Every Liverpool fan in Indonesia carries the same dream. Standing inside Anfield. Walking through the players' tunnel. Touching the "This Is Anfield" sign. Looking up at the Kop and imagining it full of 60,000 voices singing together.
You have watched every match. You have set alarms for 2am and 3am kickoffs without hesitation. You know the players, the history, the trophies, and the stories — even though you have never actually been there in person.
That changes now.
This guide is written specifically for Liverpool fans in Indonesia who are ready to make the journey from Jakarta to Anfield. It covers everything — how to fly there from Soekarno-Hatta Airport, how long to stay, what to experience inside the stadium, which tour package suits you best, and how to make the whole trip smooth and unforgettable.
Let's walk through it together.
Why Indonesian Fans Have Such a Deep Connection to Anfield
Indonesia is one of the most passionate football nations in the world. Liverpool FC has one of the largest and most dedicated fan bases in the entire country — from Jakarta to Surabaya, Bandung to Medan. The Bigreds Indonesia supporters group is one of the biggest official Liverpool fan clubs anywhere in Southeast Asia.
Indonesian fans do not just follow Liverpool. They live it. They wear the shirt. They know the history. They have emotional memories tied to specific matches, specific goals, and specific moments that happened thousands of kilometres away in a city they have never visited.
That is exactly what makes the first trip to Anfield so powerful.
When Indonesian fans who have made this journey describe the experience, they all say the same thing — watching matches on television and actually standing inside Anfield are completely different things. The scale. The atmosphere. The weight of history in every corner of that stadium. Television cannot prepare you for any of it.
Getting to Liverpool from Jakarta
Flying from Jakarta to Liverpool requires at least one stopover, but the routes are well-established and very manageable once you know your options. Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (CGK) connects to Liverpool through several reliable hub airports.
Route 1: Jakarta to Manchester via a Gulf Hub, then bus or train to Liverpool
This is one of the most popular and straightforward routes for Indonesian fans. You fly from Soekarno-Hatta to Manchester Airport with one stopover — typically via Abu Dhabi with Etihad Airways, via Doha with Qatar Airways, or via Dubai with Emirates. From Manchester Airport, a direct bus takes about one hour to Liverpool ONE Bus Station in the city centre.
Total journey time from Jakarta to Liverpool door-to-door is typically around 20 to 22 hours including your layover. This route is also flexible — if you want to combine your trip with a visit to Old Trafford or the Manchester city centre, you already land in the right place.
Route 2: Jakarta to London via a Hub, then train to Liverpool
Flying into London Heathrow is a great option if you want to combine your Liverpool trip with time in London. Garuda Indonesia, Qatar Airways, KLM, and Singapore Airlines all operate services from Jakarta to London with one stopover.
From London Euston station, a direct train to Liverpool Lime Street takes around two hours. This is a comfortable, scenic journey through the English countryside. It connects you from London right into the heart of Liverpool — and it is the ideal routing if you want a broader UK trip. Arrive in London, explore for two or three days, then travel north to Liverpool for the Anfield experience.
Route 3: Transit Through Singapore, then fly to Liverpool
Many Indonesian travellers find it convenient to transit through Singapore Changi Airport before connecting onward to Manchester or London. Singapore Airlines operates some of the most comfortable long-haul services from Changi to the UK, and Changi's transit facilities are excellent.
If you live in Batam or are close to the Singapore border, this routing can actually be more convenient and sometimes more economical than flying directly from Soekarno-Hatta.
Route 4: Jakarta to Liverpool John Lennon Airport
Liverpool has its own airport — Liverpool John Lennon Airport (LPL). With one stopover via Amsterdam with KLM, you can fly from Jakarta directly into Liverpool itself. No extra train or bus journey needed. You land, and you are already in the city.
This is the cleanest option for Indonesian fans who want to minimise ground travel time after a long flight.
If managing all these flight options feels overwhelming, the team at Matchday Affairs handles all flight coordination from Jakarta as part of their complete tour packages — including transit options, stopover planning, and the best timings aligned to Liverpool's match schedule.
How Long Should You Stay?
