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ANFIELD STADIUM REDEVELOPMENT

Liverpool have plans to redevelop their famous stadium on Anfield Road, and FantasySports.co.uk sources say that the club will shortly be announcing their finalised designs. The redevelopment will result in an increased capacity to around 61,000. The club hopes the stadium will be finished by May 2021.

The expansion will be modelled to fit in aesthetically with the Main Stand which was finished in 2016.

Anfield currently has a capacity of just over 54,000. Once complete, this increase will mean that Liverpool’s home ground will only rank behind Old Trafford and Tottenham’s unfinished new stadium in terms of capacity. If Spurs 61,000-seat plus stadium is finished with its reported capacity.

In the summer of 2016, Liverpool completed the Main Stand. However, since its completion, the club have continued to redevelopment the stadium. Around Anfield fans can regularly see work being carried out to upgrade the ground. The Main Stand added over 8,000 new seats to Anfield. The entire project cost the football club around £114 million.

In a December article, This is Anfield reported that Liverpool were exploring options to expand the Anfield Road end of the ground. At the time, Liverpool CEO Peter Moore told Sky Sports about the club’s expansion plans.

“As you know we have a permit for the Anfield Road End for September 2019 to add maybe another 6,000 seats which will bring us up to 60,000 here,” Moore said.

“I also know from living here, for every Liverpool ticket there is 10 people who want to buy it.

“We totally get what we need to do. We’re going to do what we did with the Main Stand, which is look at what we need to do in a measured manner.

“We’ll look at what investment the ownership needs to put in.

“We’re a fan-first organisation, I can assure people we’re going to look at this on top of everything else we are doing.”

Liverpool FC will announce their finalised plans soon. The club will be able to accommodate many of the ticket requests Moore referenced back in December."


I have no idea as to the credibility or otherwise of Fantasy Sports as a reliable source of information.

What neither the Fantasy Sports or the TIA articles address is how FSG/Liverpool will fund the ARE expansion following on so closely to developing the new training facility, as, unlike the Main Stand expansion, the new training facility won't generate much by way of additional revenue.

The Annie road end needs sorting out.

It's my favourite place to sit. But that only because you don't have to look at it.

That new stand is so high, I have no clue how fans enjoy the game seated closer to the clouds.

It's a mess, and a missed opportunity. It's also a monument to financial cowardice and lack of ambition. If it was closer to the banks of the Mersey it would reflect a mirror image of FSG.

Man Utd don't need a new stadium. Smaller clubs are building new stadiums because they have awful obstructed views or are just too small (in evertons case. Both)

As long as we are increasing the size we shouldn't be too unhappy. I'd have preferred a new stadium 10-15 years ago. But costs now are ridiculous.

Spurs stadium has risen from 450 to 750 million. How? Thats like me saying yeah I'll be there. 9am Monday. Then rocking up Thursday afternoon already half cut.

Improve the stadium and it will still be our stadium. Or wait until the bitters go and then build on Stanley park.

No club has a better identity than the Kop

Looks to me you'll go anywhere when it's free.

Everton is your club, don't deny this. And you don't moan, you are just pathetically miserable. I don't think it's all because of football, it has to be your life, cannot be otherwise, you are a model bitter.

For the record my first game going in the kop too was 1963 when we were worse than we are today as a kid there were far bigger glamour teams then so it's a bit rich saying I am a glory hunter when did you start watching ? Also even if Liverpool today were winning everything in sight I would still be not as interested the game has changed in the 80,s we supported a club today we support a global commercial brand players wages are stupid and fans talk as much about demand curves and balance sheets as they do the team. I have done my bit but if you want to spend all your money and time supporting a commercial brand go for it I am not stopping you

If I was a glory hunter I would have turned my back on LFC a couple of decades ago and would be supporting City right now. At least I don't only talk negative of the club like you. How can you call yourself a fan (normal or abnormal), try to read your posts you'll see how pathetic and miserable you are. You are not a LFC fan, cannot be.