Hill Dickinson Stadium

Hill Dickinson Stadium, built on the former Bramley-Moore Dock in the Vauxhall area of Liverpool, is the new home of Premier League side Everton, taking over from Goodison Park. During construction it was referred to as Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium or Everton Stadium, before a sponsorship deal gave it its current name. The site, a disused commercial dock, is meant to anchor a broader mixed-use development featuring shops, housing, sports facilities, and other venues. Upon opening, it ranked as the eighth-largest football stadium in England and the eleventh-largest in Britain. It is scheduled to host matches for UEFA Euro 2028 and one game in the 2026 Nations Championship, and has already held the 2025 Rugby League Ashes.

Everton had been at Goodison Park since 1892, with its last major upgrade—a new stand—completed in August 1994, bringing the all-seater capacity to just over 39,000. However, the stadium’s age and construction methods limited further expansion. In 2007, then-CEO Keith Wyness noted that the club had spent £500,000 on repairs just to keep the steelwork safe, and warned it might fail safety inspections within a decade. The Taylor Report’s 1990 requirement for all-seater stadia had already slashed Goodison’s peak capacity of over 78,000 to roughly 39,000 (now 39,414), far behind Liverpool’s Anfield, which had been expanded beyond 61,000.

Talk of a move first surfaced around 1996, when chairman Peter Johnson proposed a 60,000-seat stadium elsewhere. By 2001, a 55,000-seat plan for King’s Dock was set for completion around 2005 but fell through due to funding issues. In June 2006, Everton entered talks with Knowsley Council and Tesco about a 55,000-seat stadium in Kirkby (expandable to over 60,000), known as the Kirkby Project. The club held a fan ballot, which approved the plan 59% to 41%. Opponents—including other councils worried about a large Tesco store and fans wanting to stay within Liverpool’s city boundaries—pushed back. A public inquiry led the central government to reject the proposal. Local politicians tried to salvage it by identifying city-boundary sites, but that also failed.

Everton then looked into co-financing Liverpool’s proposed Stanley Park Stadium, which was meant to open in 2006 but was cancelled in 2012 when Liverpool’s new owners chose to expand Anfield instead.