Liverpool FC had won more League titles (18) than any other English football club before the 2008-09 season - but since the start of the Premier League, in 1992, they have had to content themselves with domestic and European cup successes.

A glittering history has seen Liverpool football club out of the top flight for only 11 seasons, with the first of their Championships coming in 1901 and their last being secured in 1990.

Rival Merseyside club Everton originally played on Liverpool FC's Anfield home ground but, in a dispute over rent, Everton moved to Goodison Park in 1891 and Liverpool FC was formed by local businessman John Houlding on March 15th, 1892.

Four football League titles came between 1906 and 1947, but it was Bill Shankly's appointment in 1959, with Liverpool FC in Division Two, that began a glorious new era.

The dour Scot led Liverpool Football Club to promotion to the First Division in 1962 and they have stayed there ever since.

Shankly secured three titles between 1964 and 1973, and the "boot-room" football philosophy of appointing managers from within the Anfield family led to Bob Paisley taking over after Shankly's retirement.

Liverpool FC's incredible success continued under Paisley, who clinched six Championships and two European Cups.

Paisley then handed over the reins to his number two, Joe Fagan, who became the first English manager to achieve the treble when he guided The Reds to League, League Cup and European Cup success in 1984.

In 1985, though, the glory years came to a shuddering halt when, before kick-off at the European Cup final in Brussels' Heysel Stadium, Liverpool FCsupporters charged Juventus fans, resulting in the deaths of 39 Italians after a wall collapsed.

Fagan was so badly affected by the disaster, which led to a five-year UEFA ban on English clubs in European competition, that he retired and Scottish superstar Kenny Dalglish was appointed player/manager in 1985.

He galvanised Liverpool FC, inspiring them to three further football League titles in his six years in charge, as well as two FA Cups.

However, his reign was also hit by tragedy, on April 15th 1989, when 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives at the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest after being crushed to death on the Leppings Lane terrace at Sheffield's Hillsborough stadium.

Liverpool Football Club have not won the League title since, but they have netted seven major trophies: the Champions League, UEFA Cup, two FA Cups and three Football League Cups.