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Everton Football Club is a professional association football club located in Liverpool. The club was formed in 1878, and was originally named as St Domingo FC. The club's first game was a 1–0 victory over Everton Church Club. In November 1879 the club was renamed to Everton FC.

In 1888, Everton were one of the twelve founding members of the English Football League. The club have played in the top-flight of English Football for a record 117 years, having missed only four seasons four top-flight seasons (1930–31, 1951–52, 1952–53, 1953–54).

Major competitions won by Everton F.C., records set by the club, associated managers and players will be included in the following list.

The player records section includes: appearances, goals scored, and clean sheets kept. Player and manager awards, transfer fees, club records (Wins, Draws, and Losses) are all included in the list, as well as several others.

Honours

Domestic

European

Main article: Everton F.C. in European football

Doubles

Player records

Appearances

Goalscorers

Clean sheets

As of January 2017[3]

# Name Apps Clean sheets
1 Wales Neville Southall 751 269
2 England Gordon West 402 155
3 United States Tim Howard 414 133
4 England Ted Sagar 497 120
5 Republic of Ireland Billy Scott 289 94
6 England Tom Fern 231 67
7 England Jordan Pickford 213 57
8 Republic of Ireland Jimmy O'Neill 213 49
9 Scotland George Wood 126 48
10 England Albert Dunlop 231 47

Transfer records

Highest transfer fees paid

Name From Fee Year
1 Iceland Gylfi Sigurðsson Wales Swansea City £40M 2017
2 Brazil Richarlison England Watford £35M 2018
3 Belgium Amadou Onana France Lille £33M 2022
4 England Jordan Pickford England Sunderland £25M 2017
5 Colombia Yerry Mina Spain Barcelona £27M 2018
6 Belgium Romelu Lukaku England Chelsea £28M 2014
7 Nigeria Alex Iwobi England Arsenal £28M 2019
8 England Michael Keane England Burnley £25M 2017
9 Netherlands Davy Klaassen Netherlands Ajax £23.6M 2017
10 Democratic Republic of the Congo Yannick Bolasie England Crystal Palace £22.5M 2016

Highest transfer fees received

Name From Fee Date
1 Belgium Romelu Lukaku England Manchester United £90M 2017
2 Brazil Richarlison England Tottenham Hotspur £60M 2022
3 England John Stones England Manchester City £47.5M 2016
4 Belgium Marouane Fellaini England Manchester United £27.5M 2013
5 England Wayne Rooney England Manchester United £27M 2004
6 England Joleon Lescott England Manchester City £24M 2009
7 England Ross Barkley England Chelsea £15M 2018
8 Croatia Nikola Vlašić Russia CSKA Moscow £14M 2019
9 England Jack Rodwell England Manchester City £12M 2012

Awards

Managerial Awards

LMA Manager of the Year
2002–03: Scotland David Moyes
2004–05: Scotland David Moyes
2008–09: Scotland David Moyes

Premier League Manager of the Month Award
January 1998: England Howard Kendall
September 1999: Scotland Walter Smith
November 2003: Scotland David Moyes
September 2004: Scotland David Moyes
January 2006: Scotland David Moyes
February 2008: Scotland David Moyes
February 2009: Scotland David Moyes
January 2010: Scotland David Moyes
March 2010: Scotland David Moyes
October 2010: Scotland David Moyes
September 2012: Scotland David Moyes
March 2013: Scotland David Moyes
September 2020: Italy Carlo Ancelotti

Player Awards

European Footballer of the Year (Ballon d'Or)
1986: England Gary Lineker (2nd)

African Footballer of the Year
1994: Nigeria Daniel Amokachi (3rd)
1995: Nigeria Daniel Amokachi (3rd)

Oceania Footballer of the Year
2004: Australia Tim Cahill (Winner)

Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year
1985: Wales Neville Southall
1986: England Gary Lineker

PFA Players' Player of the Year
1985: England Peter Reid
1986: England Gary Lineker

PFA Merit Award
1977: Scotland Jack Taylor
1982: England Joe Mercer
1986: England Alan Ball (As 1966 England World Cup Squad)
1986: England Ray Wilson (As 1966 England World Cup Squad)
1994: Northern Ireland Billy Bingham
1997: England Peter Beardsley

Premier League Player of the Month Award
February 1995: Scotland Duncan Ferguson
April 1996: Russia Andrei Kanchelskis
April 1999: England Kevin Campbell
September 2006: England Andy Johnson
February 2009: England Phil Jagielka
April 2012: Croatia Nikica Jelavić
November 2012: Belgium Marouane Fellaini
March 2017: Belgium Romelu Lukaku
September 2020: England Dominic Calvert-Lewin

BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year Award
1995: Wales Neville Southall

BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Award
2003: England Wayne Rooney

U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year
2008: United States Tim Howard
2014: United States Tim Howard

Icelandic Footballer of the Year
2017: Iceland Gylfi Sigurðsson
2018: Iceland Gylfi Sigurðsson
2019: Iceland Gylfi Sigurðsson

Club records

Wins

Defeats

Goals

  • Most League goals scored in a season – 121 in 42 matches, Second Division, 1930–31
  • Fewest League goals scored in a season – 34 in 38 matches, Premier League, 2005–06
  • Most League goals conceded in a season – 92 in 42 matches, First Division, 1929–30
  • Fewest League goals conceded in a season – 27 in 40 matches, First Division, 1987–88

Points

  • Most points in a League season (2 for a win) – 66 in 42 matches, First Division, 1969–70
  • Most points in a League season (3 for a win) – 90 in 42 matches, First Division, 1984–85
  • Fewest points in a League season (2 for a win) – 20 in 22 matches, First Division, 1888–89
  • Fewest points in a League season (3 for a win) – 39 in 38 matches, Premier League, 2003–04 and 2021-22

Matches

Firsts

  • First FA Cup match – v. Bolton, First Qualifying Round, 12 November 1887 (drew 0–0)[4]
  • First League match – v. Accrington, First Division, 8 September 1888 (won 2–1)
  • First match at Goodison – v. Bolton, First Division, (won 4–2)
  • First European match – v. Dunfermline F.C., Fairs Cup, 25 September 1962 (won 1–0)
  • First League Cup match – v. Accrington Stanley, (won 3–1)

Record wins

  • Record League Victory: 9–1 v Manchester City, 3 September 1906; v Plymouth Argyle, 27 December 1930 (W Dean & J Stein both scored 4, a first for Everton)
  • Record FA Cup Victory: 11–2 v Derby County, FA Cup, 5th Round, 18 January 1890 (Hat-tricks from Fred Geary, Alec Brady and Alf Milward)[5]
  • Record League Cup Victory: 8–0 v Wimbledon, League Cup, 2nd Round, 29 August 1978
  • Record Aggregate League Cup Victory: 11–0 v Wrexham, League Cup, 2nd Round, 1990
  • Record European Victory: 6–1 v SK Brann, UEFA CUP, Round of 32, 21 February 2008
  • Record Aggregate European Victory: 10–0 v Finn Harps, UEFA CUP, 1st Round, 1978
  • Record Friendly Victory: 0–22 v ATV Irdning, 14 July 2018

Record away wins

  • Record League Victory: 7–0 v Charlton Athletic, 7 February 1931
  • Record FA Cup Victory: 6–0 v Crystal Palace, 4 January 1931
  • Record Top Flight Victory: 6–1 v Derby County, 5 November 1892
  • Record League Cup Victory: 5–0 v Wrexham, League Cup, 2nd Round 1st Leg, 25 September 1990
  • Record European Victory: 5–0 v Finn Harps, UEFA Cup, 1st Round 1st Leg, 12 September 1978

Record defeats

  • Record League Defeat: 0–7 v Sunderland, Football League Div 1, 26 December 1934; v Wolves, Football League Div 1, 22 February 1939; v Arsenal, Premier League, 11 May 2005[6]
  • Record FA Cup Defeat: 0–6 v Crystal Palace, FA Cup, 1st Round, 7 January 1922

Attendances

  • Highest League Attendance 78,299 v Liverpool, 18 September 1948
  • Highest FA Cup Attendance 77,902 v Manchester United, FA Cup, 5th Round, 14 February 1953
  • Highest League Cup Attendance 54,032 v Bolton, League Cup, Semi Final, 1st Leg, 18 January 1977
  • Highest European Attendance 62,408 v Internazionale Milano, European Cup, 1st Round, 1st Leg, 18 September 1963
  • Lowest League Attendance 7,802 v Sheffield Wednesday, 1 May 1934
  • Lowest FA Cup Attendance 15,293 v Wimbledon, FA Cup, 3rd Round Replay, 12 January 1993
  • Lowest League Cup Attendance 7,415 v Wrexham, League Cup, 2nd Round, 2nd Leg, 9 October 1990

