Liverpool wins English Premier League title

Liverpool officially clinched the 2025 English Premier League title in the club's first season under manager Arne Slot.

It was supposed to be a season of transition for Liverpool. Little did even the club’s most optimistic fans know that it would be a transition straight into Premier League glory.

With its 5-1 win against Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, Liverpool bulldozed its way to a record-tying 20 English league titles. It draws Liverpool level with Manchester United as the winningest club in English soccer history. And with four matches still remaining in the season, Liverpool won the league convincingly.

The season started in the shadow of doubt. Jurgen Klopp, the team’s German tactician, departed the club after eight trophy-laden seasons. Klopp’s blood-and-thunder style of play, known as “gegenpressing,” kept Liverpool fans on their feet with high-scoring, entertaining soccer. Klopp won the gamut as manager, including Liverpool’s first English title in 30 years in 2020 and club soccer’s most prestigious trophy, the UEFA Champions League, in 2019.

But it was Klopp’s embrace of Liverpool’s community, his charm in press conferences and his signature hugging of players that endeared him to the Anfield faithful and lionized him as the club’s father figure. His withdrawal from the Liverpool touchline at the conclusion of the 2024 season made fans anxious about what would come next.

Liverpool's Virgil van Dijk celebrates after scoring his side's second goal against West Ham United at Anfield in Liverpool on April 13.Ian Hodgson / AP fileCue Arne Slot, the up-and-coming Dutch manager tapped to replace Klopp. Slot had been successful in the Netherlands, leading his Feyenoord team to the Dutch championship, but a new league and a different caliber of play meant success was far from guaranteed.

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