Anfield

Membership makes you eligible; the seats themselves are shared out by ballot. The All Red ticket sale and ballot takes place twice a season: in July for games up to 31 December, and in November for games from 1 January. Only All Red members can register. You choose a preferred seating location and ticket price and give your payment card details, though no payment is taken at that stage. If you are successful, a seat in line with those preferences is allocated automatically, so there is no online queue to sit in.

If you miss your sale or lose the ballot, the next chance is the Additional Members Sales, held before each match and subject to availability. Returned seats surface there too. Tickets handed back through the club’s Ticket Exchange go into those sales as general admission tickets, resold at face value and only to eligible All Red members. The Ticket Exchange is the only official way to list or buy a resale ticket for a Premier League home game. It doesn’t cover cup games or match-by-match hospitality bookings.

Then there are match credits, which determine your eligibility to buy tickets for men’s home and away games. For a Premier League home game you earn one by buying a general admission ticket, not a season ticket, through an official club channel and then attending the match.

Every ticket is digital. Entry is by NFC pass, stored in Apple Wallet on an iPhone or in the Google Pay app on an Android phone. Download it before you set off, because it has to be on the phone before you arrive at the stadium.

If someone is passing you their ticket, it must come through Ticket Forwarding, the only permitted way to share one. You need to be registered with the club and on the sender’s Friends & Family list. If you are neither an All Red member nor a season ticket holder, you also need a General Admission NFC pass, which is free but means registering with the club. Sharing by any other route breaches the ticketing terms and may get the account suspended or cancelled.

The club also sells official hospitality packages for matches at Anfield. If you need an accessible ticket, register your access requirements with the club first.

• the top level of the Main Stand, for views of the pitch and the city
• the Press Room
• the This Is Anfield sign, which you pass under
• the Kop, for photographs of the pitch and the Main Stand

The museum shows all of the club’s major trophies together, the European Cups among them.

On a match day the tour is cut down. The Matchday Stadium Tour runs on selected home fixtures only, and leaves out the dressing rooms and the press conference room. It doesn’t come with a match ticket.

The club’s booking site also lists a Legends Experience, the Anfield VIP Experience and the Anfield Abseil.

If you drive to a tour on a non-matchday, Stanley Park car park has limited spaces on a first come, first served basis. Allow 5 to 10 minutes to walk from the car park to the tour check-in point. On Liverpool home match days there is no tour parking, and that includes the Matchday Stadium Tour.

Away supporters go in the Anfield Road Stand. The club’s accessibility guide puts 24 accessible general admission spaces there, among the away fans. The stand was extended in 2024, with 7,000 seats added.

The Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand is the old Centenary Stand: the club announced the new name on 3 May 2017. The top level of the Main Stand has views across the pitch and out over the city.

You don’t pick an exact seat in the members’ ballot. You state a preferred seating location and ticket price when you register, and a seat in line with them is allocated if you are successful.

• 917 expressFrom Commutation Row, near Lime Street station, to Anfield in about 15 minutes.
• 26Direct from Liverpool ONE.
• 17Direct from Queen Square.
• 926A special matchday bus from Liverpool ONE.
• 68/168, 14 and 19These stop nearby.

A taxi bus service also runs from Commutation Row direct to Anfield.

On Merseyrail, from places such as Southport, Chester, Ormskirk and Ellesmere Port, head for Sandhills and take the Soccerbus. It runs from Sandhills station to Anfield before kick-off, with return services after the match. Walking from the railway takes a while: the club’s access guide puts both Sandhills and Kirkdale, on the Northern Line, at about 30 minutes on foot.

From the city centre there are signposted walking routes to the stadium. Cyclists can leave a bike securely at the free Cycle Hub, at the top of Stanley Park car park.

Don’t drive to the ground and hope to park. Anfield is a residential area with a residents-only parking scheme, enforced on matchdays, and an illegally parked car is fined and may be removed. On a matchday there is no general paid parking at Stanley Park car park or on Utting Avenue; the only spaces are pre-allocated to disabled supporters and to those over 65. If you are coming by car, the club’s answer is park and ride from a regional train station, or a bus from the city centre.

Accessible parking on a matchday is very limited and has to be requested when you book your match ticket. Spaces are allocated by ballot, and successful applicants are usually emailed around a week before the match.

After the match, the return 917 buses are stacked on Walton Lane and the 927 leaves from St Domingo Road.

Near Lime Street works if you are arriving by train: it is the station rail passengers come into, and the 917 express leaves from Commutation Row, close to it. Around Liverpool ONE you have the direct 26 and the matchday 926; the 17 goes from Queen Square.

If you’re staying outside the city on a Merseyrail line, head for Sandhills station and take the Soccerbus from there.

Drop your bags where you’re staying before you head to the ground: Anfield has no luggage or storage spaces, and the bag limit at the gate is A5 size.

• large bags, suitcases, laptops and tablets
• large umbrellas, baby buggies and prams
• drinks in cartons, cans or plastic bottles over 500ml, glass bottles and drinking glasses
• alcohol
• musical instruments, loud hailers and air horns
• video recording equipment, large cameras, selfie sticks and drones
• smoke canisters, fireworks, flares, tools, knives, weapons and laser devices

Anfield is an all-seater stadium, and the club asks fans to remain seated throughout the match. Entering the pitch without permission, or carrying or using smoke bombs or pyros, brings an automatic club ban.