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Liverpool managers have regularly trusted the top emerging talents from their youth academy, so Rousing The Kop looks at the youngest players to play for the Reds ever.

The Liverpool academy is revered around the world with its record of developing future elite and world-class players. Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher are two shining lights showing the path to greatness on Merseyside that the Reds’ stars of tomorrow hope to one day walk.

Players hoping to make headlines under the European lights at Anfield also only have to look at Trent Alexander-Arnold to see what is possible as a product of Liverpool’s academy. The right-back joined the Reds’ ranks at the age of six and won a full set of major honours by 24.

So, with that in mind, Rousing The Kop looks into the youngest players to play for Liverpool of all time, plus the youngest Reds players to feature in every major competition to date…

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5) James Norris – 16 years, eight months, 13 days
4) Jack Robinson – 16 years, eight months, seven days
3) Trey Nyoni – 16 years, seven months, 29 days
2) Harvey Elliott – 16 years, five months, 21 days
1) Jerome Sinclair – 16 years, six days

Brendan Rodgers made a slice of Liverpool history in September 2012 when the coach made Jerome Sinclair the youngest player to ever play for the club. The striker came off the bench to replace Samed Yesil during an EFL Cup tie away to West Bromwich Albion on 81 minutes.

Sinclair had joined Liverpool from West Brom only one year earlier, as well, after trading the Baggies’ academy for the Reds’. But he only progressed to play five fixtures at the first-team level before vacating Anfield in a transfer to Watford for £2m in compensation in June 2016.

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5) Kaide Gordon – 17 years, three months, 11 days
4) Ben Doak – 17 years, one month, 15 days
3) Ben Woodburn – 17 years, one month, 11 days
2) Harvey Elliott – 16 years, eight months, 29 days
1) Jack Robinson – 16 years, eight months, seven days

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Liverpool were a founding member of the Premier League after signing up to the breakaway division’s inaugural 1992/93 season and numerous promising players have earned top-flight minutes with the Reds. But Jack Robinson is Liverpool’s youngest Premier League player yet.

Anfield hero Rafa Benitez awarded Robinson his Premier League debut as Liverpool drew at Hull City in May 2010. The Spaniard turned to their bench in search of a spark as the clock ticked down on a 0-0 affair. Robinson replaced Ryan Babel in the 87th minute of the match.

Robinson went on to play 11 first-team fixtures at Liverpool across all competitions but just three were in the Premier League. The Reds’ academy product even left Anfield for the last time in August 2014 to sign with Queens Park Rangers after Liverpool accepted a £1m offer.

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5) Conor Bradley – 18 years, four months, 28 days
4) Miki Roque – 18 years, four months, 27 days
3) Max Woltman – 18 years, three months, 17 days
2) Billy Koumetio – 18 years, 25 days
1) Stefan Bajcetic – 17 years, 10 months, 22 days

Liverpool are one of the most successful sides in the history of the Champions League so far but still trust their youth to play in UEFA’s elite competition. Their 2022/23 season even saw Stefan Bajcetic become the youngest player to play with Liverpool in the Champions League.

The midfielder made his Champions League debut as AFC Ajax visited Anfield in September 2022. It marked Liverpool’s second tie in Group A but Jurgen Klopp only brought Bajcetic off the bench to replace Thiago Alcantara in the fourth minute of second-half stoppage-time.

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5) Ben Woodburn – 17 years, two months, 24 days
4) Ben Doak – 17 years, one month, 27 days
3) Ki-Jana Hoever – 16 years, 11 months, 20 days
2) Harvey Elliott – 16 years, nine months, one day
1) Trey Nyoni – 16 years, seven months, 29 days

Klopp regularly relied on youth over the German’s tenure as the Liverpool manager and saw that Trey Nyoni became the youngest Reds player to play in the FA Cup in February 2024. He introduced the midfielder during the second half of their fifth-round win over Southampton.

Nyoni replaced Harvey Elliott in the 78th minute of the 3-0 win at home to Southampton, to also replace his fellow midfielder as Liverpool’s youngest player in FA Cup history. Elliott was the Reds’ previous record-setter due to his FA Cup debut against Everton in January 2020.

5) Ben Doak – 16 years, 11 months, 29 days
4) Kaide Gordon – 16 years, 11 months, 16 days
3) James Norris – 16 years, eight months, 13 days
2) Harvey Elliott – 16 years, five months, 21 days
1) Jerome Sinclair – 16 years, six days

It will take a new name becoming the youngest Liverpool player of all time to prise away the honour in the EFL Cup alone from Sinclair thanks to his breakthrough away to West Brom in September 2012.

It may even take Liverpool debuting a player in the EFL Cup whilst aged 15.

Sinclair only turned 16 years old six days before replacing Yasil in the closing stages of a 2-1 win at The Hawthorns.
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