Everton fans got their first taste of the club’s new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock when 10,000 supporters attended a test event featuring an Under-18s friendly against Wigan Athletic on Monday night.
The Toffees, who are leaving their Goodson Park home at the end of this season, are scheduled to kick off the 2025/26 Premier League season at the new 52,888-seater arena, which has taken four years to build.
It was Wigan’s Harrison Rimmer who scored the first ever goal at Bramley-Moore Dock, before Cole Simms added a second for the visitors.
But roared on by the fans packed in the South Stand, substitute Ray Robert wrote his name into Everton’s history books by scoring the club’s first goal at their new home, winning…