Statistics

Competition	Total	Won	Draw	Lost	Goals for	Goals against
Grand totals	350	197	74	79	585	302
League	228	126	55	47	371	183
FA Cup	17	9	3	5	38	22
League Cup	17	11	0	6	31	27
Europe	85	49	16	20	140	68
Other	3	2	0	1	5	2

Matches that are won or lost in a penalty shoot-out are counted as a win/loss not as a draw.

Related Articles

Rafael Benitez in profile

Rick Parry and the Liverpool board had one man particularily in mind when replacing Gerard Houllier. His name: Rafael Benitez.

All right Rafa - it's your round so get the beers in

Benitez left around 100 Reds fans stunned in March 2005 when he walked into Jamesons bar in Cologne city centre.

Rafa on the night he went to the pub

Article from liverpoolfc.tv

Adios, boot room, the Spaniards are taking over

Guillem Balague's article in The Observer on Sunday May 22, 2005.

How Rafa made the people happy again

What a difference a year makes. 12 months ago today, Gerard Houllier was enjoying his last ever day as Liverpool manager. Who back then would have predicted Liverpool would be contesting their most important match in 20 years a year later?

In depth with Rafa Benítez

Andy Roxburgh interviews Rafa Benítez in October 2005.

How Benitez built Liverpool

The side that plays Manchester United tomorrow bears the mark of a manager who has figured out the English game. Article from the Guardian on 21.01.2006.

Why Reds are now Chelsea's main rivals

Bení­tez has transformed the club's fortunes with improvements in four areas, writes Dominic Fifield in the Guardian.

Benitez enraged by Robben's reaction

Article from the Guardian By Jason Burt. Published: 06 February 2006.

Benitez uncovered

BBC Sport spoke to Benitez's biographer Paco Lloret to get a better idea of the man Rafael Benítez. Published 6 December 2005.

Fowler lights up Benitez's night

Match report from The Guardian on Liverpool - Fulham on 15.03.2006.

Benítez makes beeline for Blatter after night of frustration

Dominic Fifield from the Guardian at Yokohama International Stadium on 18th of December, 2005.

Carragher the perfectionist cast in the same mould as Benitez

An article from the Independent By Andy Hunter - Published: 13 May 2006.

Frustrated Benitez happy with quality but not the control

An article from The Guardian on 18th of November 2006 on Liverpool's poor away form in the 2006-2007 season.

Benitez plays spot the difference after defeat

An article by Oliver Kay in The Times on 11.01.2007.

Rafa report vs. top sides in the Premiership

There was optimism and much expectancy among Liverpool fans that 2006/7 would see Liverpool challenging for the Premiership. Alex analyses how Liverpool have coped against the top sides.

Reds' best signing: the totally thorough Rafa

An article by Andrew Tong from The Independent on 8th of April 2007.

Benitez baffles friends and foes alike with his left-field decisions

James Lawton from The Independent reflects on Rafa's tactics vs. Chelsea in the 1st leg Champions League semi-final on 25.04.2007.

SG: RAFA CAN MAKE OUR DREAM COME TRUE

An interview with Steven Gerrard by Paul Eaton on 30 January 2007.

Benitez faces up to bleak midwinter as reality bites at Anfield

The Guardian on 4 January 2008

Rafa Benítez hasn't got what it takes in the League

Our analyst, Alex, decided to look at Rafa's league results at Liverpool by league position, it doesn't make for pleasant reading.

Rafa had a look at Ian Rush as coach

LFChistory.net interviewed Ian Rush recently and here is an outtake from this exclusive interview that will be online next week.

Senor Benitez outlines his Anfield ambitions

As Rafael Benitez prepares for his new life as manager of Liverpool Football Club he spoke at length about his Anfield arrival and his hopes for the future.

Goodbye to Rafa

LFChistory.net's very own Chris Wood says his goodbyes.

Tony Evans with Rafa

Brilliant scribe Tony Evans interviews Rafa Benitez on 18th November 2009.

Valencia ease past Liverpool

BBC press report on Valencia - Liverpool 17th September 2002.

Blame, lies and broken promises at Liverpool

Interview by Rob Draper at the Daily Mail on 6th March 2011.

Rafa: I didn't regret to front Kuyt

An interesting interview with Rafa from Titan Spor from 27 August 2009.

Rafa Benitez: Champions League Dreams

Chris Wood's review of "Champions League Dreams : Rafa Benitez" written in conjunction with Rory Smith.

