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A day at the Etihad with Club Level seats and pre-match dining.
Manchester
11°
Rain showers
Our best tips
Manchester in October averages 8–14°C. Rain is common (roughly 22 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 Etihad Stadium 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
The Etihad Campus tram stop is right next to the stadium on the Ashton-under-Lyne line. Trams run regularly from Manchester Piccadilly and the city centre.
Ride-hailing and black cabs are available throughout Manchester. Drop-off is usually on Ashton New Road, a short walk from the hospitality entrances.
Manchester Piccadilly is the nearest mainline station. From there, the Metrolink tram takes around ten minutes to the ground.
Manchester City and Everton have been meeting on the football pitch since 1891, making this one of English football's longest-running fixtures. Both clubs were founding members of the Football League's top division, and their shared history spans three centuries of goals, relegations, title races and FA Cup drama. From the terraces of Hyde Road to the gleaming bowl of the Etihad, this fixture has produced some of the game's most memorable moments.
I swear you'll never see anything like this ever again. So watch it, drink it in.
Once Everton has touched you, nothing will be the same.
Before City had a name, they already had a rivalry.
The fixture's roots stretch back to the early 1890s, when Manchester City's predecessor, Ardwick AFC, first faced Everton. Both clubs were among the pioneers of organised league football in England. Everton had been a founding member of the Football League in 1888; Ardwick joined the newly formed Second Division in 1892 before reforming as Manchester City in 1894.
City's first silverware arrived in 1904; Everton, already league champions, were hardly watching from the wings.
City claimed their first major trophy with a 1-0 FA Cup final victory over Bolton Wanderers in 1904. Everton had already won the league title in 1891 and the FA Cup in 1906 would follow shortly. Both clubs established themselves as genuine powers of the Edwardian era, and their league meetings drew large crowds across Manchester and Merseyside.
Favourites they were; 3-0 down they finished. The only FA Cup final between these sides went emphatically the wrong way for Everton.
The rivalry reached its grandest stage when Everton met Manchester City in the 1933 FA Cup final. Everton, the reigning league champions, were strong favourites. City had other ideas. Goals from Fred Tilson, Sammy Cowan and Jimmy McMullan's tactical nous saw City win 3-0, claiming the Cup in emphatic fashion. It remains the only time these two sides have met in an FA Cup final.
Two points separated City from United in 1968, with Everton fifth that season and destined to claim the title themselves in 1970.
Joe Mercer and Malcolm Allison's Manchester City won the First Division title in 1967-68, finishing two points ahead of Manchester United. Everton, managed by Harry Catterick, finished fifth that season. The late 1960s and early 1970s saw both clubs competing at the top of English football, with Everton winning the title in 1970. Their league encounters during this period were fiercely contested affairs between two sides packed with international talent.
Four matches just to settle a quarter-final; the country could scarcely look away.
The 1981 FA Cup quarter-final between the two sides became one of the competition's great sagas. After a 2-2 draw at Goodison Park, the replay at Maine Road also ended level. A second replay was needed, and then a third, before City finally prevailed 3-1 at Hillsborough. Four matches, twelve goals, and a fixture that captured the imagination of the entire country.
A Commonwealth Games legacy handed City a 48,000-seat stage for ambitions that would soon reshape the fixture entirely.
Manchester City relocated from Maine Road to the City of Manchester Stadium, built for the 2002 Commonwealth Games. The new ground, later renamed the Etihad Stadium, gave City a 48,000-seat home befitting their ambitions. Everton's visits to east Manchester replaced decades of trips to Moss Side, and the modern arena would soon become the backdrop for a dramatic shift in the fixture's balance of power.
Forty-four years of waiting, ended in stoppage time by a single strike from Agüero.
The most famous moment in this fixture's history. On 13 May 2012, City needed to beat Queens Park Rangers to win the Premier League title. They trailed 2-1 going into stoppage time. Edin Džeko equalised, then Sergio Agüero drove through the QPR defence and fired home to make it 3-2. Martin Tyler's commentary became immortal. City had won their first league title in 44 years, and the Etihad erupted. While this was not against Everton, it was the moment that redefined City's trajectory and, by extension, every fixture they played thereafter. When Everton next visited the Etihad, they faced reigning champions.
A hundred points in a season; some records exist simply to remind everyone else of their place.
Pep Guardiola's second season at City produced one of the great Premier League campaigns. City amassed 100 points in 2017-18, a record that still stands. Everton were beaten home and away that season, and the fixture increasingly reflected the gulf between a club backed by Abu Dhabi's wealth and one navigating more modest means. City's 3-1 win at Goodison in March 2018 was typical: controlled, clinical, relentless.
One club conquered Europe; the other simply refused to fall.
The 2022-23 season saw the two clubs at opposite ends of the table. City won the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League to complete an historic Treble. Everton, meanwhile, were deducted points for breaching the Premier League's profit and sustainability rules and spent much of the season battling relegation. The contrast could hardly have been starker, yet Everton's resilience in staying up was its own kind of triumph.
132 years at Goodison Park, then a 52,888-seat arena on the Mersey; some farewells take a while.
Everton's move to their new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock on Liverpool's waterfront marks a new chapter for the club and for this fixture. After 132 years at Goodison Park, the Toffees will host City in a 52,888-capacity arena on the banks of the Mersey. Meanwhile, at the Etihad, this remains one of the Premier League's most-watched fixtures, a meeting of two clubs whose histories have been intertwined since the very dawn of English league football.
