The first Merseyside derby of the 2026/27 season is Everton v Liverpool on Sunday 29 November 2026, kick-off 12pm, at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on Bramley-Moore Dock. It was originally pencilled in for Saturday 28 November and has been pushed back a day so TNT Sports can show it live. If you are going, the short version is this: buy only through the clubs, assume a lunchtime crowd will be on the move from about 9am, and plan to finish your journey on foot.
Why the date changed
When the Premier League picks games for television, the dates in the original fixture list stop being final. In September Everton confirmed that three of their November fixtures had been moved for live coverage: the home game against Coventry City went to Friday 6 November at 8pm, the trip to Brentford to Monday 23 November at 8pm, and the derby to Sunday 29 November at midday on TNT Sports.
That matters more than it sounds. A Sunday noon start means Merseyrail and bus timetables run to their weekend pattern, pubs near the ground will be busy from breakfast time, and anyone travelling from outside the city loses the option of a lie-in and a late train. It also means Evertonians play a Monday night game in west London six days earlier, which is worth remembering if you are doing both.
Tickets: who can get one
Derby tickets never go on general sale in any meaningful sense. Home tickets go through Everton’s own ticketing system to season ticket holders and members according to the club’s priority rules, and Liverpool supporters get the away allocation through their club. Liverpool has published its away ticket details for the fixture, which confirm the Sunday 29 November, 12pm slot at the Hill Dickinson; the criteria and sale dates sit on the club’s ticket availability pages, so check there rather than relying on a mate’s memory of last season’s rules.
A few points apply whichever end you are in:
- Resale websites are not the clubs. Listings for this game on secondary sites run to hundreds of pounds. Tickets bought that way can be cancelled at the turnstile if the club traces the original holder, and the person who sold it may lose their membership too.
- Digital tickets need setting up in advance. Download them to your phone the night before, check the battery, and make sure whoever you are passing a spare to (within the rules) has done the same.
- Away fans sit together. Segregation at the derby is strict. If you are a Liverpool fan with a friend’s home ticket, you are taking a risk with their seat, not just yours.
Getting to Bramley-Moore Dock
The ground is in its second season now, and the lessons supporters learned getting there last year still apply. The stadium sits on the northern docks with the river on one side and the Dock Road on the other, so most people arrive from the east or the south and squeeze into the same few streets. There is no general parking at the stadium itself.
Train
Sandhills on the Northern Line is the closest station. Sefton Council’s matchday travel guidance puts it at roughly a 15-minute walk to the stadium entrance, and says Merseyrail runs more frequent trains than usual on matchdays. Bank Hall is the other nearby stop. Expect queuing and staggered entry to the platforms after the final whistle; that is normal and it moves.
Shuttle bus
Shuttle buses run on first-team matchdays. From Bootle, Sefton says you board at Stand 4 of Bootle Strand bus station and are dropped on Derby Road, north of Blackstone Street, with a £2 single fare or a standard day ticket. Car drivers coming from the north can use the multi-storey at the Strand shopping centre, which the council says stays open until 11pm on matchdays.
Walking and cycling
Plenty of people walk up from town along the waterfront, which is a fine idea on a clear day and a chilly one in late November. If you are cycling, there is a segregated lane along Regent Road and, according to the council, 152 cycle stands along the dock wall within the stadium footprint. You will be asked to dismount and walk through the road closures near the ground.
A rough timetable for a noon kick-off
Everyone has their own ritual, but working back from 12pm helps:
- From 9am: the city centre starts to fill. Breakfast early if you want a table anywhere near Moorfields or the Strand.
- From 10am: trains to Sandhills and the shuttle buses get properly busy. This is the time most regulars aim to be moving.
- From 11am: security checks and turnstiles are the bottleneck. Bags are searched, so carry as little as you can.
- After 2pm: the walk back to Sandhills, or the shuttle queue, can take as long as the walk there. Agree a meeting point beforehand, because phone signal around a full stadium is unreliable.
If you are travelling in from elsewhere and want ideas for food and the walk into the city, our local’s guide for visiting fans still holds, even if some of it was written with Anfield in mind.
Watching it if you are not there
The game is live on TNT Sports in the UK. A midday Sunday slot clashes with very little else in the Premier League schedule, so pubs showing it will be packed well before kick-off. If you are planning to watch somewhere with friends from the other side, decide the rules in advance: who sits where, whether the commentary is on, and who is buying the first round.
What makes this one different
For more than a century the derby meant a walk across Stanley Park. Now Liverpool supporters head down to the river and Evertonians meet them on home ground that is barely two seasons old. The walk is different, the sightlines are different, and the noise carries in a different way off the water. What has not changed is the thing we wrote about in Derby Day: why the Merseyside derby still splits households: half the people walking down the Dock Road will be sharing a car or a kitchen with someone from the opposite end by Sunday tea-time.
That shared life is also why the day usually passes off well. Most people in both ends know someone in the other. Keep it that way: no bottles, no pyro, no stupid songs about tragedies, and a nod to the family member you will be sitting next to at Christmas dinner, whichever way it goes.
Checklist for Sunday morning
- Ticket downloaded and phone charged.
- Warm, waterproof layers: the dockside catches the wind off the Mersey.
- A small bag at most, or none at all.
- A bank card or phone for payment, with a little cash as a backup.
- A meeting point agreed for after the match.
- Your route home decided before you set off, not at 2pm in a crowd.