The upper tier of Liverpool’s Anfield Road Stand will remain closed for the rest of the calendar year, the Premier League club announced on Thursday.
The club are conducting an £80m upgrade to lift capacity by 7,000 to 61,000.
Liverpool changed contractors to Rayner Rowen Group last month after Buckingham Group went into administration.
Club chief executive Billy Hogan said it was “not possible at this point to put a new timeline in place” for completion of the expansion project.
It had initially been hoped the work would be finished by the start of this season.
“On a project of this size, information on all the aspects of the work is critical to move forward,” said Hogan.
“And what’s become clear in the last few days is there’s just more work to be done in order to get a full project completion plan for the stand, which means unfortunately as I said that the upper tier is not ready to partially or fully open until the end of the calendar year.”
Only the lower tier of the Anfield Road Stand has been occupied by supporters this season, with the ground’s capacity reduced to 50,000.
“Rayner Rowen really needs the time to complete the information-gathering before we commit to any new project timeline,” said Hogan.
“There’s a lot of different, various factors that are going into this discussion and into this review, so many pieces of the jigsaw that we need to pull together so it’s just not possible at this point to put a new timeline in place.”
