{"id":90699,"date":"2025-08-25T02:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90699\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T02:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T02:11:16","slug":"everton-fans-celebrate-first-hill-dickinson-stadium-league-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90699\/","title":{"rendered":"Everton fans celebrate first Hill Dickinson Stadium league game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zoe Toase and Rumeana Jahangir<\/p>\n

BBC News<\/p>\n

\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

Nearly 53,000 spectators packed into the \u00a3750m stadium<\/p>\n

Everton fans enjoyed their first Premier League game at their new stadium with a 2-0 victory over Brighton.<\/p>\n

About 53,000 spectators packed into the \u00a3750m Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock in what one fan called a “pinch-me moment”.<\/p>\n

“The atmosphere is boss and it echoes everywhere,” one fan told BBC North West Tonight<\/a>, adding: “You can’t hear yourself think – in a good way.”<\/p>\n

But not everyone was too excited, with one older fan saying: “For the younger generation, this is it, isn’t it? But for me, I like Goodison [Park].”<\/p>\n

The club bid an emotional farewell to the Grand Old Lady, as the stadium was known<\/a>, in May after playing there for 132 years.<\/p>\n

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The arena has been built at a former dock named after 19th Century merchant John Bramley-Moore<\/p>\n

Iliman Ndiaye achieved the distinction of not only scoring Everton’s last Premier League goal at Goodison Park but also their first in the new arena when he slotted in a close-range finish<\/a> in the 24th minute. <\/p>\n

He had been assisted by new arrival Jack Grealish, who played a highly-anticipated and key role during the game.<\/p>\n

Outside the stadium, a fan said: “Now we can start punching with the big boys, again.”<\/p>\n

Generations of families could be seen basking in the sunny vibes, with one man saying: “Grandparents, parents, us and now grandchildren as well. <\/p>\n

“They have to come to the new stadium and will remember it in 50 years’ time.”<\/p>\n

\"ReutersReuters<\/p>\n

Everton boss David Moyes seemed chilled as he joined players on a pre-match stroll in the new stadium<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zoe Toase and Rumeana Jahangir BBC News PA Media Nearly 53,000 spectators packed into the \u00a3750m stadium Everton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-90699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90699","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=90699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}