February 15 – Liverpool’s ticket prices weren’t the only activity at the club that stopped rising last week. A ‘topping out’ ceremony was held at Anfield to mark the new Main Stand having now reached its maximum height.
The expanded Main Stand has taken 12 months to build and is now more than double the height of the existing stand. The capacity of the stand is 20,500, and will increase the overall capacity of Anfield to about 54,000.
Liverpool CEO, Ian Ayre, joined first team manager Jürgen Klopp, non-executive director, Kenny Dalglish and a host of Liverpool Legends marked the occasion with
10 legends including Ian Rush, Robbie Fowler, Gary McAllister, Jamie Carragher, John Barnes, Ian Saint John, Phil Neal, Alan Kennedy, Ian Callaghan and Roger Hunt signing a piece of structural steel, which will later be lifted and secured into the Main Stand’s new roof. The roof has been specially designed to project the noise from fans down on to the pitch, protecting the unique Anfield atmosphere.
Carillion is the construction firm on the project and director Mark Nicholson said: “We are delighted to have reached another milestone in the progress of the Main Stand extension. This project to create new world-class facilities at Anfield has also benefited local businesses and people through opportunities of work and training through apprenticeships
The Main Stand expansion is targeted to be completed later this year in time for the 2016/17 kick off. The redeveloped stand will comprise three tiers with the existing lower tier revamped to accommodate a widened player tunnel, new team benches, media platform and wheelchair viewing positions.
Under the original tickets plans that were shelved last week, tickets for the top row of the top tier were to be £9.
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