Jurgen Klopp’s best moments as Liverpool manager

Anfield, Sunday 19 May 2024. Jurgen Klopp stands in front of the Kop for the last time as Liverpool manager, and instead of saying goodbye, he gets the whole ground singing the name of the man taking his job.

Nearly nine years of heavy metal football led to that moment. These are Jurgen Klopp’s best moments as Liverpool manager, in the order they happened, from the day he arrived to the day he waved goodbye.

1. Doubters to believers, October 2015

Liverpool were tenth when Brendan Rodgers was sacked after a 1-1 draw at Goodison Park on 4 October 2015. Four days later, Klopp signed in a city centre hotel and recorded his first interview as Liverpool manager. His message to the fans was short. They had to change from doubters to believers, and they had to do it now.

At his first press conference the next morning he called himself “the Normal One”, a nod to Jose Mourinho. Fans laughed. Then they bought in. His first game was a 0-0 draw at Tottenham on 17 October, and nobody watching it would have guessed what was coming. Liverpool FC’s own look back at the day he arrived captures the frenzy around it.

2. Beating his old club Dortmund 4-3, April 2016

Six months in, the Europa League quarter-final draw sent Klopp’s Liverpool up against Borussia Dortmund, the club he’d managed for seven years. The first leg finished 1-1. At Anfield on 14 April 2016, Dortmund were 2-0 up inside nine minutes.

Divock Origi pulled one back after the break, but Marco Reus made it 3-1 and Liverpool needed three more. Philippe Coutinho scored. Mamadou Sakho headed in with 12 minutes left. Then, in stoppage time, Dejan Lovren rose to head in James Milner’s cross. 4-3 on the night, 5-4 on aggregate. Liverpool lost the final to Sevilla, but this was the night his team first looked like his team.

3. Running onto the pitch in the Merseyside derby, December 2018

Anfield, 2 December 2018. Liverpool and Everton were heading for a 0-0 draw. In the 96th minute, Virgil van Dijk sliced a volley high into the air, Jordan Pickford misjudged it, the ball came back off the bar and Divock Origi, on as an 84th-minute substitute, headed it in.

Klopp couldn’t help himself. He sprinted onto the pitch and leapt into Alisson’s arms. Afterwards he admitted it was “not cool” and accepted an £8,000 fine from the FA. The win kept Liverpool two points behind Manchester City, and it gave everyone the best picture yet of who their manager really was.

4. Corner taken quickly against Barcelona, May 2019

Liverpool lost the first leg of the Champions League semi-final 3-0 at the Camp Nou. For the second leg on 7 May 2019 they were without Mohamed Salah and Roberto Firmino. Origi scored after seven minutes. Andy Robertson went off injured at half-time, Georginio Wijnaldum came on and scored twice in two minutes. 3-3 on aggregate.

Then, with 11 minutes left, Trent Alexander-Arnold walked away from a corner, spun back and whipped it in while Barcelona’s defenders were still sorting themselves out. Origi swept it into the net. Absolute limbs on the Kop. Klopp’s Liverpool had beaten Messi’s Barcelona 4-0, and it might be the greatest European night Anfield has ever seen. Some will say Istanbul, and without Steven Gerrard’s thunderbolt against Olympiakos in December 2004, Istanbul never happens.

5. Champions of Europe in Madrid, June 2019

Klopp had lost his two previous Champions League finals, with Dortmund in 2013 and with Liverpool against Real Madrid in 2018. Three weeks before Madrid, his side had finished the league season on 97 points and still missed out on the title to Manchester City by a single point.

The final against Tottenham on 1 June 2019 wasn’t pretty. Moussa Sissoko handled inside the first minute and Salah scored the penalty in the second. Spurs pushed and Alisson kept them out. Then, with three minutes left, Origi drilled a low shot into the far corner. Liverpool were champions of Europe for the sixth time, and Klopp ran onto the pitch to find him. By Christmas they had added the UEFA Super Cup and the Club World Cup.

6. Champions of England after 30 years, 2019/20

The 2019/20 side was relentless. Between October and February they won 18 league games in a row, equalling the Premier League’s best ever run. Then the pandemic stopped football in March, with Liverpool miles clear and a 30-year wait for the league title still not quite over.

It ended on 25 June 2020, when Chelsea beat Manchester City 2-1. Liverpool were champions with seven games to spare, the most in English top-flight history. They finished on 99 points, 18 clear of City, and lifted the trophy in front of an empty Kop after a 5-3 win over Chelsea at Anfield. The Premier League’s season review has the full numbers.

7. A Wembley cup double on penalties, 2022

The 2021/22 season nearly brought all four trophies. Liverpool beat Chelsea in the League Cup final in February after a 0-0 draw and an 11-10 shootout that went all the way to the goalkeepers. In May they beat Chelsea at Wembley again, this time in the FA Cup final, once more 0-0 and once more on penalties.

They missed out on the league to City by a point and lost the Champions League final to Real Madrid in Paris. But two Wembley wins in one season showed how far the club had come from tenth place in October 2015.

8. Seven past Manchester United, March 2023

Liverpool were having a poor season, and United arrived at Anfield on 5 March 2023 a week after winning the League Cup. Cody Gakpo scored just before half-time. Then it fell apart for United. Darwin Nunez, Gakpo, Salah, Nunez again and Salah again made it 6-0, and Roberto Firmino came off the bench to add a seventh.

It was Liverpool’s biggest ever win over United, beating a 7-1 from 1895. Salah’s second goal was his 129th in the Premier League for Liverpool, taking him past Robbie Fowler as the club’s top scorer in the competition.

9. Klopp’s kids win the League Cup, February 2024

On 26 January 2024, Klopp announced he would leave at the end of the season. A month later Liverpool were back at Wembley against Chelsea in the League Cup final, without Salah, Alisson, Alexander-Arnold and a long list of others.

Klopp sent on teenagers from the academy and they held their own through extra time. Then, in the 118th minute, Van Dijk met a corner and headed the winner. 1-0. It was Klopp’s last trophy as Liverpool manager, won by a team full of kids who had barely played for the first team.

10. Goodbye to Anfield, May 2024

His 491st and final game was a 2-0 win over Wolves on 19 May 2024, with goals from Alexis Mac Allister and Jarell Quansah. The football was the least of it. After the final whistle Klopp spoke to the crowd, told them he was one of them now, and asked them to welcome the new manager the way they had welcomed him.

Then he led the Kop in a chant of Arne Slot’s name. Most managers leave quietly. Klopp left the way he arrived, with the whole of Anfield on his side.

Which of Jurgen Klopp’s best moments is your favourite?

He turned a tenth-placed team into champions of England, Europe and the world, and won eight trophies along the way. Ask ten Liverpool fans for their favourite Klopp moment and you’ll get ten different answers. Barcelona, Madrid, the derby, Dortmund, the goodbye.

As for me (Lee, founder of The Terrace Apparel), it’s one that didn’t win a trophy at all. The Hawthorns, Sunday 16 May 2021. Liverpool needed to beat West Brom to keep their top-four hopes alive, and it was 1-1 going into the 95th minute. Alisson came up for a Trent Alexander-Arnold corner and glanced in a header, the first goalkeeper to score a competitive goal in Liverpool’s 129-year history. He had lost his father in February, and after the game he said he hoped his dad had seen it. Liverpool won their last two games and finished in the top four. It still gets me every time.

Tell us yours on Instagram. If you love a big celebration as much as he did, have a look at the Premier League’s greatest goal celebrations.

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Updated October 2026. Facts checked against Liverpool FC, the Premier League, ESPN, Eurosport and Sky Sports.