Everton Football Club

Everton Football Club is a United Kingdom football club based in Liverpool (England). The club competes in the Premier League, the highest category of English football, uninterruptedly since 1954 - the second longest current streak, being one of the largest and most historic clubs in the English league along with Liverpool, Chelsea, Tottenham Hotspur, among others. greats of the English league. Only surpassed by Arsenal.</ref> in which it is the club with the most presence, of which it has been champion on nine occasions - fourth most successful club -, and it is one of the founding members of the Football League in 1888 and of the Premier League in 1992.

Founded on January 1, 1878, it plays its home matches at the Goodison Park stadium, one of the oldest in the country, and its colors have traditionally been blue and white, since the 1901-02 season. Yellow has often been used since the 1960s as an alternative color for trims and details and for their substitute uniforms. Its most representative player and all-time top scorer is Dixie Dean, scorer of 60 goals in the 1927-28 season, and who has a statue outside the stadium. Since 2000, the club has annually recognized its most notable former players as "notable contributors to the club", receiving the nickname Everton Giants ("Everton Giants"), in recognition of their careers.

Its main rivalry is with Liverpool F. C. - a neighboring entity in the same city and arose from a discussion between the Everton directors and John Houlding, then owner of Anfield -, with whom it disputes the Merseyside derby.

History

Foundation

In 1871 a Methodist church called Saint Domingo was opened in the district of Everton, about five kilometers northeast of Liverpool. Six years later, the pastor, Ben Swift Chambers, with the desire to direct youth leisure towards sports, founded a cricket club. During the winter months it was difficult to practice this sport so, The Reverend Chambers and the organist George Mahón, created a football team, increasingly popular in the nation, and organized matches against teams from the different churches of Stanley Park, the strip of land that separates the current stadiums of Goodison Park and Anfield..

The popularity of a team soon grew, attracting many players and fans from outside the parish. Therefore, it was decided in November 1878 to eliminate the old nickname of “Saint Domingo F. C.” and the name of the district, Everton, was adopted. That year, a few days before Christmas, Everton played against theSt. Peter'stheir first match and won 6-0.

The early years

In 1884, Everton won their first cup, the Liverpool Cup, at their new ground on Priory Road. But, as its popularity continued to grow, the club had to move to a field with greater capacity. The stadium was called Anfield, and it was there that the club became a founding member of the Football League in 1888 and won its first league championship in 1890/91. That season, penalty kicks and goal nets were introduced, invented by an Everton fan, Liverpool City Council engineer J. A. Brodie.

The rental of Anfield by Everton caused the decision that would end up turning Merseyside into the most successful county in football in the country. John Houlding, the tenant of Anfield, acquired all rights to the land and demanded that Everton raise the rent from £100 to £250 a year. The Board of Directors refused to satisfy it. The club left Anfield and moved to Goodison Park. Houlding decided to found his own football club and in 1892 Liverpool F.C. was born, which would become Everton Football Club's greatest rival.

In 1906, Everton won their first FA Cup after beating Newcastle United 1-0. Three years later, together with Tottenham Hotspur, it became the first football club to begin an intercontinental tour.

In 1914-1915, inspired by Bobby Parker, who scored 36 goals in 35 games, Everton won the English League title. The outbreak of the First World War stopped the competition for four years, so this success did not have continuity.

After the war, in the 1927/28 season, Everton player William Ralph “Dixie” Dean achieved a record that has not yet been equaled by scoring 60 goals in 39 games. Dean also has the honor of having been the first number 9 in history, as he wore the number when the numbers were introduced on the shirts during the 1933 English Cup final, which Everton won (with numbers 1 to 2). 11) after beating Manchester City (who wore numbers 12 to 22) 3-0.

Everton won the English League again in the 1938/39 season but the Second World War stopped the league again. After the war, Everton entered into crisis and was relegated.

The 1960s

With Harry Catterick as manager, in 1961-62, Everton finished fourth in the First Division. The following year, Everton won a new league title after losing only six games in the season. In this league Roy Vernon scored 24 goals and Alex Young 20. The following year, in their participation in the European Cup, they lost in the first round against Inter Milan, losing both games 4-0.

In 1966 the team reached the final of the FA Cup after eliminating Sunderland, Bedford Town, Coventry City, Manchester United and Manchester City to face Sheffield Wednesday in the final.

Sheffield Wednesday went ahead 3-0, but Everton managed to get closer with two goals from Mike Trebilcock. Finally Derek Temple scored the equalizing goal for Everton. Afterwards, he scored his second goal and David Ford's winning goal and closed a spectacular FA Cup final. Their participation the following year in the European Cup Winners' Cup was not very successful as Everton was eliminated by Real Zaragoza in the second round.

In 1968 Everton once again reached the FA Cup final but the title finally went to West Bromwich Albion thanks to a goal from Jeff Astle.

