Check Out These Top 5 Liverpool Coaches
Check Out These Top 5 Liverpool Coaches. Liverpool is one of the most popular and successful football clubs. The team has won 19 league titles in a premier era. Liverpool stands in the second spot in comparison with Manchester. The latter one is leading the list with 20 league titles.
The club is already pretty good in the UEFA Champions League history. It is among the top 3 spots with Real Madrid (13) and Bayern Munich (7) above it.
Let’s take a quick look at the top five Liverpool coaches with maximum wins in history.
#5 Rafael Benitez – 194
Rafael Benitez is among the top five Liverpool coaches of all time. His guidance was behind the club winning the fifth Champions League title. The win was surprising for everyone because of the dramatic fashion. Liverpool was struggling but later made a quick comeback while securing victory through a penalty shootout.
Benitez took the team towards a win in two decades. He further took the team to another final after two years. He won the FA Cup and the English Super Cup once but failed to grab the league titles.
#4 Jurgen Klopp – 225
Jurgen Klopp came to Liverpool in 2015 from Borussia Dortmund. He led the team to win the sixth UEFA Champions League title in 2019. It was the first time that Liverpool won the game in 14 years.
Further, Klopp and the team became Premier League winners after a three-decade duration. He took the team to win the fifth title at Anfield after defeating Chelsea. He won 10 trophies in his coaching career at Liverpool.
#3. Bob Paisley – 308
Bob Paisley is another name on the list of top Liverpool managers. He holds a commendable record of 300 wins in 508 games in competitions. He took the club to win 20 trophies between 1974 and 1983. It includes six league titles including three European Cups and one UEFA cup.
#2 Tom Watson – 329
Watson was the longest-serving Liverpool manager in history. He took the team to win the first two league games while serving for two decades. He came to Liverpool club in 1896 and helped in winning the first two English top-flight titles. He was the coach when the team won multiple top-flight English clubs. The second league was after a year.
#1. Bill Shankly – 407
Bill Shankly is the greatest Liverpool coach of all time. He took over the charge in 1959 and made quick shuffles in the team. Liverpool was failing to make progress in the second division.
Bill came with some tough decisions of dismissing 24 players in the first season. It turned out good for Liverpool and found top spots in 1962. They even won the sixth top-flight title, the first time in 17 years. Shankly took the team to win their first FA Cup and UEFA Cup double league in 1972-73.