The Everton stadium tour landscape has changed completely. As of the 2025-26 season, Everton FC plays home matches at the Hill Dickinson Stadium (the new ground at Bramley-Moore Dock on Liverpool’s north waterfront), and Goodison Park — the famous “Grand Old Lady” that hosted Everton for 132 years — is now home to Everton Women and the men’s academy. That means anyone planning an Everton stadium tour as part of a Liverpool trip in 2026 has two very different options: tour the brand-new 52,888-seat Hill Dickinson Stadium when public tours launch, or visit Goodison Park, which still runs its long-established heritage tour and remains one of the most historically significant football grounds in England.
This Everton stadium tour guide covers both: what the new stadium is, where it sits, what visiting feels like, and how it compares with the Goodison tour that’s been running for years. We’ve written it for visitors planning Liverpool trips in 2026 and beyond — football tourists who want the full Merseyside picture, families wanting an alternative to the busier Anfield tour, and anyone curious about one of the most consequential stadium moves in English football history.
Two Stadiums, Two Tours
Before the practical detail, the key thing to understand: the 2025 move means there are now two Everton-related stadium tour options in Liverpool, and they’re very different experiences.
Hill Dickinson Stadium (Bramley-Moore Dock) is the new ground. Designed by the architects Pattern Design with Dan Meis as lead designer, the stadium opened for first competitive use in February 2025 and held its first full Premier League fixtures in August 2025. The 52,888-capacity ground sits on the historic Bramley-Moore Dock site north of the city centre, partly built over a former dock filled with sand sourced from the Mersey. The setting — directly on the Liverpool waterfront, looking across the river towards Birkenhead — is dramatic in a way that almost no other Premier League stadium can match. Public tours were not yet running at the start of the 2026-27 season; the club has signalled an autumn 2026 launch, though dates have moved before.
Goodison Park (Walton) is the old ground, two miles north of the city centre and a few hundred metres from Anfield itself. Opened in 1892, it was the first purpose-built football stadium in England and held the 1966 World Cup semi-final between West Germany and the USSR. Goodison’s heritage tour, which has run for years, gives access to the players’ tunnel, both home and away changing rooms, the directors’ box, the press centre, and the pitchside dugouts. The tour is significantly cheaper than the Anfield equivalent and dramatically quieter — most weekday slots have plenty of availability.
Hill Dickinson Stadium: The New Home of Everton FC
The Hill Dickinson Stadium (originally referred to throughout the construction period as Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium, with the naming rights deal with the Liverpool-based law firm Hill Dickinson announced in early 2025) sits on the northern Liverpool waterfront, in a UNESCO-buffer-zone area that became one of the most-debated planning decisions in modern English football. The stadium’s design retains the listed Bramley-Moore dock wall, the cast-iron hydraulic engine house, and the broader Stanley Dock conservation context, while plonking a brand-new 52,888-seat football ground directly on the river. From the upper tiers on the west side, you can see the Pier Head, the Liver Building, and the Mersey ferries.
How to Get to Hill Dickinson Stadium
The stadium is about 1.5 miles north of the Pier Head, accessible by:
Walking: from the city centre along the waterfront, around 30 minutes. The route via the Liverpool Waters development corridor is the recommended match-day approach.
Bus: Numerous match-day shuttle services from Lime Street, Liverpool ONE, and Sandhills station.
Train: The closest stations are Sandhills (Merseyrail Northern Line, around 15 minutes’ walk) and Vauxhall (Merseyrail, around 20 minutes’ walk).
Cycle: The Liverpool Waters cycle path runs directly to the stadium with secure cycle parking on match days.
There is no significant parking at the ground itself — by design. Visitors driving in are directed to the city-centre car parks and either walk or take a shuttle from there.
