NORTH WEST DERBY

The north west derby has finished with the spoils of "war" shared. Up to today Manchester United had won 89 of the meetings and drawn 66, Liverpool had won 76. Ollie salvaged a valuable point from this game and nearly claimed all three. We shall not enter into any conversation about VAR or referees. Ask Mr Klopp!
Liverpool, 1892-3 during its first season.
Their first meeting was in April 1894 at what was known as a "Test Match". Liverpool, top of Division Two by 8 points, played at homev  Newton Heath (the original name for Man U) who were bottom of Division One by 5 pts and won 2-0. Liverpool took United's place in the Division.

In October 1895 they met formally in Division Two. There was an FA Cup tie meeting in 1898 (two in fact), won eventually by Liverpool after a 0-0 draw and then another cup tie in 1903 won by the newly named Manchester United.

League football started between the two in 1904 in Division Two and from 1906-1915 in Division One- then the top division.
 United 1905-6
During the First World War the two met in the "Lancashire Section-Principle Tournament" and occasionally in the "Subsidiary Tournament" from 1915-1919. Explained below!
https://www.footballandthefirstworldwar.org/lancashire-section-principal-tournament/

When peace prevailed they met again in the First Division between 1919 and 1939.

 During the Second World War they were assigned to the West Region War League (Lancashire), then the North Region War League and met in the Lancashire Cup twice.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartime_League

Between 1946 and 1992 they were both in the First Division of the Football League, undisturbed with promotion to the Premier League in 1992 until today.

There have been been 5 Charity Shield encounters, 17 FA Cup ties, 5 League Cup meets with two finals in 1983 (Liverpool 2-1) and 2003 (L'pool 2-0), 2 UEFA Europa League meetings in 2016.
Two FA Cup Finals in 1996 and 1977 both won by United.