Clubs: Liverpool FC

UEFA honours
UEFA Champions League: winner 2005, runner-up 2007
UEFA Cup: winner 2001
UEFA Super Cup: winner 2001
UEFA Club Footballer of the Year: 2005
UEFA.com users' Team of the Year: 2005, 2006, 2007

• Gerrard joined Liverpool's youth academy at the age of nine and eventually signed professional forms in November 1997; he made his senior debut a year later and by the 2000/01 season had become the team's key midfielder, making 50 appearances and helping them win the League Cup, FA Cup and UEFA Cup treble.

• Made his international debut the day after his 20th birthday – in a friendly against Ukraine – and went to UEFA EURO 2000 with England the following month.

• Missed the 2002 FIFA World Cup through injury, however, after scoring his first international goal in the memorable 5-1 qualifying win against Germany in Munich.

• Appointed as Liverpool captain in October 2003 and led the Reds to UEFA Champions League glory against AC Milan in Istanbul in 2005, triggering a comeback from 3-0 down with a brilliant header and winning the man of the match award plus third place in that year's Ballon d'Or.

• Was more influential 12 months later in the FA Cup final, scoring twice as Liverpool defeated West Ham United FC – also on penalties after a 3-3 draw.

• A major figure for England throughout the decade, he appeared at UEFA EURO 2004 and the 2006 FIFA World Cup, where he scored twice but missed a penalty in the quarter-final shoot-out defeat by Portugal; captained England at the 2010 World Cup and scored early in the opener against the United States.

• Won England's Footballer of the Year prize for the first time in 2009 at the end of a season in which he scored a personal-best tally of 24 goals including 16 in the Premier League, in which Liverpool finished runners-up; was also voted into the PFA Premier League Team of the Year for a record sixth successive campaign.