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Liverpool FC

18x Champion:
1901, 1906, 1922, 1923, 1947,
1964, 1966, 1973, 1976, 1977,
1979, 1980, 1982, 1983, 1984,
1986, 1988, 1990

7x Cup Winner:
1965, 1974, 1986, 1989, 1992,
2001, 2006

7x League Cup (record):
1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1995,
2001, 2003

15x Supercup:
1964, 1965, 1966, 1974, 1976,
1977, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1986,
1988, 1989, 1990, 2001, 2006

5x UEFA Champions League:
1977, 1978, 1981, 1984, 2005

3x UEFA Europa League (record):
1973, 1976, 2001

3x UEFA Super Cup:
1977, 2001, 2005


Anfield....If only it could talk...

It is one of the oldest and most famous football grounds in the world. Originally the home of Everton Football Club between 1884 and 1892, Anfield has long since become synonymous with Liverpool Football Club and the amazing success achieved by the Reds.

Everton were kicked out after a dispute over rent...and the owner of the stadium decided to start he own team...Liverpool!

"The very word Anfield means more to me than I can describe."
Bill Shankly 1975

http://www.fussballtempel.net/uefa/ENG/Anfield_Road_UEFA.jpeg

Anfield is famous for always having an immaculate pitch!

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http://www.craighurcum.f9.co.uk/images/anfield5.jpg

http://www.liverpoolway.co.uk/wallpaperfolder/kop.jpeg

http://www.lfctoronto.com/images/pictures/cashin-03/pics/The-Paisley-Gates.jpg

http://www.lfc-1.com/club/hillsboroughmemorial.jpg

Hillsborough Memorial

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Shankly Gates...which now feature on the Liverpool Club Badge

http://www.poster.net/liverpool/liverpool-club-badge-4900626.jpg

http://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/A.J.Kasper/MyPictures/Liverpool/Stadium%20Shot3.JPG

Its was announced in 2000 that the Reds were to leave Anfield for a new 61,000 seater stadium....to be known as...Anfield

Work will hopefully start this year...thats the plan anyway!

http://www.wblsc.co.uk/mediac/400_0/media/New~Anfield~2.jpg http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icliverpool/aug2004/7/7/00078399-E95C-1110-BCDA80BFB6FA0000.jpg

Liverpool fans showed the world last tuesday that they are trueley among the best of Europe. What an atmosphere!
Why are they building a new stadium? I don't see why it is necessary.

Cart,

Liverpool fans showed the world last tuesday that they are trueley among the best of Europe. What an atmosphere!
Why are they building a new stadium? I don't see why it is necessary.

Cart,

I'd guess they just don't have enough room to expand Anflied any further which does afterall now not bare much resemblance to the Anfield of legend(unlike say Old Trafford). I personally like the design of the new stadium with the divides between stands offering a bit more of an "english" style ground plus the location is alot nicer in Stanely Park just a few hundred yards away from the current ground. Theres a pretty good film rendering of the new ground on the site below..

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/newstadium/

Dammit....Im sure I posted it....I typed it out anyway....anyhoo

Anfield is too small, and we need to keep up with the competition!

The extra 16,000 seats could get us an extra £0.5M a game....and £10M a season!

Unquestionably one of the best football stadiums in the world. Its a pity its going to disapear. I feel the same about Highbury(though Arsenals stadium is in my opinion less well equiped for modern demands than Anfield).
Still I am hopeful that their new stadiums wont be as sterile and anonymous as the biscuit tin stadiums that have sprouted up all over England over the last few years. I think location is very important and it does seem both clubs have at least got their priorities right on that level.

Anfield will be turned into a hotel and leisure facilities, regenerating the Anfield area for 2008 when Liverpool is crowned capital of culture!


Other Anfield History....

Bill Shankly quotes...

On the fans: The word fanatic has been used many times.. I think it's more than fanaticism. It's a religion to them. The thousands who come here, come to worship.. it's a sort of shrine, it isn't a football ground.

On This Is Anfield sign: It's there to remind our lads who they're playing for and to remind the opposition who they're playing against!

