Everton Hill Dickinson Stadium guide

A new stadium in a regenerated dock

Everton’s move to the Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock is one of the biggest changes to Liverpool’s football landscape in decades. The club left Goodison Park — its home since 1892, one of English football’s oldest continuously used grounds — for a purpose-built waterfront stadium that opened for the 2025-26 season. Built inside a former dock basin roughly 2.5 miles north of the city centre, the ground holds around 52,888, a substantial jump from Goodison’s roughly 39,000, positioning Everton with one of the larger capacities in the Premier League outside the traditional top clubs. Beyond the football, the project brought a genuinely derelict stretch of historic dockland — Bramley-Moore Dock had sat unused for decades — back into use, extending Liverpool’s regenerated waterfront corridor north from the Royal Albert Dock and Pier Head.

Getting to the ground

The stadium sits closer to the water than to any Merseyrail station, so transport planning matters more here than for a typical city-centre venue. On matchdays, dedicated shuttle services and expanded bus provision run from the city centre, and Sandhills station (also the access point for Anfield) is a walkable-but-longer option depending on your starting point. Given the site’s relative newness, transport patterns are still being refined by the club and local authorities each season — check the current matchday travel guidance shortly before your visit rather than relying on opening-season information, since routes and shuttle frequency have already adjusted since the 2025-26 season began.

Stadium tours

Non-match-day tours run through the new building much as Anfield’s tours do — changing rooms, players’ tunnel, and pitch-side photo opportunities, with a guide covering both the stadium’s design and Everton’s broader history dating back to the club’s 1878 founding (Everton is older than Liverpool FC, having effectively spun off the Anfield-based Liverpool FC when a rent dispute split the club in 1892 — a piece of history covered in more depth in our Merseyside derby guide). Because the stadium is new, expect a heavier design and engineering focus in the tour commentary than you’d get at an older ground — the roof structure, dockside foundations and sightline engineering are genuinely part of the story here.

Watching a match

The Everton Hill Dickinson Stadium match ticket is the most direct route to seeing a game without navigating general sale membership requirements — similar to the access challenge covered for Liverpool FC in our Liverpool football tickets guide, general sale at Everton also skews toward season ticket holders and members with purchase history, so hospitality-style packages are the realistic route for most visiting fans.

A different kind of matchday experience

Because the ground is new, first impressions differ sharply from the Goodison-era experience regular visitors will remember. Sightlines are modern and largely unobstructed (Goodison had several stands with older configurations and some restricted-view seating), concourse space is considerably more generous, and the dockside setting gives away fans and away-day tourists alike genuinely striking views back toward the Liverpool waterfront and the Three Graces on the approach to the ground — something no other Premier League stadium in the country offers. Whether the atmosphere matches Goodison’s famously tight, intense noise levels is still being assessed by regulars season by season; bigger, more open modern stadiums often trade some of that closeness for capacity and comfort, a trade-off covered in more depth in our direct Anfield vs Hill Dickinson comparison.

Food, drink and pre-match options

The area immediately around Bramley-Moore Dock was, until recently, industrial and largely without pubs or restaurants, so the pre-match food and drink scene here is still developing compared with the well-established options around Anfield. Some visitors combine a match with a pre-match stop in the city centre or at the northern edge of the waterfront regeneration corridor before heading up to the ground, rather than expecting a dense pub cluster immediately outside the turnstiles.

Combining a visit with Anfield

Given the two grounds sit only around 1.5 miles apart, a single football-focused day covering both is realistic for visitors without match tickets at either — the Liverpool football stadiums e-bike tour is built specifically around this, linking Anfield, the former Goodison Park site and the new Hill Dickinson Stadium with commentary on how the city’s footballing geography has shifted. Our stadium tours in the North West guide sets this in context against the wider region including Manchester’s grounds.

What happened to Goodison Park

Everton’s final match at Goodison Park came at the end of the 2024-25 season, closing 133 years of continuous use at the ground. Plans for the site — including community and sports facility elements under the “Goodison Legacy” project banner — were taking shape as the club settled into its new home; see our dedicated Goodison Park legacy guide for what remains and what’s changing on the old site.

What Evertonians say about the move

Reaction among the club’s fanbase has been genuinely mixed, and it’s worth an honest note here rather than presenting the move as universally welcomed. Many supporters, particularly younger fans and those focused on the club’s competitive future, back the move enthusiastically — larger capacity, modern facilities and matchday revenue that puts Everton on a more competitive financial footing were long-standing arguments for a new stadium. Older and more traditionalist supporters, and those with decades of personal history tied to Goodison Park specifically, have expressed more ambivalence, and it’s common to hear genuine nostalgia alongside genuine enthusiasm for the new ground within the same conversation. Neither view should be treated as the “correct” one — this is simply what a major stadium move of this scale tends to produce among any club’s supporter base.

