Aston Villa and Liverpool will lock horns in the Premier League on Friday night.
The two teams have identical records in England's top flight this season, with Liverpool fourth in the Premier League table on 59 points, while Villa are fifth in the division on goal difference.
The pair sit four points ahead of sixth-placed Bournemouth, demonstrating the importance of Friday's fascinating contest at Villa Park.
Liverpool will enter the match off the back of a 1-1 draw with Chelsea, while Villa drew 2-2 with Burnley last time out.
Should Villa finish fifth in the Premier League this season and also win the Europa League, then sixth place in England's top flight will also qualify for next season's Champions League.
There could still be so many twists and turns late in the campaign.
Here, Sports Mole looks at the overall head-to-head record and past meetings between Villa and Liverpool ahead of their battle on Friday night.
Head-to-head record
Previous meetings: 206
Liverpool wins: 104
Draws: 43
Aston Villa wins: 59
Having both competed at the top level of English football for many decades, Liverpool vs. Aston Villa has been a staple fixture in the 20th and 21st centuries, as well as being played regularly in the late 1800s.
There have now been 206 official matches between the Reds and the Lions, and the Merseyside giants have won just over 50% of them - prevailing in 104 meetings - while Villa have triumphed in 59 and another 43 clashes have ended level.
The most recent of those stalemates came at Villa Park in the 2024-25 Premier League season, where Liverpool needed a deflected Trent Alexander-Arnold strike to salvage a slice of the spoils in a 2-2 thriller, albeit one not quite as entertaining as the year before.
Indeed, Jurgen Klopp's last away game in charge of the Reds ended in a 3-3 spectacular, one in which some customary Jhon Duran heroics saw the Lions fight back from 3-1 down in the final 10 minutes.
However, Villa's winless run versus Liverpool now stands at 11 matches, as the Reds ended their four-game losing run in the Premier League with a2-0 Anfield win in November 2025.
Klopp oversaw a comfortable 3-0 triumph at Anfield during the early stages of the 2023-24 season, before the Reds strolled to a 2-0 success in November 2024.
In fact, the Lions have to go all the way back to October 2020 for their most recent victory over Liverpool, that unforgettable 7-2 obliteration during the behind-closed-doors era, where it was truly a real shame to have no fans present at Villa Park.
A couple of months later, a coronavirus-ravaged and embryonic Lions side memorably equalised against Liverpool in the FA Cup through Louie Barry, before the Reds eventually flexed their muscles and came away with a 4-1 victory.
Also boasting seven wins from their last eight Premier League home matches against Villa, Liverpool have gone over 10 years without losing a top-flight game to the Lions at Anfield, going down 1-0 in September 2014 courtesy of a Gabriel Agbonlahor effort.
Four Liverpool players have also reached double figures in goals against Villa - Robbie Fowler (14), Steven Gerrard (13), Roger Hunt (10) and Ian Rush (10) - while current wing wizard Mohamed Salah boasts nine of his own.
Last 20 meetings
Nov 01, 2025: Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Feb 19, 2025: Aston Villa 2-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Nov 09, 2024: Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
May 13, 2024: Aston Villa 3-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
Sep 03, 2023: Liverpool 3-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
May 20, 2023: Liverpool 1-1 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Dec 26, 2022: Aston Villa 1-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
May 10, 2022: Aston Villa 1-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Dec 11, 2021: Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Apr 10, 2021: Liverpool 2-1 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Jan 08, 2021: Aston Villa 1-4 Liverpool (FA Cup Third Round)
Oct 04, 2020: Aston Villa 7-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Jul 05, 2020: Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Dec 17, 2019: Aston Villa 5-0 Liverpool (EFL Cup Quarter-Finals)
Nov 02, 2019: Aston Villa 1-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Feb 14, 2016: Aston Villa 0-6 Liverpool (Premier League)
Sep 26, 2015: Liverpool 3-2 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Apr 19, 2015: Aston Villa 2-1 Liverpool (FA Cup Semi-Finals)
Jan 17, 2015: Aston Villa 0-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Sep 13, 2014: Liverpool 0-1 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Last 10 Premier League meetings
Nov 01, 2025: Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Feb 19, 2025: Aston Villa 2-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Nov 09, 2024: Liverpool 2-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
May 13, 2024: Aston Villa 3-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
Sep 03, 2023: Liverpool 3-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
May 20, 2023: Liverpool 1-1 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Dec 26, 2022: Aston Villa 1-3 Liverpool (Premier League)
May 10, 2022: Aston Villa 1-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Dec 11, 2021: Liverpool 1-0 Aston Villa (Premier League)
Apr 10, 2021: Liverpool 2-1 Aston Villa (Premier League)