Tim Howard's Everton are on the other side of Stanley Park from Liverpool FC, but both clubs would rather be in a new stadium somewhere in greater Liverpool. That's the reality of two of the better stadiums in English soccer, at least from a historical perspective.
Goodison Park has been the site of Everton's home games since 1892, when the club moved from Liverpool's Anfield Stadium. Neither of these venues were close to what the modern versions look like. In fact, it was Goodison that introduced the original idea of soccer-specificity.
By the 1904 season, the stadium had space for 11,000 fans with only one side of the stadium covered. Eventually, there would be four stands, all at least two-tiered. During the era when most English stadiums had standing sections, Goodison could hold over 60,000 fans. The move to all-seated in the early 1990's reduced capacity to 40,158.
Currently, the main stand holds 12,664 and has three tiers. The The three-tier design, similar to Detroit's Tiger Stadium, was unique when finished in 1971. The opposite stand is the Bullens Road, holding 10,784 and dating to 1926. The end stand for the home support is called Gwladys Street End, completed in 1938 and holding 10,788 in two tiers.
The opposite end is the newest part of the stadium, The Park End was completed in 1994 and holds 5,922. It is single-tier. The expected second tier was never constructed. With Everton focusing on a new stadium, it will likely never be finished. The result is a stadium with four sections, one three-tiered, two two-tiered, and one single-tiered.
Everton's current focus is the Liverpool suburb of Kirkby where they have plans for a mixed use stadium/retail center. The proposed stadium would be bigger than Goodison, holding around 10k more fans than Goodison. The entire population of Kirkby is a little over Goodison's current capacity.
With moves outside of a club's historic area rare in English soccer, this hasn't exactly been a popular idea. Combined with Liverpool also wanting to move rather than rebuild, it could be a substantial blow to historic English stadiums. It also furthers a trend started by Manchester City and later Arsenal of moving to a new stadium.