You are flying a very long way from Jakarta. A minimum of three nights in Liverpool is recommended to do justice to the experience. This gives you one day to arrive and recover from the journey, one full day dedicated to Anfield, and one day for the match or further city exploration.
Most Indonesian fans who visit through a specialist football tour agency extend their trip to five to seven days. This extra time allows you to visit multiple Premier League stadiums — Anfield, Old Trafford, Emirates — and spend time in London without feeling rushed.
For first-time visitors to the UK from Indonesia, a seven-day itinerary combining Liverpool and London is the most satisfying structure. You make the long journey truly worthwhile by filling every day with memorable experiences. You can explore sample itinerary structures in the Matchday Affairs EPL Football Tours guide to help plan your days properly.
What to Expect Inside Anfield
The Anfield Stadium Tour runs daily on non-match days, starting in the morning and running through the early afternoon. The full experience takes around 90 minutes. Here is what you see and feel at every stop along the way.
The Players' Tunnel
This is the moment that stops most Indonesian fans in their tracks. You walk through the exact same tunnel that Mohamed Salah, Virgil van Dijk, and every Liverpool legend before them has used to step onto the pitch. The tunnel is narrow, atmospheric, and charged with history — everything you imagined, and also completely different from anything you expected.
Many fans say that walking through this tunnel is the single most emotional moment of the entire trip. You understand, physically and personally, why this club means what it means.
The Home Team Dressing Room
You stand in the same room where Liverpool's squad prepares before every home match. The individual player stations are arranged around the room. The atmosphere is surprisingly intimate for a club of this scale. After years of watching these players on television, standing in their personal preparation space feels deeply personal.
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The most photographed spot in world football. The iconic sign hangs at the end of the tunnel, and players touch it for good luck before every match. You will want your photo here — arrive early within your tour group to avoid the queue building up behind you.
The Manager's Dugout
Sit in the exact seat where Arne Slot manages from during matches. The view from the dugout is completely different from every camera angle you have seen on television. You immediately understand the game differently when you see the pitch from ground level, right on the touchline.
The Press Conference Room
This small, quiet room is where managers face the media after matches — wins, defeats, and everything in between. It is a fascinating window into the professional machinery running behind a top football club.
The LFC Museum
The museum alone would justify the trip for any serious Liverpool fan. All six European Cup trophies are displayed here. Premier League titles, FA Cups, League Cups, and domestic trophies spanning over a century of football history. Interactive exhibits, personal player stories, and historical footage are spread across the space.
Allocate a full hour here. Rushing through it is the most common mistake first-time visitors make.
Main Stand Views
The panoramic views from the Main Stand expansion give you a true sense of Anfield's scale and its relationship with the Liverpool skyline. This is the best spot for wide photographs and for taking a quiet moment to appreciate exactly where you are standing.
For a full breakdown of every stop on the tour, the Matchday Affairs Anfield stadium tour guide covers each highlight in detail and is worth reading before you arrive.
The Five Anfield Tour Experiences
Liverpool FC offers five distinct tour packages. Each is designed for a different type of fan and a different kind of visit.
Standard Anfield Stadium Tour
The foundation experience and the ideal choice for first-time visitors, families, and anyone who wants the complete essential Anfield story. You visit the tunnel, dressing rooms, museum, dugout, press conference room, and the Main Stand.
The audio guide is available in multiple languages — including Bahasa Indonesia — which makes this tour immediately accessible and personal for Indonesian fans. You also receive souvenir earphones to keep as a memento of the visit.
This tour covers everything that matters and stands as a complete, deeply satisfying experience on its own.
Legends Q&A Tour
This package includes everything from the Standard Tour, plus a 60-minute live Q&A session with a real Liverpool FC legend. Former players from the club's great eras sit with you, take your questions directly, and share personal stories and memories from their time at Anfield.
You receive a signed photo and a Champions Souvenir Guide Book. For Indonesian fans who have followed this club through years of highs and lows, sitting in that room and hearing these stories directly is often overwhelming in the best possible way.
