Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry
American bus poster promoting the fixture in the International Champions Cup of 2018 | |
| Location | North West England |
|---|---|
| Teams | Liverpool Manchester City |
| First meeting | 16 September 1893 Football League Second Division Ardwick 0–1 Liverpool |
| Latest meeting | 23 February 2025 Premier League Manchester City 0–2 Liverpool |
| Next meeting | 8 November 2025 Premier League Manchester City v Liverpool |
| Stadiums | Anfield (Liverpool) City of Manchester Stadium (Manchester City) |
| Statistics | |
| Meetings total | 198 |
| All-time series | Liverpool: 95 Drawn: 53 City: 50 |
| Largest victory | Liverpool 6–0 City (28 October 1995) City 6–0 Liverpool (11 September 1935) |
| Largest goal scoring | Liverpool 5–4 City (27 October 1906) |
| Longest win streak | 7 games Liverpool (1978–81) |
| Longest unbeaten streak | 10 games Liverpool (2005–10) |
The Liverpool F.C.–Manchester City F.C. rivalry is an inter-city rivalry between English professional football clubs Liverpool and Manchester City. Liverpool play their home games at Anfield, while Manchester City play their home games at the Etihad Stadium.
Although Liverpool and Manchester City were first involved in a title race in the 1976–77 season, their modern-day rivalry began in the mid-2010s, since which time the clubs have been in three close title races with each other and reached five UEFA Champions League finals, winning one each. Since the 2017–18 season, at which time Liverpool were managed by Jürgen Klopp and Manchester City by Pep Guardiola, the two clubs dominated English football, with one of the two winning every Premier League title, three out of eight FA Cups and six out of eight EFL Cups. During this period, the two clubs set six of the eight highest Premier League points totals since 1995, when the number of games for each team per season was reduced to 38. Players and managers from Liverpool and City have also dominated the individual awards in English football since 2017–18: each Premier League Player of the Season award, PFA Players' Player of the Year award and FWA Footballer of the Year award, and five out of six Premier League Young Player of the Season awards, went to players from the two clubs, and each Premier League Manager of the Season award went to either Guardiola or Klopp.
The quality of the rivalry has been praised, with pundit and former Liverpool and England player Jamie Carragher describing it in 2022 as "the best we've ever had in English football... We've never had the two best teams and managers in the world together fighting it out." In 2022, the BBC noted that the two clubs "have produced a rivalry in recent years that has taken the standard of English football to another level."