The club had also offered season ticket holders and seasonal hospitality members the opportunity to buy the seat they have used in the 2024-25 season as a permanent souvenir of Goodison Park after the final men’s game has been played.
That plan will go ahead and any seats bought will be replaced by the club in areas that will be occupied by supporters for women’s matches.
Everton are then planning to reduce the number of seats in each row where seats have been bought to create extra space, with the current capacity at 39,572.
Under previous owner Farhad Moshiri, the club had announced plans for an £82m post-demolition renovation project on the Goodison site, which was set to include housing, a care home, retail units and a park.
The centre circle, where the ashes of Everton legend Dixie Dean – whose record of 60 league goals in the 1926-27 season still stands – are scattered, was going to be preserved as an area of green space.
But after being taken over by private investment firm the Friedkin Group in December, the club carried out a feasibility study into the possibility of maintaining the stadium as a home for the women’s team, and have now opted to continue operating the site.
