Goodison Park will grow to be the everlasting dwelling of Everton Girls from the 2025/26 season.
It comes as the lads’s senior group transfer to the Everton Stadium this summer season, positioned at Bramley-Moore Dock, preserving Goodison Park as a key a part of the membership.
Everton will make upgrades to the stadium to make sure it’s in the perfect situation to welcome the ladies’s group when their season begins, with a membership assertion including it should ‘additionally generate financial alternatives for native companies by means of matchday footfall’.
Goodison Park may also host chosen academy matches and increase Everton within the Group’s L4 campus.
Since 2020, the ladies’s group have been enjoying their dwelling video games at Walton Corridor Park, which is able to proceed to serve grassroots, neighborhood and improvement programmes for ladies’s and women’ soccer.
They’ve additionally beforehand performed video games at Goodison Park, together with the Merseyside derby in opposition to Liverpool Girls.
An Everton assertion additionally stated: “The choice follows an in-depth assessment of the Goodison Legacy venture by The Friedkin Group (TFG) since their takeover in December.
“The move addresses Everton Women’s rapid growth and need for a larger, more suitable venue than Walton Hall Park.
“TFG’s dedication to the ladies’s group has been evident by means of current investments in gamers and employees. The ambition is to create a group able to difficult for honours – backed by high-quality amenities and a world-renowned dwelling.”
Everton CEO Angus Kinnear said: “We all know how treasured Goodison is, not solely to each Evertonian, however to the sport itself, and with the ability to hold such an iconic stadium on the coronary heart of the legacy venture is one thing that has been extremely necessary to us.
“The women’s game has grown significantly in recent years, and we believe that growth will continue and accelerate. We’re under no illusions; there are obstacles we need to overcome to make this a success both practically and economically, but we’re confident that we will overcome those challenges.”
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Everton Girls’s head coach Brian Sorensen added: “Moving to Goodison Park is a huge moment for everyone connected to Everton Women. To call one of the most iconic stadiums in world football our permanent home is a privilege and a clear sign of the ambition this club has for the women’s team.
“Our gamers will now have a stage that matches their potential, our followers can have a spot to construct a good stronger matchday tradition, and younger women throughout Merseyside will see that this can be a membership the place desires can develop and are available true.”
