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Goodison Park is a football stadium in Walton, Liverpool, England, that has been the home of Premier League club Everton since 1892. It is 2 miles (3 km) north of the city centre, and has an all-seated capacity of 39,414. [1] Goodison Park has hosted more top-flight games than any other stadium in England. [2]
Following the move to Goodison Park Everton reached four FA Cup finals before the First World War, losing 1–0 against Wolverhampton Wanderers at Fallowfield Stadium, Manchester on 26 March 1893 and 3–2 against Aston Villa at Crystal Palace on 10 April 1897 before winning at their third attempt on 20 April 1906 against Newcastle United again ...
The possibility of a move to a new stadium was first mentioned around 1996, when then chairman Peter Johnson announced plans to move Everton from Goodison Park to a new 60,000-seater stadium at a different site. By 2001, a site at King's Dock had been identified as the location for a new 55,000-seater stadium, scheduled for completion around ...
The stadium that Everton has used since 1892. Goodison Park, the first major football stadium to be built in England, was opened in 1892. [85] Goodison Park has staged more top-flight football games than any other ground in the United Kingdom and was the only English club ground to host a semi-final at the 1966 FIFA World Cup. It was also the ...
Goodison Park is the only English club ground to have hosted a World Cup semi-final. The ground of the club's Chilean namesakes, CD Everton, also hosted a World Cup semi-final, four years earlier. Goodison Park was the venue for England v Republic of Ireland 21 September 1949. England lost 2–0, suffering their first home defeat to a non-UK ...
The Toffees have played the majority of their games at Walton Hall Park since 2020, although the team has played some high-profile matches at Goodison Park. Everton considering leaving Walton Hall ...
However, only bottom side Southampton have fewer goals than Everton's 10, after 12 games of this season, and no side in the division has drawn a blank as often as the Toffees have - six times.
In 2006–07, Everton recovered to finish in the top six, while Liverpool finished third, and there was an early season triumph for the blue half of Liverpool as Everton beat Liverpool 3–0 at Goodison Park in early September, in a game that saw an uncharacteristic mistake from Liverpool 'keeper Pepe Reina. They also held them to a goalless ...