{"id":210657,"date":"2025-06-24T14:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/210657\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T14:58:10","slug":"hill-dickinson-stadium-capacity-slightly-reduced-as-everton-explain-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/210657\/","title":{"rendered":"Hill Dickinson Stadium capacity slightly reduced as Everton explain why"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everton have explained why the official capacity for their new Hill Dickinson Stadium has changed<\/p>\n

Everton have confirmed the official capacity of Hill Dickinson Stadium for Premier League<\/a> fixtures and sporting events will be 52,769.<\/p>\n

The club say the initial designated capacity of 52,888, proposed as part of the final design created five years ago, has been reduced slightly following a thorough post-construction audit and review of the seating configuration across the stadium<\/a> in readiness for the new season.<\/p>\n

Everton<\/a> add that factors such as segregation lines between the home and away section and the compliance and provision for media facilities and camera positions have played a part in the original maximum capacity being reduced by 0.2% (119 seats).<\/p>\n

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No seats purchased as season tickets have been affected by this slight reduction in capacity.<\/p>\n

Hill Dickinson Stadium will officially open later this summer, when Everton host Brighton and Hove Albion in the club’s opening Premier League home game of the 2025\/26 campaign, on Saturday 23 August. Before then, the Blues will host AS Roma \u2013 also owned by The Friedkin Group<\/a> \u2013 in a pre-season friendly on Saturday 9 August (3pm kick-off), which will double as the club\u2019s third and final test event, in front of what is expected to be a capacity crowd.<\/p>\n

The revised capacity will still enable Everton to play in front of the biggest regular crowds in the club\u2019s history.<\/p>\n

The Blues have only ever enjoyed an average gate of over 50,000 once (51,603 for the 1962\/63 title-winning season), although their record attendance at Goodison Park, England\u2019s first purpose-built football ground and venue for the most top flights matches where they played for 133 years from 1892-2025 was 78,299 for a Merseyside Derby against Liverpool on 18 September 1948, one of 16 occasions that the venue attracted crowds of over 70,000 for Everton games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Everton have explained why the official capacity for their new Hill Dickinson Stadium has changed Everton have confirmed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[748,393,1467,4884,50794,12,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-210657","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-everton-fc","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-hill-dickinson-stadium","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-northern-ireland","15":"tag-scotland","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114738935579690667","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}