Now I dont know who these people are (except for Benitez)....Im just showing what an attraction the sign is...

http://www.liverpoolfanclub.org.sg/lfc/Anfield%20Exp%20images/362.jpg http://img50.photobucket.com/albums/v153/sashi_net/benitez_anfield.jpg
http://www.elviscostello.info/articles/h-l/liverpoolfc_001.jpg

http://www.lsi.upc.es/~luisv/pictures/anfield.jpg

It is looking increasingly likely that the club will have to abandon plans to move to a new stadium because of escalating building costs.

A new takeover is in the pipline....a new stadium is still Liverpool No.1 prority...we just need a new guy in charge!

Owner of the New England Patriots is favorite...cant remember his name though!

nice...

After Juve and Chelsea I'm in favour of staying at Anfield, there's no arena in the world that can touch its quirky nature and atmosphere. The fans will be as partisan and manic as ever but no architect can plan and deliver the piece meal Anfield in one fell swoop.

Also would be losing the kop as we know it...Single tier, single stand 80 rows deep!

http://img237.echo.cx/img237/4945/kop8bv.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

The new kop...I dont know if we're looking from it or at it....I think at it!

At it eddy. How can that be the Kop? the other end is the same size, shape etc. I'd prefer a horseshoe for 3 sides and a moody stand alone Kop.

Kop by name not by nature :(

THIS IS ANFIELD

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Well Anfield is with Old Trafford among the best known stadia in the UK, for me.
Well I like the new proposal as well, though it does leave the 'historical' value of Anfield Road. In any case, good luck next week ;)

Great history..... a truly spectacular and intimidating ground

that stadium tour is well worth the entrance fee all them trophys and craig johnstons surf board.

Good God! Some fantastic pics in this thread.
Onward to Istanbul!
Taken Yesterday. Don't bother checking out my website link. It's down at the moment :bash:

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There may be no other stadium in the world that is more closely linked with the passion and identity of its club than Anfield.

But I'll still be pulling for Milan next week :)

I am a Feyenoord seasonticketholder and after Feyenoord, Liverpool has always been my favorite team. In some ways you can find a lot of similarities between the two, and I wear both jerseys with pride! :)

I'm planning to go visit a match at holy Anfield before it's being demolished. Is it easy to buy tickets as a foreigner? Cause buying tickets for Feyenoord as a foreigner can sometimes be hard or practically impossible because of all kinds of anti-hooligan measurements like clubcards and such.

The new stadium looks good btw, eventhough it's gonna be hard to say goodbye to Anfield. But be glad it's not going to be some awful multifunctional arena-type disaster like the Amsterdam Arena, Arena auf Schalke or some American stadiums.

A new takeover is in the pipline....a new stadium is still Liverpool No.1 prority...we just need a new guy in charge!

Owner of the New England Patriots is favorite...cant remember his name though!

The Patriots owners surname is Kraft.

Anfield is a pretty nice ground but nothing in the Primiership can touch Highbury

I might well be on my own on this one but apart from being a famous old name, there's certainly no "wow" factor. The stands are nothing special and poorly design in places (look at the main stand on the first picture, the two end sections don't even point at the pitch, meaning neckache for anyone sat there), as for the atmosphere... yes, on big European nights it's memorable but I've been twice for ordinary league games (vs. Blackburn and Tottenham) and for most of it you can hear the players shout to each other, it was awful. I doubt it was like that in the days of the old Kop, but it's modern equivalent's inhabitants really let it down.

I might well be on my own on this one but apart from being a famous old name, there's certainly no "wow" factor.
You're not alone...infact I'll go as far as to call it ugly. It looked alot better 10 years ago.

...btw the new proposed stadium is awesome and I hope it gets built.

At the risk of starting a scouse civil war and going OT a bit(although the two clubs new stadiums seem to be heavily linked to eachother) I noticed this report on another possiblity for a new 60,000 Everton stadium, this time in the stanley docks rather than their abandoned previous kings dock project.

http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0400evertonfc/0150kingsdock/tm_objectid=12973285&method=full&siteid=50061&headline=blues-in-new-stadium-talks-name_page.html

http://images.icnetwork.co.uk/upl/icliverpool/may2003/5/8/000E7F63-B428-1EC8-AF4C80BFB6FA0000.jpg

^
Two years old though that story!

