Anfield seating plan

Four prefixes for four stands, and a list that only covers the accessible seats

Anfield has four stands and they do not share a numbering scheme. The Main Stand is a single alphabetical family split by tier: L for the lower tier, M for the middle, U for the upper. The Kop uses numbers instead, and the leading digit is the level — the 100s sit at ground level and the 200s above them. The Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand uses two-letter codes. The Anfield Road Stand prefixes AL. Four stands, four conventions, and no relationship between them.

The blocks the club names are these. In the Main Stand, L1, L2, L7, L8, L9 and L10 in the lower tier; M1, M2, M4, M6, M8 and M9 in the middle; and U5 in the upper. In the Kop, 104 to 108 at ground level and 202 to 208 on the level above. In the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand, KG, KN and KP. In the Anfield Road Stand, AL2 to AL5 and AL6 to AL9.

The tiers themselves are uneven, which is why the prefixes matter more than they would at a bowl. The club describe the Kop as a single tier, the Main Stand as three, and both the Sir Kenny Dalglish and Anfield Road stands as two. A block letter therefore tells you the stand and the tier in one, and there is no continuous run of numbers around the ground to count along.

Now the limit on all of that, which matters as much as the list. Every block above comes from a single table in the club's Access Statement, headed "Stadium entry information for disabled supporters". It sets out which blocks are reachable from each accessible entrance, so it is a complete list of those and not a complete list of the ground. The prefixes it reveals are real; the coverage is not. Liverpool publish no full stand-by-stand block list and no rule for which direction the numbering runs, so the gaps above — no L3, no M3, no 105 named — are gaps in what an accessibility document had reason to mention.

Four conventions in one ground is unusual; how stands, blocks, rows and seats normally fit together is the pattern the rest of football uses.

AL7 and AL8, or AL9 and AL8 — the club publishes both

Visiting supporters sit in the lower tier of the Anfield Road Stand. Two Liverpool documents say where the wheelchair bays are and they do not agree. The club's visiting supporters page states there are "12 wheelchair bays available, subject to allocation, located in front of the visiting supporters in blocks AL7 and AL8". The club's own visiting fans booklet states that "wheelchair bays are located in front of the visiting supporters in block AL9 / AL8".

AL8 is common to both. The other block is AL7 on the web page and AL9 in the booklet, and nothing in either document acknowledges the other. This page prints both and settles neither: they are two primary sources from one club in one season, and there is nothing to choose between them except a preference. A visiting wheelchair user should confirm the block with the club rather than with any page repeating one of the two.

General entry and accessible entry are different routes and worth keeping apart. Visiting fans enter through entrances Q and R, approaching Anfield Road from the direction of 97 Avenue, because there is no access from the Arkles Lane direction; the booklet asks fans to turn left when leaving. Turnstiles open two hours before kick-off for visiting supporters. The accessible route is separate: accessibility gate DA6, on Anfield Road, from the same 97 Avenue direction. Home supporters needing the equivalent use DA4, between the Sir Kenny Dalglish and Anfield Road stands.

One access limitation is stated plainly and is easy to miss when booking: the Anfield Road upper tier has no lift access. Supporters with mobility needs holding tickets there are asked to contact the club's disability team on 0151 264 2500 before travelling.

Seven products from £12.50 to £150

Liverpool price seven products on one page, which makes Anfield among the easiest of these grounds to plan a visit to. The LFC Stadium Tour and Museum is £24.00 for an adult. A Matchday Stadium Tour and Museum is £28.00, and a UEFA Stadium Tour and Museum £20.00. The museum on its own is £12.50. Above those sit three experiences: a Legends Q&A with the stadium tour at £60.00, the Anfield Abseil at £46.00, and the Anfield Experience at £150.00 — a spread of twelve to one across the range.

The booking terms give the duration: a stadium tour "lasts for approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes". That is the only duration the club state for any of the seven, so the museum, the abseil and the experiences are all unpriced for time even though every one of them is priced in pounds.

Before booking any of the seven, what to check on the day is worth two minutes.

Unavailable on a home matchday, and resident-only for streets around

There is no parking at Anfield on a Liverpool home matchday. The club's own visitor page puts it in four words — "Parking is unavailable on Liverpool home match days" — and the streets around the ground are no alternative: Anfield is a residential area operating a resident-only parking scheme, with enforcement on matchdays and illegally parked cars liable to a fine or removal.

Stanley Park Car Park, on the corner of Utting Avenue and Priory Road, serves stadium tour visitors on non-matchdays, and the club publish no price for it. On Everton home matchdays availability is limited and charges may apply. The club ask visitors to use official manned car parks only rather than residential streets.

The exceptions are all accessibility ones. There is no general paid parking on Stanley Car Park or Utting Avenue "except for those pre-allocated slots for disabled supporters or those over the age of 65", applied for through the club's Disability Ticketing Team. Accessible bays in Stanley Park Car Park go to supporters who register interest at the start of each season and are then sent a one-off parking pass. A sensory room booking carries a parking space with it — the room is in the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand, opens two hours before kick-off, and must be booked in advance. Visiting coaches park on Arkles Lane.

61,276, and two numbers that are not the capacity

Anfield's capacity is 61,276, confirmed by the club ahead of the 2024/25 season once the Anfield Road expansion was complete. No separate figure is published for European fixtures.

Two other numbers circulate as though they were the capacity, and neither is. 60,090 is an attendance — the club's record league crowd, set against Crystal Palace in April. 61,905 is also an attendance — the all-time record at the ground, set in 1952 when Wolverhampton Wanderers visited for an FA Cup tie. Both are real figures about Anfield and neither describes how many seats it has.

The reason they get misquoted is that all three appear in the same club announcement. A page skimming it for the largest number finds 61,905, a figure from 1952 describing a ground that has been rebuilt twice since, and prints it as today's capacity. The order matters more than the numbers: 61,905 is bigger than 61,276, so a stadium that grew still has a record it cannot now match.

Attendance records being quoted as capacities is one of the commonest errors in this subject, and what a published capacity counts explains why the two get confused.

L4 0TH, and the object the pin was checked against

Liverpool publish the address themselves — Anfield Road, Liverpool, L4 0TH — but no coordinate, so the pin below comes from OpenStreetMap, object way/4830206, which OSM classifies as leisure/stadium. That check earned its place here: the same query returns the Anfield suburb as its second result, a place/suburb object half a mile north-east, and a pin taken on trust would have landed in a residential grid rather than on the ground.

Anfield Road, Liverpool, L4 0TH

View Anfield on OpenStreetMap

53.4309, -2.96097

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