English Premier league Football Kicks off this Weekend
16th August 2025
Here at Best Value Tours we are delighted the 2025/6 premier league Football restarts this weekend. favourites to win this year are Liverpool FC who have a fabulous stadium Tour of The World Famous Anfield, home to Liverpool Football club. Please find full details below, but first some history of Liverpool Football Club.
Liverpool Football Club has been famous and prestigious since founding in 1892. Liverpool is the most successful British club ever, winning many European titles. Over 200 supporter clubs in at least 50 nations make them one of the world’s most beloved football teams. Heysel and Hillsborough will forever mar their glorious heritage.
After Everton moved to Goodison Park in 1892, then-president John Houlding suddenly owned Anfield stadium but had no team to play there. Houlding, a practical guy, swiftly formed Liverpool (not to be confused with Liverpool Ramblers AFC, founded ten years earlier) to solve this problem. After joining the Football League in 1893, the squad was promoted to the first division after one season in the second. Liverpool won the League in 1901, 1906, 1922, and 1923, establishing themselves as a premier team in England.
Liverpool FC, a hugely popular team, were inconsistent after WWII. The club fell into mediocrity after winning their fourth League title in 1947 and was relegated to the Second Division in 1954. Bill Shankly’s first move as manager was to release the entire first team, but things improved. The coaches’ secret meeting place for 30 years was the club’s storage area, which he converted into the “Boot Room”. Soon, Shankly’s unconventional methods paid off. After returning to the First Division in 1962, Liverpool won the League two years later. While Shankly was manager, they won two more League titles (1966, 1973), two FA Cups (1965, 1974), and their first European trophy, the 1973 UEFA Cup. The club was run by his assistant, Bob Paisley, after Shankly departed in 1974 to take a holiday.
The change in personnel didn’t end Liverpool’s domination. Paisley led Liverpool to six League crowns and three League Cups in nine years. Liverpool won one UEFA Cup and three European Cups between 1976 and 1981. After Paisley retired in 1983, his assistant Joe Fagan led the squad to a Treble in his first season. In 1985, Liverpool played Juventus in the European Cup final. Unruly fans collapsed a perimeter wall, crushing 39 people at that match, making it known as the Heysel catastrophe. After Liverpool fans were blamed for the catastrophe, all English clubs were banned from European competitions for five years.
In the absence of European games, Liverpool focused on domestic competitions. After winning two more League titles in 1986 and 1988 and an FA Cup in 1985, disaster struck again. Six minutes into the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, 94 spectators perished in a crowd crush. Hillsborough remains English football’s worst stadium disaster. Liverpool’s decline began after their ninth League triumph in 1990. Liverpool’s star seemed to have faded in the 1990s and early 2000s with only two Cup wins and middling league performances. despite reaching the 2005 Champions League final, they beat Milan on penalties despite trailing 3-0 at halftime. This incredible win was the club’s last. The ensuing decade saw Liverpool play second fiddle to other English clubs, winning only two Cups and finishing second in the league.
From London to City of Liverpool and Liverpool Football Club Train Tour
Your adventure begins 7am from London Euston to start your Liverpudlian journey. Please arrive on time with your e-tickets since trains depart quickly. Once you arrive in charming Liverpool there is ample time to fully explore this wonderful and famous city, including the Beatles museum.
Liverpool has 19 league titles, 6 European Cups, and 7 FA Cups, so there’s enough to do at Anfield. Immerse yourself in Liverpool FC and see where Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez played. Enter the Home Team dressing room to sit at your hero’s seat. Experience press room pressure as you practise interviewing at the interactive press conference. Go under the This Is Anfield sign and down the Players’ Tunnel to Klopp’s dugout seat. Additionally, you may admire the pitch from the Kop, where your trip ends. Your ticket includes admission to The Liverpool FC Story, the Club’s interactive museum, where you can see its famous cutlery collection.
After a great day in Liverpool and the stadium, return to Liverpool Lime Street for your 6:48pm train to London Euston.
The city boasts many beautiful historic buildings, gardens, parks, museums, and recreation facilities. Famous attractions include the Walker Art Gallery and the Philharmonic Hall, one of Europe’s best performance venues. Shopping in Liverpool, especially at trendy Liverpool One, a 42-acre retail paradise, is popular. Liverpool is The Beatles’ birthplace. Fans can visit Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields on tours. Most tours include The Beatles Story in Albert Dock and the reconstructed Cavern Club, where they debuted in 1961.
Paul McCartney’s residence at 20 Forthlin Road, Pier Head’s Beatles statue, and the Beatles Shop are among must-sees. Many of the Beatles’ early songs were written and rehearsed at his simple home, which is now open to the public and displays Beatles memorabilia and images. The Casbah Coffee Club in West Derby and John Lennon’s childhood home at 251 Menlove Avenue are both popular with fans. The Casbah, founded in 1959 by Pete Best’s parents as a venue for local bands, was a regular haunt of the Beatles and remains unchanged. Britannia Vaults, Liverpool, Royal Albert Dock
The first brick-and-iron building in Britain was the beautifully renovated Royal Albert Dock. Its centrepiece is a five-story building block around the harbour basin where cotton, tobacco, and sugar were unloaded. These massive Victorian buildings have an arcaded promenade and cast Tuscan columns that were ship capstans. These beautifully refurbished warehouses now hold luxury flats, designer boutiques, restaurants, cafés, and museums. They now represent gentrification, which can also be seen in London, Manchester, and Glasgow, where ageing inner cities are renovated to give recreational amenities.
Several top attractions and activities are also in Royal Albert Dock. These museums include The Beatles Story, the International Slavery Museum, and the Border Force National Museum, which explores smuggling and contraband from the 1700s to the present. Liverpool, 3-4 The Colonnades. Tate Liverpool, a notable Tate Gallery branch, opened in Royal Albert Dock in 1988. By coincidence, the London Tate Gallery, founded at the end of the 19th century with a donation from sugar magnate Sir Henry Tate, found room in the ancient warehouses where raw sugar was held before refining.
Contemporary art galleries and London gallery loans are on the ground floor of the “Tate of the North”. A fantastic café with free Wi-Fi is on-site and admission is free. Albert Dock, Liverpool.
Tour Schedule
Travel
Meet and Greet at Euston 7am
London Euston – Liverpool Lime Street
Departure: 7:43am
Arrival: 9:21am
Liverpool Lime Street – London Euston
Departure: 6:48pm
Arrival: 9:04pm
Return train tickets
Entry to Stadium and Club’s Museum
Audio Guides in 11 languages
Transport to and from the stations
Food and drink
Please check you enter the correct email address at check-out. Your e-tickets will be emailed to you around 10 days before your travel at the latest.
Dressing rooms cannot be visited the day before a home game.
Children under 16 must be accompanied by a paying adult.
Audio guides available in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Thai, Japanese, Indonesian and Arabic.
Students must present a valid ID.
All tours are subject to cancellation at short notice and Liverpool Football Club will try to offer alternative dates. If this is not feasible, a refund will be offered.
Free cancellation up to 21 days before travel.
To book please click here From London to City of Liverpool and Liverpool Football Club Train Tour