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Liverpool win Premier League title and equal Man Utd record to go 'back on perch'

Liverpool have won the Premier League and become the undisputed most successful club in English football ahead of their bitter rivals Manchester United

[LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - APRIL 13: Arne Slot, Manger of Liverpool, celebrates victory after the Premier League match between Liverpool FC and West Ham United FC at Anfield on April 13, 2025 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)]

Arne Slot has led Liverpool to the Premier League title(Image: Justin Setterfield, Getty Images)

Liverpool have won the Premier League title and equalled a famous record held by their bitter rivals Manchester United.

A victory away at Leicester City last weekend saw the Reds move within three points of glory, and they were crowned champions with a 5-1 win against Tottenham at Anfield on Sunday.

Liverpool fans packed the streets outside Anfield to welcome the team coach to the stadium, and those scenes of celebration will continue to be seen inside Anfield and around Merseyside tonight.

Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk and Co's heroics mean the Reds are now 20-time league winners - equalling the record set by United when Sir Alex Ferguson registered their last title win in 201213. The Red Devils have since endured more than a decade of failure, while Liverpool have gone from strength to strength, a reversal of the two clubs respective fortunes in the 1990s and 2000s.

Sir Alex once famously said: "My greatest challenge was knocking Liverpool right off their f****** perch." After winning his first league title with United in 199293, Liverpool fans responded with a banner saying "come back when you've won 18".

[Liverpool will soon be handing out Premier League medals]

Liverpool will soon be handing out Premier League medals(Image: MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The Scottish boss did just that - as Liverpool fell from glory he would go on to match their then record of 18 league titles and surpass it during his time at Old Trafford. Yet today Liverpool fans can celebrate being back on that perch, with Slot's achievement cementing their status as the undisputed most successful club in English football.

Alongside 20 league titles, the Anfield giants have a trophy cabinet boasting six European Cups, won in 197677, 197778, 198081, 198384, 200405 and 201819, compared to United's three, lifted in 196768, 199899 and 200708.

Discounting charity/community shields, Liverpool had won 51 major trophies before this season began, while United had lifted 46. Including the ceremonial friendly which is played in August, the score was level at 67 apiece.

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The 20th league title for the Merseysiders takes their total to 52 major trophies, or 68 including the charity/community shield. By winning the Premier League with four games to spare, Liverpool have just fallen short of matching an achievement first set by United in 2001 and repeated by Manchester City in 2018, who did it with five games left to play.

However, the record for the earliest Premier League title win by number of matches remaining is already held by the Reds - as Klopp broke that record when he managed it with a staggering seven games left in 2020, after winning an astonishing 26 of the first 27 league games that season.

There are more records Slot's side could set this term. Liverpool have played 17 of their 19 away games this season and have scored more times on the road than any team in the top-flight this season, with 41 goals.

[Around 750,000 fans attended Liverpool's Champions League parade in 2019 and even more could celebrate their 20th league title on Monday, May 26]

Around 750,000 fans attended Liverpool's Champions League parade in 2019 and even more could celebrate their 20th league title on Monday, May 26(Image: PA)

The Reds have scored in every away league match of this campaign, but never in their history have they scored in every away fixture of a league season.

And seven goals from Liverpool in their last two away games would see them equal the Premier League record of 48 away goals scored in a single campaign which the Reds set themselves thanks to Luis Suarez, Daniel Sturridge and Co in 2013/14.

Liverpool are now expected to hold one of the biggest parades in English football history at the end of May, when up to one million fans could line the streets of the city, having been denied the opportunity to do so in 2020 due to the Coronavirus pandemic.

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