Naming rights and the stadium name

The Hill Dickinson Stadium takes its name from a naming-rights sponsorship deal, a standard modern-football practice that Goodison Park never had (it kept its original name throughout its 133-year history, reflecting an earlier era of English football before naming-rights sponsorship became commonplace). Some fans still refer to the ground informally by its construction-era working name, Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium, particularly in casual conversation — both names refer to the same stadium, so don’t be confused if you hear the site referred to either way.

Practical visiting tips

Book stadium tour and match tickets online ahead of time — as with Anfield, walk-up availability isn’t reliable, particularly for a new stadium that’s still generating strong local and national curiosity in its early seasons. Allow more travel time than you might expect for a stadium this close to the city centre, since the transport infrastructure around Bramley-Moore Dock is still maturing relative to century-old routes serving Anfield and the city core. Photography is a genuine highlight here — the dockside setting and waterfront views make this one of the more photogenic Premier League grounds in the country, so budget a few extra minutes outside the stadium rather than heading straight in.

Frequently asked questions about the Hill Dickinson Stadium

Where is the Hill Dickinson Stadium?

At Bramley-Moore Dock on the Liverpool waterfront, about 2.5 miles north of the city centre and roughly 1.5 miles from Anfield, in a regenerated dockland area that had been derelict for decades before construction began.

What is the capacity of the Hill Dickinson Stadium?

Around 52,888, a substantial increase on Goodison Park’s roughly 39,000, making it one of the larger Premier League grounds outside the traditional “big six” clubs.

Can you tour the Hill Dickinson Stadium?

Yes, stadium tours run on non-match days, covering changing rooms, the tunnel and pitch-side areas, broadly similar in structure to the Anfield tour but through a brand-new building rather than a century-old one.

Why did Everton move from Goodison Park?

Goodison Park, Everton’s home since 1892, had a fixed footprint hemmed in by residential streets that limited expansion, along with ageing facilities. The new stadium delivers modern capacity, matchday revenue and accessibility that Goodison’s constrained site couldn’t support.

Is Goodison Park still standing?

The stadium closed in 2025 after Everton’s final match there; redevelopment plans for the site (including community and sports facility elements tied to the “Goodison Legacy” project) were underway as Everton settled into the new ground. See our Goodison Park legacy guide for what’s happening to the old site.

The build itself — a genuine engineering story

Constructing a 52,888-capacity stadium partly within a historic dock basin was a significant engineering undertaking, and tour commentary at the new ground leans into this more than a typical stadium tour would. Bramley-Moore Dock, built in the 1840s as part of Liverpool’s Victorian-era docks expansion, had sat derelict and unused for decades before construction began — the project required careful integration of the new stands with the dock’s original stone walls, some of which were retained and incorporated into the finished stadium as a nod to the site’s maritime heritage rather than demolished outright. This blend of Victorian dock infrastructure and modern stadium engineering is one of the more distinctive things about the ground compared with a typical greenfield stadium build.

Capacity growth potential

Unlike Goodison Park, whose residential surroundings made expansion essentially impossible in its later decades, the Hill Dickinson Stadium’s site and design allow for future capacity increases if demand justifies it — a genuine structural advantage over the old ground that factored into the decision to build new rather than attempt yet another Goodison renovation. Whether or when any expansion happens depends on the club’s on-pitch trajectory and matchday demand in the years following the move, but the option exists in a way it simply didn’t at the old site.

Local economic impact

The stadium project has been positioned, both by the club and Liverpool City Council, as a wider regeneration driver for the historically deprived north Liverpool docklands area, extending the waterfront revival that began further south around the Royal Albert Dock and Pier Head decades earlier. Whether the full scope of promised local economic benefit — jobs, housing, wider dockland investment — materialises as intended will likely take years to assess properly, but the stadium itself has already brought visible new footfall and interest to a stretch of the city that had limited visitor traffic before construction began.

Comparing early matchday reviews to expectations

Fan and media reaction through the opening 2025-26 season has generally been positive on the practical improvements — better sightlines, more comfortable concourses, considerably improved facilities compared with Goodison’s ageing infrastructure — while being more mixed on whether the atmosphere matches the intensity Goodison Park was known for after over a century of matchday tradition built into that specific building. This is a normal pattern for clubs moving to new stadiums elsewhere in football, and supporter sentiment on this question typically evolves over several seasons as new traditions and habits form around the new ground rather than settling immediately.

Visiting outside matchday

On quiet non-match days, the area around the stadium offers striking photography opportunities given the combination of dockland heritage architecture and modern stadium design, plus genuinely good waterfront views back toward the city’s Three Graces and Pier Head. It’s a worthwhile stop even for visitors with only a moderate interest in football specifically, given how visually distinctive the site is compared with a typical suburban English football ground.