Wikipedia:Today's featured article/January 15, 2016

During Liverpool Football Club's first 68 years, they won five Football League championships before being relegated to the Second Division in the 1950s. They were founded in 1892 when John Houlding needed a team for the Anfield stadium, recently vacated by Everton Football Club. After winning the Lancashire League title in their first season, they were accepted into the Football League for the 1893–94 season. With Tom Watson as manager, they were promoted to the top tier of English football, winning their first League championships in 1901 and 1906 and reaching the FA Cup final in 1914. Liverpool's fortunes fluctuated during the inter-war years, when the club often finished in midtable, although they did win two further championships in 1922 and 1923. An expansion to the Spion Kop terracing in the 1920s increased Anfield's capacity. Liverpool became League champions again in 1947, in the first season after the Second World War, but, following a gradual decline, they were back in the Second Division by the time of Bill Shankly's appointment as manager in 1959.