What Tours Will Cover (When They Launch)
The club has indicated that the Hill Dickinson Stadium tour will follow the standard Premier League format: pitchside walk, home and away changing rooms, players’ tunnel, directors’ box, hospitality areas, and a heritage gallery covering Everton’s full 1878-to-present history. Tours are expected to last around 90 minutes. Pricing was not finalised at the time of writing; comparable new-build Premier League stadium tours (Tottenham, West Ham, Brighton) sit in the £25-£35 range for adults. Expect Hill Dickinson to launch at the higher end of that.
The key thing the Hill Dickinson tour will have that no other Premier League tour can match is the riverside setting. The west side of the upper tier looks directly out across the Mersey, with the dock walls and the historic engine house framing the view. Even visitors who are not Everton fans will find the architecture of the building genuinely striking. The exterior brick cladding, designed to reference the Stanley Dock warehouses, is the most architecturally considered new stadium in the Premier League by some distance.
Visiting Hill Dickinson Stadium on a Match Day
Match days at the new stadium have a different feel from Anfield’s. The walk in from the city is along the river rather than through residential streets, the pub culture is less established (there are bars on the Pier Head and at Royal Albert Dock, plus newer venues opening along the Liverpool Waters corridor, but nothing on the scale of the Anfield pub circuit), and the post-match exit is much more spread out because most fans walk back to the city centre along the waterfront.
Match-day tickets for Everton are easier to come by than Liverpool home tickets. Sales open to members first, then a general sale window typically opens 2-3 weeks before fixtures. Adult prices range roughly £35 to £65 for Premier League home games, with cup ties priced lower. Family-section pricing is competitive (around £15-£20 for under-16s). For visitors keen on a Merseyside football day without the Anfield ticket scramble, an Everton home match is by some way the more accessible option.
Goodison Park: The Old Lady’s Heritage Tour
Goodison Park’s heritage tour is the option that’s actually running today, and it deserves serious attention from any visitor curious about football history. Goodison was the first major purpose-built football stadium anywhere — predating Old Trafford, the original Highbury, and Anfield itself — and the ground has hosted more top-flight English fixtures than any other stadium in the country. It also hosted five 1966 World Cup matches including a semi-final, several FA Cup finals when Wembley was being rebuilt, and the famous 1953 floodlit international against Argentina.
Goodison Tour Practicalities
Address: Goodison Park, Goodison Road, Liverpool L4 4EL.
Getting there: about two miles north of the city centre, the same neighbourhood as Anfield (the two grounds are walking distance apart through Stanley Park). Bus 17, 19, or 217 from the city centre; Soccerbus from Sandhills on Everton home Women’s match days; black cab or Uber around £10-£14 from a city-centre hotel; or a 35-minute walk from Lime Street if you don’t mind the climb up Everton Brow.
Tour times: Goodison runs heritage tours on selected weekdays and Saturdays when Everton Women aren’t at home. Tours typically depart at 11:00 and 13:00, last around 75-90 minutes, and need to be booked in advance through the Everton FC website or visitliverpool.com. Last-minute weekday tickets are usually available.
Prices (indicative 2026): adults around £18-£22, children under 16 around £12-£14, under-5s free. The price is significantly lower than Anfield’s equivalent tour, partly because the museum element is more limited.
What the Goodison Tour Covers
The tour follows the classic Premier League format with one big advantage: the building itself is the story. The Archibald Leitch architectural detailing in the Bullens Road and Gwladys Street stands, the original 1909 dressing rooms (largely preserved despite multiple refurbishments), and the press box from which Brian Moore and John Motson covered countless matches all feel like walking through football’s physical history. The guides — typically retired stewards or lifelong Evertonians — talk through:
The 1878 founding of the club at St Domingo’s Methodist Church in Everton, the move to Anfield (yes, Liverpool’s ground started life as Everton’s), the famous dispute that led Everton to move to Goodison in 1892, the 1906 and 1933 FA Cup wins, Dixie Dean’s 60-goal season in 1927-28, the 1966 World Cup matches at Goodison, the 1980s league titles and Cup Winners’ Cup victory under Howard Kendall, and the long campaign to relocate that finally produced Hill Dickinson Stadium.