Liverpool is my home and I will come back

The Sunday Independent on 3 October 2010.

Rafa Benitez's £229m spending spree

Analysis by the Daily Mail on 22 October 2009.

Liverpool FC confirms Benítez's sacking

Published on the Liverpoolfc.tv on 3 June 2010.

How Rafa's 200 compares to rival bosses

Jimmy Rice on liverpoolfc.tv on 23 October 2009.

Liverpool's revolution under Rafael Benitez

An article from the Daily Telegraph on 24 March 2009. Former assistant coach Paco Herrera revealed all about the revolutionary changes implemented by the Spaniard in his first five years at the Merseyside club.

Liverpool running on empty

A full match report from the Telegraph of the Champions League game between Liverpool and Lyon at Anfield on Tuesday Oct 20 2009.

Benitez can blast past Fergie and Wenger

RAFA can eclipse even the great Bob Paisley if he claims his 50th Reds league win on Saturday. Published in the Liverpool Echo on 8 December 2006.

We can be the Real deal

By Chris Bascombe, Liverpool Echo on 24 January 2007.

Rafael Benitez criticises Liverpool's former owners

The Telegraph on 19 October 2010.

Liverpool's Latin Americans

Declan Sloan has put together a complete record of every South American player to wear the famous Red Jersey, from Mauricio Pellegrino in 2005 to newly recruited Roberto Firmino.

Being Liverpool Manager

"At a football club, there's a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters." - Bill Shankly

Rafa uncovered

Published by the Daily Mail on 22 February 2019.

Related Quotes

"If you understand Carra, you'll understand everyone"

Benítez to Morientes when he arrived at the club

"It [football] reminds me of a game I used to play when I was about 12 or 13. It was a military game called 'Strategy' You had 40 pieces - a general, lieutenants, surgeons, bombs - and you had to capture the other person's flag. One time I lost so I spent all night thinking about the game and the strategy. Once I understood all the rules and the strategies I didn't lose again."

Benítez in March 2005

"In my time as a player and manager I certainly haven't seen the likes. In fact, the doctor at Melwood said to me that in 23 years he's never known anything like the amount of injuries we've suffered this season. I just touch wood that we are now over the worst. It's not my style to use injuries as an excuse for poor results and I'm not about to start now. True, we had had a lot of players injured but there's nothing we can do about that now. We just have to get on with things and make the best of what we have available."

Benítez on the 2004-2005 season

"We are preparing a special weightlifting plan for Gerrard's shoulders because we want him to lift a lot of trophies for Liverpool in the next few years! I am not in favour of selling him and we are building a great team around him because we want him to be the skipper who wins the most titles in Liverpool's history."

Rafa about Stevie G in June 2005

"I don't think we've changed anything about how we defend from last season. I think it's just down to time - we've been working with the boss for longer now and I think we now understand what he wants from us better. A year ago, we'd only been with the manager for six months and it takes time to change things at any club. We were used to playing one way before Benitez arrived and now, 18 months on, we're used to his style, his tactics and the way he wants us to play.

The zonal defending system is a good example of how things take time to perfect. I don't think many of the players had played it before because throughout most of our careers we've always gone man-to-man in the box but as soon as Rafa drilled it in to us what to do, I don't think we had many problems adjusting to it. The defence isn't perfect yet but as long as we keep working hard in training and during matches, we should improve further still."

Steve Finnan in December 2005

"As a squad we are beginning to realise and notice that his ideas are coming together and coming to fruition. He's playing a style which he wants and playing that style with players he wants in that group. It's important those two things come together. We are now seeing a Liverpool through the eyes of Rafa Benitez."

Morientes on Rafa Benítez' Liverpool in Dec 2005

- "I am a very proud man today because all managers like to arrive at the best clubs and we know Liverpool is one of the most important clubs in the world. I can say Liverpool is a joy. My office here is 20 metres long and eight metres wide, it is bigger than the oval office in the White House. I can see the training grounds and it's incredible, like being in another world."

"It feels as if I have been on a permanent honeymoon since I arrived here, I am on a cloud and I feel as if with Liverpool I have found the love of my life."

Rafa appreciates life at Liverpool

Speaking to Marca, Rafa stated: "I received congratulations from people all over England and Spain. Ferguson sent me a very strange one with a tactical evaluation - on his personalised paper - of Liverpool's performance in the whole competition, and particularly the final."

