Goodison Park is to develop into the house of Everton’s ladies after the membership scrapped plans to demolish the 132-year-old stadium.

The Blues will transfer to their new 53,000-seater enviornment at Bramley-Moore Dock this summer time.

Throughout building of the brand new facility on the Liverpool waterfront, Everton’s earlier possession group introduced plans for an £82m post-demolition renovation venture on the Goodison web site, which was set to incorporate housing, a care house, retail items and a park.

However after being taken over by non-public fairness agency The Friedkin Group in December, the membership performed a feasibility examine about sustaining the stadium as a house for the ladies’s crew, and have now opted to proceed working the positioning.

With a capability of 39,572, Goodison Park will now be the most important devoted ladies’s soccer stadium within the nation.

“This long-term imaginative and prescient displays the membership’s dedication to investing within the ladies’s sport and guaranteeing that Goodison Park continues to play a significant function in each soccer and the neighborhood,” Everton mentioned.

“The membership’s regeneration plans will retain Goodison Park’s proud id whereas giving Everton Ladies a world-class platform within the coronary heart of Liverpool 4. For supporters, it presents the possibility to be a part of a brand new period in certainly one of soccer’s most iconic venues.”