Liverpool’s LFC History Website Celebrates 20 Years of Providing Information to Supporters

For two decades, Liverpool Football Club’s extraordinary information resource, the LFC History website, has been providing supporters, players and researchers with an incredible wealth of knowledge. The website is a treasure trove of LFC facts, stories and history, and has been managed as a hobby by its founders Arnie Baldursson and Gudmundur Magnusson.

A Titanic Workload

The website has detailed almost every match since the club’s inception, a titanic workload that took 16 months of work just to get it live. Magnusson, the site’s webmaster, told This Is Anfield that the website has always been a hobby, just evenings and weekends for 20 years. His job is now in programming, something that he developed working on LFC History.

The Site’s Success

The website’s success has been so big that the football club used their stats for a few years. While they officially don’t now, Magnusson knows that his site is still visited frequently by those at Liverpool and beyond. In 2009, he and Baldursson were asked to create a book called ‘Liverpool: The Complete Record’. This opened other doors, with guests appearances on LFC TV following.

The database has been so far-reaching that Magnusson said: “I don’t think I see a book being released without the author, or someone who’s working for the author, going onto our website and checking the results. I think almost all of them!”

An Interesting Background

Magnusson and Baldursson have an interesting background when it comes to supporting Liverpool. Both are Icelandic and involved in the country’s official supporters club. In the early 2000s, Magnusson was Chair of said club. He and Baldursson had always had this thought in the back of their minds to do something like this for a bigger audience, and so they switched over to English and created something internationally.

LFC History Still Going Strong

LFC History is still going strong and developing year on year to provide the public with an incredibly accessible database of Liverpool records, statistics and information. On behalf of all supporters, and journalists especially, we hope LFC History keeps going for at least another 20 years!