Everton new stadium: what is planned for 2024 as Michael Jones pledge made and new features to come

Project director Gareth Jacques has pledged that the construction of Everton’s new stadium will “finish in style” as it enters the final 12 months of a three-year build and believes the Blues’ future home will be a monument to the contribution and memory of Michael Jones who died after an accident on site last year.

Construction worker Michael, a 26-year-old lifelong Evertonian from Kirkby, was killed on August 14, devastating family and friends, his work colleagues at Laing O’Rourke and everyone at Everton Football Club. Jacques said: “Nothing we have achieved comes close to helping with the sadness of losing Michael.

“The one thing I talk about with the team all the time is that we need to build this better than any other stadium to make Michael’s family proud and to acknowledge the contribution he made to delivering Everton’s new home. We are going to finish this project in style and Everton Stadium will be a monument to his contribution and his memory.”

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Although Everton confirmed for the first time on December 15 they will not be leaving Goodison Park until the end of the 2024/25 season – ensuring they will play one more full campaign at their home since 1892 next term – the club’s chief stadium officer and interim chief executive Colin Chong insisted in the same announcement: “Everton Stadium remains firmly on track, as scheduled, to be completed in the final weeks of 2024.”

The skeletal appearance of the Blues’ future home has developed dramatically throughout 2023 to offer genuine glimpses of what the 52,888-seater stadium will look like