Liverpool unveil plans for victory parade through the city on Sunday after Champions League triumph with tens of thousands of fans expected to salute their heroes
- Tens of thousands of Liverpool fans are set to welcome the team home
- The city council revealed the route for team’s victory parade on Sunday
- It will start at Allerton Maze at 4pm and make its way to the city’s waterfront
- Liverpool beat Tottenham 2-0 in Madrid to win a sixth European Cup title
Liverpool’s Champions League winners will be welcomed back to the city with a victory parade on Sunday afternoon.
Jurgen Klopp and his players are set to board an open-top bus and show off their latest European trophy, with tens of thousands of supporters expected to turn out.
They won the competition for the sixth time in their history with a 2-0 victory over Tottenham Hotspur in Madrid on Saturday night.
Liverpool will parade the Champions League trophy through the streets of the city upon their return from Madrid on Sunday afternoon. The city council has released the parade route
Liverpool fans partied long into the night in Madrid following their 2-0 win over Tottenham
And after their flight back from Spain, they will climb aboard the bus for the parade, which culminates on the city’s waterfront.
Liverpool City Council revealed the route late on Saturday night with the parade starting at 4pm at Allerton Maze.
The bus will then travel north on Queens Drive towards the Fiveways roundabout and Rocket flyover.
From there, it will journey along Queens Drive, Mill Bank, West Derby Road, Islington, Leeds Street and The Strand before finishing at Blundell Street.
There were wild celebrations back in Liverpool as well as fans climbed on top of buses
Supporters gathered near Anfield to celebrate their team’s sixth European Cup success
They will have another chance to celebrate at the victory parade on Sunday afternoon
The Mersey River Festival and Bordeaux Wine Festival are also taking place on the Waterfront his weekend.
A spokesman for Merseyside Police said they expected ‘tens of thousands of people’ to turn out for the Homecoming Parade.
The Council advised fans to line the full length of the route and to be patient as it can’t be predicted how long it’ll take for the bus to travel along.
The parade will culminate on the city’s waterfront after passing through several streets
At least 50,000 Liverpool fans were in Madrid for the final, which was staged at Atletico Madrid’s Wanda Metropolitano stadium.
They took a second-minute lead from the penalty spot through Mohamed Salah after Moussa Sissoko was adjudged to have handled Sadio Mane’s cross.
And substitute Divock Origi made sure of the victory three minutes from time after goalkeeper Alisson had made several key saves to keep Tottenham at bay.