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Test event for Everton’s new stadium ahead of Goodison Park demolition
18 February 2025
A drone view shows the new Everton Stadium under construction in Liverpool (Image: REUTERS/Molly Darlington/File Photo)
England’s Everton Football Club has welcomed 10,000 fans for a test event, after contractors handed over the 52,888-seater arena in Liverpool late last year.
Contractor Laing O’Rourke started construction of the new Bramley-Moore Dock stadium in 2021, at a cost of close to £800 million (US$1 billion). It handed it over to Everton executive chairman Marc Watts and interim CEO Colin Chong ahead of schedule on 19 December 2024.
The project transformed a dockyard built in 1848 into a new stadium, which involved gradually infilling the dockyard with 480,000 cubic metres of sand as well as the repair and preservation of the Grade II-listed dock wall.
Laing O’Rourke used modern methods of construction to produce walls, columns, and lattice planks at an off-site facility. Laing O’Rourke subsidiary Crown House Technologies also manufactured MEP modules and toilets off-site.
The test event welcomed 10,000 fans for an under-18 friendly match against Wigan Athletic.
The Premier League club will leave Goodison Park, its home since 1892, at the end of this season.
The stadium will then be demolished with the land set to be redeveloped into a mixed-use scheme with housing and offices.
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