i'm sure you're aware about Goodison Park's role in the history of the women's game, but in case you aren't, i'll relay some of it to you.

The women's game took off in the war years, to the point that when GP hosted Preston based "Dick, Kerr Ladies" vs St Helens Ladies...

on the morning of 26 December 1920.

The clement weather drew a large crowd, estimated to be in excess of 40,000, on Boxing Day morning (Liverpool FC had a home fixture later that day). The big draw was a match between St Helen’s Ladies and their celebrated rivals, Dick, Kerr Ladies of Preston. People swamped the surrounding streets, so the two teams needed a police escort to get safely into the stadium’s players’ entrance. Dick, Kerr, were simply too good for their Lancastrian rivals and struck four times without reply. Team captain Alice Kell bagged a hat-trick and was then presented with a trophy by the Lord Mayor of Liverpool. Sadly, no photos of the great occasion survive. Gate receipts of £3,100 were donated to discharged soldiers’ and sailors’ funds in Liverpool.

Concerned about the potential threat to the men’s game, mutterings that not enough of the gate receipts were reaching the designated good causes, and Dick, Kerr Ladies’ overtly political support for striking coal miners, the Football Association swung into action. Women’s matches at members’ grounds were banned and, soon afterwards, qualified match officials were barred from overseeing females’ fixtures.



from https://efcheritagesociety.com/goodison-park-and-womens-football/