Benítez explains he had been inundated with correspondence following his team's dramatic triumph in Istanbul, but had been left slightly bemused by Ferguson's offering

"It would have been a lot easier for the fans if the parade was taking place on a nice day, but considering the bad weather it was even more amazing to see so many of our supporters come to see us. There was one youngster who must have ran alongside the bus for 15 minutes singing 'Rafa Benitez'. When you see this, you realise what it means to our supporters."

Benítez on the FA Cup victory parade in 2006

"There's a huge difference. Rafa and Pako have got a completely different way of training. We train harder, we train for longer and we work harder than we used to. Everything is about tactics as well. You know that they know what they are doing and that's the main thing. If you ask Pako, he tells you what we will be doing in training in two weeks time. That's unusual because when sometimes things don't go right, people change things. What he does is very impressive.

We work on tactics almost every day and if you look at our goals against record, that is a massive improvement. We played Valencia a few years ago when Rafa was in charge there and that was probably the hardest game ever for us. It was hard to get the ball and once we had it, we couldn't play. We got beat 1-0 at home and I think we only had half a chance through Emile Heskey. We were completely outplayed and couldn't get anywhere near them. When you work with them and see the way they train us now, you can see why Valencia played the way they did."

Hamann on the difference between Rafa and Houllier

"Rafa Benitez reminds me of Shanks. He understands the game, how to get the best from individuals, how to change a game with substitutions and his tactics are sound. He has gradually built a squad that looks far stronger than last season, combining class, pace, excellent movement and strength in depth."

Tommy Smith on Rafa in the summer of 2006

"If you analyse the leagues in Europe, normally only the top teams with a lot of money win trophies. The rest just try. In the last two years we have won four trophies, including the most important in the world, the Champions' League. A lot of managers at top clubs do not have the Champions' League in their cabinet.

We won 12 games in a row, kept 33 clean sheets and won 82 points in the Premiership last season so we know how to win and play well in the League. It is difficult for foreign managers to adapt to the Premiership but not a lot of managers can say they have won four trophies in two seasons. Chelsea, with two Premierships, the Carling Cup and the Community Shield, are the only ones. I don't know how many English managers have been abroad - Toshack, Kendall - but it is not easy. So to win the Champions' League with a new team, another language and a new style of life, is very pleasing for me."

Benítez defends his managerial record at Liverpool in November 2006

"He doesn't sleep! He's always thinking about football. You cannot have a chat with him out of football. Everything is football. You can see him on the street and ask how are you?, and he'll say 'I'm fine, I'm thinking about the next game'.

Luis Garcia on Rafa's talent as boss

"Playing against a small team it is not always easy when they have nine men behind the ball all the time. One team wanted to win while one team came not to lose. We controlled the game and had all the possession, and they had one chance from our mistake. After that we controlled everything."

Rafa's famous quote after the Merseyside derby on 3rd of February 2007

"If Rafa said he wanted to buy 'Snoogy Doogy' we would back him. Rafa's feeling is we need more depth because of the rigours of the schedule to be competitive. That's where the genius of the manager is so essential and that's where Tom and I have to defer to his background and genius."

Liverpool's co-chairman George Gillet in May 2007

"Rafa has already achieved the third highest points tally in our history; a total big enough to win 16 of our 18 titles is now regarded as a mere platform on which to build a challenge!"

Steven Kelly in Liverpool Daily Post on 1st of August 2007

"It is a really positive day for the club to be in the record books and get the go-ahead for the new stadium makes a lot of people really happy. It’s almost a perfect day."
Why not perfect?
"They had one chance," smiled the perfectionist Reds manager.

Rafa Benítez in November 2007 after the record Champions League win vs. Besiktas

"After the game, Sheila, who was sitting right in line in the main stand, said to me that the ball had crossed the line. She was a very honest person so that was good enough for me. It was a goal."

Rafa Benítez on Luis Garcia's goal vs Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final. Sheila Walsh his private secretary, left no doubt in his mind on the validity of the goal!

"My first fortnight at the club was inhumane. Rafa Benítez criticised everything I did, from the way I did some basketball practice to how I played my football. But now I am grateful to him for filling me in on how the team works."

According to Alvaro Arbeloa his first two weeks at Liverpool were no picnic

Even after five years with Rafa, I still feel I want to please him, that I want to impress him in every game I play. The great managers are like that. There are a handful operating on a different level and I am lucky enough to play for two of them, Benitez and Fabio Capello.

