Global pop superstar Dua Lipa will perform at Liverpool FC's Anfield next summer, as part of her global Radical Optimism Tour. The ‘One Kiss’ superstar will perform at the home of Liverpool Football Club on Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
LFC season ticket holders for both the men’s and women’s teams, official members and season hospitality members will have until 8am on Monday, September 16 2024 to register their interest for a chance to purchase up to four tickets. The pop superstar is heading to Anfield Tickets will go on general sale at 10am on Friday, September 20, 2024.
The tour announcement follows Dua Lipa’s debut on the Pyramid Stage as the Friday night headliner at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival earlier this summer. Anfield has hosted a series of major concerts in recent years, including Taylor Swift, Elton John and the Rolling Stones.
Dua Lipa's concert in Liverpool will follow a gig at Wembley stadium on June 20 2025. Dua Lipa described her headline set at Glastonbury as the “best night of my life”. The pop star performed hit after hit as she took to the Pyramid Stage, performing tracks such as These Walls, Break My Heart, Hallucinate, Electricity, Physical and Don’t Start Now.
The performance prompted a post-Glastonbury chart surge. The pop star will be performing at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool on June 24th 2025 as part of her Radical Optimism Tour. The announcement follows Dua Lipa’s highly anticipated debut on the Pyramid Stage as the Friday night headliner at the 2024 Glastonbury Festival earlier this summer. This is sure to be a massive event, with tickets expected to sell out quickly.
The 2025 gig will be part of a larger European leg of the tour, which includes shows in Madrid, Lyon, Hamburg, Paris, Prague, Munich, Amsterdam, Antwerp, and London. The tour will also include dates in North America, Australia, and New Zealand.
This is sure to be a massive event, with tickets expected to sell out quickly. The pop superstar announced 20 dates in the U.S. and Canada for the fall of next year on Thursday, as part of a broader tour announcement that also included concerts she is adding onto her tour in Europe and other parts of the world starting in March.
The first U.S. shows will be Sept. 5-6 in Chicago, followed by similar two-nights stands in Boston Sept. 9-10, Atlanta Sept. 13-14, New York Sept. 17-18, Miami Sept, 26-27, Dallas Sept. 30-Oct. 1, Los Angeles Oct. 4-5, San Francisco Oct. 11-12 and Seattle Oct. 15-16. She has Canadian dates just prior to hitting the U.S., but not many — she’ll do two nights in Toronto next Sept. 1-2.
A general onsale for these 2025 shows begins Sept. 20 at dualipa.com. For anyone who absolutely, positively can’t wait to see Lipa in the U.S., she did already have two shows booked for North America this fall, on separate weekends of the Austin City Limits Music Festival in Texas, Oct. 5 and 12.
These dates only begin to get at the market that exists for Lipa in North America. The tour art for the newly added tour legs does promise “more dates to be announced.” But that may not necessarily mean the additional shows yet to come will be in the U.S.; a press release specifies that South American shows will be announced at a later date. Generally speaking, there may be more international demand for Lipa’s live services than she’ll be able to meet this album cycle.
The singer is looking to saturate overseas territories to the extent possible before belatedly hitting the U.S. Her newly added tour dates for the spring and summer of 2025 include shows in London, Liverpool, Milan, Amsterdam, Munich, Prague, Paris, Lyon, Madrid, Antwerp and Auckland.
The new shows are in addition to concerts Lipa already had on the books for the remainder of 2024, mostly in Asian territories. Starting Nov. 5, through Dec. 5, she’ll be visiting Tokyo, Singapore, Bangkok, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Manila and Jakarta.
“Radical Optimism” was released May 3 by Warner Records, as the followup to her smash 2020 “Future Nostalgia” album. A deluxe version with newly recorded additional tracks is said to be in the works but has not officially confirmed as of yet.
For Liverpool, the money that can be brought in from hosting concerts during the summer is significant, and the concerts held over the course of 2024 have delivered more than £10m in revenue for the Reds. For a number of years now trophy success at Liverpool has been linked with one song, and it isn’t You’ll Never Walk Alone. One Kiss by Dua Lipa has been adopted as the Reds unofficial trophy anthem, being played after Liverpool cup finals since Liverpool won the Champions League in Madrid in 2019.
The song is often played at Anfield and gets a smile on Liverpool supporters faces as they think back to their cup final successes. Liverpool most recently won the Carabao cup in February of this year and One Kiss was played after the full-time whistle. It has become the anthem of the Reds’ success but how did winning trophies at Liverpool become synonymous with the 2018 pop hit?
When Liverpool reached the Champions League final in Kiev in 2018 it was Dua Lipa who opened the show. It was here that she played One Kiss and, although the match that night didn’t go Liverpool’s way, the anthem has stuck with the Reds ever since. Written in collaboration with Calvin Harris, who took part in Liverpool’s open top bus parade after winning the FA Cup and Carabao Cup in 2022, the song topped the charts in the UK when it was released in 2018.
Dua Lipa even revealed that she was hoping to make it to Anfield to watch the Reds in action during an interview with the club website in 2020. "I'll definitely come to a game some time. My dad, who is a big Arsenal fan but has a soft spot for Liverpool, and my manager Ben, who is a big Liverpool fan, are working out when that can be” she told Liverpool FC.
Although it wouldn’t be for a match, rumours have begun to swirl online that Dua Lipa could perform at Anfield this summer, much like Taylor Swift did in June, and an official announcement could soon come from either the club or the superstar herself.
The club received a healthy sum of money following Taylor Swift's performances at Anfield and will be looking to pocket some more if Dua Lipa does perform. Whilst some Liverpool fans may be excited to see Dua Lipa at their home stadium, all of the Anfield faithful will be hoping to hear One Kiss play over the speakers at some point this season as Liverpool lift another trophy.
