Everton Prepares For Goodison Park Goodbye With Iconic Display

Forbes

30-04-2025

Everton continues to prepare for its final game at Goodison Park, announcing that the penultimate match at the historic stadium, against Ipswich Town on Saturday, will be a designated Supporters' Day.
The club is due to move to a brand new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, situated where the city of Liverpool meets the River Mersey, for the 2025/26 season.
It means there are only two games left to play at Goodison Park, and fans are looking to savour every moment of these remaining two home matches as they have been doing throughout the season.
Throughout the 2024/25 campaign, fan groups have produced flags and banners celebrating the club's history and key figures from the 133 years it has played at the stadium.
From Gwladys Street to the Park End, there have been displays before each match this season, and there promises to be memorable scenes at the game against Ipswich Town, as fan groups have stepped their efforts up even further
'One of the best things we've achieved by doing [the displays] is not just helping the players on the pitch but bringing Evertonians together, no matter the age," read a statement from The 1878s, who are behind the organising of the displays.
"We have children from nine years old to 80-year-old Blues volunteering every home game and also helping us set up.
'Without all the fans who have volunteered, donated and sponsored our displays this season, we wouldn't have been able to do what we have.
'As a thank you, and to honour those who have helped us in giving Goodison Park a great send off, we have had a special banner made with all their names on for our last ever display.
'We are also asking everyone to wear blue, to give it one last push, and help us create an iconic image of Goodison Park that will go down in history.'
Everton has turned a corner this season under David Moyes, who has been back at the helm as manager since January, having previously managed the club between 2002 and 2013.
The upturn in form has been a welcome tonic and it has been fitting that the team has enjoyed some good results to see out the end of the season.
Though Everton has lost its last two games against difficult opponents, Man City and Chelsea, it will hope for a positive finale at Goodison Park against two teams that have already been relegated from the Premier League this season.
First up is Ipswich on Saturday, before the last ever game at Goodison Park against Southampton on May 18.
The 1878s hope to see of the old ground in style, beginning with the upcoming game against Ipswich.
'We will be living at Goodison this week,' 1878s member Katie Carter told the Liverpool Echo, the city's local newspaper which has also released a souvenir edition to say goodbye to the stadium.
'There are so many memorable images of Goodison from the last nine months, but we want this to be the lasting one—the one that the 1878s' work at the ground is remembered by.
'We are hoping to create the scene that goes on people's walls, is kept as their screensaver—that the club always return to. We want to give her the best send-off we can.'