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Everton have introduced that Goodison Park will be retained as the new everlasting house for their girls’s workforce, shelving beforehand accredited plans to demolish the floor.
As the males’s first workforce 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 identification,” Everton mentioned. “The relocation will additionally generate financial alternatives for native companies by way of matchday footfall.
“The ambition is to create a workforce succesful of difficult for honours – backed by high-high quality amenities and a world-famend house.”
As soon as repurposed, Goodison Park will develop into the largest purpose-constructed girls’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 sport itself, and being in a position to hold such an iconic stadium at the coronary heart of the legacy undertaking is one thing that has been extremely necessary to us,” mentioned membership CEO Angus Kinnear.
Everton Soccer Membership is proud to announce that Goodison Park will develop 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 purposeful, the present stadium holds solely 2,200 followers and options a hybrid taking part in floor.
The membership has plans to improve amenities inside the stadium, together with modernising altering rooms and rebranding the exterior to replicate the achievements and identification of the girls’s workforce.
As soon as a main drive in girls’s soccer, Everton Ladies have skilled a regular decline below 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-closing look in 2011.
Nevertheless, current years have seen diminished success. Below Moshiri, the workforce by no means completed increased 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 closing 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.