Liverpool 19/20 — Champions at Last: Full Squad & Ratings

Liverpool 2019/20 season — all 18 players rated, best XI, and how to draft them in 38-0.

Liverpool 2019/20 — Season Story

Liverpool's 2019/20 season ended a 30-year wait for the league title, and it did so with the kind of dominance that turns a title race into a coronation: 99 points, 32 wins, and the championship secured with seven games still to play — the earliest a Premier League title has ever been decided. Jurgen Klopp's team did not just win the league; they broke it.

The run began in August and barely paused. Liverpool won their first eight games, dropped points only twice before Christmas, and went into the new year with a 13-point lead. The defining sequence came in December: back-to-back wins over Everton, Manchester City and Leicester, with the 3-1 victory at the Etihad effectively ending the title race before it was half over.

This was the season the system perfected the previous year came together completely. Alisson Becker, a year older and better, conceded just 33 goals in 38 games. Virgil van Dijk was untouchable. Trent Alexander-Arnold set a record for assists by a defender with 13, and Andy Robertson added another 12 from the other flank. The front three rotated in a blur of goals: Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane shared 42 league goals between them.

The strangest detail of the title run was how it ended: football stopped in March because of the pandemic, and Liverpool had to wait more than three months to be confirmed champions, finally sealing it when Manchester City lost at Chelsea on 25 June. There were no fans on the streets for the moment itself — the trophy was lifted at Anfield in front of empty stands. But the football had been so dominant that the 2019/20 squad earns its place among the greatest the league has seen.

The 30-Year Wait

Liverpool had not won the English league title since 1990, and the wait had become a psychological weight on the entire club. For three decades, each near-miss — the 1996/97 collapse, the 2008/09 and 2013/14 runners-up finishes — added to the sense that the league had some mysterious hold over them. The 2018/19 season, with 97 points and a Champions League triumph, was supposed to be the breakthrough; instead it ended a point short.

The breakthrough came with a vengeance. Liverpool did not allow a single defeat until late February, and even that loss — at Watford — came with the lead at 22 points. When the title was finally confirmed in June, the relief was so total that players, staff and fans across the world spent the day in a state of disbelief that had nothing to do with the three-month delay. The wait was over, and the manner of it was perfect.

The Records That Fell

The 2019/20 Liverpool season reads like a record book: 99 points, the second-highest total in Premier League history at the time; 32 wins from 38 games; a 25-point gap over second place, the largest title-winning margin ever recorded; and the title sealed after just 31 games — the earliest in the competition's history. The team also won 24 consecutive home league games across two seasons, a top-flight record.

Individually the numbers were just as remarkable. Alexander-Arnold's 13 assists were the most ever by a defender in a Premier League season. Alisson kept 15 clean sheets and conceded at a rate that made him the best goalkeeper in Europe. And the front three scored 59 league goals between them, with Salah's 19 and Mane's 18 leading the way.

The Etihad Statement

The match that ended the title race came on 10 November 2019: Manchester City, the champions, at home, needing a win to stay within touching distance. Liverpool won 3-1 with a performance of total control — Fabinho's long-range strike, Salah's header, Mane's late finish — and the nine-point lead became twelve.

The defeat broke City psychologically as much as mathematically. They never got closer than nine points again, and by the new year were openly admitting the title was gone. For Liverpool, the win was the moment the players started to believe what the table had been saying for weeks: this was going to be their season, and no one in the league could stop them.

Key Players & Ratings

Virgil van Dijk (91 OVR) anchors the squad as the best defender in the pool, with Alisson Becker (90) the highest-rated goalkeeper in this squad and one of the best in the game. Mohamed Salah and Sadio Mane (both 89) are elite wingers, Roberto Firmino (85) the selfless link, and Trent Alexander-Arnold (85) and Andy Robertson (85) the best full-back pairing in the dataset.

The squad average is 83.2 OVR — joint-top among the Liverpool sides in the pool and well above the 80.7 average. The bench is deeper than the 2018/19 version: Joe Gomez (82), Fabinho (85), Jordan Henderson (84) and Georginio Wijnaldum (83) all start for most other squads.

Full 18-Man Squad

Best XI — Liverpool 2019/20

The highest-rated eleven available from this squad in 38-0:

• GK Alisson Becker 90 OVR
• RB Trent Alexander-Arnold 85 OVR
• CB Virgil van Dijk 91 OVR
• CB Joe Gomez 82 OVR
• LB Andy Robertson 85 OVR
• CDM Fabinho 85 OVR
• CM Jordan Henderson 84 OVR
• CM Georginio Wijnaldum 83 OVR
• RW Mohamed Salah 89 OVR
• LW Sadio Mané 89 OVR
• CF Roberto Firmino 85 OVR

Drafting This Squad in 38-0

This is as close to a no-lose landing as the draft offers. The ideal pick order: Van Dijk or Alisson to lock down the defensive spine, Salah or Mane for a game-winning attacker, Firmino for a creative forward. The squad's depth means the seventh or eighth choice here is still a starter-quality player.

In Legend mode, the key fact to remember is that this squad has the highest-rated goalkeeper in the pool (Alisson, 90) and the highest-rated defender (Van Dijk, 91) — if you land here without either position covered, take one of them. Salah and Mane (89) are the attacking prizes, and everything else is a bonus.

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