Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It has a seating capacity of 53,394, making it the seventh largest stadium in England. Two gates at the stadium are named after former Liverpool managers: Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley. The record attendance of 61,905 was set at a match between Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1952.
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Anfield is a football stadium in Anfield, Liverpool, Merseyside, England. It has a seating capacity of 53,394, making it the seventh largest stadium in England. The stadium has four stands: the Spion Kop, the Main Stand, the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand and the Anfield Road End. Two gates at the stadium are named after former Liverpool managers: Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley. The record attendance of 61,905 was set at a match between Liverpool and Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1952. The ground was originally the home of Everton from 1884 to 1891, before they moved to Goodison Park after a dispute with the club president. It was proposed in 2002 to replace the stadium with a new one in the adjacent Stanley Park, but after the acquisition of Liverpool F. C. by Fenway Sports Group in 2010 it was made clear this would not happen. The name Anfield comes from the old town land of \”Annefield\” outside New Ross, County Wexford in Ireland. The first match at Anfield was between Everton and Earlestown on 28 September 1884, which Everton won 5–0. Everton quickly improved as a team, and became Anfield’s first league champions in the 1890–91 season. In 1892, negotiations to purchase the land at Anfield from Orrell escalated into a dispute between Houlding and the Everton F.C. committee over how the club was run. This culminated in Everton’s move to goodison Park. Liverpool’s first Football League match was played on 9 September 1893, against Lincoln City.
A new stand capable of holding 3,000 spectators was constructed in 1895 on the site of the present Main Stand. A roof was erected in 1928, when the Kop was redesigned and extended to hold 30,000, all standing as well as all standing. A stand was also built along Kemlyn Road in 1903, built from timber and corrugated iron. After Liverpool had won their second League championship in 1906, a new stand was built along the Breck Road End in 1906. The Kop was named after a famous hill in South Africa where a local regiment had suffered heavy losses during the Boer War in 1900. More than 300 men had died during the war, many of them from Liverpool, as the British army attempted to capture the hilltop. In 1928, the ground remained much the same until the same stand was erected as well as the Kop in 1928. There are future plans to expand the Anfield road stand which would bring the stadium size to around 61,000. It is 2 miles from Liverpool Lime Street railway station, and is located 2 miles from the city’s main railway station. Anfield was opened in 1884 by John Orrell, a minor land owner who was a friend of Everton’s club president John Houlded. Everton, who previously played at Priory Road, were in need of a new venue owing to the noise produced by the crowd on match days. Orrell lent the pitch to the club in exchange for a small rent.
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