Liverpool FC v Everton FC Trophies

Between them, Liverpool and Everton have won 64 major trophies. The problem is, at least from an Everton point of view, the share isn’t exactly even. The two Merseyside clubs were the best teams in the country for a time in the 1980s, but in the years that followed it is fair to say that the two sides seemed to go in all but opposite directions.

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Matches between the two clubs are known as the ‘Friendly Derby’, given the fact that households are often split down the middle in terms of who supports Liverpool and who favours Everton. There is plenty of bitterness involved in the matches, though, ensuring spice both on and off the pitch.

What we Mean by Major Trophies

There are some trophies that teams can win that don’t really mean as much as others. The Community Shield, which used to be known as the Charity Shield before it was pointed out that the Football Association didn’t give any money raised from it to charity and rather than do so they just decided to re-name it, is just such a trophy.

Although only the league winner and the FA Cup winner gets to play in it, unless they are the same team, in which case the side that finished second in the league takes part, it is very much a friendly trophy. Teams often don’t take it particularly seriously, so we aren’t going to look at it as part of this page.

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On the other hand, sides have to go through an arduous campaign to win the league and enjoying victories in European competition is never easy. Even the likes of the European Cup Winners’ Cup or the Club World Cup had and have entry requirements that make them worthy of our attention. In essence, we’re ignoring any competitions that can best be described as ‘friendlies’, but looking at anything that a club would try really hard to win during the course of a season.

This also makes things slightly fairer on Everton, given the fact that the Blues have won the Charity/Community Shield nine times compared to Liverpool’s 16.

Liverpool’s Trophy Haul

Here is a look a the big trophies that Liverpool have won over the years:

In total, then, Liverpool have won 52 major honours. During the end of the 1970s into the 1980s, the Reds were an unstoppable force, achieving the sort of success that Manchester United would go on to replicate in the 1990s.

As well as conquering the First Division year on year, Liverpool also managed to make the League Cup their own private competition, winning it for four successive seasons. It was in Europe where the club really made its name, however, winning back-to-back European Cups in 1977 and 1978 and cementing their place as one of the best teams on the planet when they won it again in 1981 and 1984.

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In the modern era, Liverpool’s success has been regular rather than all-encompassing. More League Cups have been added to the trophy cabinet, alongside a spectacular Champions League win in 2005, setting the marker down for the manner in which a team can come back from the dead to end up as victors.

The 2019 win, coming against fellow English side Tottenham Hotspur, set the stage for the Reds to go on and be crowned Club World Cup champions for the first time, officially making them the best team on the planet. A year later and Liverpool finally won the Premier League for the first time since the re-branding of the English top-flight.

Everton’s Trophy Haul

In contrast to Liverpool’s achievement, here is a look at what Everton have managed to add to their trophy cabinet:

You can see Liverpool’s dominance over their Merseyside rival laid bear when you look at the trophies like that. The Reds have won the English top-flight more often than Everton have won trophies in total. Evertonians would no doubt point to the fact that English clubs were banned from Europe in the wake of the Heysel Stadium Disaster as the reason they also don’t have a European Cup, having been to Anfield to measure the space needed for the trophy only to end up having to put a cuckoo clock in there.

The fact that they won the FA Cup in 1984 meant that they qualified for the European Cup Winners’ Cup the following season.

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The Blues defeated Irish side UCD in the first round over two legs, then Internacionál Slovnaft Bratislava over two legs in the second round by 1-0 and 4-0 respectively. That put them into the quarter-finals, where they beat Fortuna Sittard 3-0 in the first-leg and then 2-0 in the second. The semi-finals they drew 0-0 with Bayern Munich in the first-leg and the beat them 3-1 at Goodison Park.

The final pitched Everton against Rapid Wien, with the Blues emerging as 3-1 winners thanks to goals from Andy Gray, Trevor Steven and Kevin Sheedy to be crowned as Cup Winners’ Cup champions. At the time of writing, though their last win of any trophy came in the 1995 FA Cup.