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In a Liverpool career of relentless records, Jurgen Klopp will oversee another at the weekend.

And if the further staggered opening of the new Anfield Road stand means more, then the Reds will have to make the most of it between now and their manager waving an emotional farewell in May.

A crowd of around 60,000 is expected for Saturday's Premier League visit of Burnley with the hospitality section at the front of the upper tier of the Anfield Road stand available for the first time. While work remains to be done on the back rows and the away end to take the capacity up to 61,000, it is nevertheless another landmark in the £100million development.

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Indeed, it is on course to be the highest-ever crowd seen at Anfield for a league game, with the present record still the 58,757 who attended the visit of Chelsea in the top flight way back in December 1949. The highest attendance in any competition came in February 1952 when 61,905 watched an FA Cup fifth round game against Wolves, a figure likely to remain for the foreseeable future.

The stadium has been renovated and redeveloped on multiple occasions since, the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand officially opened in 1992, the standing Kop two years later and the Main Stand in 2016. For example, when the Premier League started more than 30 years ago, less than 40,000 could fit inside Anfield.

The Klopp era has seen significant change at the stadium under Fenway Sports Group, with more than 15,000 seats having been added to the capacity. It has coincided with a remarkable run of home form in the Premier League that