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Everton v Sunderland with tunnel-side dining and pitchside Club Level seats.
Liverpool
12°
Rain showers
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Liverpool in October averages 10–15°C. Rain is common (roughly 17 days of the month), so a waterproof layer is essential, not optional.
Smart casual is the standard in Premier League hospitality suites. Think collared shirts and smart trousers rather than replica kits. Most venues will turn away guests in sportswear or football shirts.
Arrive at Goodison Park at least two hours before kick-off to enjoy the full pre-match hospitality. Bring a valid photo ID, as most Premier League venues require one for entry.
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Getting around
Kirkdale station is the nearest rail stop, around a 15-minute walk. Liverpool Lime Street connects to the national rail network.
Taxis are plentiful from Liverpool city centre. The journey to Goodison Park takes around 15 minutes outside peak traffic.
Arriva bus routes 19, 20, and 21 run from Liverpool city centre to the ground. Services are frequent on match days.
Two of English football's founding aristocrats, Everton and Sunderland were both among the original twelve members of the Football League in 1888. Between them they claimed ten of the first twenty league titles. The fixture carries the weight of that shared pedigree: two clubs who shaped the game before the Premier League era rewrote the script, and whose supporters have weathered relegation, revival, and everything between.
Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
I was made to feel so welcome. The people of Sunderland took me to their hearts and I took them to mine.
A Methodist congregation in 1878 gave birth to a football club that would outgrow both its name and its home ground.
Founded as St Domingo FC by the congregation of St Domingo Methodist Church in 1878, the club adopted the name Everton the following year. They played at various grounds around the Anfield area before settling at Anfield Road in 1884, a ground they would eventually leave behind in acrimonious circumstances.
Sunderland lifted three league titles in four years and made it look embarrassingly routine.
Everton were one of the twelve founding members of the Football League in 1888. Sunderland, founded in 1879 as the Sunderland and District Teachers Association Football Club, joined the League in 1890. Both clubs quickly established themselves as dominant forces. Sunderland won three titles in four seasons between 1892 and 1895, earning the nickname "The Team of All Talents". Everton claimed their first championship in 1891.
Everton's rent row gifted English football its first proper ground; Houlding consoled himself by inventing the neighbours.
A rent dispute with Anfield's landlord John Houlding forced Everton to find a new home. They crossed Stanley Park and built Goodison Park, which opened in August 1892. It became the first major football ground in England, with proper stands from the outset. Houlding, left with an empty stadium, founded Liverpool FC to fill it. The rest, as they say, is local history.
Two clubs, two trophies, one golden era; then silence for decades.
The early 1930s saw both clubs at the peak of their powers. Everton won the First Division title in 1931-32 with Dixie Dean still terrorising defences, then followed it with the FA Cup in 1933. Sunderland, not to be outdone, won the league championship in 1935-36 and the FA Cup in 1937. These were the last major honours either club would win for decades.
North Korea led Portugal 3-0 at Goodison, and somehow that was not the final score.
Goodison Park was selected as a venue for the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosting five matches including a semi-final. The ground staged some of the tournament's most memorable games, including North Korea's astonishing 3-0 lead over Portugal before Eusébio dragged his side back to win 5-3. It remains one of the great World Cup matches, and Goodison was the stage.
A Second Division side beating the might of Don Revie's Leeds; Montgomery's double save alone was worth the trip to Wembley.
Sunderland, then a Second Division side, produced one of the great FA Cup upsets by beating Don Revie's mighty Leeds United 1-0 at Wembley. Ian Porterfield's goal and Jimmy Montgomery's extraordinary double save wrote the Black Cats into cup folklore. It was a result that reminded English football that pedigree counts for something, even when the form book says otherwise.
Heysel stole their shot at European glory; most believe they would have taken it.
Under Howard Kendall, Everton enjoyed their finest modern era. They won the league title in 1984-85 and 1986-87, the FA Cup in 1984, and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1985. The Heysel disaster and subsequent ban on English clubs from European competition robbed that side of the chance to compete for the European Cup. Many believe they would have won it.
Everton have started every Premier League season; Sunderland have spent much of it trying to stay in one.
Both clubs were founding members of the Premier League in 1992. Everton have remained in the top flight ever since, one of only a handful of clubs to have played in every Premier League season. Sunderland's journey has been more turbulent, with multiple relegations and promotions. Their meetings in the Premier League era have often carried the tension of contrasting fortunes: Everton clinging to mid-table respectability, Sunderland frequently fighting for survival.
Two consecutive relegations silenced a fixture that founding members of the Football League had shared for the modern era.
Sunderland's relegation from the Premier League in 2017 was followed by a second consecutive drop into League One. The Netflix documentary "Sunderland 'Til I Die" captured the pain and devotion of the club's supporters through those dark years. The fixture between these two founding League clubs disappeared from the calendar for the first time in the modern era.
A century and a third at Goodison, then a new home on the waterfront; history does not stand still on Merseyside.
After 133 years at Goodison Park, Everton moved to their new 52,888-capacity stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock on the Liverpool waterfront in 2025. The ground, now known as the Hill Dickinson Stadium, is a striking piece of architecture that blends the heritage of the docklands with a modern matchday experience. It marks the beginning of a new chapter for the club, and any meeting with Sunderland here will carry the echo of over a century of shared history.
