List of Everton F.C. international players

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Everton Football Club, an association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, was founded in 1878.

230 players have played at senior international level whilst registered with the club.[1] Everton's first international was Job Wilding who appeared for Wales against England on 14 March 1885. The most recent newly capped player is Alex Iwobi for Nigeria against Ukraine on 10 September 2019.

Since 2016, Tim Howard holds the record for most caps won with 93 for United States of America, previously Neville Southall had held the record with 91 caps for Wales since the early 1990s.[2]

Dixie Dean held the record for most international goals with 18 for England held from the 1930's, Tim Cahill matched this in 2012 for Australia.

34 individual Everton players have represented their countries at the World Cup. Alex Parker the first in 1958 for Scotland. Tim Cahill for Australia is the only player to appear at more than one tournament.

In total over 2500 caps for 38 different Associations have been earned by players while contracted to Everton.

The most Everton players to play in a single fixture was between Republic of Ireland and England on 7 June 2016 when five players (three for Ireland) appeared.

Countries (in blue) in which Everton players have been capped at international level.

List of internationals

The following list includes only caps earned while contracted to Everton.

Three Everton players (Eglington, Farrell and Stevenson) were dual internationals for Ireland. Their caps are listed separately below but included only once in the total player count of 230.

Updated as of fixtures played 19 November 2019

World Cup players

The following were part of World Cup squads while playing for Everton.

Johnny Heitinga was runners-up for the Netherlands at the 2010 World Cup
Tournament Players
World Cup 1958 Scotland Alex Parker, Wales Roy Vernon
World Cup 1966 England Ray Wilson
World Cup 1970 England Alan Ball, England Brian Labone, England Keith Newton, England Tommy Wright
World Cup 1986 England Gary Lineker, England Peter Reid, Scotland Graeme Sharp, England Trevor Steven, England Gary Stevens
World Cup 1990 Scotland Stuart McCall, Republic of Ireland Kevin Sheedy
World Cup 1994 Sweden Anders Limpar
World Cup 1998 Croatia Slaven Bilic
World Cup 2002 Sweden Niclas Alexandersson, Republic of Ireland Lee Carsley, Denmark Thomas Gravesen, Sweden Tobias Linderoth, United States Joe-Max Moore
World Cup 2006 Australia Tim Cahill, Portugal Nuno Valente
World Cup 2010 Nigeria Yakubu, Australia Tim Cahill, Netherlands Johnny Heitinga, South Africa Steven Pienaar, Nigeria Joseph Yobo
World Cup 2014 England Leighton Baines, England Ross Barkley, United States Tim Howard, England Phil Jagielka, Belgium Kevin Mirallas
World Cup 2018 Senegal Idrissa Gueye, England Jordan Pickford, Iceland Gylfi Sigurdsson

AFC Asian Cup

The following were part of Asian Cup squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
2007 Asian Cup Australia Tim Cahill
2011 Asian Cup Australia Tim Cahill

CAF Africa Cup of Nations

The following were part of African Cup of Nations squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
2004 Africa Cup of Nations Nigeria Joseph Yobo
2006 Africa Cup of Nations Nigeria Joseph Yobo
2008 Africa Cup of Nations Nigeria Yakubu, South Africa Steven Pienaar, Nigeria Joseph Yobo
2010 Africa Cup of Nations Nigeria Yakubu, Nigeria Joseph Yobo
2015 Africa Cup of Nations Ghana Christian Atsu
2017 Africa Cup of Nations Senegal Idrissa Gueye
2019 Africa Cup of Nations Senegal Idrissa Gueye, Nigeria Henry Onyekuru

CONCACAF Gold Cup

The following were part of Gold Cup squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
2007 Gold Cup United States Tim Howard
2011 Gold Cup United States Tim Howard
2019 Gold Cup Curaçao Cuco Martina

CONEBOL Copa America

The following were part of Copa America squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
2016 Copa America Argentina Ramiro Funes Mori, United States Tim Howard, Costa Rica Bryan Oviedo
2019 Copa America Brazil Richarlison

UEFA European Championship

The following were part of European Championship squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
UEFA Euro 1968 England Alan Ball, England Brian Labone, England Ray Wilson, England Tommy Wright
UEFA Euro 1988 Republic of Ireland Kevin Sheedy, England Trevor Steven, England Gary Stevens, England Dave Watson
UEFA Euro 1992 England Martin Keown, Scotland Pat Nevin
UEFA Euro 1996 Switzerland Marc Hottiger, Russia Andrei Kanchelskis
UEFA Euro 2000 England Nick Barmby, Norway Thomas Myhre, Portugal Abel Xavier
UEFA Euro 2004 Denmark Thomas Gravesen, Sweden Tobias Linderoth, England Wayne Rooney
UEFA Euro 2012 Croatia Nikica Jelavic, Netherlands Johnny Heitinga
UEFA Euro 2016 Republic of Ireland Seamus Coleman, Belgium Romelu Lukaku, Republic of Ireland James McCarthy, Republic of Ireland Aiden McGeady

References

  1. ^ "Everton Results". www.evertonresults.com.
  2. ^ "Everton international records".