{"id":238782,"date":"2025-11-02T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238782\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T01:37:16","slug":"attendance-for-sell-out-everton-rugby-league-ashes-test-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/238782\/","title":{"rendered":"Attendance for sell-out Everton Rugby League Ashes Test revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

52,106 were at Bramley-Moore Dock on Saturday afternoon to watch the first-ever rugby league clash at Everton FC\u2019s new Hill Dickinson Stadium, with Australia prevailing in the second Ashes Test of the series.<\/p>\n

It was confirmed back in March that Everton\u2019s new home ground, which at that stage still had to pass through a number of test events to be given the green light, would be the stage for one of this autumn\u2019s three Rugby League Ashes Tests.<\/p>\n

As soon as tickets went on sale, thousands jumped at the opportunity to get behind England<\/a> on Merseyside, and a sell-out was confirmed within just a few days.<\/p>\n

At absolute full capacity, the Hill Dickinson operates at 52,769. Everton themselves, for a number of reasons including segregation, have not \u2013 and likely will never \u2013 reached that figure at their new home.<\/p>\n

The Toffees\u2019 biggest attendance so far this season came in a 3-0 defeat against Tottenham Hotspur last weekend \u2013 with 52,501 in attendance.<\/p>\n

And while Saturday afternoon\u2019s Ashes clash between England and Australia<\/a> wasn\u2019t quite that high: a crowd of 51,106 was recorded.<\/p>\n

The first-ever rugby league game at the Hill Dickinson ultimately went into the record books with a 14-4 Kangaroos victory, earned through ten unanswered second half points.<\/p>\n

After a first half which saw two penalties apiece converted by Everton fan Harry Smith for England and Nathan Cleary for Australia, man-of-the-match Cameron Munster became the first player to score a try at the new ground.<\/p>\n

Just four minutes later, team-mate Hudson Young followed suit, putting the game \u2013 and the series \u2013 beyond England.<\/p>\n

Having won the opening Test 26-6 at Wembley last weekend, Australia are now 2-0 to the good this autumn and have clinched the series.<\/p>\n

The two teams will meet again at Headingley next Saturday, November 8, when England must win to spare the blushes of suffering a 3-0 series whitewash on home soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"52,106 were at Bramley-Moore Dock on Saturday afternoon to watch the first-ever rugby league clash at Everton FC\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-238782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rugby","8":"tag-rugby","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}