National records

  • Goodison Park was the world's first purpose made and designed dedicated football ground.
  • Goodison Park is the only club ground to have hosted a world cup semi-final.
  • Goodison Park was the venue for England v Republic of Ireland 21 September 1949. England lost 2–0 & this was their first home defeat to a non-UK country. Everton's Peter Farrell scored.
  • Everton were the first English club to appear in European competitions five seasons running (1962–63 to 1966–67).
  • Everton have played in more top flight seasons than any other club.[7]
  • They have scored and conceded more goals in the top division than any other club.[7]
  • Everton have both drawn and lost more top flight matches than any other side.[7]
  • They hold the unusual distinction of being reigning League champions for the longest time. They won the championship in 1915 and thus remained reigning champions until the 1919–20 season due to the World War I league cancellation. They were also champions in 1939, and again remained reigning champions until the league resumed in 1946–47 after World War II.
  • First club to be presented with the League Championship trophy and medals.
  • First club to have the youngest Premiership goalscorer in two consecutive seasons with two different players
  • First club to play 4000 top-flight games
  • First club to amass 5000 League points
  • First club to win the League Championship on two different grounds.
  • First club to stage an FA Cup final
  • First English club to install dugouts
  • First English club to be invited to train at the Italian training HQ at Coverciano.
  • First club to win the FA Cup Final after being 2–0 down.
  • First club to appear in 4 consecutive Charity Shields at Wembley 1984–7.
  • Jack Southworth's six goals v West Bromwich Albion, 30 December 1893, was the first such instance in Football League history.
  • Most disciplinary points received in the Premier League (2 points for a red card, one for a yellow): 1252[8]

Continental records

  • First Club to be top of the iTunes chart, September 2020. Everton F.C. Spirit of the Blues.
  • Goodison Park, built in 1892, was the world's first complete purpose-built football ground.
  • Everton were the first club to install undersoil heating in their stadium.
  • First club to win a penalty shoot-out in the European Cup – 1970 v Borussia Mönchengladbach
  • First club to issue a regular match programme for home fixtures.
  • First club to have a four-sided stadium with two tier stands
  • First club to have a stadium with a three-tier stand

Penalty shoot-outs

Season Date Competition Round Opponent Venue Result Score
1970/71 4 November 1970 European Cup Third Round Borussia Monchengladbach Home Won 4–3
1986/87 3 March 1987 Full Members Cup Quarter Finals Charlton Athletic Home Lost 1–3
1987/88 8 December 1987 Dubai Champions Cup Final Rangers Neutral Lost 7–8
1998/99 11 November 1998 League Cup Fourth Round Sunderland AFC Home Lost 4–5
2000/01 27 September 2000 League Cup Second Round Bristol Rovers Away Lost 2–4
2001/02 12 September 2001 League Cup Second Round Crystal Palace Home Lost 4–5
2002/03 6 November 2002 League Cup Third Round Newcastle United Home Won 3–2
2003/04 3 December 2003 League Cup Fourth Round Middlesbrough Away Lost 4–5
2007/08 12 March 2008 UEFA Cup Round of 16 Fiorentina Home Lost 2–4
2008/09 19 April 2009 FA Cup Semi Finals Manchester United Neutral Won 4–2
2010/11 21 September 2010 League Cup Third Round Brentford Away Lost 3–4
2010/11 19 February 2011 FA Cup Fourth Round Chelsea Away Won 4–3
2014/15 13 January 2015 FA Cup Third Round West Ham United Away Lost 8–9
2015/16 27 October 2015 League Cup Fourth Round Norwich City Home Won 4–3
2018/19 2 October 2018 EFL Cup Third Round Southampton Away Lost 3–4
2019/20 18 December 2019 EFL Cup Quarter Finals Leicester City Home Lost 2–4
2021/22 21 September 2021 EFL Cup Third Round Queens Park Rangers Away Lost 7–8

See also

References

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Everton F.C. which is released under the Text of Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Honours". Everton FC.com. Archived from the original on 30 January 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Most Appearances for Everton – European Matches". Everton Results. Retrieved 20 March 2012.
  3. ^ "Most Clean Sheets for Everton – All Competitions". Everton Results. Archived from the original on 11 May 2013. Retrieved 14 February 2012.
  4. ^ Everton originally drew Rangers F.C. in 1886 but only played it as a friendly as they had ineligible players. Although they beat Bolton in a replay, they didn't go through as they fielded 7 ineligible players. The game itself was a replay as the first game was declared void after Bolton had fielded an ineligible player.
  5. ^ "Everton 11 – Derby County 2; 18 January 1890 (Match summary)". evertonfc.com. Retrieved 30 March 2010.
  6. ^ Brodkin, Jon (12 May 2005). "Rampant Gunners in seventh heaven". The Guardian. London.
  7. ^ a b c "England – First Level All-Time Tables". www.rsssf.com. Retrieved 10 August 2018.
  8. ^ Official Site of the Premier League | Statistics Archived 30 December 2010 at the Wayback Machine

8. Best youth player 

  Steve Wainwright 1977/78. 
  (Eastham Wirral)
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