Why was Liverpool FC founded?

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Liverpool FC was formed following a dispute between Everton FC and Anfield stadium’s owner, John Houlding. It resulted in Everton FC moving to Goodison Park and Houlding forming a new team that eventually became Liverpool FC. The new club played its first game in 1892 and won its first league title in the 1900–01 season.

How many Liverpool FC fans died as a result of the Hillsborough disaster?

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In 1989 during a Football Association Cup semifinal match at the Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, a crush of people resulted in 97 deaths and hundreds of injuries. (A total of 95 people died in 1989; two others died later as a result of their injuries, in 1993 and 2021.) It was England’s deadliest sporting disaster.