Despite this failure Harry Catterick knew that he still had quality players at his disposal - Howard Kendall, Colin Harvey, Alan Ball, Joe Royle, Labone - who produced a glorious 1969-70 championship. Joe Royle was the top scorer with 23 goals as Everton won the league a total of nine points clear of Leeds United.

The decline of the 1970s

The 1970s were a sad period for the club. The final of the English League Cup played in the 1976-1977 season was Everton's closest success. Everton drew 0-0 with Aston Villa at Wembley, 1-1 at Hillsborough in the replay and then lost 2-3 in the third match at Old Trafford.

A former Everton player, Billy Bingham, was hired as coach and under his leadership Everton qualified to participate in the UEFA Cup in the 1974/75 season but was eliminated in the first round by A.C. Milan.

In January 1977 Billy Bingham was replaced by Gordon Lee who finished third in the 1977-78 table and fourth the following season. However shortly after he was replaced by Howard Kendall.

The glorious 1980s

In the 1983/84 season, Everton, after a poor start to the league, finished seventh in the table, and reached the final of the FA Cup and the League Cup. The League Cup final was a Merseyside derby and ended in a 0-0 draw. However Liverpool won the replay at Maine Road. The FA Cup final faced Watford F. C. at Wembley and Everton won thanks to goals from Graeme Sharp and Andy Gray.

1984/85 season

The 1984/85 season was one of the best in the club's history. Despite having an unconvincing start, they managed to recover and impose their hierarchy in the English league.

During this season they won their eighth league, with four games remaining in the competition. However, that was not his only goal. As FA Cup champions, Everton also competed in the European Cup Winners' Cup. The club advanced to its first European final after beating Bayern Munich, drawing 0-0 in the first leg in Munich, and winning 3-1 at Goodison Park, being considered one of the most memorable matches in history. of the club. The final was played at De Kuip, Rotterdam, against Rapid Vienna. They won the final comfortably by a score of 3-1, thus winning their first European title. Scotsman Andy Gray was the competition's top scorer, with 5 goals.

During this season he also exhibited his power in the FA Cup, showing that he was capable of fighting for the treble. The club managed to reach the final, which they played against Manchester United. Finally, Everton lost the game 1-0, with a very physically tired team, thanks to a goal from Norman Whiteside.

The Cup Winners' Cup campaign was not without controversy. In a draw against Dutch side Fortuna Sittard, an Everton fan entered the pitch and was arrested while trying to climb back over the security fence in the stands. This was one of many invasions by fans of English clubs at home and abroad during this period.

The rest of the 1980s

After the season, the Blues entered 1985-86 widely regarded as the best team in Europe. At the end of 1985, Everton closed the signing of Gary Lineker from Leicester City. This caused the departure of the popular Andy Gray, who returned to Aston Villa F.C., which caused much controversy.

Fans claim that the '80s team could have gone on to win more European titles after 1985, had it not been for the banning of all English clubs from participating in UEFA continental competitions after the Heysel stadium disaster (ironically involving Liverpool fans), the other team in the city and Everton's traditional rival.

The 1985/86 season began in the Charity Shield, where Everton took revenge on Manchester United in the FA Cup final. The season ended with Everton finishing runners-up in the English league and the year ended without any more titles.

For the 1986/87 season Everton lost Lineker but managed to reconquer the English league. Shortly after Howard Kendall left Everton and signed for Athletic Club. His replacement was Colin Harvey, who managed to leave the team in fourth place in the league in the 1987/88 season and reach the semi-finals of the League Cup. In the 1987/88 season, Everton once again reached the FA Cup final against Liverpool F.C. but was defeated by its greatest rival. The final served as a backdrop for the Hillsborough tragedy suffered a month earlier, which led to the death of 96 Liverpool fans and plunged the city into grief. In the 1990/91 season Colin Harvey was dismissed.

The 1990s

Howard Kendall returned to the bench for "the Toffees" but he did not enjoy the same successes as his first experience and had to leave the club in December 1993. In the 1993/94 season Everton were about to be relegated to the second division and needed to defeat A. F. C. Wimbledon in the last league match. Wimblendon started winning 2-0 but Everton was finally able to turn the score around with two goals from Graham Stuart and another Barry Horne.

Joe Royle was hired as coach in the 1994/95 season. Everton finished 15th in the league but in the FA Cup, Everton eliminated Tottenham Hotspurs and in the final they won 1-0 against Manchester United.

The 1995/96 season Everton finished in sixth position in the Premier League. By the end of the 1996-97 season, Joe Royle was gone, and Dave Watson took over temporarily. The team briefly flirted with relegation once again, but, despite winning just one of their last eight games, managed to finish two points above the relegation zone. In the 1997-1998 season, Howard Kendall returned for his third stint at the helm. The Blues only won nine of their 38 league games, and avoided relegation only by virtue of a better goal difference than Bolton Wanderers.