I hope Everton do get a new stadium, but its all about moolah!

^
Two years old though that story!

I hope Everton do get a new stadium, but its all about moolah!

Indeed but its newer than the kings dock proposal and I can't find any info saying its been rejected. If Everton get though the qualifier then they've got an £18 million CL windfall along with the Rooney cash so I wouldnt be supprized to see something happen.

cough ;)

Eddy
whats up with the new stadium?

Fook knows.

Gorgeous stadium but about 30k too small.

Great stadium for a great team with a great history!! And also a great future stadium
Most Spanish people are now Liverpool supporters (Rafa, Luis García, Nuñez, Reina, Xabi, Morientes "el Moro", Josemi, Barragán...!);)

Didn't you add the pictures from Istanbul yet?

Would need a good zoom.

I was with Liverpool fans, and made some friendship. Liverpool has amazing fans. They have believed the victory and they got it. I'd like you to show some photos from this last and the greatest victory. Victory from the death, incredible...

Go ahead, please.

Beautiful.

Gorgeous stadium but about 30k too small.
75,000 would be far too big, seeing as they've never had more than 62,000 at Anfield and never averaged much more than 48,000 (http://www.european-football-statistics.co.uk/attnclub/live.htm).

The waiting list for a season ticket is something like 10 years.

75,000 might be too big, 70,000 I think would be about right....but it seems we're getting a 61,000 seater.

There is no doubt about it Liverpool are a massive club there support is huge so would say that a 65,000 - 70,000 cappacity would be fair. Liverpool have a huge amount of fans but they have to admit they can't exactly fill say 80,000 every game because of lately they haven't had the same success that they have had in the 70's and 80's so I think 61,000 is a good capacity for the club. It's like my club Tottenham our support isn't as big as Liverpool and Man United but we are some where near the top in most supported clubs in the country. We of late haven't had any success in the past five years and know that 50,000 is the capacity that we can fill. From what I have read we have plans to make the stadium 54,000 http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3614. Which I feel would be the max that Tottenham at this moment in time could fill, if Tottenham were to enjoy the same success that Arsenal and Man Utd have had lately then I think we could fil 65,000.

New Anfield has to happen! It'd be a shame for them not to get it at this point. Why haven't they raised the funds for this yet? I would think that with their history and prestige that they would have moneymen from all over wanting to invest in this.

There is no doubt about it Liverpool are a massive club there support is huge so would say that a 65,000 - 70,000 cappacity would be fair. Liverpool have a huge amount of fans but they have to admit they can't exactly fill say 80,000 every game because of lately they haven't had the same success that they have had in the 70's and 80's so I think 61,000 is a good capacity for the club. It's like my club Tottenham our support isn't as big as Liverpool and Man United but we are some where near the top in most supported clubs in the country. We of late haven't had any success in the past five years and know that 50,000 is the capacity that we can fill. From what I have read we have plans to make the stadium 54,000 http://www.spurscommunity.co.uk/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3614. Which I feel would be the max that Tottenham at this moment in time could fill, if Tottenham were to enjoy the same success that Arsenal and Man Utd have had lately then I think we could fil 65,000.

I'm not sure sucess is as much a factor in crowds as people make it out to be. Look at Man Utd in the 70's and the 80's for example where they won very little yet remained the best supported club in the country. What I think sucess does is earn you a generation of supporters who will most likely stick with you even if that sucess isnt repeated, you'll loose a few fair weather fans but I'd guess the vast majority of them don't go to games anyway.

Just seen this on bbc.co.uk

bbc.co.uk
Liverpool ground plan re-approved

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40841000/jpg/_40841669_livstadium_inside203.jpg
The club plans to build a 60,000 seater stadium

Plans for Liverpool FC's new stadium have been re-approved by city councillors without any alterations to the original scheme.
Plans for the stadium in Stanley Park, next to its current Anfield ground, were first given the go-ahead by Liverpool City Council in 2005.

The club had to resubmit plans for the 60,000-seater ground to make sure they conformed to new planning laws.

The club is looking for investors to help fund the £160m venture.

