Nottingham Forest vs. Liverpool: Head-to-head record and past meetings before Premier League clash

Here, Sports Mole takes a look at the head-to-head record and past clashes between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 125

Liverpool wins: 61

Draws: 31

Nott'm Forest wins: 33

Liverpool and Nottingham Forest have locked horns on 125 separate occasions over the years, and the Reds that boast a near-50% win rate, triumphing 61 times compared to the Garibaldis' 33, with a further 31 clashes ending honours even.

However, the Tricky Trees have proven to be the Merseysiders' bogey team in recent years, winning twice and drawing twice across their last five meetings with the six-time European champions.

The most recent contest between the clubs served up an entertaining 2-2 stalemate in August 2026, a match that required Liverpool to come from behind twice in order to secure a point from Adoni Iraola's first Premier League home game in charge.

Dan Ndoye gave Forest the lead with just 24 minutes on the clock - a fact that made Florian Wirtz's disallowed goal eight minutes later all the more frustrating - but Alexander Isak was able to draw the Reds level on the hour mark.

When Morgan Gibbs-White dispatched a penalty with 20 minutes to go, the Anfield crowd were fearing the worst, but a fantastic turn and strike by Victor Munoz rescued the result.

That draw followed on from another dramatic encounter in February 2026, during which the Reds' Alexis Mac Allister saw what he thought was a late winner ruled out by VAR for handball, before scoring a valid 97th-minute sealer in a crucial 1-0 triumph.

Forest's latest victory in this fixture unexpectedly came at Anfield in November 2025 during Liverpool's worst run of form for more than 70 years, and saw efforts from Murillo, Nicolo Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White condemn the Merseysiders to a 3-0 defeat against former Everton boss Sean Dyche.

That was the club's second straight win at Anfield following on from their narrow 1-0 win at the ground in September 2024, which featured a memorable strike from Callum Hudson-Odoi that served Arne Slot his first competitive defeat as Liverpool boss. The manager would then go on to frequently reference the loss in press conferences.

Another 30 contests have ended level, including a frenetic 1-1 draw in January 2025, but the Tricky Trees certainly felt robbed of a slice of the spoils in their home affair in the 2023-24 season.

On a fateful March day at the City Ground, Liverpool stole a priceless 1-0 victory thanks to Darwin Nunez's 99th-minute winner before bedlam broke loose, with Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis allegedly going after referee Paul Tierney in the tunnel.

However, the Tricky Trees have now had Liverpool's number three times in the Premier League this millennium, as a strike from ex-Reds attacker Taiwo Awoniyi propelled them to a shock 1-0 win in October 2022.

That City Ground contest marked just the second meeting between Liverpool and Forest in the 21st century; the first saw the Reds win a 2021-22 FA Cup quarter-final 1-0 thanks to a goal from Diogo Jota, who boasted six in five games against the Tricky Trees before his untimely death.

Before the 2024-25 season, Forest had to go back a staggering 55 and a half years for their last league win away to Liverpool - a 2-0 triumph over Bill Shankly's Reds in February 1969 - only for the Reds to fall short in both clashes during Slot's second term.

Liverpool unsurprisingly dominate the individual goalscoring column in this head-to-head too, with Roger Hunt and Ian Rush the highest documented scorers in this fixture with 10 goals apiece.