Everton v West Ham United
Premier League, Hill Dickinson Stadium, Monday 29 September 2025, 8pm BST
West Ham United will visit Everton's new Hill Dickinson Stadium home for the first time in our next bout of Premier League action on Monday night.
The Hammers are itching to bounce back to winning ways, while at the same time record back-to-back away successes, following an impressive 3-0 victory at Nottingham Forest at the end of August.
Maximum points will certainly be on the Irons' minds ahead of the trip to Arsenal which follows ahead of the October international window, but Everton have proved a tough nut to crack on their new home turf.
Having bid farewell to Goodison Park in the summer after 133 years, Everton have made a solid start to 2025/26, registering two wins, two defeats and a draw from their five games, to sit tenth. They are unbeaten and have yet to concede at their new home.
In their most recent league clash, David Moyes' men pushed local rivals Liverpool hard before eventually falling to a 2-1 defeat at Anfield, and they were subsequently beaten 2-0 by Wolves in the Carabao Cup on Tuesday evening.
Scroll down below to find all the information you need ahead of Monday's 8pm kick-off...
Tickets…
West Ham fans are advised that the Club’s allocation of 3,001 tickets have sold out. The first 90% of tickets sold out to Bondholders, Away Scheme Members and Season Ticket Holders with 17+ Loyalty Points. The remaining 10% (300 tickets) were then made available by a ballot process to Season Ticket Holders who had yet to purchase for this fixture. The ballot closed at 12noon on Monday 8 September.
Travel…
If you are taking the train up from London on the Monday, direct services leave Euston at .43 past the hour, arriving at Liverpool Lime Street about two hours and 20 minutes later.
Lime Street station is situated just over two miles from the Hill Dickinson Stadium. You can walk it in about 45 minutes. Alternatively, get to St Nicholas Place and take the No2 bus to Wellington Dock and walk five minutes from there. Or you can take the Merseyrail from Lime Street towards Southport and get off at Sandhills, from where it is still a 25-minute walk.
You can take a taxi from the rank at the station, too, with the drive taking about ten minutes.
There is no train back to London late enough on the Monday night, so you will likely need to stay overnight in Liverpool. On Tuesday morning, direct trains depart Lime Street for Euston at .08 and .43 past the hour.
For those who wish to drive, supporters are advised that road closures and parking restrictions will be in place around the stadium, so are encouraged to park in the city centre, from where park and ride buses 919 and 929 depart. You can book online. Details are available HERE.
The stadium has 100 Blue Badge spaces. Please email [email protected] for details.
How To Follow…
Monday’s 8pm kick-off has been selected for live broadcast in the UK by Sky Sports. If you live outside the UK, click HERE for details of Premier League listings in your territory.
You can follow the action via our live blog on whufc.com and our app, and across our social media channels. We will also have a match report, highlights and exclusive reaction for you after the final whistle on our website, app and social media.
Live audio commentary will be available in the UK on talkSPORT, and worldwide on our official website and app.
We are West Ham. United...
West Ham United has a zero-tolerance approach to any form of discrimination. Equality, equity, diversity and inclusion are at the heart of the Club and we are committed to ensuring that everyone feels welcome to attend our fixtures in a safe environment.
Any form of discriminatory behaviour or chanting is unacceptable; it has no place in football and has serious criminal consequences. West Ham United will take the strongest possible action against any individual found to be engaging in such behaviour, including potential lifetime bans and referral to the police.
The Club can also face disciplinary action if any of its supporters are found to have engaged in this behaviour, which is not representative of the West Ham United fanbase and will not be tolerated by the Club.
West Ham United provides a number of support mechanisms on matchday to ensure that supporters can report any incidents discreetly and in confidence. To report any incidents during Monday's match, either follow Everton’s reporting procedures at the Hill Dickinson Stadium or contact West Ham United at [email protected]. Please provide as much information as possible, including the stand, row, seat number, description of the offender and incident.
We believe that the overwhelming majority of West Ham United supporters share these values and will work with us to continue to protect the Club’s status as an equity leader in the Premier League, a position recognised and acknowledged through our award and continuous retention of the Advanced level Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Standard - the League’s highest accolade attainable in this area. Anyone attending matches who does not share these values, does not share the diverse and inclusive values that West Ham United and our community stand for.
Please view our Supporter Conduct Charter for more information.
Team News…
Graham Potter will hold his pre-match press conference on Friday afternoon. However, we know that Tomáš Souček will be absent through suspension, having been sent off against Tottenham Hotspur earlier this month.
Aaron Wan-Bissaka will be hoping to be available, after missing the Hammers' last two outings with a stomach issue.
For Everton, centre-back Jarrad Branthwaite has been consigned to the sidelines for the entirety of the campaign so far due to a thigh injury, and remains a doubt, as does former Freiburg midfielder Merlin Röhl, who has been nursing an upper leg problem.
