{"id":639844,"date":"2025-12-18T08:07:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639844\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T08:07:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:07:17","slug":"how-14-year-old-made-liverpool-fc-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/639844\/","title":{"rendered":"How 14-Year-Old Made Liverpool FC History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Midfielder Luca Eden broke a record held for over five years when he made his Liverpool U18s debut, becoming the only 14-year-old to have done so for the club.<\/b><\/p>\n

In coming off the bench against Man United<\/a> in November, Eden broke the record for the youngest player in Liverpool U18s history<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Aged 14 years, eight months and 20 days<\/b>, the young midfielder surpassed the feat of Josh Davidson \u2013 now a regular for the U21s \u2013 who debuted against Sunderland<\/a> just 24 days after his 15th birthday in October 2020.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately for Eden, it came in a miserable 7-0 defeat to Man United<\/a>, which is the young Reds\u2019 second-biggest loss in the history of the U18 Premier League<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Who is Liverpool record-breaker Luca Eden?<\/p>\n

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However it remains a milestone moment for a player who was promoted from the U16s ranks to take the place of Haydn Murray-Holme.<\/p>\n

Eden, who joined Liverpool as a four-year-old in 2015, is a midfielder who captained the England U15s during the October international break and has already been backed by Jack Grealish.<\/p>\n

10 youngest Liverpool players in U18 Premier League<\/p>\n

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(Pictured: Josh Abe (left), La\u2019more Lee Forrester (right)<\/p>\n

\u2022 1. Luca Eden<\/b> \u2013 14 years, 8 months, 20 days \u2013 vs. Man United<\/a>, Nov 2025
\u2022 2. Josh Davidson<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 24 days \u2013 vs. Sunderland<\/a>, Oct 2020
\u2022 3. La\u2019more Lee Forrester<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 1 month, 9 days \u2013 vs. Wolves<\/a>, Dec 2023
\u2022 4. Francis Gyimah<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 1 month, 15 days \u2013 vs. Forest, September 2021
\u2022 5. Keyrol Figueroa<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 1 month, 29 days \u2013 vs. Everton<\/a>, Oct 2021
\u2022 6. Josh Abe<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 2 months, 3 days \u2013 vs. Blackburn, Sept 2025
\u2022 7. Joe Bradshaw<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 3 months, 20 days \u2013 vs. Sunderland<\/a>, Oct 2023
\u2022 8. Bright Amoateng<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 4 months, 16 days \u2013 vs. West Brom<\/a>, Apr 2018
\u2022 9. Carter Pinnington<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 5 months, 23 days \u2013 vs. Middlesbrough<\/a>, Aug, 2022
\u2022 10. AJ Yeguo<\/b> \u2013 15 years, 6 months, 1 day \u2013 vs. Newcastle<\/a>, Feb 2025\n<\/p>\n

Since records began, a total of 36 players aged 15 have represented Liverpool in the U18s league, but Eden is the first 14-year-old to do so<\/b>.<\/p>\n

\"BIRKENHEAD,<\/p>\n

That group of 15-year-old debutants includes Curtis Jones<\/a>, Andre Wisdom, Neco Williams<\/a> and Jack Robinson \u2013 players who have gone to establish themselves as regulars in the top level of professional football.<\/p>\n

There is clearly a long way to go for Eden to emulate any of those players, but his involvement against Man United<\/a> is a signal of faith from the Liverpool staff.<\/p>\n

He is likely to stay with the U16s for the most part this season, but supporters may wish to keep an eye on any further progress from a player gaining admirers and breaking records.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Midfielder Luca Eden broke a record held for over five years when he made his Liverpool U18s debut,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8815],"tags":[51101,748,393,4884,149187,179,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-639844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-liverpool","8":"tag-academy","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-lfc-under-18s","13":"tag-liverpool","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115739553693287888","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}