Liverpool FC Supporters Groups
When you’re a club with a supporter base the size of Liverpool, it is common for fan groups to spring up around the world. This is a way for supporters who live near one another to get to know like-minded people, perhaps gathering together to watch the match or do other things that show a sense of togetherness.
The football club works with Official Supporters Groups in order to give them some publicity and a way for others to know that they’re safe to get involved with, whilst other unofficial ones also become popular thanks to word of mouth from those that are involved in them.
Spirit of Shankly
Describing itself as a ‘Supporters Union’ rather than a group, Spirit of Shankly was created in 2008 as a response to the horrendous ownership of Liverpool FC by Tom Hicks and George Gillett. In the years that followed, SoS has grown to become a bastion of togetherness, holding whoever is in charge of the club to the standard that is expected of them.
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SoS is a way of ensuring that supporters have a voice and that that voice is presented to the club directly in a professional and unified manner. Spirit of Shankly is recognised as the official Liverpool Supporters Trust, with anyone able to join on the proviso that they pay a membership fee. Numerous campaigns have been driven by SoS over the years, benefitting all football fans, not just those who support Liverpool.
Official Supporters Groups
Known by the acronym OLSC, standing for Official Liverpool Supporters Clubs, these are organisations that are recognised by the football club and that have offering a place to go for Liverpool fans as their raison d’être. There are numerous OLSCs around the world, so wherever you find yourself, there’s a good chance you’ll be able to get in touch with one.
Strong first 45 minutes with a great first minute goal. Now we just need to start converting some of these attempts. Let’s go Liverpool! #OLSC #LFCUSA #myplmorning
— OLSC Des Moines, Iowa (@olscdesmoines.bsky.social) 13 December 2025 at 15:59
They also range in size, with some having as few as 30 people involved, with others boasting membership in excess of 60,000. As well as organising viewings of football matches, often in pubs and bars in the local area, such Supporter Clubs organise the likes of charity 5-a-side games or shared travel to Anfield in order to be able to take in a game at the club’s famous old stadium.
The fact that there are literally hundreds of OLSCs means that it is all but impossible to list them all, with ones existing in the likes of Plymouth and Shrewsbury, Tiverton and Hartlepool. If you want to know about the club closest to you, then you can head to the Liverpool website and look for information on the one that is located geographically near to where you live. Here is a look at the general areas that OLSCs operate in:
- England
- Scotland
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Republic of Ireland
- Channel Islands
- France
- Germany
- Spain
- Kosovo
- Monaco
- Russia
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Sweden
- India
- China
- Japan
- South Korea
- Kuala Lumpur
- Pakistan
- Australia
- New Zealand
- The United States of America
- Canada
- Brazil
- Chile
- Costa Rica
- Bolivia
- South Africa
- Egypt
- Kenya
- Mauritius
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Tanzania
- Uganda
That list is far from exhaustive, thanks to the fact that many countries actually boast more than one Official Liverpool Supporters Club. It does, though, give you a sense of just how widespread the club’s fanbase stretches. That isn’t all that much of a surprise, of course, when you bear in mind that there are literally millions of LFC fans around the globe, all of whom want to get to know others who share a similar mindset and a love of the Reds.
Worldwide Support
There are more than 300 Official Liverpool Supporters Clubs based across 100 countries around the world. Even being able to narrow it down to discovering which was the first is an all but impossible task, largely because of the sheer number of different OLSCs that would lay claim to such a fact. We can tell you, though, that in 2013, the Official Liverpool Supporters Club in Bangladesh became the first in India to become an officially recognised fan community anywhere in the country.
That gives you some sense of the relative youth of Official Supporter Clubs in general, although unofficial ones had first begun to spring up in the 1960s. It was in 1993 that the International Supporters Clubs Network was created, beginning to knit together all of the disparate groups that are based around the world. That later became the OLSC, which is the acronym that you need to type into your search engine
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