Summary
Anfield has four stands, jump to The four stands. The Kop is behind one goal and the Anfield Road Stand is behind the other. The Main Stand runs along one side of the pitch, and the Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand faces it. We book seven hospitality options for Anfield, and each pairs a lounge with seats in a particular stand. They run from the Japan Airlines Lounge, jump to Main Stand in the Main Stand to The Sandon, the pub where the club was founded, jump to Off-site options.
Hospitality at Anfield comes in two parts. There is a lounge where you eat and drink before the match, and there is your seat in the stand. The two are not always in the same place. The Boot Room Restaurant is at the Kop end, for example, while its seats are in the Anfield Road Stand at the other end of the ground. Two of the options are not inside the stadium at all.
Which stand you sit in decides how close you are to the pitch and which end you face. It also decides how far you walk between your lounge and your seat.
The four stands at a glance
Anfield is in the north of Liverpool, beside Stanley Park. Liverpool played their first match there in September 1892, and the ground has been their home ever since. Its capacity has been 61,276 since 2024, after the Anfield Road Stand was expanded. Each stand has one or more levels of seating, called tiers, and each tier is divided into labelled sections called blocks.
The Kop
This is the home end behind one goal, a single tier of seating where the most vocal home supporters sit.
The Main Stand
It runs along one side of the pitch and has three tiers. The dugouts, where the managers and substitutes sit, are in front of it.
The Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand
It faces the Main Stand across the pitch and has two tiers.
The Anfield Road Stand
It sits behind the other goal and gained 7,000 seats in its recent expansion.
The Kop
The Kop was built in 1906, after Liverpool won the league that year. It was named after Spion Kop, a hill in South Africa where a local regiment suffered heavy losses during the Boer War. For most of the century it was a standing terrace. It was rebuilt with seats in 1994, following the Taylor Report’s recommendations after the Hillsborough disaster, and it has been a single tier since then.
None of the seven options we book puts your seat in the Kop. You will be looking at it from wherever you sit, though, and it is the end to watch before kick-off. The whole ground sings You’ll Never Walk Alone, the Gerry and the Pacemakers hit the club adopted in the 1960s, and the Kop is where the flags and banners go up.
The Main Stand
The expanded Main Stand opened in September 2016, adding a third tier and about 8,500 seats. The players come out of the tunnel on this side, under a This Is Anfield sign. Bill Shankly introduced the sign in 1972 so that visiting teams saw it on their way to the pitch.
The Japan Airlines Lounge is on Level 3 of the Main Stand. Your seat is below it in Block L14 of the Lower Tier, next to the Directors’ Box, the seats the club keeps for its directors and their guests. That puts you low down and near the pitch. Three courses are served before kick-off. Beer, wine and soft drinks are included, though the bar closes while the match is on. A former player from the men’s or women’s team calls in, and there is a matchday gift for each guest. It suits a host bringing senior clients, where the seat matters as much as the meal.
The Carlsberg Dugout seats you in the Main Stand too, in the Middle Tier at Block M9, in one wing of the stand. It is the club’s sports bar rather than a restaurant. Street-food stalls serve until kick-off and one drink is included at half-time. Anything else from the bar is paid for, and the bar is cashless. It gets very busy and lounge seats are not guaranteed, so it suits a group that would rather stand at the bar and mingle than sit down to dinner.
The Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand
The Sir Kenny Dalglish Stand began as the Kemlyn Road Stand. It became the Centenary Stand in 1992, when a second tier was added for the club’s hundredth birthday. In 2017 it was renamed after Kenny Dalglish, who won the league with Liverpool as a player and again as manager.
The Forever Reds Lounge is on the ground floor of this stand. Your seat is in the Lower Tier wing towards the corner, in block KG, KP or KN. The lounge is set out like a sports bar. You get street food before the match, tea and coffee all day and one drink at half-time, and anything else from the bar is paid for. Because the lounge and the seat are in the same stand, you do not have to cross the ground to reach your seat. It suits a group that has come for the football and wants a relaxed day rather than a long lunch. It fills quickly on matchdays.
The Anfield Road Stand
The Anfield Road Stand is behind the goal at the opposite end to the Kop. Its expansion added 7,000 seats and opened in stages through the 2023/24 season. Away supporters have a section in the lower tier, and none of our seats are in it. Four of our seven options put your seat in this stand.
The Founders Lounge is on the first floor of the stand, with full-height windows over the pitch. Your seat is in the Middle Tier, in Block AM4 or AM5. It is the only one of the seven with champagne and a full bar included. There are four courses, with refreshments again at half-time and full time. A former player drops in and there is a matchday gift. It suits a group that cares as much about the food and drink as the football, and wants the bar included.
The Boot Room Restaurant shares its name with the small room under the old Main Stand where Liverpool’s coaching staff met from the 1960s. Its restaurant and its seats are at opposite ends of the ground. You eat on the first floor at the Kop end, next door to The Liverpool FC Story, the club museum. Entry to the museum before kick-off is included. The meal is a three-course set menu, and the bar is a cashless pay bar. At full time there is tea and coffee back in the restaurant. Your seat is in the Upper Tier of the Anfield Road Stand, in Block AU4, which is reached by stairs only.
It is the one we would suggest for a first visit, because the museum turns the afternoon into a look round the club’s history as well as a match. A former player comes round during the day here too.
Hospitality away from the ground
Two of the options serve your food and drink outside the stadium, then send you to a seat in the Upper Tier of the Anfield Road Stand. Both open three and a half hours before kick-off and finish half an hour before it. Both are a short walk from the ground.
The Isla Gladstone is a Victorian conservatory in Stanley Park, the park beside Anfield. It is Grade II listed, which means it is protected as a building of special interest. You have a reception drink, then a three-course set menu served on arrival, and you walk across the park to the ground afterwards. It suits a group that wants a sit-down meal away from the crowds inside the stadium, and that is happy for the hospitality to finish before the match starts.
The Sandon, on Oakfield Road, is the pub where Liverpool Football Club was formed in 1892. Everton played at Anfield until 1892. They left after a dispute with the ground’s owner, John Houlding, and he formed a new club to play there instead. The pub still opens for matchdays, and the hospitality is a reception drink with food served from when you arrive. It suits supporters who want the history with their day and are happy to walk to the ground with the crowd.
Which lounge suits which group
Hosting senior clients
The Japan Airlines Lounge gives you Lower Tier seats beside the Directors’ Box.
When the food and drink matter most
The Founders Lounge includes champagne, four courses and a full bar.
A first visit
The Boot Room Restaurant comes with the club museum before kick-off.
A relaxed, sociable day
The Forever Reds Lounge and the Carlsberg Dugout are both sports bars, with street food and a pay bar.
A sit-down meal away from the crowds
The Isla Gladstone serves three courses in a conservatory in Stanley Park.
The club’s history
The Sandon is the pub where Liverpool were formed in 1892.
Not every option is offered for every match in the 2026/27 season, and the mix changes from match to match. Checking which lounges are open for your fixture is part of what we do once you tell us the match you have in mind.
Anfield with us
We book all seven options for Liverpool’s home matches in the 2026/27 season. Three of them seat you in the Upper Tier of the Anfield Road Stand, which is reached by stairs only, so step-free access is one of the things we check when we put the options together for your group. If you tell us the match and the size of your group, we will come back with the lounges open for it and where each one would seat you.
Chloe Burchell
Event Manager
Event Manager at Imperial Corporate Events. She’s hosted clients at everything from the Six Nations to the Eastern & Oriental Express, and she’s good company on the day.
