Plans for Everton’s new stadium suggest the club have a 60,000 capacity venue in the pipeline.

According to leaked images, Everton will boost their match day crowds by a whopping 20,000 when they leave Goodison Park, which has a restricted capacity of 40,000.

It had been thought Everton’s new stadium in Bramley Moore Dock would boast a capacity of 50,000 and cost in the region of £300m.

Everton want to keep their club traditions intact if and when they depart Goodison Park

It is understood that Everton's new stadium will have a bigger capacity than Liverpool

But drawings from an official document by stadium designers Buro Happold Engineering, revealed Everton’s plans are much more ambitious than originally thought.

The drawings, which appeared on an Everton fans’ forum this week, reveal the potential look of the waterside stadium, as well as plans for a fan zone plaza to be created on one side of the ground.

The cost of building a bigger stadium will push up construction costs, but the additional capacity would also boost the club’s turnover significantly.

Everton have agreed a redevelopment project at Bramley-Moore dock in Merseyside

Everton will be looking to build a 50,000-plus stadium on the site

Everton generate £18m a year in matchday income, but the new stadium could push that figure beyond £50m.

A 60,000 stadium would also catapult Everton into the upper reaches of Premier League stadia. Only Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium has a significantly larger capacity than the planned new build.

Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium holds 60,000, West Ham are currently seeking raise the capacity of London Stadium to 60,000, while Tottenham’s new stadium will have a capacity of 61,000.

The new stadium would also give Everton local bragging rights, as Liverpool’s Anfield stadium currently holds 54,000 fans.

The architects behind the £300million have immersed themselves in club history

Everton have been situated at Goodison Park for 125 years but leave in the name of progress

Last year Everton acquired land in Bramley Moore Dock for £22m and the club hopes to receive planning permission in 2018.

The leaked plans will bring an additional feel-good factor to Everton fans, with the club outspending every other Premier League club in the transfer window so far.

The Toffees have snapped up centre half Michael Keane for £25m this week, to take their overall investment close to £100m this transfer window as they attempt to break into the Premier League top four.

Other arrivals include Ajax midfielder Davy Klaassen (£23.6m), Sunderland goalkeeper Jordan Pickford (£30m) and Henry Onyekuru (£6.8m), the Eupen striker who was immediately loaned out to another Belgian side Anderlecht.

Holland Under-18 defender Nathangelo Markelo has signed from FC Volendam, while Everton are also in negotiations to sign Malaga's Spain Under-21 striker Sandro Ramirez for a fee of £5.2m and have been linked with a possible move for former player Wayne Rooney.

Buro Happold were contacted for comment.