One of Kendall's signings, Gareth Farrelly, scored the decisive goal in the last game, a 1-1 draw with Coventry City Football Club. From this season until 2002, despite signing great players such as Paul Gascoigne, David Ginola, Thomas Gravesen and Kevin Campbell, Everton failed to recover the successes of the past.

Present

Since 2002 under David Moyes the team has made significant progress, qualifying twice for European competitions (compared to only once in the previous eleven years) and twice (2003 and 2005) among the top 10 teams during its six years in office. In 2008 the club signed the promising Marouane Fellaini for £15 million (18.5 million euros). This astronomical sum made Fellaini the most expensive player in the history of Belgian football, and for Everton F. C., it was the most expensive transfer in its history.

In the 2009/10 season the club began by losing its first two home games, including a 6-1 home defeat at the hands of Arsenal and after a long period of speculation Joleon Lescott was sold to Manchester City for 22 million £. Manages to qualify for the group stage of the UEFA Europa League. The results began to improve in December, although they were eliminated from the Europa League at the hands of Sporting Lisbon. At the end of March they achieved a record number by winning 7 consecutive games at home, including victories against Chelsea F. C. and Manchester United. Finally they finish 8th, with two points less than Liverpool.

The 2010/11 season started somewhat poorly. The club failed to win a league match until October, and had been knocked out of the League Cup by Brentford. However, by the end of that month the situation had stabilized and he finished 7th in the first half of the season. The club was somewhat irregular until the end of the year, although it achieved a 5th round victory in the FA Cup against Chelsea. Three defeats in 18 League games ensure the possibility of fighting for European places. In mid-April, the club was in 7th position, one point behind Liverpool. Everton was going to finish seventh that season with 54 points, being the fewest points in 5 years.

The current 2011/12 season began with a great level of performance. Little by little they have accumulated many draws, but maintaining European positions, although in the end they finished in seventh place.

In May 2013, the departure of coach David Moyes to the Manchester United bench was confirmed, leaving the team in sixth place, although it did not qualify for the UEFA Europa League. His place on the bench will be occupied by the Spanish coach Roberto Martínez. With Moyes, top players such as Marouane Fellaini left, but in exchange came the additions of Romelu Lukaku (on loan from Chelsea), Gerard Deulofeu (on loan from FC Barcelona), Gareth Barry (on loan from Manchester City), Joel Robles, Arouna Koné, Antolín Alcaraz and James McCarthy (from Wigan Athletic).

The club had the goal of qualifying for a European competition. After starting the 2013-14 Premier League with 3 consecutive draws, Everton is among the top 7 from the fifth matchday onwards, finishing the first round in fourth place. Everton reached the final stretch of the championship with some chances of qualify for the Champions League, and although he did not achieve that goal, he did ensure his presence in the Europa League, improving one position compared to the previous season. His work convinced the Toffees leaders, and they renewed the Spanish coach until 2019.

However, his second season on the Goodison Park bench was not as successful, as the team finished eleventh in the 2014-15 Premier League. They showed their best performance in the Europa League, where they were the best English team, reaching the round of 16.

In the 2015-16 Premier League, the team showed a similar performance to the previous year: Although it began occupying European positions for some days, it soon became anchored in the temperate zone of the classification. On May 12, 2016, Martínez was dismissed as Toffee coach, leaving the team twelfth ranked with 44 points with one day remaining in the tournament.

On June 14, 2016, Everton announced the hiring of Ronald Koeman after paying 6.3 million euros to Southampton to acquire his services. Under his direction, the toffee team They had a good start to the season, reaching second place after five games in the 2016-17 Premier League. Finally, the team's performance fell until they finished the championship in seventh position.

The 2017-2018 season started badly for the team, occupying eighteenth position in the Premier League and having obtained one point in three Europa League games. The team invested 160 million in signings that year -Klaasen, Sandro, Pickford, Keane, Rooney, Martina, Sigurdsson-. Despite this, the sale of Romelu Lukaku to Manchester United clearly affected the team's performance, so after the poor initial results Ronald Koeman was fired on October 23, 2017.

On November 30, 2017, Sam Allardyce took charge of the team. On that date, the Toffees occupied thirteenth position after 15 days of the Premier League, although with Allardyce they managed to climb to ninth place at the end of the first round of the tournament. Ultimately, he led the team to eighth place in the standings, but the club chose not to renew his contract.

In May 2018, Marco Silva was confirmed as the new coach. In his first season at Goodison Park, he led the toffees to eighth place in the Premier League; But on December 5, 2019, a day after losing the Merseyside derby against Liverpool (5-2) and falling to eighteenth place in the standings, the club announced his dismissal.

On December 21, 2019, Everton announced that they had reached an agreement with Carlo Ancelotti to occupy their bench for the next 4 and a half years. He took charge of the toffee team when he was fifteenth position in the 2019-20 Premier League and left it in twelfth place at the end of the championship. Later, in the 2020-21 Premier League, they improved to 10th place in the table.

