Past playersCaoimhin Kelleher

The Irishman joined the Academy from Ringmahon Rangers in his home city of Cork in the summer of 2015 and went on to make 67 senior appearances for the Reds, earning seven winner’s medals along the way.

Kelleher departed Anfield for Brentford in June 2025 having lifted two Premier League titles, the Champions League, the Emirates FA Cup, two Carabao Cups and the UEFA Super Cup.

He was a record-holder, too, having won four penalty shootouts as a Liverpool player – the most of any ’keeper in the club’s history.

The most memorable of those successes came in the 2022 Carabao Cup final when, after delivering a superb performance throughout the 120 minutes, the stopper scored the decisive spot-kick as the Reds beat Chelsea at Wembley.

Kelleher progressed from the Academy set-up to become an excellent deputy for Alisson Becker. His senior debut came in September 2019 away at MK Dons in a League Cup third-round tie.

In his final season on Merseyside, 2024-25, he played 20 times as Arne Slot’s side were crowned Premier League champions and reached the final of the Carabao Cup.

That included a run of 10 consecutive starts in league and Champions League fixtures that began with a 2-1 home victory over Chelsea in the October.

Liverpool won eight and drew the other two of those games and Kelleher kept five clean sheets. He also became the first Reds ’keeper for more than a century to save penalties in consecutive matches, during the successes over Southampton and Real Madrid respectively.