There isn’t a place fairly like Anfield, whether or not on a matchday or every other day of the week. However there’s one thing particular about strolling the halls when few others are round, and that’s what the stadium tour affords.
There isn’t a lacking Anfield, not with a Important Stand and Anfield Highway Stand that dominate the skyline – it’s daring and you may’t assist however hold your eyes locked on the view.
It’s a place the place numerous recollections are held and the stadium and museum tour is a superb approach to expertise a number of the membership’s biggest moments and get a uncommon have a look at the inside sanctum.
Arriving at Anfield
Approaching Anfield from Stanley Park, you shortly recognize the stature of the bottom and the importance the membership holds within the lives of so many.
As you make your manner across the Important Stand – in direction of the doorway for the tour – you may cease and pay your respects on the Hillsborough memorial on 97 Avenue.
Persevering with on, there are nods to legends of the previous and excitable faces of followers who’re both making the journey for the primary time or the a thousandth – and this isn’t even on a matchday!
Earlier than you step into the stadium, you may take pleasure in a free self-guided Anfield Origins Tour, which takes you on a journey of the landmarks exterior Anfield.
Utilizing QR codes and an app, followers can discover the membership’s exceptional historical past and uncover fascinating tales at every cease.
As soon as you discover the doorway to the tour – reverse the membership retailer – you choose up your wristband, video information and memento membership earphones, and that’s when the expertise really begins.
Upcoming Legends Q&A and Tour
• September 6 – Anfield Expertise, Legends Q&A and Stadium Tour with Mark Lawrenson
• September 6 – Legends Q&A plus Stadium Tour with Sammy Lee
• September 13 – Legends Q&A plus Stadium Tour with Mark Lawrenson
• September 27 – Anfield Expertise, Legends Q&A and Stadium Tour with Gary McAllister
All the way in which to the highest
An introduction from a tour information – with just a few jibes at Man United thrown in – and you might be in your manner up what appears like an limitless run of escalators – higher than over 10 flights of stairs!
On the way in which as much as the higher Important Stand you catch sight of a practice that speaks to what makes this membership so nice, with well-known flags and banners adorning the partitions – attempting to pick a favorite isn’t straightforward.
You’re then greeted with a concourse of posters displaying our historical past of managers; you may go at your individual tempo because the tour itself is led by a handheld gadget, not a information.
You choose the choices you wish to uncover extra of, like how Invoice Shankly remodeled the membership or how Rafa Benitez delivered the European Cup, and tales will probably be recounted with movies and pictures so that you can take pleasure in on the display.
Take the time to stroll down reminiscence lane, you received’t remorse it. There are over 11 languages to select from when you want.
When you’ve taken in all of the sensible photos, posters and plaques on the higher stage, it’s then time to soak up the pitch for the primary time from top-of-the-line views.
And you’ll discover the makeover Anfield has undergone since reuniting with Adidas, with new branding by means of the stadium for the beginning of a 10-year partnership.
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What a sight it’s.
It doesn’t matter what number of occasions you’ve seen it, it’s simply as particular. It’s quiet as many mirror and take all of it in – and the information helps offer you a way of what it’s like on a matchday for many who have but to expertise it.
Get your photograph with the Premier League trophy
What comes up, should then go down as you make your approach to the decrease ranges, the place the concourse continues to inform the story of moments that made the membership what it’s immediately, evoking a complete vary of feelings.
From authentic Anfield seats to sensible art work and tales of the most recent era of gamers, there’s something for everybody – together with a photograph alternative with the Premier League trophy.
The inside sanctum, which followers not often have entry to, is actually a crowd pleaser as you may stroll the place the gamers and supervisor do on a matchday.
The stroll of champions is trying recent after one other summer time of change!
You may see nearly all the pieces; the place gamers do their pre and post-match interviews, the place Arne Slot talks to the press, plus the house and away dressing rooms.
There may be a lot to soak up, so many little particulars to soak up and recognize. However an apparent one is how grand Liverpool’s dressing is in comparison with the guests’ – it sends fairly a transparent message.
And we are able to’t neglect the This Is Anfield signal. It’s mesmerising.
You should definitely contact it after which a pleasant member of workers is there eagerly able to take your image earlier than you make the stroll pitch aspect and benefit from the view.
In your approach to pitch, you’ll discover the tunnel is made up of the names of season ticket holders that kind the phrases ‘You’ll By no means Stroll Alone’ on one aspect and ‘We Are Liverpool’ on the opposite.
It’s an annual custom that began in 2021.
New Champions 2025 exhibit within the museum
Your expertise will not be completed as soon as you allow by means of a Kop turnstile, in some methods it’s nonetheless solely simply getting began as a group of unbelievable artefacts await on the museum.
Right here, you may have a good time particular person gamers and managers and totally different eras of the membership’s historical past in what’s a newly enhanced and revamped area.
One of the placing components is as you first enter the museum and a brand new ‘Pink White & Silver’ exhibit shows each trophy Liverpool FC has ever received; from outdated trophies to the FIFA Membership World Cup.
Liverpool’s twentieth league title can also be celebrated within the ‘Champions’ exhibition, which features a ’20 Instances’ trophy show, an progressive hologram, tokens that inform the story of a memorable season and a tribute to Diogo Jota.
Followers can take a stroll down reminiscence lane at their very own tempo because the membership’s story from the previous to the current is depicted by means of memorabilia, silverware and interactive shows.
There may be so a lot to take a look at and you may be shocked by what catches your eye and what you maintain on to whenever you go away – with greater than 133 years value of historical past, you’ll by no means wish to go away.
You may ebook your LFC tour and museum go to, right here.
It’s also possible to expertise the stadium tour and a Q&A with a Liverpool Legend all through September and past with the likes of Mark Lawrenson, Sammy Lee, Gary McAllister and extra – you may ebook right here!.