Ancelotti left the club in June 2021 to rejoin his former club, Real Madrid, as coach. Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez was named as his replacement, subsequently becoming the second person to manage both Liverpool and Everton. He was sacked in January 2022 after 9 defeats in his last 13 games in charge of the club, and replaced by former Chelsea manager Frank Lampard. Lampard was also sacked in January 2023 after an extremely poor performance. Sean Dyche was chosen as his replacement. Everton escaped relegation with a 1-0 victory against Bournemouth in their last match of the 2022-23 Premier League.

In September 2023, the North American investment company 777 Partners, owner of clubs such as Genoa, Vasco da Gama, Standard Lieja and Hertha Berlin agreed to buy the club, obtaining 94.1% of the shares owned by Farhad Moshiri.

Brotherhood Cup

The Brotherhood Cup was a match played on August 4, 2010 at Goodison Park in Liverpool. Everton F. C. received Everton de Viña del Mar in the friendly match for the Copa Hermandad (known in English as the Hermandad Trophy). The meeting, aimed at promoting greater rapprochement between the two Evertons. The English team won the match 2-0 with two goals in the second half from Jermaine Beckford and Diniyar Bilyaletdinov. Beckford won the man of the match award. And the trophy was lifted by Phil Neville and Mikel Arteta. It was the first time that both teams played against each other.

4 August 2010	Everton Football Club	2:0 (0:0)	Everton de Viña del Mar	Goodison Park, Liverpool
	Beckford 51' Bilyaletdinov 65'			Assistance: 25 934 spectators Arbitrator: Mark Halsey

Shield

At the end of the 1937-38 season, Everton secretary Theo Kelly, who later became the club's manager, wanted to design a tie in the team's colours. It was decided that the color would be blue, like the club's shirts, and Kelly was given the task of designing a crest to feature on the tie. He worked on it for four months until it was decided to include Prince Rupert's Tower, which is located in the heart of the Borough of Everton. Since its construction in 1787, the tower has had inextricable links with the area known as Everton. Originally used as a warehouse to imprison mainly drunks and petty criminals, it still stands today at Everton Brow, situated on Netherfield Road. The tower is accompanied by two laurel wreaths on each side, where according to the London College of Arms, Kelly decided to include them as a symbol of victory. The shield is accompanied by the club's motto, in Latin 'Nil Satis Nisi Optimum', which means 'Only the best is good enough'. The ties were worn for the first time by Kelly and the president of Everton, Mr. E. Green, on the opening day of the 1938-39 season.

Subsequently, the club incorporated the shield on its shirts. Between 1922 and 1930 a design of "EFC" interlocking, before the club reverted to plain blue jerseys until 1972, when the letters "EFC" bold. The Kelly-designed crest was first used on the team's jerseys in 1978 and has remained there ever since, undergoing gradual changes to the version used today.

In May 2013, the club launched a new crest to improve the reproducibility of the design in print and audiovisual media, especially on a small scale. Critics suggested that it was external pressure from sports manufacturer Nike, which evoked the redesign, as the number of colors had been reduced and the radial effect had been eliminated, making the reproduction of the kit more profitable. The redesign was poorly received by fans, with a poll on an Everton fan site recording 91% negative responses to the crest. A protest petition reached over 22,000 signatures before the club offered an apology and announced that a new crest would be created for the 2014-15 season with an emphasis on fan consultation. Shortly after, the Head of Marketing left the club. The latest crest was revealed by the club on 3 October 2013. Following a consultation process with fans, three new crests were shortlisted. In the final vote, the new crest was chosen by almost 80% of the fans who participated and it began to be used in July 2014.

Nickname

Everton's best-known nickname is "The Toffees" or 'The Toffeemen', which emerged after Everton moved to Goodison. There are several explanations as to how this name was adopted, the best known being that there was a business in the town of Everton, between Everton Brow and Brow Side, called Mother Noblett's, which was a tofis shop, selling various types candy, including Everton Mint. It was also situated opposite the Everton Lock-Up, on which the shield is based. The Toffee Lady tradition, in which a girl walks the perimeter of the field before the start of a game tossing free peppermints to the crowd, symbolizes connection. Another possible reason is that there was a house called Ye Anciente Everton Toffee House in nearby Village Street, Everton, run by Ma Bushell. The candy house was located near the Queen's Head Hotel, where the club's first meetings were held.

Everton have had many other nicknames over the years. When the black uniform was worn, the team was nicknamed 'The Black Watch', after the famous army regiment. Since changing to blue in 1901, the team received the simple nickname of &# 34;The Blues". Everton's attractive style of play led Steve Bloomer to call the team 'scientific' in 1928, which is believed to have inspired the nickname 'The Science School'. The 1995 FA Cup winning team was known collectively as 'The Dogs of War';. When David Moyes arrived as manager, he proclaimed that Everton was 'the people's club', which has been adopted as the club's semi-official nickname.