Shareholders were told at the club's recent AGM that it could be four years before the stadium was completed.

It looks like a mix between Old Trafford and Bolton's Reebok Stadium.

The Reebok...

http://www.stadiumguide.com/reebok2.jpg

They need a new design or they might as well stay at Anfield; at least Anfield has some originality.

It's a great design, but the pitch looks quite far away from the seats, where it curves round.

They should expand Anfield.

They should expand Anfield.

nahh dey should definitely knock down analfield








when it iz full hahaha bo sho 'nuff!

^^Hey dont u be talkin about me scousers lik that, u heard! odda wise u may be pullin sum bullet outta ur arse, nuff sed!

no i definately think that building a new stadium would be good for liverpool. There is no space around anfield.
2005, are you talking attendances or armchair fans? You forget that transport links have a big part to play as though there are many liverpool fans up and down the country, there are not enough in the city of liverpool to fill a bigger ground every week

I also think the £160m price tag is going to be wrong, more like £230-250m in total, if you include Anfield Plaza and landscaping Stanley Park

I hope Liverpool can bring the league title again to Anfield before moving to the new stadium

Everton were kicked out after a dispute over rent...and the owner of the stadium decided to start he own team...Liverpool!

That's a bit revisionist Eddy! :lol:
Everton were the league champions that season, and that snidey shitehawk Houlding wanted to double the rent to pay for 'improvements'. The majority of the board told him to do one, and they crossed the park to buy Mere Green, which they turned into the world first major football stadium, Goodison Park.

After that, Houlding spat his dummy and formed his own club, which was also called Everton for a very brief period. He was forced to change it, and decided upon Liverpool- although not after a heated dispute with Liverpool Rugby Club.

I'd be interested to know when Liverpool actually took up ownership of the stadium. Was it immediate, or did they have a landlord/tenant relationship with Houlding?

New pics :)

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http://www.flickr.com/photos/alancookson/3225838283/

Wow, i always thought Anfield was such an old fashioned Stadium.

Im highly impressed, amazing stadia.

great pics :okay:

Looks like every stand is built in the 1990s

Main stand is older I think.

Some of my best memories happened in this legendary field.

http://fotocdncube.fanatik.com.tr/news/GaleriHaber/2011/08/06/fft11_mf1488537.Jpeg

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/estadio-nuevo-atletico-nacional/210940182258291 photos stadium

Love this Stadium. Love The Kop

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if you want to see more stadia pictures , Please visit below URL.


http://cafe.daum.net/stade/liverpool (http://cafe.daum.net/stade/5Ay7/827)



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impressive how this stadium support 40k viewers. Very nice the sound of the fans singing.

The Kop is okay, but the rest of it is pretty poor. Yep, Liverpool deserve so much better than the current Anfield.

..., but the rest of it is pretty poor.

Definately. The supporting pillars in the main stand can be excused as its an old stand, but the three other stands are fairly modern and they are all poorly designed.

This has an overview of restricted view seats at Anfield. Click on each stand, then click on the green "restricted view seats" button below the picture to the right to see the view from the worst seats in the house.
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/tickets/anfield-seating-plan

Atleast theyre being honest about it....

the kop is cool.

Do they have height limitations there as well?

^^ More than likely. Probably something to do with the right to light law.

Definately. The supporting pillars in the main stand can be excused as its an old stand, but the three other stands are fairly modern and they are all poorly designed.

This has an overview of restricted view seats at Anfield. Click on each stand, then click on the green "restricted view seats" button below the picture to the right to see the view from the worst seats in the house.
http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/tickets/anfield-seating-plan

Atleast theyre being honest about it....

thats unbelievable! you'd be pissed off if you had waited years for a season ticket and got offered one of those seats!:bash:

liverpool is the biggest club in England after manchester and still has many supporters. they should have a great stadium which can accommodate at least 70k.

1964
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2012
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Highlight of today's game

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I think the Highbury squirrel could take him! ;)

Highlight of today's game

Sadly true. It wasn't a very good game at all. You had one team that laboured in vain to create chances (yet still should have scored at least once) and another that was happy to keep possession at the back and seldom looked to attack. Not the best combination for a spectacle really.