And then, somewhat mercifully, it was over.
Liverpool’s 2025-26 season has not gone as anyone would have hoped or planned. No matter the reasons, no matter whether you’re inclined to grant those involved a pass based on circumstances out side their control. No matter how you come at it, Liverpool’s Liverpool’s 2025-26 season did not go to plan.
They do however end it, somehow, with Champions League qualification.
It’s thanks to a fifth slot being granted to the Premier League, and the 60 points tallied
up by Arne Slot’s struggling Reds ties a record with Liverpool’s 2003-04 side for the lowest points total earned to qualify for the Champions League by table position in history. But it’s qualification.
Meanwhile, the season ends with nobody knowing what this side was ideally being built to try to be. Meanwhile, the season ends with club legends Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson—and maybe next Alisson Becker and others, too—departing, their final seasons in Red thoroughly, painfully wasted.
But if Champions League is the minimum even in a terrible horrible no good very bad season, well, they got it.
The press has regressed over the past 18 months, ever since they functionally wrapped up the title last season. Passing has gotten worse. Patterns of play are non-existent. Defensive structure alternately shaky or similarly non-existent. Fitness is a question mark.
But they did qualify for the Champions League, and goodness were the cards stacked against them last summer with the tragic passing of Diogo Jota.
The cards were also stacked against them by sporting director Richard Hughes, who made plenty of big flashy signings but did so while gutting squad depth and leaving an unbalanced side—but don’t worry, we’re told, two pacy wingers will fix it before Hughes pops his parachute and heads to the Saudi Pro League.
Liverpool’s 2025-26 season did not go as anyone would have hoped or planned. And now it’s over.
With that, we want to know how you would rate it. Given the talent and where this group was even just 18 months ago, does the decline earn a failing grade? Does Champions League qualification ensure it’s at least a pass, albeit a poor one? Can issues outside Slot and Hughes’ control bump it up a notch further even?
We doubt anyone will consider it a good season, but how exactly would you grade it?