Social area and sociocultural dimension

Hobby

Everton have a large fan base, with the eighth highest average attendance in the Premier League in the 2008-09 season. The majority of Everton's matchday fans come from the north-west of England, mainly from Merseyside, Cheshire, West Lancashire and parts of western Greater Manchester, along with many fans traveling from north Wales and Ireland. Within the city of Liverpool, support for Everton and city rival Liverpool is not determined by a geographical basis, as supporters are mixed throughout the city. Everton also has many supporters clubs around the world, in places such as North America, Singapore, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Thailand, India and Australia. Paul McCartney, of The Beatles, is one of Everton's most recognized fans. The official fan club is FOREVERTON, and there are also several fanzines, such as When Skies are Gray i> and Speke from the Harbour, which are sold around Goodison Park on match days.

Everton regularly attends away games, both domestically and in Europe. The club applies a loyalty points system that offers the first opportunity to purchase tickets for away matches to subscribers who have attended the greatest number of matches. Everton often sell out of their ticket allocation for away games, with tickets selling especially well for games outside the northwest of England. In October 2009, Everton brought 7,000 fans to Benfica, marking the largest home crowd in Europe since the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup final.

Community department

Everton's community department, Everton in the Community (EitC), is a charity that provides sporting and social activities to the local community, including people with disabilities. EitC represents the club in the European Association of Multisport Clubs.

Relations with other clubs

Everton is linked to many other clubs and sporting organisations. It has links with the Irish football academy Ballyoulster United, in Celbridge, with the Ontario Football Association of Canada, and with the Thai Football Association (where there is a competition called Chang-Everton Cup, for which the local schoolboys). The club also has a soccer academy in the Cypriot city of Limassol and a collaboration agreement with the American club Pittsburgh Riverhounds.

Everton has links with the Chilean team Everton de Viña del Mar, which is named after the club. On August 4, 2010, the two Evertons met in a friendly match at Goodison Park called " Copa Hermandad', on the occasion of the centenary of the Chilean team. The occasion was organized by the Society of Ruleteros, founded to promote connections between both clubs. There are also other Everton clubs in Colonia (Uruguay), La Plata and Río Cuarto (Argentina), Elk Grove in the U.S. state of California, Elk Grove (California, United States) and Cork (Ireland). There was also a team called Everton in Trinidad and Tobago.

The club owned and managed a professional basketball team under the name Everton Tigers, which competed in the British Basketball League. The team was launched in the summer of 2007 as part of the club's community program and played its home games at the Greenbank Sports Academy, in the Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill. The team was an amalgamation of the Toxteth Tigers community youth programme, which began in 1968. The team quickly became one of the most successful in the league by winning the BBL Cup in 2009 and the play-offs in 2010. However, the Everton withdrew funding before the 2010–11 season and the team was relaunched as the Mersey Tigers.

In popular culture

Cinema and TV

The 1969 TV film The Golden Vision, by Ken Loach, combined improvised drama with documentary footage to tell the story of a group of Everton fans, where their main goal in life - following the team - is interrupted due to inconveniences such as work and weddings. Everton striker Alex Young, whose nickname was also the title of the film, appeared as himself.

The TV film The Fix (1997), by Paul Greengrass, dramatizes the true story of a match-fixing scandal in which the club's new player, Tony Kay (played by Jason Isaacs), is implicated in having helped to fix a match between his former club, Sheffield Wednesday, and Ipswich Town. Most of the story is set in the 1962-63 season in which Everton won the League Championship, under then-manager Harry Catterick, played by Colin Welland.

In the film Creed (2015), from the Rocky film franchise, Goodison Park serves as the setting for the climactic fight scene. Images of the stadium and the crowd during a home match against West Bromwich Albion were used for the scene. Liverpool-born boxing champion Tony Bellew, a lifelong Everton fan, plays Creed's opponent and wears the Everton crest on his training clothes and trousers.

Music

The club entered the UK Singles Chart on four occasions under different titles during the 1980s and 1990s, when many clubs each released a song to celebrate reaching the FA Cup final. &# 34;The Boys in Blue", released in 1984, peaked at number 82. The following year, the club achieved its biggest hit when "Here We Go" reached number 14. In 1986, Everton released 'Everybody's Cheering the Blues', which peaked at number 83. 'All Together Now', a version from a song by Liverpool group The Farm, was released for the 1995 FA Cup final and peaked at number 27. By the time the club reached the 2009 FA Cup final, the tradition had been abandoned in all the clubs and no song was published.