'It is when you see what they put in, some of the little things they spot, that you realise how hard they work. Rafa will make a point, and you’ll be thinking, "Has this guy not got a life?" because it seems so minor, but it is what sets him apart. 'I can have a good game – tell you what, I’ll be big-headed, say I’ve had a fantastic game – we’ve won 2-1 in the last minute and I’ve scored both.

'I come back into the dressing-room and I’m buzzing, bouncing off the walls, thinking "I feel good today", that is when Rafa comes up and starts talking about a throw-in when they changed the play and I pressed far too late. He’ll say: "If you want, we’ll go out there and I’ll show you". Or you’ll have a run of 10 games when you’re in form and flying and he’ll pop you a DVD of your recent play and it’s broken up into sections good and bad. And you’re thinking, "Hang on, bad? I didn’t do anything wrong". But you’ll watch it and you’re out of position in one match, or you pressed late or you let a man go at a set-piece. You wonder when the guy sleeps.

'At first when he did things like that, I’d be asking, "Has he not watched my last 150 games for Liverpool?" There is a danger that you think he has it in for you because he pulls you so much. 'When he arrived, he would keep saying to me "Left foot, left foot" or I’d shoot and he would say "hit the target" and I’m thinking, "Look, mate, I’m trying to hit the f***ing target". 'I would say to people "I'm 26 – if he doesn’t think my left foot’s working now, it’s never going to work" but then a few weeks later I scored with my left and he came up with a little smile and said "lucky goal today, left foot and it hit the target" and then the penny dropped. 'Finally, I realised it was the way he helped push you on and as a player you either recognised it or fought it and, with these guys, if you fight it there is only one winner.

Gerrard on Rafa in September 2009

I decided to sign an extension because the squad was good and the money was going to be there. But the conditions changed. We've had a bad season and hopefully things will be different in the future, but at the moment I can't talk about the future because I don't know what's going on. I left Valencia because conditions changed. It was not a question of my money that I stayed at Liverpool. I said 'no' to other massive offers. I decided to stay under certain conditions and they have changed. The players share the same frustrations. I know how they feel because I've been talking to them all season. The season has not been good, that is clear. We know why and what has to change.

Rafa claims promises broken in April 2010

We don't have a style of play. I watched Blackburn Rovers and Aston Villa the other night and you could see the style of both teams and what they were trying to do. When we go out and play, and the last week has just emphasised it, we don't have a style of play. Nobody can say 'this is how we're trying to play' because you cannot see anything. It seems to be a case of getting the ball and pass it to whoever is square of you. Today it was punt it up the park time but the other night against Reading it was just square ball after square ball. We don't have a system that we used to have when Liverpool got the ball and then were all moving and you could see who was playing to who and who went where. You could see the movement and read the game ahead because the players were reading the game ahead. Apart from the most boring football, it has been diabolical and when the cameras cut to the fans they're looking at it with a glazed look in their eyes. They can't understand it.

Ian St John is fed up by Benítez' tactics on 17th January 2010

"We have a saying in Spanish: 'White liquid in a bottle has to be milk. What does this mean? It means that after 86 points and finishing second in the league, what changed? "The Americans, they chose a new managing director and everything changed. The managing director is involved in all the decisions: new lawyer, new chief of press, new manager, nine new players, new medical staff, new fitness coaches - they changed everything. So, white liquid in a bottle: milk. You will know who is to blame. White liquid in a bottle. If I see John the milkman in the Wirral, where I was living, with this bottle, I'd say, 'It's milk, sure'."

Rafael Benitez launched a cryptic attack on the club's ousted owners and managing director Christian Purslow in October 2010.

When Benitez was appointed at Liverpool, it was between him and Mourinho. I know that for a fact. Mourinho wanted the Liverpool job massively. But Liverpool basically went with Benitez, because he’d just won the Spanish league title and UEFA Cup with Valencia and they thought that was more solid an appointment than someone who had only done it in Portugal. I know Mourinho was massively disappointed. I’m gutted too because Benitez came in and didn’t want me, I’m just gutted it wasn’t Mourinho because he might have wanted me to stay!

