Everton waved goodbye to its longtime home Goodison Park at the end of the 2024/25 season and moved into their new long-term venue shortly after.
Starting with the 2025/26 season, Everton will begin playing in their shiny new home, initially known simply as Bramley Moore or Everton Stadium during construction. It's now officially marketed as Hill Dickinson Stadium after selling sponsorship naming rights.
Along with playing regular host to Everton, Hill Dickinson Stadium is set to be a host venue for Euro 2028, and can also host events across multiple other sports, including rugby and cricket, as well as a concert venue.
The Sporting News brings you all the logistical specifications of the new Everton stadium, which is set to play host to the Toffees for years to come.
Where is the new Everton stadium?
Hill Dickinson Stadium is located at Bramley-Moore Dock in the Vauxhall district of Liverpool. The site is right on the water, adjacent to the River Mersey and just about a 45-minute walk from Goodison Park.
The venue was built on top of the existing Bramley Moore dock, which is filled with reclaimed sand from both River Mersey and 20 miles away in the Irish Sea. It has been built mainly by Laing O'Rourke, who began construction in July 2021. Construction paused briefly in August 2023 after a fatal accident on site.
Other locations considered over the years while Everton mulled a new stadium were King's Dock, Kirkby, and Stanley Park, with the latter being a failed proposal to co-finance a shared venue with rivals Liverpool.
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What is the capacity of the new Everton stadium?
Hill Dickinson Stadium holds just under 53,000 fans, with a listed capacity of 52,786 spectators. This makes it the eighth-largest venue in England.
This marks a significant increase from Goodison Park, which fit just under 40,000 fans. Yet it is slightly smaller than originally intended, with the planned capacity of 52,888 reconfigured after considering segregation between home and away fans as well as compliance for media and camera positioning.
The stadium’s skeleton is made up of around 12,500 tonnes of structural steel. Amenities of the new arena include a large fan plaza on the east side, an elevated viewing deck on the west side offers views of the Mersey and Irish Sea, curved perforated metal roof which partially covers the stands, a high-tech underground pitch heating system, a circular dressing room and player amenities such as a faith room.
Everton decided to leave much of the club's history — such as statues and other iconography — at Goodison Park, where such history was made, which still stands and hosts Everton's women's team as well as other events.
How much did the new Everton stadium cost?
According to The Athletic, Hill Dickinson Stadium came with an enormous price tag of around £800 million (€923m / $1.08b), although other reports place it at £750 million. This comes in well above the initially expected £500 million price tag when the development began.
While public funding had initially been agreed upon to help pay for the development, the club eventually went in a different direction.
Instead, the clubs enlisted multiple international banks like J.P. Morgan of the U.S. and MUFG of Japan to help source the funding for the project. Everton announced in May of 2025 that £350 million of the project cost had come from "a consortium of blue-chip institutional lenders"
Why is it called Hill Dickinson Stadium?
Hill Dickinson Stadium is named for the chief naming rights sponsor, Liverpool-based law firm Hill Dickinson.
The company reportedly paid £10 million (€11.5m / $13.5m) per years over 10 years for the naming rights to the stadium.
SportsPro reports that Everton employed U.S.-based sales agency Elevate in 2022 to select a naming rights sponsor. The report states that Everton were seeking a minimum commitment of 10 years for the naming rights, which proved difficult. Elevate ultimately chose a local sponsor rather than a global brand because, they said, there was more interest from companies with a connection to the club and the region.
When did the new Everton stadium open?
Everton Stadium opened at the start of the 2025/26 Premier League season. The 2024/25 was the final season for Everton at Goodison Park.
It is expected that the stadium will host three test events in early 2025 to gain the necessary safety accreditations to host football matches. Everton's U-18 side will play a match in mid-February, with the U-21 side to play in April or May.
Once open, the venue will be the permanent home of the Everton first team, as well as hosting select women's matches.
It will also be one of 10 venues for Euro 2028, to be played across the UK and Ireland, and has been shortlisted as a host venue for the 2025 Ashes tournament, a major cricket event.