When it rains, it pours. Liverpool’s Anfield Road stand expansion project has been stung by yet another delay.
Work will now not be completed until 2024, with the Reds continuing to play in front of reduced 51,000 crowds, with a closed upper tier in the Anfield Road stand, for the rest of the calendar year at least.
Originally scheduled to open in time for the start of the 2023/24 season, the club has battled delays and had to find a new contractor after Buckingham Group filed for administration. This redevelopment has not been a straightforward process.
Consequently, Liverpool’s 21-year wait to finally boast a 60,000 seater stadium continues. And with the club still having no idea when the £80m redevelopment will finally be completed, the end is still nowhere in sight.
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From first plotting a new stadium way under David Moores’ watch back in May 2002 before broken promises from doomed owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett scuppered such plans, ‘60,000’ has always been the magic number for the Reds’ new stadium throughout their years of plans. And that remained the case even once FSG decided to redevelop Anfield instead.
Such a total when first concocted would have left their home as the second-biggest club ground in England behind Old Trafford. Now, it’s just the going rate with Tottenham Hotspur’s rebuilt Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (62,850 capacity), West Ham United’s London Stadium (62,500 capacity), and Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium (60,260) all bigger than Anfield along with Man City’s Etihad Stadium (55,017).
Liverpool have taken steps in the
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