Tour highlights include the Dixie Dean statue outside the main entrance, the Howard Kendall statue at the Park End, the Z-cars music piped through the speaker system at the relevant point in the tour, and the pitchside walk where guides will often invite visitors to take photos in the dugouts.
Why Goodison Still Matters
It would be easy to assume Goodison’s status as a former Premier League ground makes the tour a secondary experience. It isn’t. The building is older, smaller, and more architecturally distinctive than almost any other working football stadium in England, and the tour gives you a level of physical access that bigger Premier League grounds increasingly limit. The guides are excellent. The bookshop has memorabilia genuinely unavailable elsewhere. And for any visitor interested in the wider Liverpool history and heritage story, Goodison’s place in the city’s identity is enormous.
Everton Women now play home league matches at Goodison and crowd sizes have grown impressively since the 2025 transition. Visiting fans report the matchday feel as quieter than Premier League Everton days but still recognisably Evertonian — the Z-Cars music plays, the Gwladys Street end sings, and the price (often £10-£15 for adults) is a fraction of any men’s Premier League fixture.
Combining Both: A Football Heritage Day on Merseyside
If you’re a serious football tourist on a Liverpool trip, a sensible plan is to combine an Anfield tour, a Goodison heritage tour, and a walk past Hill Dickinson Stadium on the waterfront in a single day. This gives you the full Merseyside football landscape: the European Cup history at Anfield, the founding-fathers history at Goodison, and the future-of-football architecture at the dock.
A practical itinerary:
Morning: Anfield stadium tour (book the 09:45 or 10:15 slot), arriving at the ground around 09:00. Allow 2-3 hours including the Liverpool FC Story museum.
Lunch: Walk through Stanley Park (the green space that physically separates Anfield from Goodison) to one of the pubs on Walton Lane or County Road. The walk takes around 20 minutes.
Afternoon: Goodison heritage tour at 13:00. Allow 90 minutes.
Late afternoon: Bus or taxi back to the city centre, then walk along the waterfront from the Pier Head to Bramley-Moore Dock to see Hill Dickinson Stadium from the outside. The walk takes around 30 minutes each way and is genuinely scenic.
Evening: Dinner in the Baltic Triangle or at one of the best restaurants in Liverpool, then perhaps the Baltic Triangle nightlife for late drinks.
If you’re planning the trip around a match day for either club, our Anfield match day guide walks through that experience in detail, and our notes on the Merseyside derby cover the once-or-twice-a-season fixture where Everton and Liverpool meet.
Hill Dickinson vs Anfield: A Visitor’s Comparison
Both stadiums offer Premier League tours but they’re very different products.
Anfield is busier, slicker, and more touristic. The Liverpool FC Story museum is the best in the Premier League and the tour reflects the club’s global brand. Expect crowds, expect to book weeks ahead in summer, and expect prices around £25-£35 for adults. The detail in our Anfield stadium tour guide covers booking, what to expect, and the museum experience.
Hill Dickinson, once tours open, will be the architectural and design experience — a new-build stadium with serious aesthetic ambition, dockside views, and the freshness of a brand-new venue. Less history on display (because the history is back at Goodison), but much more dramatic as a building. Expect prices £25-£35.
Goodison is the heritage tour — cheaper, quieter, more access, more local feel. For anyone whose interest is in football history rather than current Premier League glamour, Goodison is the more rewarding visit by some margin.
Hill Dickinson Stadium and the Liverpool Waters Regeneration
The stadium is part of a much larger £5 billion regeneration of Liverpool’s north waterfront — the Liverpool Waters scheme. New residential blocks, hotels, public realm, and waterfront walkways are being delivered in phases between 2025 and the early 2030s. Visitors in 2026 will see the stadium completed and in use but with the surrounding development still under construction. By 2028-29, when the area hosts Euro 2028 matches, the broader district should look quite different.
