Liverpool F.C. Reserves is the reserve team of

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It is the most senior level of the Liverpool academy beneath the first team. In the summer of 2012, the whole English reserve football system was overhauled and replaced with an Under 21 league system, the

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. Liverpool's Reserve team became the Liverpool under 21 team and competes in the Professional Development League 1 which is also known by its sponsorship name of Barclays under 21 Premier League. The team generally consists of Under-21 players at the club but at times senior players also play for the reserves when they are recuperating from injury. Following the introduction of new regulations from the 2012–13 season, only three outfield players and one goalkeeper over the age of 21 can play for the reserves regularly. In

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, the reserve team of Liverpool reached the semifinal before losing to the eventual winners

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. The following season in 2013–14 the reserves team again lost to Manchester United reserves in the semis. Liverpool F.C. Academy is the youth set up Liverpool Football Club. It trains players from the U6 age group up to the U21 squad. The academy has separate head coaches in charge of development in the U6-U9, U10-U11, U12-U14 and U15-U16 age groups. At U21 and U18 level there are dedicated coaching teams managed by Michael Beale with the U21 position vacant as of 2 March 2020.

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was promoted from U21 manager to Academy Director in the summer of 2014 and hold overall responsibility for operation of the academy. The academy has won the

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, a competition for players of age 15 to 18, four times in 1996, 2006, 2007 and 2019. Liverpool F.C. Academy is considered to be one of the best and one of the most prolific

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academies both in England and in the world. Various current and past Liverpool players have graduated through the academy with the likes of Billy Liddell,

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, Ian Callaghan, Phil Thompson,

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, Michael Owen, Jamie Carragher,

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and Trent Alexander-Arnold, among many others.

Reserve team

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Reserves played in

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. The Reserves won the regional division title in 2000 and again 2008 winning also the national league that year. It competed in the Lancashire Combination from 1896 to 1911, with the exception of the 1898–99 season, in which it joined

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. From 1911 on, it took part in the

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until becoming inaugural members of the Premier Reserve League North in 1999. The team also participated in the Liverpool Senior Cup and the Lancashire Senior Cup; the last time it took part in them was the 2009–10 season when it also won both competitions. The last reserve team manager was Rodolfo Borrell, who was appointed in July 2011 and led the reserve team during its final season before taking over the newly formed under-21 side in July 2012. The reserves last played their home games at

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(the home of Tranmere Rovers); in previous seasons the team has also played at the club's academy, the Halliwell Jones Stadium (home of Warrington Wolves), Haig Avenue (the home of Southport),

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(the home of

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) and the

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(home of

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). The most successful Liverpool Reserves manager was

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. Evans spent most of his playing career as a reserve team player, making only 11 appearances for the first team. After an injury ended his career in 1974, he was appointed manager of the reserves by

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. Evans subsequently led the reserves to victory in a series of Central League championships, including three in his first three seasons, a four in a row sequence from 1978, and two more in the early 1980s. Throughout the history of Liverpool FC, many of the club's best known players have progressed through the reserve team. These include people who at one point were first team squad members including Trent Alexander-Arnold,

, Michael Owen,

, Jamie Carragher and Raheem Sterling.

The Academy

In 1998, a new state-of-the-art Youth Academy was opened in

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, Metropolitan Borough of Knowsley. It replaced the older, more informal youth system, and enables the club to focus their youth development and scouting, employing new techniques and FA standards. Scouts attend many local youth matches looking for talented boys. A boy will then be invited to attend training sessions at the Academy. They are currently taken in as young as the age of six. Former

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player Jamie Carragher started at Liverpool when he was aged just nine, with Michael Owen joining at eleven, and

joining at the age of eight. On the walls of the indoor centre hang the words 'Technique', 'Attitude', 'Balance', and 'Speed'. 'TABS' is the key word preached at The Academy. Academy director

has said the remit of the academy is to produce physically, technically, tactically and mentally elite players with enough quality to represent the senior side in the Champions League. Liverpool won the 2005 Champions league with two locally born academy graduates starting in the final.

Academy partnerships

The Academy has a long-lasting affiliation with

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's Sándor Károly Football Academy and maintains a number of football schools worldwide through partnerships with football clubs and commercial and sports organisations. LFC International Football Academy currently has branches in Scandinavia (Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, and Gran Canaria during winter), America (Texas and Plymouth, the latter through an affiliate with CS United Soccer Club), Egypt (Cairo), South Africa (Durban and Johannesburg), China (Guilin), India (Pune, in cooperation with

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), and Japan (Tokyo). Previously schools were also run in Abuja, Belfast, Boston, Charlotte, Cyprus, Dublin, Hong Kong, Iceland, Jakarta, Katwijk, Lisbon, Madrid, Malta, Mumbai, Manila, Nairobi, Saint Vincent, and Singapore.