Rivalries

Everton FC competes in the city classic, the Merseyside Derby, with Liverpool FC, with whom it maintains a great historical rivalry, dating back to 1894. This confrontation arose from the founding of Liverpool after a disagreement between the Everton board and John Houlding. Unlike other rivalries, there is no political, geographical or religious division between Liverpool and Everton. Tickets to watch one of these matches are usually sold out. It is one of the few rivalries that does not segregate the fans of each team - as commonly happens -, in addition to the large number of families that have followers of both clubs, therefore it was conceived as the "friendly derby" - trad: friendly derby— During the mid-1980s, the rivalry has intensified, and since the creation of the Premier League in 1992, the duel has had more sending offs than any other Premier League match. It was referred to by several British media as "the most undisciplined and explosive match in the Premier League." The stadiums of both teams are separated by just 1 kilometer. Ian Rush is the top scorer of this classic with 25 goals in 36 matches. The blue club enjoys a large fan base and regularly draws large crowds, averaging over 39,000 people (over 99% capacity) for its home games.

Uniform

Everton's traditional home colors are the blue shirt, white shorts and white socks. However, during the first decades of its history, Everton had several kits of different colors. At first, the team played in blue and white stripes, but as new players arriving at the club wore their old team's jerseys during matches, confusion soon arose. It was decided to dye the shirts black, both to save costs and to instill a more professional look. However, the kit looked morbid, so a scarlet sash was added. When the club moved to Goodison Park in 1892, the colors were salmon pink and dark blue striped shirts with dark blue shorts. The club later switched to ruby-colored shirts with blue trim and dark blue pants. In the 1901-02 season, navy blue shirts with white pants were used for the first time. The club played in light blue in 1906; However, fans protested and the color returned to blue. Everton have occasionally played in different shades of blue. Today, the home kit is blue with white shorts and socks. The club can also dress everything in blue to avoid any clash of colors.

Everton's traditional away colors were white shirts with black shorts, but from 1968 amber shirts and blue shorts became common. Various editions appeared throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Black, white, gray and yellow away shirts have also been used.

• Uniform: Blue t-shirt, white pants and white stockings.
• Uniform Visit: White t-shirt, black pants and white stockings.
• Uniform: Green t-shirt, black pants and black stockings.

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Stadium

Everton originally played in the southeast corner of Stanley Park. The first official match took place in 1879. In 1882, a man called J. Cruitt donated land on Priory Road which became the club's headquarters. In 1884, Everton became tenants of Anfield, which was owned by John Orrell, a landowner who was a friend of Everton's John Houlding. Orrell loaned Anfield to the club in exchange for a small rent. Houlding bought the land from Orrell in 1885 and became the owner of Everton by charging the club rent, which rose from £100 to £240 a year in 1888, and continued to increase until Everton abandoned the ground in 1892. The club considered the rent increase unacceptable. A further dispute between Houlding and the club committee led to Houlding attempting to gain full control of the club by registering the company 'Everton F. C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd'. Everton left Anfield to settle at a new ground, Goodison Park, where the club has played since then. Houlding attempted to take over Everton's name, colours, fixtures and league position but was refused by the English Football Association. In his place, Houlding formed a new club, Liverpool F.C.

Goodison Park, the first major football stadium built in England, opened in 1892. Goodison Park has hosted more top-flight football matches than any other stadium in the United Kingdom and was the only stadium in an English club that hosted a semi-final of the 1966 Football World Cup. It was also the first English ground to have underfloor heating and the first to have two stands on all sides. The grounds of St Luke the Evangelist Church lie adjacent to the corner of the Main Stand and the Howard Kendall Gwladys end of Street.

On game days, in a tradition dating back to 1962, players come out to the song 'Johnny Todd', performed in the arrangement used when it was Z's theme song -Cars. This is a traditional Liverpool children's song collected in 1890 by Frank Kidson and tells the story of a sailor betrayed by his lover while at sea. On two occasions in 1994, the club came out against different songs. In August 1994, the club played the 2 Unlimited song 'Get Ready For This'. A month later, the club played a cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival's classic 'Bad Moon Rising'. Both songs were received with total disapproval by Everton fans. Between the years 2023 and 2024, Goodison Park will be demolished and Everton will move to the Bramley-Moore Dock Stadium. Apartments and a hospital will be built on the Goodison grounds.

Club details

Neville Southall holds the record for appearances at Everton, with 751 appearances for the first team between 1981 and 1997. The late centre-half and former captain Brian Labone is in second place with 534 appearances. The oldest player is goalkeeper Ted Sagar, who played for 23 years, between 1929 and 1953. This period spanned both parts of World War II and included a total of 495 matches. Southall also held the record for being unbeaten in the league during a season, with 15 games. However, this record was surpassed during the 2008-09 season by American goalkeeper Tim Howard, who finished the season with 17 clean sheets. The club's top scorer, with 383 goals in all competitions, is Dixie Dean; the second top scorer is Graeme Sharp, with 159. Dean still holds the English national record for most goals in a season, with 60.