For visitors interested in the wider waterfront context, our Liverpool waterfront guide covers the historic Royal Albert Dock, the Pier Head, and the listed Liver Building. Walking from the Pier Head north along the waterfront to Hill Dickinson Stadium and the Stanley Dock Tobacco Warehouse is now one of the most rewarding city walks in Liverpool — historically dense, architecturally varied, and almost entirely unknown to short-stay tourists. The walk also passes the Stanley Dock area, increasingly recognised as one of Liverpool’s most photogenic post-industrial settings.
Everton Stadium Tour FAQs
Is the Hill Dickinson Stadium tour open yet?
As of mid-2026, public stadium tours of the new Everton stadium had not yet launched. The club had signalled an autumn 2026 launch, with tickets expected to go on sale via evertonfc.com. Check the official Everton FC tours page before booking a Liverpool trip planned around the tour.
Is the Goodison Park tour still running?
Yes. Heritage tours of Goodison continue and remain a popular weekday and Saturday activity, particularly outside Everton Women home fixtures.
Why is the new stadium called Hill Dickinson Stadium?
Hill Dickinson is a Liverpool-headquartered international law firm that bought the stadium naming rights in early 2025. The name will likely change again when the current deal expires; the stadium is informally called Bramley-Moore by Everton fans who feel uneasy about corporate naming.
What’s the capacity of Hill Dickinson Stadium?
52,888 — a significant increase on Goodison’s final all-seater capacity of around 39,000. It is now the largest football stadium on Merseyside.
How do I get to Hill Dickinson Stadium from Liverpool city centre?
Walk along the waterfront (about 30 minutes), take a Merseyrail train to Sandhills or Vauxhall (then a 15-20 minute walk), or use match-day shuttle buses from Lime Street. There’s no parking at the ground.
Where do Everton women play now?
At Goodison Park. The men’s team moved to Hill Dickinson Stadium for the 2025-26 season, and Goodison became the dedicated home of Everton Women and the men’s academy.
Is Goodison going to be demolished?
No. Goodison continues as a working stadium under Everton FC ownership, hosting Women’s Super League fixtures and Everton academy matches. Long-term redevelopment plans for the wider site exist but the stadium itself is preserved.
Are Everton match-day tickets easier to get than Liverpool’s?
Yes, significantly. Everton home tickets typically have a general sale window 2-3 weeks before fixtures, with prices ranging £35-£65 for adults. Liverpool home tickets are not on general sale and require membership or hospitality packages — see our Liverpool FC match tickets guide for full detail.
Can I see both stadiums in a day?
Easily. Goodison and Anfield are walking distance apart through Stanley Park; Hill Dickinson is a 30-minute walk south down the waterfront. A combined football heritage day works very well.
Do they sell shirts at the new stadium?
Yes — the club shop at Hill Dickinson Stadium opens for matches and selected non-matchday hours. The city-centre Everton store on Liverpool ONE is open daily and is much less busy.
Final Thoughts on Visiting Everton’s Stadiums
Football tourism on Merseyside changed when Hill Dickinson Stadium opened. For decades, Anfield was the must-visit ground and Goodison was the underrated alternative; now there’s a third option, a brand-new waterfront stadium, and the picture is much richer. For anyone planning a Liverpool trip with even mild interest in football, fitting one Everton stadium experience into the itinerary is well worth the effort — both Goodison’s heritage tour and a walk past the new ground are accessible to non-fans and surprisingly affecting.
If you’re putting together a broader Liverpool itinerary, the Liverpool football tourism hub ties together Anfield, Everton, the Merseyside derby, and the wider football culture of the city. The Liverpool travel guide is the starting point for anyone visiting for the first time, and the hotels near Anfield guide is essential reading if your trip is built around a match day.
