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Everton's new stadium is coming to life as new photos from inside the site emerge.
Work on the new 53,000-seater stadium, located on Liverpool's Bramley Dock, is expected to be completed ahead of the 2024/25 season, at a cost of around £550million. Photos uploaded to Everton's website show cranes, vans and diggers at work where the pitch is going to be.
Some of the seats have also been installed, giving fans a glimpse at what the ground will look like once everything is finished. The stadium will have a single tier stand that will seat 13,000 fans and is designed to be as close to the pitch as possible.
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Snaps of the steep stand emerged on social media, drawing comparisons to the notoriously-steep 'Yellow Wall' inside Dortmund's Westfalenstadion.
The ground's 53,000 capacity will make it the sixth-largest in the Premier League, behind Old Trafford, the London Stadium, the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Emirates Stadium and Anfield. It'll be a significant upgrade, given that Everton's current stadium, Goodison Park, holds just 40,000 spectators.
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Everton have spent almost their entire history playing at Goodison Park, with the first game played there, a 4-2 win over Bolton, in September 1892. Previously, the Toffees played their football on Stanley Park and, briefly, at Anfield before moving out because the rent (£240 a year) was deemed too high.
But despite Goodison Park's rich history, Everton have acknowledged for years that a move to a bigger ground is necessary in order for the club to continue competing at the highest level. They will hope that the first football to be played in their stadium is a Premier League fixture, though this is far from certain given the Merseyside club's form over the past few seasons.
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They narrowly avoided relegation in 2022 and again in 2023, and Sean Dyche's men are currently just six points above the drop-zone. They could drop even lower in the table in the coming weeks given the fact they're facing Manchester United, Chelsea, Newcastle and league-leaders Tottenham all before Christmas.
They also have the prospect of a points deduction hanging over them amid an ongoing investigation into breaches of Financial Fair Play.
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