Ranking Every Season of the Klopp Era
The Jurgen Klopp era at Liverpool is sadly just a couple weeks away from being over. I was feeling nostalgic and thought it would be fun to reminisce about his time here by ranking all nine of his seasons as our manager from worst to best.
**9. 2015/2016**
**Premier League: 8th place, 50 pts, +13 GD**
**Europa League: Lost in Final to Sevilla**
**FA Cup: Lost in Round 4 to West Ham**
**League Cup: Lost in Final to Manchester City**
It's a testament to Klopp that the team was never worse than they were in his first season. Even though this team ranks last (mostly because of the 8th place PL finish), they still came close to winning not just one, but two major trophies. This was also the year of that unforgettable EL quarter-final against Dortmund, the first truly great moment of the Klopp era.
**8. 2022/2023**
**Premier League: 5th place, 67 pts, +28 GD**
**Champions League: Lost in Round of 16 to Real Madrid**
**FA Cup: Lost in Round 4 to Brighton**
**League Cup: Lost in Round 4 to Manchester City**
I don't imagine there will be much disagreement about the bottom two spots on this list. The 22/23 team may not have been the worst, but it was undoubtedly the most disappointing. There was a point mid-season where it felt like we might not even finish in the top 8. That being said, we beat the scum 7-0, so it wasn't all bad.
**7. 2020/2021**
**Premier League: 3rd place, 69 pts, +26 GD**
**Champions League: Lost in QF to Real Madrid**
**FA Cup: Lost in Round 4 to Manchester United**
**League Cup: Lost in Round 4 to Arsenal**
Holy injury crisis. To this day, I'm amazed that this team somehow finished 3rd in the league. Things got absolutely *grim* for a while there. This was of course the COVID year where 99% of our matches were played with no fans, making an already depressing season even harder to watch. There was also that game against Villa that shall not be mentioned. But the boys managed to end the year on a real high note, culminating with Alisson's goal against West Brom which is surely a top 3 moment of the Klopp era. I broke the blinds on my window celebrating that goal.
**6. 2016/2017**
**Premier League: 4th place, 76 pts, +36 GD**
**FA Cup: Lost in Round 4 to Wolverhampton**
**League Cup: Lost in Semi-finals to Southampton**
Klopp's second season in charge saw the Reds secure Champions League qualification for just the second time in the last eight years. Sadio Mane was brought in from Southampton and made an instant impact. Him, Firmino, and Philippe Coutinho at the height of his powers made for some really entertaining football. I think this team can more or less be summarized by the [car meme](https://www.reddit.com/r/LiverpoolFC/comments/6uhau0/if_liverpool_was_a_car/).
**5. 2017/2018**
**Premier League: 4th place, 75 pts, +46 GD**
**Champions League: Lost in Final to Real Madrid**
**FA Cup: Lost in Round 4 to West Brom**
**League Cup: Lost in Round 3 to Leicester City**
This season will always hold a very special place in my heart, because in my opinion it's the season when everything changed. Mohamed Salah came in and immediately took the Premier League by storm, setting the record for goals in a season with 32. Man City ran away with the league title this year, but it was Liverpool who ended their invincible run. A stunning win over that same City team three months later in the Champions League quarter-final ignited the Klopp vs. Pep rivalry that would come to define English football for the next several years. This season had some low points, no doubt, but this was when you could tell that Klopp was really building something special, and that Liverpool were going to start competing at the highest level again.
**4. 2023/2024**
**Premier League: Most likely 3rd place**
**Europa League: Lost in QF to Atalanta**
**FA Cup: Lost in QF to Manchester United**
**League Cup: Beat Chelsea in Final** 🏆
Ok so obviously this season isn't quite over yet. But at the time I'm writing this we have three games left and I can't see this ranking being changed. If Alisson scores a 30-yard bicycle kick maybe I'll move it up to 3rd, and if Klopp and Salah get into a literal fistfight on the pitch maybe I'll move it down to 5th. We didn't know this would be Klopp's last season until about halfway through, at which point the vibe of it got a lot more serious. Liverpool had a good run at the title, but the wheels simply fell off after getting knocked out of the FA Cup by Man U. The highlight was of course winning the League Cup, and I say getting that trophy is enough to make Klopp's farewell season a success, even if it wasn't as much of a success as we'd hoped.
**3. 2021/2022**
**Premier League: 2nd place, 92 points, +68 GD**
**Champions League: Lost in Final to Real Madrid**
**FA Cup: Beat Chelsea in Final** 🏆
**League Cup: Beat Chelsea in Final** 🏆
The team that will be best remembered for getting so close to winning an unprecedented quadruple, but instead having to settle for winning "only" two major trophies. This was the third and final team we had with Klopp that I would consider great. But ultimately what led to their downfall was the inability to beat other great teams (0 wins against other top 4 teams in the league, and a relatively easy run of games in the CL where they lost the first time they had to play someone of their caliber). Again, it was a great season, but that week at the end where we lost the league in brutal fashion, then lost the CL final 7 days later, was maybe the most miserable week of all time.
**2. 2019/2020**
**Premier League: 1st place, 99 points, +52 GD** 🏆
**Champions League: Lost in Round of 16 to Atletico Madrid**
**FA Cup: Lost in Round 5 to Chelsea**
**League Cup: Lost in QF to Aston Villa**
The team that finally ended the curse, not much more that needs to be said. Other competitions be damned, this season was all about hoisting the PL trophy for the first time in 30 years. This team was just pure dominance, the epitome of the "mentality monsters." It got to the point where they could go down a goal and my confidence in winning the game would not be shaken in the slightest. Not even a global pandemic could stop them, although admittedly they were not as good after the restart in June. But I'll take to my grave that if COVID hadn't happened they would've broken the points record, probably finishing with 103-106 points. In that world, they might have to be number 1 on this list, but sadly that's not the world we live in.
**1. 2018/2019**
**Premier League: 2nd place, 97 points, +67 GD**