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Goodison Park
Goodison Park is a football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, England. It is the home of Women’s Super League club Everton, who moved into the ground in 2025. The stadium opened in 1892, and was built to serve the home ground for the club's men’s team who relocated to the Hill Dickinson Stadium in 2025.
Outside of a home ground for Everton, Goodison Park also been the venue for the 1966 World Cup, in addition to numerous other international fixtures. It has also hosted the 1910 FA Cup Final and has hosted more top-flight games than any other stadium in England.[failed verification]
The stadium is 2 miles (3 km) north of the city centre, and has an all-seated capacity of 39,414.
Everton originally played on an open pitch in the south-east corner of the newly laid out Stanley Park (on a site where rival Liverpool FC considered building a stadium over a century later). The first official match following the renaming of the club from St. Domingo's to Everton was at Stanley Park, staged on 20 December 1879; St. Peter's was the opposition, and admission was free. In 1882, a man named J. Cruit donated land at Priory Road with the necessary facilities required for professional clubs, but asked the club to leave his land after two years because the crowds became too large and noisy.
Everton moved to nearby Anfield Road, a site where proper covered stands were built. Everton played at the Anfield ground from 1884 until 1892. During this time the club turned professional, entering teams in the FA Cup. They became founding members of the Football League, winning their first championship at the ground in 1890–91. Anfield's capacity grew to over 20,000, with the club hosting an international match as England played against Ireland. During their time at Anfield, Everton became the first club to introduce goalnets to professional football.
In the 1890s, a dispute about how the club was to be owned and run emerged with John Houlding, Anfield's majority owner and Everton's Chairman, at the forefront. Houlding disagreed with the club's committee initially disagreeing about the full purchase of the land at Anfield from minor land owner Mr Orrell escalating into a principled disagreement of how the club was run. Two such disagreements included Houlding wanting Everton to sell only his brewery products during an event and for the Everton players to use his public house The Sandon as changing room facilities.
The most well-known of the disagreements concerns the level of increased rent Everton was asked to pay. In 1889, Everton paid £100 to Houlding in rent; by the 1889–90 season this had risen to £250. Everton had to pay for all works and stands. The dispute escalated to a rent of £370 per year being demanded. In the complicated lead-up to the split in the club, the rent dispute is too simplistic to be singled out as the prime cause. The dispute was compounded by many minor disputed points.[citation needed]
The flashpoint was a covenant in the contract of land purchase by Houlding from Orrell causing further and deep friction. A strip of land at the Anfield ground bordering the adjacent land owned by Mr Orrell, could be used to provide a right of way access road for Orrell's landlocked vacant site. In early 1891 the club erected a stand on this now proposed roadway, which was also overlapping Orrell's land, unbeknown to the Everton F.C. Committee. In August 1891 Orrell announced intentions of developing his land next to the football ground, building an access road on the land owned by Houlding and occupied by Everton F.C.
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Goodison Park
Goodison Park is a football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, England. It is the home of Women’s Super League club Everton, who moved into the ground in 2025. The stadium opened in 1892, and was built to serve the home ground for the club's men’s team who relocated to the Hill Dickinson Stadium in 2025.
Outside of a home ground for Everton, Goodison Park also been the venue for the 1966 World Cup, in addition to numerous other international fixtures. It has also hosted the 1910 FA Cup Final and has hosted more top-flight games than any other stadium in England.[failed verification]
The stadium is 2 miles (3 km) north of the city centre, and has an all-seated capacity of 39,414.
Everton originally played on an open pitch in the south-east corner of the newly laid out Stanley Park (on a site where rival Liverpool FC considered building a stadium over a century later). The first official match following the renaming of the club from St. Domingo's to Everton was at Stanley Park, staged on 20 December 1879; St. Peter's was the opposition, and admission was free. In 1882, a man named J. Cruit donated land at Priory Road with the necessary facilities required for professional clubs, but asked the club to leave his land after two years because the crowds became too large and noisy.
Everton moved to nearby Anfield Road, a site where proper covered stands were built. Everton played at the Anfield ground from 1884 until 1892. During this time the club turned professional, entering teams in the FA Cup. They became founding members of the Football League, winning their first championship at the ground in 1890–91. Anfield's capacity grew to over 20,000, with the club hosting an international match as England played against Ireland. During their time at Anfield, Everton became the first club to introduce goalnets to professional football.
In the 1890s, a dispute about how the club was to be owned and run emerged with John Houlding, Anfield's majority owner and Everton's Chairman, at the forefront. Houlding disagreed with the club's committee initially disagreeing about the full purchase of the land at Anfield from minor land owner Mr Orrell escalating into a principled disagreement of how the club was run. Two such disagreements included Houlding wanting Everton to sell only his brewery products during an event and for the Everton players to use his public house The Sandon as changing room facilities.
The most well-known of the disagreements concerns the level of increased rent Everton was asked to pay. In 1889, Everton paid £100 to Houlding in rent; by the 1889–90 season this had risen to £250. Everton had to pay for all works and stands. The dispute escalated to a rent of £370 per year being demanded. In the complicated lead-up to the split in the club, the rent dispute is too simplistic to be singled out as the prime cause. The dispute was compounded by many minor disputed points.[citation needed]
The flashpoint was a covenant in the contract of land purchase by Houlding from Orrell causing further and deep friction. A strip of land at the Anfield ground bordering the adjacent land owned by Mr Orrell, could be used to provide a right of way access road for Orrell's landlocked vacant site. In early 1891 the club erected a stand on this now proposed roadway, which was also overlapping Orrell's land, unbeknown to the Everton F.C. Committee. In August 1891 Orrell announced intentions of developing his land next to the football ground, building an access road on the land owned by Houlding and occupied by Everton F.C.