total trophy
liverpool - 58
Manchester United - 49
how many european title did man utd won?
Liverpool is synonymous with sport being home to two of Europe's
most famous football teams - Liverpool and Everton.
The Reds are England's most successful club side, winning more
major trophies than any other team including 18 league
championships and five European cups - more than any other British
club.
Everton are founder members of the Football League with a proud
history of their own. With nine league championships, five FA Cups
and a European Cup Winners' Cup to their name, their Goodison Park
home has been graced by some of the game's greatest talents, such
as legendary striker "Dixie" Dean.
Dean started his career across the water with Merseyside's third
League club, Tranmere Rovers who have forged a reputation in recent
seasons as the nation's most feared cup giant-killers.
The city's achievements on the football field are matched across
the sporting spectrum. Already boasting a packed programme of
activities, Liverpool is limbering up to deliver a range of both
long established and new events from grassroots level to regional,
national and international standards of performance.
Liverpool is and always has been a boxing city, producing many
national and international champions such as John Conteh, Alan
Rudkin and Paul Hodkinson. Employing the UK's only boxing
development officer, Liverpool has established partnerships with
local clubs, volunteers and the ABA of England.
At the forefront of British amateur boxing, the city provided
national champions in four of the 11 weight divisions of the 2005
ABA Championships and is set to host the 2008 European Boxing
Championships - an official qualifying event for the Beijing
Olympics later that year.
A knockout on the tennis court, Liverpool offers one of the UK's
largest and longest established tennis development programmes and
plays host to world-class players such as Martina Navratilova, Pat
Cash, Ilie Nastase and Mansour Bahrami at the annual International
Tennis Tournament. Dubbed the Wimbledon of the North, it is the
largest exhibition event in Europe.
With a fine tradition in track and field, Liverpool has played a
part in the careers of many outstanding athletes including
Olympians Curtis Robb, Steve Smith and Diane Allergreen, and
gymnasts such as former world silver medallist and Commonwealth
Games champion Neil Thomas and the current British Champion and
gold medallist at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games, Beth
Tweddle.
Elsewhere in Merseyside, the Grand National at Aintree is the
world's most famous steeplechase attracting annual crowds of 80,000
while Haydock in Newton-le-Willows is the most visited racecourse
in the country. Sefton-based Waterloo Rugby Club in Blundellsands
has developed some of the top talents in Rugby Union such as Ben
Kay, Austin Healey, Will Greenwood and Kyran Bracken.
And in July 2006, the Open Golf Championship will return to Royal
Liverpool for the first time in 39 years, a highlight for our
fourth themed year 'Liverpool Performs' as the city celebrates its
sporting achievements.