Danny Murphy on talkSPORT in September 2016

Players bought

Player	Club	Fee	Date
Josemi Rey	Malaga	£2,000,000	26 July 2004
Antonio Nunez	Real Madrid	£1,500,000 *	17 August 2004
Xabi Alonso	Real Sociedad	£10,700,000	20 August 2004
Luis Garcia	Barcelona	£6,000,000	20 August 2004
Mauricio Pellegrino	Valencia	Free	5 January 2005
Fernando Morientes	Real Madrid	£6,300,000	13 January 2005
Scott Carson	Leeds United	£1,000,000	21 January 2005
Bolo Zenden	Free Transfer	Free *	4 July 2005
Pepe Reina	Villarreal	£6,000,000	4 July 2005
Antonio Barragan	Sevilla	£240,000	4 July 2005
Momo Sissoko	Valencia	£5,600,000	14 July 2005
Peter Crouch	Southampton	£7,000,000	20 July 2005
Miki Roque	Lleida	Unknown	15 August 2005
Jack Hobbs	Lincoln City	£750,000 *	18 August 2005
Besian Idrizaj	LASK Linz	£190,000 *	22 August 2005
Mark Gonzalez	Albacete	£1,500,000 *	20 October 2005
Paul Anderson	Hull City	Player Exchange *	1 January 2006
Jan Kromkamp	Villarreal	Player Exchange *	4 January 2006
David Martin	MK Dons	£250,000 *	12 January 2006
Daniel Agger	Brøndby	£5,800,000	12 January 2006
Robbie Fowler	Manchester City	Free	27 January 2006
Craig Bellamy	Blackburn Rovers	£6,000,000	1 July 2006
Gabriel Paletta	Club Atlético Banfield	£2,000,000	4 July 2006
Fábio Aurélio	Free Transfer	Free *	5 July 2006
Jermaine Pennant	Birmingham City	£6,700,000	26 July 2006
Dirk Kuyt	Feyenoord	£9,000,000	18 August 2006
Nabil El Zhar	Saint-Étienne	£200,000	21 August 2006
Astrit Ajdarevic	Falkenberg	£750,000	11 January 2007
Daniele Padelli	Sampdoria	On Loan *	12 January 2007
Jordy Brouwer	Ajax	Undisclosed *	24 January 2007
Francisco Durán	Malaga	£66,000 *	30 January 2007
Álvaro Arbeloa	Deportivo	£2,500,000	31 January 2007
Javier Mascherano	West Ham United	On Loan	20 February 2007
Lucas Leiva	Gremio	£5,000,000	11 May 2007
Krisztián Németh	MTK Hungaria	Undisclosed	25 May 2007
Mikel Domínguez	Athletic Bilbao	£270,000	28 June 2007
Dani Pacheco	Barcelona	Free	1 July 2007
Sebastian Leto	Club Atlético Lanús	£1,800,000	1 July 2007
Fernando Torres	Atletico Madrid	£20,200,000	4 July 2007
Andriy Voronin	Free Transfer	Free *	6 July 2007
Yossi Benayoun	West Ham United	£5,000,000	12 July 2007
Ryan Babel	Ajax	£11,500,000	13 July 2007
Charles Itandje	Lens	Undisclosed	9 August 2007
Emiliano Insúa	Boca Juniors	£1,675,000 *	26 August 2007
Lauri Dalla Valle	JIPPO	£600,000 *	8 November 2007
Martin Skrtel	Zenit St. Petersburg	£6,500,000	11 January 2008
Javier Mascherano	GSA & MSL	£18,600,000 *	29 February 2008
Philipp Degen	Free Transfer	Free *	3 July 2008
Andrea Dossena	Udinese	£7,000,000	4 July 2008
Diego Cavalieri	Palmeiras	£3,500,000	11 July 2008
David N'Gog	Paris St Germain	£1,500,000	24 July 2008
Robbie Keane	Tottenham	£19,000,000	28 July 2008
Albert Riera	Espanyol	£8,000,000	31 August 2008
Glen Johnson	Portsmouth	£17,500,000	26 June 2009
Alberto Aquilani	Roma	£17,100,000 *	7 August 2009
Sotirios Kyrgiakos	AEK Athens	£2,000,000	21 August 2009
Daniel Ayala	Sevilla	£160,000	17 September 2009
Maxi Rodriguez	Atletico Madrid	Free	13 January 2010
Raheem Sterling	QPR	£500,000 *	27 February 2010
Jonjo Shelvey	Charlton Athletic	£1,700,000 *	10 May 2010
Milan Jovanovic	Standard Liege	Free *	8 July 2010

