The release of the club's 2024/25 accounts offered new insight into a deal that falls within Premier League regulations
The Everton team huddle following defeat during the Barclays Women's Super League match between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park on March 28. Photo by Annabel Lee-Ellis - WSL/WSL Football via Getty Images
The Everton team huddle following defeat during the Barclays Women's Super League match between Everton and Liverpool at Goodison Park on March 28. Photo by Annabel Lee-Ellis - WSL/WSL Football via Getty Images
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The sale of Everton Women within the wider company that owns Everton released a £49.2m profit, newly-released accounts show.
Everton sold the women’s team, and with it Goodison Park, to Roundhouse Capital Holdings last year in a deal that provided a major boost to the club’s balance sheet. Roundhouse is a company owned and controlled by Friedkin Group (TFG) chief Dan Friedkin.
The transaction - one that echoes previous moves by other Premier League clubs - reduced Everton’s losses for 2024/25 to £8.6m. That figure represented a significant drop on the £53.2m deficit of the previous year.
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The sale of the women’s team was completed before the end of June 2025, meaning its financial impact was felt in the club accounts for the period that ended on June 30 of that year.
It is those figures that were released on Tuesday afternoon and which offered insight into the state of the club six months after the takeover by the Friedkin Group - a period in which TFG sought to address the club’s debt levels and stabilise the finances ahead of the move to Hill Dickinson Stadium.
The internal sale of Everton Women was one of several important early pieces of work on that front. As well as reducing Everton’s losses, it would have helped the club to comply with the Premier League’s financial rules for that year and provided additional headroom for the club to invest in the first team last summer, when David Moyes started the rebuild of the threadbare squad he had inherited.
While there were clear accounting benefits to the sale of the women’s team, Everton chiefs believed the separation of the clubs should be the catalyst for further growth for Everton Women. Having the club as a standalone entity could encourage additional investment into the team, it is hoped. The deal for the women’s team falls within Premier League rules and follows similar moves by Chelsea and Aston Villa.