Liverpool title win LIVE: Trophy parade details revealed after 20th title triumph

Liverpool fans were told in 2020 that they would, at some point, get to celebrate ending their 30-year wait for a Premier League title with their players in the streets of the city.

Five years on, they will do just that – just with another league trophy under their belt.

While details have yet to be confirmed, a trophy parade in the city is likely to follow the final game of the season. Liverpool memorably celebrated their 2019 Champions League triumph in front of an estimated 750,000 supporters in the city, with the parade winding through the city and ending at the waterfront.

Liverpool were unable to have a parade in 2020 due to Covid restrictions, but there was a bus parade in 2022 after winning the FA Cup and League Cup, although the Reds narrowly missed out on the Premier League and Champions League that season.

The day after the final game of the season, Monday 26 May, is a bank holiday and would therefore be an ideal time to hold a trophy parade, but the club are yet to confirm any details.

Until this moment, the end-of-season recurrence in Liverpool had come with an added jeopardy over the past decade. The pageant of the team bus crawling down Anfield Road ahead of their final home game, emerging gradually from the red mist, arrived alongside the war cry of thousands, scaling the trees and scaffolding to the side. The smell of pure sulphur, flares forming the richest of scarlet red air, came with an added whiff of worry. Fans congregating in the city drank lager and Guinness, stimulated perhaps more in hope than expectation.

This time, there was no angst. No final-day jangling of nerves. No chaos or confusion on the terraces. The old-school radios and earphones were left in the junk box. Because this time, to those with an L postcode and the many flocking from beyond the borders, there was an inexorable party in town. And they were all here to attend, with or without an invite.

Kieran Jackson reports from Anfield:

And the defender, whose contract at Anfield expires next year, suggested trophies will be a factor in his decision of what to do as he said he will only remember what he has won when he retires.

“We have to be happy. I saw him on the pitch and he didn’t really want to take the praise, he walked behind us and it’s crazy to be humble like that. OK, we are on the pitch and we run and do everything but he has done a lot as well for us. Thanks to him, thanks to the fans.”

Last season, Mohamed Salah vowed to do “everything possible” to bring success back to Anfield.

Well Mo, you delivered on that promise. And with 46 goal contributions in 34 Premier League games, you weren’t half at the heart of it all.

There are currently 21 Liverpool players in line to receive a Premier League winners’ medal by default. However, there is one notable absentee from that list.

Premier League rules state that any individual to have made five or more appearances in the trophy-winning league campaign must be given one of the 40 commemorative medals given to the champions.

Federico Chiesa has not yet met that criteria. The summer signing from Juventus has battled injury in his first season on Merseyside and struggled to force his way consistently into Arne Slot’s forward line – only making four league appearances, all off the bench, so far.

It may be that the Italian is granted the silver token anyway: the 40 medals can be distributed to the manager, players and officials as the successful club see fit, provided every player to have made five Premier League appearances receives one.

See which players are in line for a winners’ medal: