New Main Stand at Anfield officially opened
Anfield's new Main Stand has been officially opened today - ahead of their first home game of the season against Leicester.
Anfield's new Main Stand has been officially opened today - ahead of their first home game of the season against Leicester.
The new stand which will seat 8500 extra fans took 643 days to build and is one of the largest all seater stand's in Europe
It's made out of 1.8m bricks, 50'000 tonnes of steel and enough concrete to fill three Olympic swimming pools.
Tomorrow - Liverpool face Premier League Champions Leicester in what will be the Red's opening game at home.
Owners Fenway Sports Group funded the project, which began in December 2014, with a £115million loan after deciding against building a new stadium on Stanley Park.
Club chairman Tom Werner said
"Redeveloping the Main Stand has been about improving our home rather than having to abandon it in the name of progress"
"We want what all Liverpool supporters want - future success on the pitch.
"Anfield isn't just where we play matches. Anfield is home and it's as much part of the identity of this club as the Liverbird on the crest of the shirt."
"Tomorrow marks a new chapter for this great football club. We look to the future while respecting our past and, most importantly, we continue our journey at Anfield."
"For us this project has been about understanding LFC to it's core. It's past, it's present it's future"
Club legend Ian Rush said:
"The good thing from my point of view is that the club stayed where they are."
"Arsenal moved and everything, but the atmospheres' not the same as it was to Highbury."
"To have this all here at Anfield now I'm sure is going to be amazing."