Hotels for Everton v Liverpool

The Merseyside derby is the fixture both sets of supporters circle first when the season's schedule is released. A late-November date means fans arriving in the cold and dark for a mid-afternoon kick-off, with pubs and streets around the ground filling hours before. Bragging rights across the city are on the line, and the atmosphere carries an edge that friendlier fixtures never quite match. Whatever the league positions, form goes out the window once this one starts.

Everton were founded in 1878 as St Domingo's, a church side in the district of Everton, taking the area's name the following year as the club opened up beyond its original congregation. Nicknamed the Toffees after a local sweet shop, Everton are one of English football's most successful old clubs, with nine league titles, five FA Cups and a Cup Winners' Cup.

For 133 years, from 1892, home was Goodison Park, a tightly-packed cathedral of a ground the club left with an emotional send-off in May 2025. Their new home, the Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock on the Mersey waterfront, opened for the 2025-26 season, with Everton beating Brighton 2-0 in the first competitive match played there.

Everton's spectacular new home rises from Bramley-Moore Dock on Liverpool's northern waterfront, a brick-and-glass bowl built into the historic dockland with the Mersey at its back. The regenerated docks setting puts the stadium within a waterfront walk of the Ten Streets district and, further along, the Albert Dock's museums and bars.

Sandhills station and matchday buses link it to the centre in minutes. Staying centrally gives you the full waterfront city — then an easy shuttle or brisk dockside walk to the match.