Klopp's Liverpool era: 99 points, two near-misses, one title
By Arasi Rex · Updated 10 August 2026 · 8 min read
Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool era, from October 2015 to May 2024, produced eight major trophies including the Premier League on a club-record 99 points and the Champions League, across 491 games in charge. The 2019/20 title is the wrong monument for the era. The 97-point 2018/19 season, when Liverpool finished one point behind a 98-point Manchester City, tells you more about how good this team was than a championship sealed with seven games to spare during a season suspended for 100 days.
Klopp's Liverpool era: the trophy haul
Klopp was appointed in October 2015 as Brendan Rodgers' replacement, and his first game in charge was a goalless draw with Tottenham. His first full season produced two losing finals, the League Cup against Manchester City and the Europa League against Sevilla, and an eighth-place finish; fourth place in 2016/17 then returned the club to the Champions League. The silverware, when it arrived, came in a concentrated burst:
| Competition | Titles under Klopp |
|---|---|
| Premier League | 2019/20 |
| Champions League | 2018/19 |
| FA Cup | 2021/22 |
| EFL Cup | 2021/22, 2023/24 |
| FA Community Shield | 2022 |
| UEFA Super Cup | 2019 |
| FIFA Club World Cup | 2019 |
That is eight major honours, and the breadth matters as much as the count. Klopp is the only manager in Liverpool's history to win six different major competitions, the only one to have won the league, the European Cup, the FA Cup and the League Cup, and his trophy total ranks fourth in the club's history behind Bob Paisley, Bill Shankly and Kenny Dalglish. The full list of every Premier League title winner shows how rare even a single Liverpool entry has been: two in 34 seasons, one of them Klopp's.
The 2019/20 title: 99 points and seven games to spare
The title ended a 30-year wait, Liverpool's first since the 1989/90 First Division under Dalglish, their first of the Premier League era and their 19th top-flight crown. The numbers were enormous. Liverpool won 32 of 38 games with three draws and three defeats, scoring 85 and conceding 33, to reach 99 points, the club's highest total ever and one short of Manchester City's competition-record 100 from 2017/18. They finished 18 points clear of Pep Guardiola's second-placed City, dropped just two points in their first 27 matches, and won the title with seven games left, more games to spare than any English top-flight champion before them.
The strangeness of that season is part of its record. Liverpool were confirmed champions on 25 June 2020, when Chelsea beat City 2-1, because the campaign had been suspended for 100 days by the pandemic and restarted with 92 matches played behind closed doors. That is why the title is simultaneously the earliest by games played and the latest by date in English top-flight history. None of that cheapens 99 points, but it does mean the championship itself was never seriously contested, which is exactly why it is the weakest evidence of how good the era was.
The near-misses that defined the era
The 2018/19 season is the strongest evidence. Liverpool finished on 97 points, the most ever recorded by a team that did not win the title, one behind City's 98, with the race decided on the final day. Along with 99 in 2019/20 and 92 in 2021/22, it is one of three of Liverpool's four highest league points totals, all under Klopp. Across the seven seasons from 2017/18 to 2023/24 City won six titles, with Liverpool's 2019/20 the only break; Liverpool's 97-point and 92-point campaigns were the only ones that genuinely pushed them, and City's own story is told in our guide to the Guardiola Man City era.
Europe ran on the same rhythm of near misses and redemption. Liverpool lost the 2018 Champions League final 3-1 to Real Madrid in Kyiv, with Mohamed Salah forced off early through injury. A year later they overturned a 3-0 first-leg defeat against Barcelona by winning the second leg 4-0 at Anfield, then beat Tottenham 2-0 in the final in Madrid, Salah's early penalty and a late Divock Origi goal securing a sixth European Cup, Klopp's first trophy at the club and the end of a run of six successive cup final defeats. In 2021/22 Liverpool won the League Cup and the FA Cup, both on penalties against Chelsea after goalless draws, but lost the Premier League by a point and the Champions League final 1-0 to Real Madrid in Paris. Three finals, three different outcomes, and only the middle one on the right side of the ledger.
