Everton have introduced that Goodison Park will be retained as the new everlasting house for their ladies’s crew, shelving beforehand permitted plans to demolish the floor.
As the males’s first crew prepares to transfer into the membership’s new 53,000-capability stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock this summer season, Goodison – the Toffees’ house for 132 years – was initially set to be half of a main £82 million regeneration scheme.
That proposal included new housing, a care facility, retail areas, and a public park. Nevertheless, following a change in possession, The Friedkin Group, who took management of the membership in December, opted to reassess the stadium’s future use.
After commissioning a feasibility research, the membership confirmed that the floor would now be preserved to serve as the house of Everton Ladies.
“Goodison will stay a central half of Liverpool’s sporting and cultural id,” Everton mentioned. “The relocation will additionally generate financial alternatives for native companies via matchday footfall.
“The ambition is to create a crew succesful of difficult for honours – backed by high-high quality services and a world-famend house.”
As soon as repurposed, Goodison Park will turn into the largest purpose-constructed ladies’s soccer stadium in the UK, with its capability of 39,572 dwarfing most present WSL venues.
“We know how treasured Goodison is, not solely to each Evertonian, however to the recreation itself, and being ready to preserve such an iconic stadium at the coronary heart of the legacy mission is one thing that has been extremely essential to us,” mentioned membership CEO Angus Kinnear.
Everton Soccer Membership is proud to announce that Goodison Park will turn into the everlasting house of Everton Ladies from the beginning of the 2025/26 season! 🔵🔽
— Everton (@Everton) May 13, 2025
A New Period for Everton Ladies
Everton Ladies have performed at Walton Corridor Park, simply a mile from Goodison, since 2020. Whereas practical, the present stadium holds solely 2,200 followers and options a hybrid enjoying floor.
The membership has plans to improve services inside the stadium, together with modernising altering rooms and rebranding the exterior to mirror the achievements and id of the ladies’s crew.
As soon as a main drive in ladies’s soccer, Everton Ladies have skilled a regular decline underneath former proprietor Farhad Moshiri. The membership as soon as claimed the nationwide league title in 1998, two home cup triumphs in the 2010s, and a Ladies’s Champions League quarter-last look in 2011.
Nevertheless, latest years have seen diminished success. Below Moshiri, the crew by no means completed greater than fifth in the Ladies’s Tremendous League (WSL) and ended the 2023-24 season in eighth place.
The males’s squad will play their last match at Goodison Park this Sunday, bringing an finish to over a century of soccer at one of England’s most iconic stadiums.
They face already-relegated Southampton in what guarantees to be an emotional farewell for gamers and followers alike.
