Liverpool chairman Tom Werner has revealed he has no major plans to upgrade Anfield in the coming years, and claimed he feels the stadium is “the right size now, more or less”.
Fenway Sports Group (FSG) have invested heavily in the Reds’ stadium over recent years, with a further 7,000 seats added to the Anfield Road section of the grounding, bringing the overall capacity above 61,000 seats. Meanwhile, Anfield’s expanded Main Stand opened in 2016, as the club’s owners looked to modernize Liverpool’s historic home.
But there are no plans to move away from Anfield, even if Liverpool’s near neighbors have just executed plans to move to a new state-of-art stadium. Everton’s Hill Dickinson Stadium will host its first Premier League game in a little under two months’ time, with the Toffees following clubs such as Tottenham Hotspur and West Ham United in moving to a more modern design in recent years.
Manchester United could follow suit, if its futuristic plans ever see the light of day, yet having upgraded two Anfield stands, Werner now sees further stadium enhancements as further down his list of priorities.
“We are comfortable that this is the right size now, more or less,” the club executive told the Liverpool ECHO. “We'd like to have the back of the house work a little bit.
“We're expanding the club store at Anfield and we are not shy about how we can generate more revenues because the more revenues we generate the more you can plough it into the pitch and the success on the pitch.”
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Anfield has changed drastically since FSG bought Liverpool in 2010. (Image: 2025 Getty Images)
The revamped 4,000-square-feet club store will open at Anfield on August 1 ahead of the new season, while FSG has also commissioned the club’s new training ground in Kirkby, which opened in 2020.
As for Werner’s comments on reinvesting funds back into the playing squad, that is already evident this summer with the ambitious recruitment of Jeremie Frimpong, Milos Kerkez and Florian Wirtz.
Those additions will be necessary ahead of what will likely be another challenging season.
In fact, Werner is predicting a more drawn-out title race next term.
“When Newcastle played us in the Carabao Cup they dominated us and there are five or six teams that could actually be champions next year but we hope that we're the one that is hoisting it aloft next May,” he said. “There's more space here in this room for one.”