Everton Transfer Ownership Of Goodison Park To Their Women’s Team

Everton person transferred ownership of Goodison Park to their women’s squad successful a move it is hoped will pull outer finance amid increasing liking successful nan athletics successful nan US.

The nine announced successful May that Everton Women would play their location games astatine Goodison adjacent play pursuing David Moyes’s broadside move to nan caller Hill Dickinson Stadium, and nan Guardian has learned they person since taken ownership of nan 133-year-old ground.

Everton sold nan women’s squad to a institution controlled by nan club’s owner, Dan Friedkin, earlier this week. Documents published by Companies House revealed that Roundhouse Capital, nan finance conveyance Friedkin utilized to bargain Everton past December, are now nan owners of Everton Women Football Club Limited successful a woody that besides includes Goodison Park.

Everton declined to comment, but sources astatine nan nine told nan Guardian that nether nan caller building Goodison Park will beryllium held by Everton Women Football Club, pinch nan Hill Dickinson Stadium belonging to Everton Football Club.

It is hoped nan transportation of ownership will summation nan entreaty of Everton Women to extracurricular investors, though Roundhouse intends to support its mostly finance and will only waste a number stake.

Chelsea sold 8% of their women’s team to Reddit laminitis Alexis Ohanian earlier this twelvemonth successful a woody that weighted nan nine astatine £240m, but Everton Women’s marketplace worth is obscurity adjacent that level contempt including Goodison Park. The crushed is successful a conservation area and nan nine person secured pre-planning support for a redevelopment that includes affordable housing, a sports centre and organization buildings to beryllium managed by nan Goodison Legacy Project.

Everton are successful nan process of converting Goodison Park for Women’s Super League shot earlier nan caller season, which originates pinch a Merseyside derby astatine Anfield connected 7 September.

The little tiers of nan Park End, Gwladys Street and Main Stand are being refurbished, but nan precocious tiers will not beryllium used. While nan ground’s caller capacity has not been finalised, nan Guardian has been told it will initially beryllium astir 20,000, pinch nan scope to summation further if location is capable demand.