Liverpool have submitted a planning application to turn their Melwood training facility into housing.
In February, the club confirmed plans to move their first-team training base to Kirkby, where the academy is housed.
They have now applied to Liverpool City Council for outline planning permission to redevelop Melwood, providing up to 160 new homes.
A club statement said: "The application forms part of the club's plans to bring LFC's first team and academy football training operations and facilities together on one site in Kirkby.
"LFC recognises that Melwood has played a significant role in the club's history, but the site is limited in terms of space and is unable to accommodate the club's ambitions for a new first-class combined training facility."
Liverpool councillors are set to decide on the planning application later this year.
"Should the club be successful in obtaining planning consent, housing developers will be invited to bid to purchase and develop the site," the statement added.
Liverpool have used Melwood as a training base since the 1950s and manager Jurgen Klopp said in February: "I love Melwood, I love being here, but football changes.
"We cannot avoid this and stay like you always were and hope you can cope with the other teams, so you have to move."