Goodison Park was left with an unknown future with a possible risk of being knocked down on the finish of the season with Everton’s males’s group shifting to a brand new stadium within the 2025/26 marketing campaign.
Nevertheless it has been saved as it’s now the house stadium for the membership’s girls’s facet.
Protecting the historic stadium within the membership for followers is nice and shifting the ladies’s group there may be astute as fan quantity could develop with supporters eager to proceed to go to the bottom. However is the transfer utterly idiot proof? No.
Goodison Park: Will the membership be making stadium enhancements?
Goodison Park shall be saved open (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
After I first heard the information, all I may suppose is what an amazing transfer it was. There have been followers saying they might attend extra girls’s matches and it’s a enormous enchancment of the ladies’s facet’s present floor capability of two,200.
It should give them alternative to construct crowds, simply as different golf equipment have been doing equivalent to Arsenal on the Emirates Stadium.
Megan Finnigan will captain Everton subsequent season (Picture credit score: Alex Livesey/Getty Photos)
Ideas additionally got here of a brand new avenue of supporter. Followers will need to proceed to expertise a Goodison matchday and to take action they should go to a girls’s recreation.
That can entice individuals to observe and so they then could get hooked on girls’s soccer and develop into common followers.
Goodison’s capability is 39,572 and so this transfer means it’s now the biggest floor devoted to girls’s soccer in England . It is an enormous landmark second and it exhibits the backing the membership are giving the group.
They might have bought the land off for revenue however as an alternative have chosen to present their girls’s group the chance to have larger crowds and to construct their supporters.
Fan numbers will hopefully develop for the ladies’s group (Picture credit score: Getty Photos)
The Toffees have hosted girls’s video games at Goodison earlier than however the 2025/26 season will see the most-ever hosted on the historic stadium. Goodison has been part of the membership since 1892.
Nevertheless, my solely stifle level with regards to this matter is that if Goodison just isn’t adequate for the boys to play there anymore as a result of it wants renovating, why is it adequate for the ladies?
The membership have introduced they are going to be making “enhancements” to the stadium over time and add they “will guarantee enough amenities are in place earlier than the beginning of the season”. But when they might make these enhancements, why have they constructed a brand new £800m stadium for the boys?
These are the one destructive questions I’ve and hopefully ones which are answered with optimistic actions by the membership actually investing within the stadium enhancements. Apart from it’s an extremely optimistic transfer.
Gradual development within the sport is sustainable and that is one other step in the proper path for Everton girls.
