June 18 – Liverpool’s bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games utilises both its Premier League club stadiums as venues, with Everton’s new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock being the proposed centrepiece for the Games.
Liverpool FC’s Anfield stadium would host the Opening Ceremony and rugby sevens, but it is the Everton stadium that would be the focus with a temporary athletics track installed for the period of event.
The track would be installed after the final home game of the 2021-22 season and removed before the start of the 2022-23 campaign.
Liverpool mayor Joe Anderson said: “What we are asking them for, is for us to be able to use the stadium for a period of four weeks. We will fund and pay for a track to be placed in there, like they did in Glasgow, and then removed.
“Everton are looking to build a stadium of 50-55,000 capacity, maybe more, and the dropping in of a running track will reduce that to about 40,000. But it will then be removed.
“The cost of that has been estimated to me to be an absolute maximum of £27m. That won’t cost Everton. We will pay for that.”
The Athletes’ Village would be located beside Everton’s new stadium in Nelson Dock, within Peel Land and Property’s £5.5 billion ($7 billion/$6.3 billion) Liverpool Waters scheme – residential developments that already have outlined planning permission meaning construction could start in the first half of 2018.
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