Everton’s brand new stage at Bramley-Moore Dock hosted his first event on Monday night, as a choice of supporters took a look at the glittering new future of Toffees.
The Mersyside Club will wave goodbye to Goodison Park at the end of this season as they prepare to move to the ground £ 800million, located on the docks from the Mersey River in Liverpool.
A crowd of 10,000, including the new owners The Friedkin Group, watched Everton’s Under-18s to take over their Wigan counterparts in a friendly, which is the first of three test events.
First @Evertonstadium test event ✅
Thank you all who helped happen tonight. Two more to go! 🔜 pic.twitter.com/uhafy1Oqxg
– Everton (@everton) 17 February 2025
It took just 12 minutes for Harrison Rimmer to open the scoring, before the young Wigan broke his moment in front of Everton’s fans holding six fingers compared to the number of Liverpool’s Champions League opponents.
Cole Simms doubled the lead of visitors shortly afterwards, and this proved to be decisive, despite Ray Roberts’ delayed sentence, but this did not stop a positive atmosphere from supporters who were happy to see their new stage for the first time.
“The stadium is great. The opinions are amazing. It is all you want, as a fan. Sports.
Everton’s move from Goodison Park, their home since 1892, has spent a long time, with initial discussions about a new stage that begins in the early 1990s.
Plans for the construction of a stadium by the Mersey River in 2003 were abandoned before the government rejected controversial plans to build a 50,000 -seat stadium in Kirkby in 2009.
The first impressions of Everton Stadium fans. 🤩🏟 pic.twitter.com/90Keyjaraq
– Everton Stadium (@Evertonstadium) 17 February 2025
A few years later a site was found in Walton Hall Park, but the idea left after the opposition in 2016.
But work on the current site began in the summer of 2021 and the construction was completed in December.
Providing Everton to avoid relegation this season, which now seems likely, Everton’s 52,888 stadium will take place until the seventh largest in the Premier League.