Players sold

Player	Club	Fee	Date
Markus Babbel	VfB Stuttgart	Free	16 July 2004
Danny Murphy	Charlton Athletic	£2,500,000	10 August 2004
Michael Owen	Real Madrid	£8,500,000 *	14 August 2004
Stephane Henchoz	Celtic	Free	28 January 2005
Vladimir Smicer	Bordeaux	Free	13 June 2005
El Hadji Diouf	Bolton Wanderers	£3,500,000	15 June 2005
Mauricio Pellegrino	Alaves	Free *	17 June 2005
Alou Diarra	Lens	£2,000,000	23 June 2005
Igor Biscan	Free Transfer	Free *	1 July 2005
Jon Otsemobor	Rotherham United	Free *	1 July 2005
Mark Smyth	Unknown	Free *	1 July 2005
Paul Harrison	Unknown	Free *	1 July 2005
Richie Partridge	Unknown	Free *	1 July 2005
Patrice Luzi	Unknown	Free *	1 July 2005
Gregory Vignal	Portsmouth	Free *	1 July 2005
Antonio Nunez	Celta Vigo	£2,000,000 *	29 July 2005
Milan Baros	Aston Villa	£6,500,000	23 August 2005
John Welsh	Hull City	Player Exchange *	1 January 2006
Josemi Rey	Villarreal	Player Exchange *	2 January 2006
Zak Whitbread	Millwall	£200,000	13 June 2006
Bruno Cheyrou	Rennes	Undisclosed	29 June 2006
Robbie Foy	Unknown	Free *	1 July 2006
David Raven	Carlisle United	Undisclosed	3 July 2006
Fernando Morientes	Valencia	£3,000,000	5 July 2006
Didi Hamann	Bolton Wanderers	Free	11 July 2006
Antonio Barragan	Deportivo	£675,000	3 August 2006
Djimi Traoré	Charlton Athletic	£2,000,000	9 August 2006
Carl Medjani	Lorient	Free	12 August 2006
Neil Mellor	Preston North End	£500,000	30 August 2006
Jan Kromkamp	PSV Eindhoven	£1,750,000	31 August 2006
Darren Potter	Wolves	£525,000 *	18 January 2007
Stephen Warnock	Blackburn Rovers	£1,500,000	22 January 2007
Salif Diao	Stoke City	Free	25 January 2007
Florent Sinama-Pongolle	Recreativo de Huelva	£2,700,000	4 May 2007
Daniele Padelli	Sampdoria	Returns from loan	8 June 2007
Danny O' Donnell	Crewe	£100,000	13 June 2007
Bolo Zenden	Marseille	Free *	1 July 2007
Jerzy Dudek	Free Transfer	Free *	1 July 2007
Robbie Fowler	Cardiff City	Free *	1 July 2007
Luis Garcia	Atletico Madrid	£4,000,000	3 July 2007
Djibril Cissé	Marseille	£6,000,000	9 July 2007
Craig Bellamy	West Ham United	£7,500,000	10 July 2007
Mark Gonzalez	Real Betis	£3,500,000	17 July 2007
Gabriel Paletta	Boca Juniors	£1,200,000 *	26 August 2007
Chris Kirkland	Wigan Athletic	£3,500,000 *	27 October 2007
James Smith	Stockport County	Free	28 December 2007
Momo Sissoko	Juventus	£8,200,000	28 January 2008
Lee Peltier	Yeovil Town	Free *	31 January 2008
John Arne Riise	Roma	£4,000,000	1 July 2008
Harry Kewell	Free Transfer	Free	1 July 2008
Anthony Le Tallec	Le Mans	Undisclosed	2 July 2008
Peter Crouch	Portsmouth	£11,000,000 *	11 July 2008
Danny Guthrie	Newcastle United	£2,250,000	14 July 2008
Scott Carson	WBA	£3,250,000 *	18 July 2008
Steve Finnan	Espanyol	Undisclosed *	31 August 2008
Robbie Keane	Tottenham	£16,000,000 *	2 February 2009
Jack Hobbs	Leicester City	Undisclosed	24 April 2009
Sami Hyypia	Free Transfer	Free	1 June 2009
Astrit Ajdarevic	Leicester City	Free	30 June 2009
Paul Anderson	Nottingham Forest	£250,000	30 June 2009
Sebastian Leto	Panathinaikos	£3,000,000	1 July 2009
Jermaine Pennant	Real Zaragoza	Free *	1 July 2009
Miki Roque	Unknown	Free	1 July 2009
Álvaro Arbeloa	Real Madrid	£3,500,000	30 July 2009
Xabi Alonso	Real Madrid	£30,000,000	5 August 2009
Andrea Dossena	Napoli	£4,700,000	8 January 2010
Andriy Voronin	Dinamo Moscow	£1,800,000	10 January 2010
Nikolay Mihaylov	Twente	£1,500,000	4 February 2010
Mikel Domínguez	Athletic Bilbao	£2,600,000	19 May 2010
Fábio Aurélio	Unknown	Free *	1 July 2010
David Martin	MK Dons	Free *	1 July 2010
Yossi Benayoun	Chelsea	£6,000,000	2 July 2010

