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1965–66 Liverpool F.C. season

English football club season

Field	Value
club	Liverpool F.C.
season	1965–66
manager	Bill Shankly
league	First Division
league result	Winners
league topscorer	Roger Hunt (29)
season topscorer	Roger Hunt (32)
cup1	Cup Winners' Cup
cup1 result	Runners-up
cup2	FA Cup
cup2 result	Third round
cup3	FA Charity Shield
cup3 result	Shared
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The 1965–66 season was '''Liverpool Football Club''''s 74th season in existence and their fourth consecutive season in the First Division. Liverpool F.C. won its seventh league title, tying Arsenal's record, with a six-point cushion to Leeds and Burnley. Roger Hunt scored 29 league goals, which earned him a place in the England squad for the World Cup, where he became the first player to win the World Cup representing Liverpool. It was not until 44 years later that Fernando Torres played an active part in the Spanish team winning the World Cup as a Liverpool player.

The season also saw Liverpool reaching its first European final, that of the Cup Winners Cup, losing 2-1 to West German side Borussia Dortmund at Hampden Park in Glasgow, a severe blow to manager Bill Shankly, who had hoped to win his first European trophy in his native Scotland.

The club permanently adopted an all red strip at the start of this season.

Squad

Goalkeepers

SCO Tommy Lawrence
ENG William Molyneux

Defenders

ENG Gerry Byrne
ENG Chris Lawler
ENG Thomas Lowry
ENG Tommy Smith
SCO Ron Yeats

Midfielders

ENG Alf Arrowsmith
ENG Ian Callaghan
ENG Gordon Milne
SCO Willie Stevenson
SCO Ian St. John
SCO Gordon Wallace
ENG Peter Thompson

Attackers

ENG Phil Chisnall
SCO Bobby Graham
ENG Roger Hunt
ENG Geoff Strong

Squad statistics

Appearances and goals

[[Football League First Division|First Division]]

Table

Matches

Main article: 1965–66 Football League#First Division

Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance	Report 1	Report 2
21-Aug-65	Leicester City	A	3–1	Hunt {{goal	35	80}} Strong	29,696	Report
25-Aug-65	Sheffield United	H	0–1		47,259	Report	Report
01-Sep-65	Sheffield United	A	0–0		20,798	Report	Report
04-Sep-65	Blackpool	A	3–2	Hunt {{goal	25	58}} Callaghan	25,616	Report
06-Sep-65	West Ham United	A	5–1	Milne Callaghan Hunt {{goal	43	43	50}}	32,144
11-Sep-65	Fulham	H	2–1	Lawler Hunt	46,382	Report	Report
15-Sep-65	West Ham United	H	1–1	Strong	44,397	Report	Report
18-Sep-65	Tottenham Hotspur	A	1–2	Strong	46,770	Report	Report
25-Sep-65	Everton	H	5–0	Smith Hunt {{goal	49	73}} Stevenson St. John	53,557	Report
02-Oct-65	Aston Villa	H	3–1	Thompson {{goal	12	56}} St. John	43,859	Report
09-Oct-65	Manchester United	A	0–2		58,161	Report	Report
16-Oct-65	Newcastle United	H	2–0	Hunt Callaghan	47,984	Report	Report
23-Oct-65	West Bromwich Albion	A	0–3		30,000	Report	Report
30-Oct-65	Nottingham Forest	H	4–0	Stevenson Hunt {{goal	72	83}} St. John	38,420	Report
06-Nov-65	Sheffield Wednesday	A	2–0	Hunt Thompson	24,456	Report	Report
13-Nov-65	Northampton Town	H	5–0	St. John Stevenson Hunt Callaghan Thompson	41,904	Report	Report
17-Nov-65	Blackburn Rovers	H	5–2	Stevenson St. John {{goal	32	87}} Hunt Smith	36,450	Report
20-Nov-65	Stoke City	A	0–0		28,622	Report	Report
27-Nov-65	Burnley	H	2–1	Hunt Milne	50,282	Report	Report
04-Dec-65	Chelsea	A	1–0	Hunt	36,839	Report	Report
11-Dec-65	Arsenal	H	4–2	Thompson St. John Strong Hunt	43,727	Report	Report
18-Dec-65	Newcastle United	A	0–0		42,910	Report	Report
27-Dec-65	Leeds United	H	0–1		53,430	Report	Report
28-Dec-65	Leeds United	A	1–0	Milne	49,192	Report	Report
01-Jan-66	Manchester United	H	2–1	Smith Milne	53,970	Report	Report
08-Jan-66	Arsenal	A	1–0	Yeats	43,917	Report	Report
15-Jan-66	West Bromwich Albion	H	2–2	Milne Byrne	46,687	Report	Report
29-Jan-66	Leicester City	H	1–0	Lawler	45,409	Report	Report
05-Feb-66	Blackburn Rovers	A	4–1	Lawler Hunt St. John {{goal	63	76}}	30,414	Report
12-Feb-66	Sunderland	H	4–0	Hunt {{goal	46	52	64}} Yeats	43,859
19-Feb-66	Blackpool	H	4–1	Hunt {{goal	28	80}} Arrowsmith Milne	45,046	Report
26-Feb-66	Fulham	A	0–2		31,626	Report	Report
12-Mar-66	Tottenham Hotspur	H	1–0	Own goal	50,760	Report	Report
19-Mar-66	Everton	A	0–0		62,537	Report	Report
26-Mar-66	Aston Villa	A	3–0	Hunt {{goal	42	62}} Callaghan	23,625	Report
06-Apr-66	Sheffield Wednesday	H	1–0	Stevenson	44,792	Report	Report
09-Apr-66	Northampton Town	A	0–0		20,029	Report	Report
11-Apr-66	Sunderland	A	2–2	Lawler {{goal	1	24}}	38,355	Report
16-Apr-66	Stoke City	H	2–0	Strong St. John	41,106	Report	Report
23-Apr-66	Burnley	A	0–2		36,741	Report	Report
30-Apr-66	Chelsea	H	2–1	Hunt {{goal	48	69}}	53,754	Report
10-May-66	Nottingham Forest	A	1–1	Milne	22,105	Report	Report

FA Charity Shield

Main article: 1965 FA Charity Shield

Report Herd Yeats

SCO Matt Busby

SCO Bill Shankly

FA Cup

Main article: 1965–66 FA Cup

Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance	Report 1	Report 2
22-Jan-66	Chelsea	H	1–2	Hunt	54,097	Report	Report

European Cup Winners Cup

Main article: 1965–66 European Cup Winners' Cup

Date	Opponents	Venue	Result	Scorers	Attendance	Report 1	Report 2
29-Sep-65	Juventus	A	0–1		9,242	Report	Report
13-Oct-65	Juventus	H	2–0	Lawler Strong	51,055	Report	Report
01-Dec-65	Standard Liège	H	3–1	Lawler {{goal	2	49}} Thompson	46,112	Report
15-Dec-65	Standard Liège	A	2–1	Hunt St. John	29,534	Report	Report
01-Mar-66	Honvéd	A	0–0		16,163	Report	Report
08-Mar-66	Honvéd	H	2–0	Lawler St. John	54,631	Report	Report
14-Apr-66	Celtic	A	0–1		76,446	Report	Report
19-Apr-66	Celtic	H	2–0	Smith Strong	54,208	Report	Report

Final Main article: 1966 European Cup Winners' Cup Final

Report Libuda

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FRG Willi Multhaup

SCO Bill Shankly

References

(27 November 2014). "What people keep getting wrong about Liverpool all-red strip".

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