Anfield Abseil
This one is for the adventurous fan. You abseil 100 feet down the exterior of the Main Stand, stopping midway to touch the LFC crest mounted on the stadium wall, then receive free entry to the LFC Museum.
Physical fitness and comfort with heights are required. For younger fans, or anyone celebrating a birthday, anniversary, or major personal milestone, this creates a story that you will be telling back home in Indonesia for the rest of your life.
Anfield Experience VIP
The full-day premium package and the most complete Anfield immersion available. You spend an entire day at the stadium being treated as a genuine insider.
The experience includes an expert guided tour with real personal storytelling, an interactive Q&A session with Liverpool legends, buffet-style hospitality with food prepared by the club's own chefs, premium refreshments throughout the day, a premium gift bag to take home, a discount at the official LFC Shop, and extended museum access with absolutely no time pressure.
You arrive at 10am and leave around 4pm — a full, unhurried Anfield day from start to finish. For Indonesian fans travelling all the way from Jakarta for a once-in-a-lifetime trip, this package extracts maximum value from every single hour you are there.
Matchday Stadium Tour and Experience
The ultimate package. You tour the stadium in the hours before kickoff, then stay to watch Liverpool play live.
No television broadcast — no matter how good the production quality — prepares you for the experience of being inside Anfield on match day. The atmosphere builds slowly as fans arrive from all over the world. The Kop fills up. The chants begin rolling around the stadium. And then "You'll Never Walk Alone" fills every corner of Anfield with 60,000 voices in complete unison.
Indonesian fans who have experienced this describe it as one of the most emotional moments of their entire lives.
Note that on match days, certain areas like the dressing rooms are closed for the team's use. But what you gain in return — the actual match, the crowd, the goals, the full Anfield atmosphere — is completely irreplaceable.
This package requires advance booking, particularly for big fixtures. Matches against Manchester United, Everton, Chelsea, Arsenal, and Tottenham sell out many months ahead. Matchday Affairs has a dedicated page for their Anfield Expedition packages that shows current availability and how to lock in your spot well before tickets disappear.
Getting Around Liverpool
Anfield Stadium is located about 3.5 kilometres from Liverpool city centre — very manageable from wherever you are staying in the city.
The local bus is the cheapest and easiest option. Route 26 and Route 27 both stop near the stadium and run regularly from the city centre. A cab or rideshare from your hotel takes around 10 to 15 minutes. For those who enjoy walking, the route from the centre takes about 45 minutes on foot — though on cold or rainy days, the bus or cab is clearly the better choice.
If you hire a car, Stanley Park Car Park sits five minutes' walk from the stadium entrance and is the recommended option for drivers.
What to Do in Liverpool Beyond Anfield
Liverpool is a genuinely world-class city with far more to offer than football alone. Here are the experiences most worth building into your itinerary as an Indonesian visitor.
Albert Dock is a beautifully restored Victorian waterfront area, now full of restaurants, cafés, galleries, and bars. Walking along the dock in the evening after a day at Anfield is one of those simple pleasures that stays with you long after you fly home.
The Beatles Story Museum tells the complete history of Liverpool's most famous export. The Beatles were born in this city, and the museum is a world-class exhibition that takes around two hours to explore properly. For Indonesian visitors who love music history, this is unmissable.
Cavern Club on Mathew Street is the legendary live music venue where The Beatles first made their name. Live music plays here every evening. The atmosphere is fun, unpretentious, and very Liverpool — a perfect way to spend an evening after your Anfield day.
Pier Head and the Three Graces form the iconic Liverpool waterfront skyline that appears in countless photographs and films. Walking along the riverfront at sunset, with the River Mersey stretching out in front of you, is genuinely beautiful.
Local pubs and Scouse food. Scouse is the traditional Liverpool meat stew that gave the people of this city their famous nickname. Trying a proper bowl in a local pub near Anfield — especially on match day, surrounded by fans in red shirts — is one of those authentic travel experiences that no tour itinerary can fully plan for you. It just happens, and it is brilliant.
Practical Tips for Indonesian Visitors
A few important things to know before you land in Liverpool.
