Anfield Stadium

Anfield is a football stadium and the longtime home of Liverpool Football Club, one of England's most storied clubs in the sport. The ground was originally built in 1884 for Everton FC, who leased the land from local landowner John Orrell for an annual fee of £100. A dispute between Everton and stadium owner John Houlding over rent and management led to the club's departure in 1892, after which Houlding founded Liverpool Football Club and established Anfield as their home. Liverpool's first match at the ground was a friendly against Rotherham Town on September 1, 1892, which they won 7–1. Early expansions of the ground were designed by renowned football architect Archibald Leitch, and in 1906, following Liverpool's second league championship, a new terrace along Walton Breck Road was built and christened the Spion Kop by local sports writer Ernest Edwards — a tribute to the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer War, in which many Liverpudlians lost their lives.

Over the following decades, Anfield underwent numerous expansions and modernizations that transformed it into one of England's most iconic football venues. Floodlights were added in 1957, and the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 prompted safety reforms that led to the conversion of the stadium to an all-seater ground by 1994. The famous Shankly Gates, honoring legendary manager Bill Shankly, were erected in 1982, and a statue of Bob Paisley was added outside the Main Stand in 2020. In 2016 an expanded Main Stand opened, raising capacity to over 54,000, and a subsequent redevelopment of the Anfield Road Stand completed in 2024 brought the total capacity to 61,276, making it the fifth-largest football stadium in England. The ground is also home to the Liverpool FC Museum, and the iconic "This Is Anfield" sign above the players' tunnel remains one of the most recognized symbols in world football.