The records Klopp's Liverpool set
The streak numbers put the era alongside the best sides the league has produced:
- 44 league matches unbeaten, from 12 January 2019 to 29 February 2020, winning 39 of them, a club record ended by a 3-0 defeat at Watford, with the full history in our guide to the longest unbeaten runs in Premier League history.
- 18 consecutive league wins between October 2019 and February 2020, equalling the English top-flight record set by City two years earlier.
- 24 consecutive home league wins, an English top-flight record, inside a club-record 68-match unbeaten run at Anfield.
- 14 away wins in 2019/20, a club record for a single league campaign.
- 1,035 goals in 491 games, including three of the club's four highest-scoring seasons: 135 in 2017/18, a club-record 147 in 2021/22 and 142 in 2023/24.
The margin records belong there too. The 9-0 win over Bournemouth in August 2022 is Liverpool's biggest home Premier League win, the 7-0 at Crystal Palace in December 2020 their biggest away win, and the 7-0 against Manchester United in March 2023 sits with the most remarkable scorelines in the competition's history, all of them listed in our guide to the biggest wins in Premier League history.
What the record books miss
The before and after numbers do the heavy lifting. Liverpool averaged 63 points per season in the seven campaigns before Klopp and 85 per season under him; across the whole era they amassed 702 points, second only to City; and from October 2015 they recovered 148 points from losing positions, more than any other side in Europe's big five leagues. Klopp finished with a win rate of 60.8 per cent, the second-highest in Liverpool's history behind Dalglish, and his departure left a club whose average league finish had moved from the mid-table of the pre-Klopp years to genuine title contention.
The era ended quietly by its own standards. Klopp's final season brought the League Cup in February 2024, a 1-0 win over Chelsea with Virgil van Dijk heading the winner after 118 minutes, and his last match was at home to Wolves. Arne Slot succeeded him and won the 2024/25 title on 84 points, proof that the machine outlived the builder. Klopp's Liverpool era is remembered as a one-title era, and measured in trophies that is exactly what it was. Measured in points, records and the strength of the sides that beat them, it was the hardest challenge any club has mounted to the most dominant team in the league's history, and the record books will keep underrating it until someone else wins 97 points and still finishes second.
FAQ
How many trophies did Jurgen Klopp win at Liverpool?
Eight major trophies: the Premier League in 2019/20, the Champions League in 2018/19, the FA Cup in 2021/22, the League Cup in 2021/22 and 2023/24, the Community Shield in 2022, the UEFA Super Cup in 2019 and the FIFA Club World Cup in 2019.
What is Liverpool's record points total under Klopp?
99, set in 2019/20, the club record and one short of Manchester City's competition-record 100. Klopp's Liverpool also reached 97 in 2018/19 and 92 in 2021/22, three of the club's four highest totals.
Why did Klopp leave Liverpool?
He left at the end of the 2023/24 season after eight and a half years, with his final match at home to Wolves. Arne Slot replaced him and won the Premier League in 2024/25 on 84 points.
Did Klopp win the Champions League with Liverpool?
Yes. Liverpool beat Tottenham 2-0 in the 2019 final in Madrid, with Salah scoring an early penalty and Origi a late second. Liverpool also reached the 2018 and 2022 finals, losing 3-1 to Real Madrid in Kyiv and 1-0 to them in Paris, which is why the Klopp's Liverpool era Champions League story is a near-miss tale with a happy middle chapter.
Key takeaways
- Klopp's Liverpool era delivered eight major trophies from October 2015 to May 2024, making him the only manager in the club's history to win six different major competitions.
- The 2019/20 title was won with a club-record 99 points and seven games to spare, but the era's strongest season was 2018/19: 97 points, the most ever recorded by a non-champion.
- Liverpool's 44-match unbeaten run, 18 consecutive wins and 24 consecutive home wins all came under Klopp, with the 44-game run ended by a 3-0 defeat at Watford.
- Liverpool averaged 85 points per season under Klopp against 63 in the seven seasons before him, and amassed 702 points, second only to Manchester City.
- Klopp's 60.8 per cent win rate is the second-highest in Liverpool's history behind Kenny Dalglish, and his successor Arne Slot won the 2024/25 title on 84 points.