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Liverpool have paraded photographs showing the progress of their Anfield Road End redevelopment – on the same day Everton showed off their stadium construction gains.
The £80million project, which will see the upper tier of the stand closed until 2024, started in September 2021.
Anfield’s capacity upon completion of the works will be 61,000, an increase of 7,000 from its current size.
It comes after Everton released fresh images of their new stadium being constructed at Bramley-Moore Dock.
The new photographs unveiled by Liverpool show that the upper tier seats are fully installed and also show the concourse and indoor facilities.
When work is done on the stand, the club will have to hold multiple test events to satisfy health and safety regulations.
Liverpool explained: ‘The aim of these events will be to test the building, systems and management plans, using the welfare facilities, testing entry and exit procedures and fire alarm evacuation.
‘These events are expected to take place before the end of the calendar year. Once these events have taken place and a safety certificate has been granted, the top tier will open in a phased approach.’
The initial plan was that the work would be done ahead of this season.
Liverpool were granted special permission by the Premier League ahead of the start of the season to play their opener away from home in a bid to finish the project, but that has not come to fruition.
However, the original contractors behind the development, Buckingham Group, filed for administration in August and entered administration in September.
Buckingham Group’s reports from 2021 saw the firm suffer a close to £11m pre-tax loss against the backdrop of severe delays to their other major stadium work, Fulham’s Craven Cottage Riverside Stand project.
Rayner Rowen Construction was appointed as the new contractor alongside multiple sub-contractors to resume the work as quickly as possible.
When it is completed, the redeveloped stand will directly create 400 additional jobs, with 95 per cent of those employed locally.
It is part of a wider stadium expansion over the last decade for the Reds, who opened a redeveloped Main Stand in September 2016.
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