Liverpool Football Club is an English professional football club founded on March 15, 1892 in Liverpool, Merseyside, which plays in the Premier League, and is the most successful club in the history of English football, with more trophies than any other English club. The team is playing their home games at the 45,362 capacity Anfield since their foundation. The team is planing to start work on a new 71,000 all reserved seat stadium, in the summer of 2010 near Stanley Park, which will be funded by Tom Hicks and George Gillett, who became the club's owners on February 6, 2007.
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Their traditional colours are red and white, with the home kit having been all red since the mid 1960s. They have won a record 18 English League titles, although the last time they won the title was in 1990, and also have won five European Cups, which is a English record, and seven times FA Cup and League Cup. The team have a large and diverse fanbase, who hold a string of long-standing rivalries with several other clubs, and the most notable of these is with neighbours Everton, with whom they regularly contest the Merseyside derby. The club's fans have been involved in two major disasters, first at the Heysel Stadium disaster where 39 Juventus F.C. fans died when a wall collapsed after crowd trouble in the 1985 European Cup Final, and second the Hillsborough disaster in 1989 where 96 Liverpool fans died.