Academy squad

Out on loan

''Players listed in bold have made at least one senior first-team appearance.''

Staff

Current coaching and medical staff

* Academy director:

* Head of Academy business: Andrew Powlesland * Head of Academy football operations: Nick Marshall * Education manager: Caitlin Hawkins * Head Academy physiotherapist & U23s head physio: Paul Kelly * U23s physiotherapist: Scott McAuley * U23s manager: Barry Lewtas * U23s fitness coach: Vacant * U23s goalkeeping coach: Mark Morris * Goalkeeping coach:

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* Head of development analysis: Tim Jenkins * Head of coach development: Martin Diggle * Academy chief scout: Dave Moss * Senior Academy scout: Matthew Newberry * Assistant Academy recruitment co-ordinator: Frederico Paciencia * U18s manager:

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* U18 fitness coach: John Hill * U18s Academy physio: Liam Kershaw * U18 Lead physiotherapist:

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* U18 assistant physiotherapist:

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* U18s goalkeeping coach: Neil Edwards * U18 individual coach/analyst: Jonathan Robinson * Performance coach: Yvie Ryan * Nutritionist: Tom Maynard * Sports therapist: Joe Lewis * Floating physiotherapist: Tony Jones * Rehabilitation fitness coach: Paul Squires * Assistant Academy sports scientist: Oliver Morgan * Academy doctor: Dr Jim Moxon * Head of recruitment 14s+: Dan Hargreaves * Head of recruitment 9-13: Terry John * Head of local recruitment: Steve Gorst * Manchester scout 9-13: John Newby * U18s performance analyst: Scott Mason * U15-16s individual coach/analyst: Ray Shearwood * U15-U16s performance analyst: Brad Wall * U14-8 analyst: Daniel Spearitt * U10-U12 Lead coach: Michael Yates * U12 coach:

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* U10 coach: Josh Wesselby * U6-U9 Lead coach: Anthony Ryan * U9 coach: John Thompson * Lead pre-Academy coach: James Williams ''In addition, the Academy employ staff from the first-team.''

Reserve team manager history

(1954–1957) * Joe Fagan (1957–1974) *

(1975–1984) *

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(1984–1986) * Phil Thompson (1986–1992) * Sammy Lee (1993–1998) * Joe Corrigan (1998–2002) * Hughie McAuley (2003–2006) * Gary Ablett (2006–2009) * John McMahon (2009–2011) *

José Segura José Segura Rius (born January 23, 1961, in Olesa de Montserrat) is a Spanish professional football coach. Segura won both the Greek championship and Cup with Olympiacos FC after the sacking of Takis Lemonis in March 2008. He decided to leave ...

(caretaker) (2011) * Rodolfo Borrell (2011–2012) *

(2012–2014) * Michael Beale (2014–2016) * Mike Garrity (caretaker) (2016–2017) *

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(2017–2020) * Barry Lewtas (2020–''present'')

Awards

Liverpool Academy Players' Player of the Year

''Players in bold are still playing for Liverpool.''

Honours

Reserves

;;League Champions * The Central League: 16
(1956–57, 1968–69, 1969–70, 1970–71, 1972–73, 1973–74, 1974–75, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1978–79, 1979–80, 1980–81, 1981–82, 1983–84, 1984–85, 1989–90, * Premier Reserve League National: 1
( 2007–08) * Premier Reserve League North: 2
(1999–00, 2007–08) * Lancashire Combination: 2
(1896–97, 1899–00) ;;Cup Winners * Liverpool Senior Cup: 40
(1893, 1901, 1902, 1903, 1905, 1907, 1909, 1910*, 1912*, 1913, 1915, 1920, 1925, 1927, 1929, 1930, 1934*, 1936*, 1937, 1939, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1951, 1952, 1962, 1964*, 1968, 1977, 1980, 1981, 1982*, 1997, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2009, 2010) * Lancashire Senior Cup: 13
(1919, 1920*, 1924, 1931, 1933, 1944, 1947, 1956, 1959, 1973, 2010, 2017, 2022) *

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: 4
(1954, 1959, 1960, 1961)

Youth

;;League Champions * Lancashire League Division One: 6
(1965–66, 1967–68, 1968–69, 1971–72, 1977–78, 1982–83) * Lancashire League Division Two: 7
(1961–62, 1965–66, 1967–68, 1972–73, 1975–76, 1976–77, 1992–93) * Lancashire League Division Three: 1
(1960–61) ;;Cup Winners *

: 4
(1996, 2006, 2007, 2019) * Liverpool Youth Cup: 3
(1954, 1956, 1958) * Lancashire Division One League Cup: 3
(1960, 1966, 1967) * Lancashire Division Two League Cup: 5
(1962, 1966, 1967, 1973, 1980) * Lancashire Division Three League Cup: 1
(1961) ''*Asterisk denotes a shared title.''