Players used

Player	Appearances	Minutes	Goals	Assists
Jamie Carragher	326	28917	3	9
Steven Gerrard	292	23991	104	64
Pepe Reina	259	23482	0	4
Xabi Alonso	210	16397	19	18
John Arne Riise	201	15368	17	19
Sami Hyypia	200	17057	14	4
Dirk Kuyt	200	15748	51	25
Steve Finnan	186	15588	1	17
Javier Mascherano	138	11594	2	6
Yossi Benayoun	134	7958	29	20
Peter Crouch	134	7813	42	17
Ryan Babel	129	5952	20	14
Luis Garcia	121	8171	30	16
Lucas Leiva	121	8046	5	11
Fernando Torres	116	8849	72	14
Daniel Agger	115	9759	7	5
Fábio Aurélio	110	7065	4	14
Álvaro Arbeloa	98	8324	2	5
Harry Kewell	90	5640	5	12
Momo Sissoko	87	6353	1	2
Jermaine Pennant	81	4882	3	17
Martin Skrtel	79	6403	1	2
Djibril Cissé	79	4234	24	5
Didi Hamann	75	5283	1	10
Stephen Warnock	67	3764	1	3
Djimi Traoré	66	4509	0	1
Emiliano Insúa	62	5335	1	5
Fernando Morientes	61	4126	12	8
Albert Riera	56	3546	5	7
David N'Gog	56	2333	11	0
Jerzy Dudek	53	4776	0	0
Milan Baros	47	3177	13	2
Bolo Zenden	47	2843	2	3
Florent Sinama-Pongolle	43	1686	7	0
Craig Bellamy	42	2631	9	6
Andriy Voronin	40	1947	6	5
Robbie Fowler	39	1855	12	5
Mark Gonzalez	36	1635	3	0
Glen Johnson	35	2999	3	3
Josemi Rey	35	2545	0	2
Igor Biscan	35	1994	2	2
Nabil El Zhar	32	741	1	1
Andrea Dossena	31	2000	2	0
Robbie Keane	28	1784	7	5
Antonio Nunez	27	1407	1	0
Alberto Aquilani	26	1215	2	6
Sotirios Kyrgiakos	21	1667	1	0
Jan Kromkamp	18	856	0	1
Maxi Rodriguez	17	1209	1	3
Darren Potter	17	945	0	1
Neil Mellor	16	855	5	1
Vladimir Smicer	16	492	1	0
Chris Kirkland	14	1260	0	0
Salif Diao	14	806	1	0
Mauricio Pellegrino	13	1002	0	0
Philipp Degen	13	745	0	0
Scott Carson	9	810	0	0
Anthony Le Tallec	9	459	0	1
Diego Cavalieri	8	750	0	0
Gabriel Paletta	8	581	1	2
Damien Plessis	8	546	1	0
Charles Itandje	7	630	0	0
Zak Whitbread	7	606	0	0
John Welsh	7	354	0	0
Jay Spearing	7	288	0	0
Danny Guthrie	7	216	0	0
Dani Pacheco	7	76	0	1
Jack Hobbs	5	310	0	0
Daniel Ayala	5	234	0	0
Stephen Darby	5	207	0	0
Stephane Henchoz	4	390	0	0
Lee Peltier	4	344	0	0
David Raven	4	323	0	0
Sebastian Leto	4	280	0	1
Martin Kelly	4	130	0	0
Richie Partridge	2	31	0	1
Nathan Eccleston	2	15	0	0
Daniele Padelli	1	90	0	0
Mark Smyth	1	51	0	0
James Smith	1	16	0	0
Antonio Barragan	1	11	0	0
Miki Roque	1	6	0	0
Jack Robinson	1	2	0	0