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Fans celebrate with the Liverpool team during the open-top bus parade to celebrate winning the UEFA Champions League on June 2, 2019 in Liverpool(Image: Liverpool FC via Getty Images)

Liverpool knows a thing or two about throwing big events where hundreds of thousands of people flood into the city.

You only have to look at The Giants Spectacular or more recently the now legendary hosting of the Eurovision Song Contest to know that this is a city that excels when it puts on a massive show for the public.

But this coming weekend and the days that follow it, all of the expertise that the city has to offer will be put to the test when not one, not two, but three enormous events are held in Liverpool - and all the major logistical challenges that they will bring along.

Across Friday, Saturday and Sunday, BBC Radio One's Big Weekend will bring some of the world's biggest music stars to Sefton Park - along with an expected 100,000 fans.

Then following day, on Monday, May 26, Liverpool Football Club's Premier League Champions will parade along a 15km route around the city, with hundreds of thousands expected to line the route - including the spectacular moment the team bus arrives on The Strand.

And as if this wasn't enough, Monday will also see the return of the Queen Anne to the River Mersey for the 185th anniversary of iconic ship brand Cunard.

The ship will be in situ to provide a glamorous nautical backdrop to the trophy parade, before a visit from Princess Anne the following day.

For the team at Culture Liverpool, the city council's culture department, the multitude of events across such a short-space of time has represented a huge challenge in terms of the vast numbers of people heading into the city at different times.

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"In terms of events it doesn't come much bigger than Radio One's Big Weekend and the football parade and a major ship coming in, all in the same weekend," explains culture director Claire McColgan.

"We have never had a weekend that is this intensive ever in terms of the three things we are really good at as a city - which is music, sport and maritime."

Sefton Park prepares to host Radio 1's Big Weekend festival this weekend(Image: Liverpool ECHO/Staff)

"So it is a great way to showcase all of those brilliant things but it is absolutely huge.

If we could have paced it out more we would have done but obviously we couldn't predict when Liverpool would win."

The Premier League parade was always the unknown in this scenario.

While the agreement with the BBC for the Big Weekend goes back to last summer and the Cunard celebrations have been on the books for a while - no one can predict what will happen in football.

"When we agreed Radio One's Big Weekend was coming here we did know there was a chance we could have a football parade on the Monday," explains head of events Sue Gibson.

"We do sit there in August and work out the football dates, so it flags in all the event calendars.