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New Everton Stadium

gorgeousgeorgeEFC said:
I presume that you're basing this unduly negative assessment on the fact that Goodison isn't always full to capacity. According to the club's own data, over a quarter of the seats at Goodison have an obstructed view! I wouldn't expect any club in world football to fill such a stadium every week. Who wants to fork out £40 to sit behind a post? In our new stadium, none of the seats will have an even remotely obstructed view.

When Arsenal played at Highbury they almost never had capacity attendances and Highbury only held 39,000 people. Conversely, the Emirates, a stadium with a capacity of 60,000, is almost always full. Fans are much more likely to fork out for a ticket at a state-of-the-art stadium than at a stadium that is riddled with obstructed views.
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Actually I wasn't.

I was basing it on economics and demographics.

We have a pretty singular fan base with a very high percentage of match day attendees from around the area.

The reason why the Emirates is successful is because it has attracted corporate support and the gentry. That's largely because of the demographic of the surrounding area.

Have you been the Arsenal? It's £6 a pint and £5 for a portion of chips. Plus the standard match day ticket is on average about £60-70. All that and the atmosphere is rubbish because of the proportion of actual fans to day trippers.

In my opinion, we'd struggle to fill a 60k state of the art stadium without doing what West Ham have done and that has killed any atmosphere that stadium could have had.
 
Gladystweet said:
Good point. I was thinking along the same lines. When I go abroad, and people ask where you're from, and you say Liverpool, they immediately mention two things, the Beatles....and the other lot. I think any new name has to reflect us and our history. Many of the younger generation from abroad haven't even heard of us...sad but true.
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As an aside to that, I was recently in Barcelona and my Everton top sparked several conversations with the locals, all due to Deulofeu. Non fans don't know where we are at all unless they have a specific link. Liverpool in the name of an iconic stadium would do wonders for us re raising our profile.
 


Previous Walton Hall Park design:

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The programme for the stadium, with a capacity for 50,000 spectators, includes stands for 17,000 local fans (Home End), 4,000 premium seats, 4,000 seats for parents and children in the Family zone near the pitch, a vibrant Fan Zone and the Club’s community action body offices: Everton–in-the-Community as a built-in part of the maximum level services offered at the Stadium.

http://www.idom.com/en/project/everton-football-club/
 
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“I didn’t really intend to go into sports architecture,” said Young, a principal and lead designer at Meis Architects. “But once you have an expertise in it, I guess it behooves you to make use of it. I realized that’s what I wanted to keep doing.”

For the past nine years, she’s worked with Dan Meis at various firms, including now at Meis Architects, a small, independent firm. She’s currently designing two European soccer stadiums (for AS Roma and for Everton FC), plus renovations at Staples Center and Paul Brown Stadium.

http://www.sportsbusinessdaily.com/Journal/Issues/2016/09/12/Game-Changers/Xan-Young.aspx

Link to the stadiums Meis architects have designed:

http://www.meisstudio.com/stadia/
 

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