Buying for an Evertonian got more complicated in 2025. The men played their last game at Goodison Park on 18 May and moved to the Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock for the new season. Some fans loved the move. Plenty are still grieving a bit, and if you're asking me, I'd have stayed. The new place is grand, but Goodison was ours in a way a new ground takes decades to become.
So it helps to know which one you're buying for. Someone who stood on the Gwladys Street in the 80s wants a different present from a teenager whose first season ticket is at the dock.
Days out
A tour of the new stadium. Tours of the Hill Dickinson run for the public and you book them on the club site. It's the obvious one for a fan who lives away from Liverpool and hasn't been yet.
An Everton Women game at Goodison. Goodison didn't close. It became the permanent home of Everton Women from the 2025-26 season, and tickets are cheap and far easier to get than for the men. For an older fan who misses the place, it's the old ground back for an afternoon, with a proper game of football on top.
A walk round Goodison on a quiet day. This one is free, and it's the one older fans tend to remember. Start at the Dixie Dean statue by the Park End, which has been there since 2001. Then walk round to St Luke's, the church that still sits in the corner of the ground, yards from the corner flag, where it always has. Go with your dad or your grandad and let them set the pace. Somewhere around the Gwladys Street end they'll stop and point at a spot on the pavement and tell you where they stood for a game you've never heard of. You'll hear a few stories you haven't heard before. Probably a few you have.
A membership is worth a thought too. The new ground holds nearly 53,000, a lot more than Goodison did, but big games still go to season ticket holders and members first, so it gives them a real chance at tickets through the season.
Things to keep
A programme from one of the two big days. The last men's game at Goodison on 18 May 2025, when Iliman Ndiaye scored both in a 2-0 win over Southampton. Or the first Premier League game at the new ground on 24 August 2025, a 2-0 win over Brighton, with Ndiaye on the scoresheet again alongside James Garner. So Ndiaye scored the last men's goal at Goodison and the first league goal at the dock, which is a nice line to write in the card. Programmes from both turn up second-hand.
Better still, a programme from their first ever game. If I could only pick one thing on this list, it'd be this, because it's about their own history with Everton. Find out the date from someone who was there, quietly, and track it down. It costs very little.
A retro shirt. Ask an Evertonian which shirt and you'll get three answers. The over-50s want the mid-80s kit from the title and Rotterdam season. People who remember Paul Rideout's header against Manchester United want the 1995 FA Cup final shirt. And the Cahill and Arteta generation will want something from the Moyes years. Work out which one they are before you buy.
Signed stuff from Southall or Sharp is lovely too, but only with a certificate from a seller you can trace.
Books
The Binman Chronicles by Neville Southall. Out in 2012, and very Southall. Blunt, often funny, and not bothered whether you like him or not. Good for anyone who watched him in goal.
Dixie Dean: The Inside Story of a Football Icon by John Keith. Dean scored 60 league goals in 1927-28 and nobody has matched it in the top flight since. Everyone knows the 60. This is the book for the bloke behind it.
Howard Kendall's autobiography, Love Affairs and Marriage. Kendall played in the Holy Trinity midfield and then managed the 1985 side, so you get two golden eras from the man in the middle of both. Reads like he's telling you over a pint.
On the wall
Here's where the arguing starts. For most Evertonians over 45 the team is the one that won in Rotterdam on 15 May 1985, beating Rapid Vienna 3-1 in the Cup Winners' Cup final with goals from Andy Gray, Trevor Steven and Kevin Sheedy. Some will tell you the 1987 title side was the better team, and for me they're right. But Rotterdam is the night people frame, and I understand why. Kendall's 4-4-2 that night:
Southall; Stevens, Mountfield, Ratcliffe, Van den Hauwe; Steven, Reid, Bracewell, Sheedy; Sharp, Gray.
Quick answers
What's a good Everton gift under £30? One of the books, a second-hand programme, or tickets to an Everton Women game at Goodison.
Where do Everton play now? The men play at the Hill Dickinson Stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock. Everton Women play at Goodison Park.
We do that Rotterdam side ready-made as a framed Rotterdam 1985 print from £69, and there are more classic sides in our Everton prints. If you'd rather make the 1987 team, a Goodison farewell XI or their own Sunday league side in royal blue, you can build it in our team builder. We email a proof before anything's printed, prints are £99 or £149 with free UK delivery, and if it's for Christmas, order early so there's time to approve the proof.