Premier League: Liverpool want to address the 2,000 empty seats on average at Anfield

"Liverpool have outlined their work in the local community and underlined their desire to eradicate empty seats at Anfield during the first meeting of the local supporters' forum which took place ahead of the Manchester City game on Sunday (14/01/2018)," said Liverpool FC on 16/01/2018.

"Attended by nine forum members and five representatives from the club, including chief executive Peter Moore, the meeting focused on two key issues - the ability of local supporters to attend home games at Anfield and the work that Liverpool does in the area," added Liverpool FC.

Among a number of ideas that would help to solve the problem of empty seats were a ticket amnesty programme, and allocation of empty seats to school children.

"Our fill rate is around 94 per cent but our sales rate is around 99.6 per cent" (P. Dutton, Liverpool FC, 16/01/2018)

• "Our fill rate (i.e. the number of seats that are used on a matchday) is around 94 per cent but our sales rate (ie the number of seats sold) is around 99.6 per cent…