Opposition…
It has not been easy being an Everton fan over recent years but, after three decades starved of success and a period of uncertainty, anxiety and concern over their club’s very future, things look like they are heading in the right direction.
Of course, relative to the vast majority of football clubs in this country, Everton have thrived. The Blues have not been out of the top division since 1954/55 - an unbroken 71-year stay beaten only by Arsenal.
In that time, Everton have won four First Division titles, three FA Cups, a European Cup Winners’ Cup and played in European competition on multiple other occasions.
The Liverpool-based club has been represented by some of the best players England has ever produced, including 1966 FIFA World Cup winner Alan Ball, England strikers Gary Lineker and Wayne Rooney, and played at one of the most atmospheric stadiums in the country in the historic Goodison Park.
On the other hand, Everton supporters have not seen their team lift a major trophy since the FA Cup in 1995, watched their cross-city rivals Liverpool re-emerge to win domestic and European titles galore, and, in recent years, seen the club’s on-field performances and off-field financial situation dominated the headlines for the wrong reasons.
Little over three decades on from Paul Rideout’s Wembley winner against Manchester United, lifting another major trophy may still seem a tough ask in the short-term, but on and off the pitch there appears to be some significant light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
Firstly, the American Friedkin Group - whicj also own Italian Serie A club AS Roma - completed its takeover of Everton in December 2024, ending the turbulent tenure of Farhad Moshiri and allowing everyone connected with the club to concentrate on securing their Premier League status at the end of 2024/25, which was eventually achieved with relative ease under David Moyes.
Sean Dyche was sacked as manager in January of this year, with the side sitting just one point clear of the relegation zone, but the remarkable return of Moyes, who had previously been in charge of the club between 2002-13, prompted an impressive second half of the campaign that saw them defeated just three times after 15 January, and finish 13th.
The next step for Moyes and Everton now is to build on that with a strong showing in 2025/26, their first campaign at their new 52,000-capacity riverfront home at the city’s Bramley-Moore Dock, the Hill Dickinson Stadium, where the Toffees are so far unbeaten.
A Premier League win against Brighton and a goalless draw with Aston Villa, either side of a Carabao Cup victory over Mansfield, mean it's been a happy start to life at their new home, and the Blues will surely be looking to extend that strong run - and exact revenge for their 2-1 defeat at the hands of the Hammers during pre-season - when Graham Potter's troops roll into town.
Previous Meetings…
This will obviously be West Ham United’s first-ever visit to the Hill Dickinson Stadium, but we were regulars at Everton’s former Goodison Park home.
We have lost just two of our previous seven Premier League fixtures at Everton, with four wins, two defeats and a 1-1 draw in our most-recent visit in March 2025.
Prior to that, Andriy Yarmolenko inspired the Hammers to a 3-1 victory in September 2018, before a 1-0 success on New Year’s Day 2021, courtesy of Tomáš Souček’s goal. Angelo Ogbonna’s glancing header did the business in October 2021, before second-half goals from Kurt Zouma, Souček and Edson Álvarez secured a thrilling come-from-behind 3-1 victory in March 2024.
West Ham’s biggest-ever top-flight win at Everton was a 4-0 First Division victory at Goodison Park way back on 10 April 1929, when Vivian Gibbins helped himself to a hat-trick.
Match Officials…
Referee: Sam Barrott
Assistant Referees: Constantine Hatzidakis and Wade Smith
Fourth Official: Tony Harrington
VAR: Paul Tierney
Assistant VAR: Tim Robinson
Sam Barrott will referee West Ham United’s Premier League fixture at Everton on Monday evening.
A former Halifax Town youth player, who took up refereeing as a teenager after sustaining an injury, Barrott worked his way up the ranks and made the step up to the EFL from the National League list of officials at the end of the 2019/20 campaign.
He was promoted to Professional Game Match Officials Limited's (PGMOL) Select Group 2 ahead of 2023/24, not long before he took charge of a Premier League match for the first time in October 2023.
Monday’s historic first visit to the Hill Dickinson Stadium will be Barrott’s fifth West Ham appointment.
His first was the come-from-behind 2-1 Premier League win at Burnley in November 2023, when the Irons scored two late goals to grab victory.
He also refereed a goalless home draw with Brighton & Hove Albion in January 2024, a 3-0 home defeat by Chelsea in September last year and the 2-1 home loss to Nottingham Forest in May.
Barrott oversaw Oxford United's EFL League One Play-Off final win over Bolton Wanderers in May 2024 and was then duly promoted to Select Group 1 ahead of 2024/25. He was also promoted to the international lists of FIFA and UEFA in December 2024.
For more information about the officials, click HERE.