Noted graduates

Established at Liverpool

Liverpool's youth system has been successful over the years; many players who have come through it have gone on to feature in the first-team. The following players have gone on to play over ten competitive matches for the first team. Pre-WW2 *

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* Cyril Done *

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* Jack Parkinson * Syd Roberts 1940s * Bill Jones * Billy Liddell *

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Eddie Spicer Edwin "Eddie" "Ted" Spicer (20 September 1922 – 25 December 2004) was a professional English footballer who played for Liverpool. His parents were George Stephen Spicer (1894-1956) and Ethel Anne Warren (1900-1981). He was married to Norma An ...

1950s *

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* Eric Anderson * Gerry Byrne * Bobby Campbell * Don Campbell * Jimmy Melia *

* Roy Saunders 1960s *

Alf Arrowsmith Alf Arrowsmith (11 December 1942 – 12 May 2005) was an English footballer who played as a striker. Arrowsmith began his career in non-league football with Tintwistle Villa. The talented player made his mark scoring a massive 96 goals in the ...

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* Ian Callaghan * Bobby Graham *

* Ian Ross * Tommy Smith * Phil Thompson 1970s * Jimmy Case *

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* Colin Irwin * Sammy Lee *

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1980s * Gary Ablett * Mike Marsh * Steve Staunton * Ronnie Whelan 1990s * Jamie Carragher *

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* Michael Owen * David Thompson *

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2000s *

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* Martin Kelly *

Neil Mellor Neil Andrew Mellor (born 4 November 1982) is an English retired professional footballer who played as a striker. He began his career at Liverpool in the Premier League. He made his name in 2004 by scoring a stunning last-minute goal from long r ...

Stephen Warnock Stephen Warnock (born 12 December 1981) is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. Starting off his career at Liverpool, he went on to also represent Coventry City, Bradford City, Blackburn Rovers, Aston Villa, Bolt ...

2010s *

Andre Wisdom Andre Alexander Shaquille Wisdom (born 9 May 1993) is an English professional Association football, footballer who plays as a right-back or centre-back. Wisdom began his career at Bradford City A.F.C., Bradford City before signing for Liverpool ...

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* Pedro Chirivella * Raheem Sterling *

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* Trent Alexander-Arnold *

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Caoimhín Kelleher Caoimhín Odhrán Kelleher (born 23 November 1998) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for club Liverpool and the Republic of Ireland national team. Early life Kelleher was born in Cork, County Cork, where he attend ...

2020s *

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* Rhys Williams

Established elsewhere

Many of the former Liverpool youth and reserve team players have found success with other clubs. None of these players became established members of the Liverpool first team. 1950s * Joe Maloney * Keith Burkinshaw 1960s * Ted MacDougall 1970s *

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1980s * Alan Harper * Colin Russell * Craig Hignett * Dave Watson *

Howard Gayle Howard Anthony Gayle (born 18 May 1958) is an English former footballer who played for Birmingham City, Blackburn Rovers, Fulham, Halifax Town, Liverpool, Newcastle United, Sunderland and Stoke City. Gayle began his career with Liverpool, beco ...

John Durnin John Paul Durnin (born 18 August 1965) is an English former footballer who scored 100 goals in 475 league appearances over a career spanning close to two decades. He began his career at Liverpool in 1986, but made just three minor cup appeara ...

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* Mike Newell * Nigel Adkins * Paul Jewell *

Brian Mooney Brian Mooney, (born 2 February 1966 in Dublin) is an Irish former footballer who made his name as a skilful winger in English football. Mooney was spotted in 1983 by Liverpool playing for Irish schoolboy club Home Farm F.C. where he had won a F ...

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* Kevin Sheedy 1990s * Nicky Rizzo * Alex Watson *

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* Jim Magilton * Paul Dalglish * Tony Warner * Danny Williams * Gareth Roberts *

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2000s * Besian Idrizaj *

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* Alan Navarro *

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* Charlie Barnett *

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* Danny O'Donnell *

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* David Raven *

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* James Smith *

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* Jon Otsemobor *

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* Paul Anderson *

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* Francisco Manuel Duran *

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* Jimmy Ryan * Richie Partridge *

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References

Sources

* ''Who's Who of Liverpool'' (2006): Tony Matthews
LFCHistory.net

External links

News about the Academy at the Official Club Website

Under-21s Fixtures and Results

Under-18s Fixtures and Results

Liverpool Academy News Blog
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