Liverpool F.C.

Liverpool Football Club is an English football club and the most successful team ever to have played in the English league. Since its founding in 1892, Liverpool has won five European Cups, the most recent in the 2004-5 season, and eighteen Football League titles. The club's home ground is the 45,362 capacity Anfield stadium, which is about three miles from the centre of Liverpool.

New Stadium

On July 30, 2004, Liverpool City Council granted the club planning permission to build a new 60,000 seat stadium, nearby at Stanley Park. Despite pressure from Governmental and funding bodies, Liverpool refused to share the new ground with their local rivals Everton and "final" talks on a groundshare failed in January 2005. Construction of the new stadium is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2005 and the new stadium will open in 2007, though its finance has still to be resolved. The old stadium will become a public plaza surrounded by apartments, offices, bars, restaurants and a hotel, and possibly including a memorial garden. Treatment of the old stadium requires sensitivity as a number of deceased fans have had their ashes officially scattered on the pitch over the years.

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July 30 - 2004 - Liverpool City Council - Club - Planning permission - New 60,000 seat stadium - Stanley Park - January - 2005 - Stadium - 2007 - Plaza - Apartment - Office - Bars - Restaurant - Hotel

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