The record attendance for an Everton home match is 78,299 against Liverpool F.C. on 18 September 1948. Surprisingly, there was only one injury in this match, which occurred when Tom Fleetwood was hit on the head for a coin tossed from the audience as he marched around the perimeter and played the bugle with the St. Edward's Orphanage Band. Goodison Park, like all major English football grounds since the Taylor Report recommendations were implemented, is now a full-capacity stadium and can only seat just under 40,000, meaning it is unlikely to This attendance record will ever be broken at Goodison. Everton's record transfer fee was to Swansea City for Icelandic midfielder Gylfi Sigurðsson for a reported £45m in 2017. Romelu Lukaku's sale to Manchester United was for an initial £75m, a fee record between two English clubs and the largest sum that Everton has received for a player.

Everton holds the record for the most seasons in England's top flight (Division One/Premier League), with 120 seasons out of 124 as of 2022-23 (the club played in Division 2 in 1930-31 and from 1951 to 1954). It is one of six teams to have played in every Premier League season since its creation in August 1992: the others are Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspur. The match between Everton and Aston Villa is the one that has been played the most times in the English first division. In the 2012-13 season, the two founding members of the Football League have played a record 196 league matches.

• Seasons in 1.a Division: 120 (Including 22/23).
• Seasons in 2.a Division: 4.
• Big deal.:
  • In national championships:
    • 9-1 to Manchester City in 1906.
    • 8-0 to Stoke City in 1889.
    • 8-0 to the Southampton in 1971.
  • In national cups:
    • 11-2 to Derby County in 1890.
  • In international tournaments:
    • 6-1 to SK Brann in 2008.
    • 5-0 to Finn Harps in 1978.
• Major welcome:
  • In national championships:
    • 4-10 against Tottenham Hotspur in 1958.
  • In national cups:
    • 0-6 against Crystal Palace in 1922.
  • In international tournaments:
    • 0-5 against Benfica in 2010.
• Best place in the league: 1o
• Worse placed in the league: 22nd (1929/30; 1950/51).
• Maximum scorer: Dixie Dean (383 goals).
• Less goalie: Neville Southall 712 minutes without receiving goals (1994).
• More contested parties: Neville Southall (750 matches).

International participation in UEFA competitions

By competition

Note: In bold active competitions.

Players

Players for the 2023-24 season

Players	Technical body		More used tactical scheme
N.o Nac. Pos. Name Age Eq. provenance Cont. INT. Porteros 1 ENG! 0BY Jordan Pickford 29 years Sunderland A. F. C. 2027 Absolute 12 Why? 0BY João Viriginia 23 years quarry 2024 Sub-20 31 ENG! 0BY Andy Lonergan 39 years West Bromwich Albion F. C. 2023 Sub-20 43 ENG! 0BY Billy Crellin 23 years Fleetwood Town 2023 Sub-20 Defense 2 SCO! 1DEF Nathan Patterson 21 years Rangers F. C. 2027 Absolute 5 ENG! 1DEF Michael Keane 30 years Burnley F.C. 2025 Absolute 6 ENG! 1DEF James Tarkowski 29 years Burnley F.C. 2026 Absolute 18 ENG! 1DEF Ashley Young 38 years Aston Villa F. C. 2024 Absolute 19 UKR! 1DEF Vitaliy Mykolenko 24 years F. C. Dynamo Kiev 2026 Absolute 22 ENG! 1DEF Ben Godfrey 25 years Norwich City F. C. 2025 Absolute 23 IRL! 1DEF Seamus Coleman 34 years Sligo Rovers F. C. 2024 Absolute 32 ENG! 1DEF Jarrad Branthwaite 21 years Carlisle United F. C. 2025 Campers 8 BEL! 2MED Amadou Onana 22 years Lille O. S. C. 2027 Absolute 16 Mali! 2MED Abdoulaye Doucouré 30 years Watford F. C. 2024 Absolute 20 ENG! 2MED Dele Alli 27 years Tottenham Hotspur F. C. 2024 Absolute 21 Why? 2MED André Gomes 30 years F. C. Barcelona 2024 Absolute 27 SEN! 2MED Idrissa Gueye 34 years Paris Saint-Germain F. C. 2024 Absolute 37 ENG! 2MED James Garner 22 years Manchester United F. C. 2026 Sub-21 Delanteros 7 ENG! 3OF THE Dwight McNeil 23 years Burnley F.C. 2027 Sub-21 9 ENG! 3OF THE Dominic Calvert-Lewin 26 years Sheffield United F. C. 2025 Absolute 10 NED! 3OF THE Arnaut Danjuma 26 years Villarreal C. F. 2024 Absolute 14 Why? 3OF THE Beto 25 years Udinense 2027 28 Portugal! 3OF THE Youssef Chermiti 19 years Sporting CP 2024 30 ENG! 3OF THE Jack Harrison 26 years Leeds United F. C. 2024 Sub-21 61 England! 3OF THE Lewis Dobbin 20 years quarry 2024 Cessions Nac. Pos. Name Age Eq. provenance Lost to	Coach(s) Sean Dyche Deputy(s) Steve Stone Physical Preparer(s) Mark Howard Coach(s) of porters Alan Kelly Jr. Assistant(s) / Analyst(s) Ian Woan Doctor(s) Ian Irving Legend Captain Mission quarry (club-trained) Training (association-trained) European passport Aliens Extracommunity without restriction Lost to the club Granted to another club Discarded / No chip Updated on 7 September 2023 Official web template		4-2-3-1 ENG! BY 1 DEF 2 DEF 32 DEF 6 DEF 18 MED 8 OF THE 14 MED 27 MED 10 MED 7 MED 16 Incorporation 2023-24 Ashley Young ( Aston Villa F. C.) Arnaut Danjuma ( Villarreal C. F.) Beto ( Udinese Calcio) Youssef Chermiti ( Sporting de Lisboa) Jack Harrison ( Leeds United F. C.)

