Liverpool Football Club will hold a victory parade later this month, regardless of how the team fares in the Premier League and Champions League final.
The Mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson had already invited the club to take part in a victory parade around the city in preparation for the potential outcome of the season, but following last Saturday’s Wembley win, this has been extended to include the FA Cup, which the Reds won at Wembley on Saturday.
The club has officially accepted the offer, meaning that a parade will now definitely go ahead at 4pm on Sunday May 29, the day after Liverpool take on Real Madrid in the Champions League Final in Paris. This is the only time all players are available due to the majority of them traveling on international duty to represent their respective countries immediately after this date.
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The parade will also include include Liverpool FC Women, who clinched the FA Women's Championship trophy last month.
As the date of the victory parade falls on the anniversary of the Heysel Stadium disaster, throughout the morning of the anniversary Liverpool Football Club, supported by Liverpool City Council, will pay tribute to the 39 supporters who lost their lives on that day. The city council and the Club are working together on those plans.
The 13.5km victory route, the same as the 2019 parade, will start at Allerton Maze in the south of the city. It will then travel north bound on Queens Drive towards the Fiveways roundabout (in Childwall) and on to the Rocket flyover.
From there it will journey along:
• Queens Drive
• Mill Bank
• West Derby Road
• Islington
• Leeds Street
• The Strand
• Route finishes at Blundell Street
The full costs of the parade will be met by Liverpool Football Club, who have already won the Carabao Cup and FA Cup, and are currently one point behind Manchester City in the Premier League, with each team left with one match to play this Sunday.
The parade will be organised by the award-winning Culture Liverpool team, which also organised the parades in 2005 and 2019 and has brought many major events to the city such as The Giants. Information about road closures, public transport, viewing areas or to track the parade on a live Google map, head to Culture Liverpool which is home to a useful series of FAQs.
Mayor of Liverpool, Joanne Anderson, said: “We’re delighted that we can now confirm the club will definitely parade around the city on the 29 May – and I’m pleased we will be celebrating the achievements of both the men and women’s teams. A huge amount of work goes on behind the scenes in preparation for an event of this size and scale, so it’s fantastic that the city are now going to be able to experience this.
“Lifting the FA Cup, the Carabao Cup and the FA Women’s Championship trophy is an incredible achievement that deserves to be acknowledged and we have everything crossed that they won’t be the only trophies they are lifting on the day! Whatever the outcome of the end of the season and the Champions League Final, Liverpool FC and Liverpool FC Women have already done us proud, and we will give both teams the homecoming celebration they deserve."