Weather. Liverpool is nothing like Jakarta. Even in summer the weather can be cool, overcast, and occasionally rainy. In autumn and winter it gets genuinely cold — temperatures can drop close to freezing. Pack a warm waterproof jacket, comfortable walking shoes with grip, and layers you can add or remove throughout the day. Do not underestimate the climate difference after stepping off a long flight from Indonesia.
Visa requirements. Indonesian passport holders require a UK visa to enter England. Apply well in advance — ideally three to four months before your travel date. A standard UK Standard Visitor Visa covers tourism including stadium tours and match attendance. Matchday Affairs can advise on the correct documentation needed to support your application.
What to bring for the tour. Bring valid photo ID, your booking confirmation either printed or on your phone, a small backpack or crossbody bag, and a fully charged phone or camera. Large bags are not permitted inside the stadium.
Arrive early. For your tour departure time, arriving 15 minutes before your scheduled slot gives you time to check in comfortably and position yourself well within the tour group for the best photo opportunities at key spots — especially the "This Is Anfield" sign.
Wear your Liverpool shirt. Wearing your club colours inside Anfield is one of those small details that makes the whole experience feel complete. The official LFC Shop on Anfield Road is right next to the stadium entrance if you want to pick one up before your tour starts.
Accessibility. All Anfield tours are fully wheelchair accessible. If you or anyone in your group has mobility needs or special requirements, inform the tour operators at the time of booking so they can prepare accordingly.
Book early. For match day experiences and popular fixtures, booking three to four months in advance is essential. For non-match day tours, six to eight weeks is usually sufficient. The full booking process is explained clearly in the Matchday Affairs Liverpool football packages guide.
Why Working with a Specialist Makes the Difference
You can book individual parts of this trip yourself — flights on Traveloka, hotel on Booking.com, tour tickets through Liverpool FC's official website. That is entirely possible.
But there is a clear reason why so many Indonesian fans choose to plan this journey through a specialist football tour agency rather than piecing everything together independently.
When you book separately, every element is your responsibility. Making sure your flight arrival aligns with your hotel check-in time. Making sure your tour is booked for the correct date. Making sure your match tickets are genuine and not fraudulent resales from unauthorised sources. Making sure your hotel is actually walking distance from the right part of the city.
When one thing goes wrong — and with international travel of this distance, something almost always does — you handle it alone, in an unfamiliar country, across multiple time zones at an inconvenient hour.
A specialist football tour agency packages every single element together. Flights from Jakarta, accommodation in Liverpool, tour tickets, match tickets, ground transport, cultural experiences, and round-the-clock support in your time zone. You arrive in Liverpool knowing that everything is already sorted, and your only job is to enjoy every moment.
For Indonesian fans making this journey for the first time, that difference is enormous. Matchday Affairs has a full breakdown of their Liverpool tour packages built specifically for Southeast Asian fans that is worth reading before you start planning.
Your Anfield Dream Is Closer Than You Think
Indonesian Liverpool fans have been dreaming about Anfield their whole lives. The tunnel. The Kop. The sign. The atmosphere. The trophies. The history that runs so deep through this club that it feels like something personal — even before you have ever set foot in Liverpool.
All of it is real. All of it is waiting for you.
The flight from Jakarta is long but manageable. The city will welcome you. The tours are world-class. And the moment you stand in that tunnel, or hear your name echoed in the empty Kop stands, or feel the ground move under the weight of 60,000 people celebrating a goal — that moment is yours.
You have supported this club through every season, every painful loss, and every unforgettable trophy. You deserve to stand inside this ground.
Start planning your trip today. Visit Matchday Affairs or reach out directly on WhatsApp at +65 8181 1117. They handle everything end to end — your flights from Jakarta, your accommodation, your Anfield tour or matchday package, and every detail in between. Browse their full range of Liverpool FC experience packages with guaranteed tickets and find the one that fits you perfectly.
Your Anfield story starts here.
Information in this guide is accurate as of early 2026. Tour availability, inclusions, visa requirements, and travel options are subject to change — always confirm current details directly with Matchday Affairs or Liverpool FC before finalising your booking.
