Everton Football Club is looking to recruit 500 new matchday stewards for its Liverpool waterfront stadium – doubling the number it currently uses at Goodison Park. Tony McDonough reports

Everton FC will recruit 500 extra stewards for its new stadium

Everton FC will recruit an extra 500 matchday stewards for when it moved into its new £750m stadium, taking the total to 1,000.

In its current home at Goodison Park Everton employs 500 stewards on matchdays but its new home at Bramley-Moore Dock in Liverpool Waters will require double that. Stewards will also be needed for other events at the stadium.

Everton will kick off the 2025/26 football season at the new arena on the waterfront which will have a capacity of 52,888. Current capacity at Goodison Park is around 40,000.

Successful applicants for the casual positions will support the safety and supporter liaison operation on home matchdays and at other events. This will be the biggest recruitment drive in the club’s recent history.

Casual matchday positions on offer will include crowd, lounge and accessibility stewards, safeguarding stewards, and other roles fundamental to the matchday operation.

A search for customer service advisors and premium relationship managers began last month, with more vacancies to be advertised at evertonstadium.com/joinourteam in the coming months.

As part of the recruitment process, applicants for the stewarding positions will be invited to assessment days taking place between November 2024 and January 2025.

Training, and a process to familiarise successful applicants with the new stadium, will then begin prior to a series of test events.

Alix Waldron, Everton’s director of new stadium development, said: “As well as being a hugely significant project for the football club, we have said from the very beginning that the new stadium would be a major boost for the city.

“We’ve seen that in the thousands of local contractors who have helped turn a derelict dock into a magnificent new stadium and we’re now at the point where we’re readying ourselves to move in and begin playing games next summer.

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“Ensuring we have the workforce in place to safely and effectively deliver matchdays and events at Everton Stadium is among the final major steps we need to take, and we’re excited to be able to begin offering up opportunities for local people.”

Everton is also looking to recruit staff in other customer roles

In August, Everton announced it had teamed up with Aramark, one of the world’s leading food service providers, in a deal that will help turn Everton Stadium into what it claims will be “one of the most revolutionary and advanced venues for fan experience in Europe”.

Ongoing recruitment will see Everton and its partners offer hundreds more positions in areas including hospitality, customer service and operations ahead of next summer’s move.

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