019-20 Premier League.

Table correct as of 27 February 2022.
Team League FA Cup League Cup Community
Shield		 FL Super Cup European Cup/
Champions League		 UEFA Cup
Winners' Cup		 UEFA Cup/
Europa League		 UEFA
Super Cup		 Intercontinental
Cup		 FIFA Club
World Cup		 Total
Manchester City[18] 7 6 8 6 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 28
Liverpool 19 7 9 15 1 6 0 3 4 0 1 65
Combined 26 13 17 21 1 6 1 3 4 0 1 93

Head-to-head

The below table demonstrates the competitive results between the two sides (not indicative of titles won). League includes the Premier League, League Division One and League Division Two. The Lancashire Section and the War Leagues are not included.

As of 16 April 2022
Competition Manchester City wins Draws Liverpool wins
Premier League 11 19 20
First Division 34 25 59
Second Division 0 1 1
FA Cup 2 2 4
EFL Cup 1 3 3
UEFA Champions League 0 0 2
FA Community Shield 0 1 0
Total 48 51 89

Matches

The table below shows the matches played between Manchester City and Liverpool, separated by home, as in matches played at Manchester City's home stadium (following a nomadic embryonic existence, City resided at Hyde Road from 1887 to 1923, then Maine Road until 2003, and finally the City of Manchester Stadium from the 2003–04 season onwards) are shown in the left hand table and matches played in Liverpool's home stadium (Anfield) are shown on the right. Cup finals are typically played at a neutral location such as the England national football team home stadium (Wembley).

Shared player history
As of 16 April 2022
Player Liverpool career Manchester City career
Span League
apps		 League
goals		 Span League
apps		 League
goals
Jim McBride 1892–1894 50 7 1894–1897 70 1
Pat Finnerhan 1897–1898 8 5 1894–1897 85 27
Jimmy Ross 1894–1896 73 27 1898–1901 67 21
George Livingstone 1902–1903 31 4 1903–1906 81 19
Augustus Beeby 1912–1912 16 4 1911–1912 11 0
Tommy Johnson 1934–1936 36 8 1919–1930 328 158
Matt Busby 1936–1945 115 3 1928–1936 204 11
Fred Howe 1935–1938 89 36 1938 6 5
David Johnson 1976–1982 148 55 1984 6 1
Michael Robinson 1983–1984 30 6 1979–1980 30 8
Mark Seagraves 1983–1987 0 0 1987–1990 42 0
Paul Walsh 1984–1988 77 25 1994–1995 53 16
Steve McMahon 1985–1991 204 29 1991–1994 87 1
Peter Beardsley 1987–1991 131 46 1998 6 0
Paul Stewart 1992–1996 32 1 1987–1988 51 26
Steve McManaman 1990–1999 272 46 2003–2005 35 0
David James 1992–1999 214 0 2004–2006 93 0
Nigel Clough 1993–1996 39 7 1996–1998 39 4
Robbie Fowler 1993–2001
2006–2007		 266 128 2003–2006 80 21
Mark Kennedy 1995–1998 16 0 1999–2001 66 8
Dietmar Hamann 1999–2006 191 8 2006–2009 54 1
Nicolas Anelka 2001–2002 20 4 2002–2005 89 37
Scott Carson 2005–2008 4 0 2019–present 1 0
Albert Riera 2008–2010 40 3 2006 15 1
Craig Bellamy 2006–2007
2011–2012		 51 13 2009–2011 40 12
Daniel Sturridge 2013–2019 116 50 2006–2009 21 5
Kolo Touré 2013–2016 46 1 2009–2013 82 2
James Milner 2015–present 195 19 2010–2015 147 13
Mario Balotelli 2014–2016 16 1 2010–2013 54 20
Loris Karius 2016–present 29 0 2011–2012 0 0
Raheem Sterling 2012–2015 95 18 2015–present 221 88

See also

References
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