• According to UEFA regulations, each club can only have a maximum of three extra-community players, who occupy a foreign position, while a canteran must remain at least three years of training age at the club (15-21 years) to be considered as such.

Highs

Expenses for check-in: €40,500,000

Altas
Player	Position	Proceedings	Type	Cost
Beto	Delantero	Udinese Calcio	Transfer	25,000.000 €
Youssef Chermiti	Delantero	Sporting C. P.	Transfer	12,500,000 €
Ashley Young	Defence	Aston Villa F. C.	Free	0 €
Arnaut Danjuma	Delantero	Villarreal C. F.	Cession	3,000.000 €
Jack Harrison	Delantero	Leeds United F. C.	Cession	0 €

Casualties

Sales income: €82.8 million

Low
Player	Position	Destination	Type	Collection
Moise Kean	Delantero	Juventus F. C.	Transfer	30,000.000 €
Alex Iwobi	Delantero	Fulham F. C.	Transfer	25.700.000 €
Demarai Gray	Delantero	Al-Ettifaq	Transfer	9,300.000 €
Thomas Cannon	Delantero	Leicester City F. C.	Transfer	8.800.000 €
Ellis Simms	Delantero	Coventry City F. C.	Transfer	7,000.000 €
Niels Nkounkou	Defence	A. S. Saint-Étienne	Transfer	$20,000
Asmir Begović	Porter	Queens Park Rangers F. C.	End of contract	-
Yerry Mina	Defence	A. C. F. Fiorentina	End of contract	-
Andros Townsend	Camper center		End of contract	-
Tom Davies	Camper center	Sheffield United F. C.	End of contract	-
Jean-Philippe Gbamin	Camper center		Contract termination	-
Rúben Vinagre	Defence	Sporting C. P.	End of assignment	-
Conor Coady	Defence	Wolverhampton Wanderers F. C.	End of assignment	-

Assignments

Cession
Dorsal	Player	Position	Lost to	Home	Finalization
4	Mason Holgate	Defence	Southampton F. C	25 August 2023	30 June 2024
14	Neal Maupay	Delantero	Brentford F. C	1 September 2023	30 June 2024

• The dorsal belongs to the membership club.
• Transfers are corroborated by the official business of the club and transfermarkt.

Coaches

Everton has had, counting its current manager, a total of 36 football managers throughout its history. The first manager the club had was William Edward Barclay, who coached the team in 1888. The manager The one who has been in charge of the club the longest has been Harry Catterick, who was in charge of the team from 1961 to 1973 and played 594 games with the first team. The Everton manager who has won the most national and international trophies is Howard Kendall, who won two First Division championships, the 1984 FA Cup, the 1985 UEFA European Cup Winners' Cup and three Community Shields.

The main nationalities of the non-English coaches have been Scottish (6 technicians), Irish (2 technicians), Welsh (1 technician), Northern Irish (1 technician), Italian (1 technician), Spanish (2 technicians), Portuguese (1 technician) and Dutch (1 technician).

Palmarés

National tournaments (23)

National competition	Titles	Subcamponatos
First Division (9/7)	1890-91, 1914-15, 1927-28, 1931-32, 1938-39, 1962-63, 1969-70, 1984-85, 1986-87.	1889-90, 1894-95, 1901-02, 1904-05, 1908-09, 1911-12, 1985-86.
FA Cup (5/8)	1905-06, 1932-33, 1965-66, 1983-84, 1994-95.	1892-93, 1896-97, 1906-07, 1967-68, 1984-85, 1985-86, 1988-89, 2008-09.
League Cup (0/2)		1976-77, 1983-84.
Community Shield (9/2)	1928, 1932, 1963, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1986*, 1987, 1995.	1933, 1966.
Full Members Cup (0/2)		1988-89, 1990-91. (Récord)
Football League Super Cup (0/1)		1985-86. (Récord)
Second Division (1/1)	1930-31.	1953-54.

International tournaments (1)

International competition	Titles	Subcamponatos
Coup Europe (1/0)	1984-85.

Total honors

Official titles	National				Europeans				World	Total
Everton F.C.	9	5	-	9	-	-	1	-	-	24
Data updated to the achievement of the last title 20 May 1995.

Subsidiary teams

Women's section