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‪Everton F.C.‬
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Full name:
Everton Football Club

Nicknames:
The Toffees, The Blues
The School of Science
The People's Club

Founded:
1878; 136 years ago as St Domingo's F.C.

Ground:
Goodison Park
Liverpool

Capacity:
39,572

CEO:
Robert Elstone

Chairman:
Bill Kenwright

Manager:
Roberto Martínez

League:
Premier League

2013-14:
Premier League, 5th

 

Everton Football Club /ˈɛvərtən/ is an English professional football club based in Liverpool and currently playing in the Premier League. 

The club has competed in the top division for a record 110 seasons (missing only four seasons, all at level 2) and have won the League Championship nine times.

Formed in 1878, Everton were founding members of The Football League in 1888 and won their first league championship two seasons later. 

Following four league titles and two FA Cup wins, Everton experienced a lull in the immediate post World War Two period until a revival in the 1960s which saw the club win two league championships and an FA Cup. 

The mid-1980s represented their most recent period of success, with two League Championship successes, an FA Cup, and the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup. 

The club's most recent major trophy was the 1995 FA Cup.

The club's supporters are known as Evertonians.

Everton have a rivalry with neighbours Liverpool and the two sides contest the Merseyside derby.

The club have been based at Goodison Park since 1892, after moving from Anfield.

The club's home colours are royal blue shirts and white shorts.

Everton player Dixie Dean scored a record 60 league goals in the 1927-28 season.

 

History

Everton were founded as St Domingo's in 1878 so that people from the parish of St Domingo's Methodist Church in Everton could play sport year round - cricket was played in summer. 

The club was renamed Everton a year later after the local area, as people outside the parish wished to participate.

The club was a founding member of The Football League in 1888-89, winning their first League Championship title in the 1890-91 season. Everton won the FA Cup for the first time in 1906 and the League title again in 1914-15. 

The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 interrupted the football programme while Everton were champions, something that would again occur in 1939.

It was not until 1927 that Everton's first sustained period of success began.

In 1925 the club signed Dixie Dean from Tranmere Rovers who, in 1927-28, set the record for league goals in a single season with 60 goals in 39 league games, a record that still stands to this day. 

Dean helped Everton to achieve their third league title.

Everton were relegated to the Second Division two years later during internal turmoil at the club. However, the club was promoted at the first attempt scoring a record number of goals in the second division. 

On return to the top flight in 1931-32, Everton wasted no time in reaffirming their status and won a fourth League title at the first opportunity. 

Everton also won their second FA Cup in 1933 with a 3:0 win against Manchester City in the final. 

The era ended in 1938-39 with a fifth League title.

The outbreak of the Second World War again saw the suspension of League football, and when official competition resumed in 1946 the Everton team had been split and paled in comparison to the pre-war team. 

Everton were relegated for the second time in 1950-51 and did not return until 1953-54, finishing as runners-up in their third season in the Second Division. The club have been a top-flight presence ever since.

Everton's second successful era started when Harry Catterick was made manager in 1961. 

In 1962-63, his second season in charge, Everton won the League title and in 1966 the FA Cup followed with a 3:2 win over Sheffield Wednesday.

Everton again reached the final in 1968, but this time were unable to overcome West Bromwich Albion at Wembley.

Two seasons later in 1969-70, Everton won the League championship, nine points clear of nearest rivals Leeds United. During this period, Everton were the first English club to achieve five consecutive years in European competitions-seasons 1961-62 to 1966-67.

However, the success did not last; the team finished fourteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth and seventh in the following seasons. 

Harry Catterick retired but his successors failed to win any silverware for the remainder of the 1970s. 

Though the club mounted title challenges finishing fourth in 1974-75 under manager Billy Bingham, and under manager Gordon Lee, third in 1977-78 and fourth the following season. Manager Gordon Lee was sacked in 1981.

Howard Kendall took over as manager and guided Everton to their most successful era.

Domestically, Everton won the FA Cup in 1984 and two league titles in 1984-85 and 1986-87 and the club's first and so far only European trophy securing the European Cup Winners' Cup in the 1985 final.

The European success came after first beating University College Dublin, Inter Bratislava and Fortuna Sittard, Everton defeated German giants Bayern Munich 3:1 in the semi-finals, despite trailing at half time (in a match voted the greatest in Goodison Park history) and recorded the same scoreline over Austrian club Rapid Vienna in the final.

Having won both the league and Cup Winners Cup in 1985, Everton came very close to winning a treble, but lost to Manchester United in the FA Cup final.

The following season, 1985-86, Everton were runners up to neighbours Liverpool in both the league and the FA Cup, but did recapture the league title in 1986-87.

After the Heysel Stadium disaster and the subsequent ban of all English clubs from continental football, Everton lost the chance to compete for more European trophies. 

A large proportion of the title-winning side was broken up following the ban. 

Kendall himself moved to Athletic Bilbao after the 1987 title triumph and was succeeded by assistant Colin Harvey. 

Harvey took Everton to the 1989 final, but lost 3:2 after Extra time to Liverpool.

Everton were founder members of the Premier League in 1992, but struggled to find the right manager. 

Howard Kendall had returned in 1990 but could not repeat his previous success, while his successor, Mike Walker, was statistically the least successful Everton manager to date. 

When former Everton player Joe Royle took over in 1994 the club's form started to improve; his first game in charge was a 2:0 victory over derby rivals Liverpool. Royle dragged Everton clear of relegation, leading the club to the FA Cup for the fifth time in its history, defeating Manchester United 1:0 in the final.

The cup triumph was also Everton's passport to the Cup Winners' Cup - their first European campaign in the post-Heysel era. Progress under Joe Royle continued in 1995-96 as they climbed to sixth place in the Premiership.

A fifteenth place finish the following season saw Royle resign towards the end of the campaign, to be temporarily replaced by club captain, Dave Watson. 

Howard Kendall was appointed Everton manager for the third time in 1997, but the appointment proved unsuccessful as Everton finished seventeenth in the Premiership; only avoiding relegation due to their superior goal difference over Bolton Wanderers. 

Former Rangers manager Walter Smith then took over from Kendall in the summer of 1998 but only managed three successive finishes in the bottom half of the table.

The Everton board finally ran out of patience with Smith and he was sacked in March 2002 after an FA Cup exit at Middlesbrough, with Everton in real danger of relegation.

David Moyes, was his replacement and guided Everton to a safe finish in fifteenth place. 

In 2002-03 Everton finished seventh, their highest finish since 1996. 

A fourth place finish in 2004-05, ensured Everton qualified for the Champions League qualifying round. 

The team failed to make it through to the Champions League group stage and were then eliminated from the UEFA Cup.

Everton qualified for the 2007-08 and 2008-09 UEFA Cup competitions and they were runners-up in the 2009 FA Cup Final.

Moyes broke the club record for highest transfer fee paid on four occasions, signing James Beattie for £6 million in January 2005, Andy Johnson for £8.6 million in summer 2006, Yakubu for £11.25 million in summer 2007, and Marouane Fellaini for £15 million in September 2008. 

It was under David Moyes's management that Wayne Rooney broke into the first team, before being sold to Manchester United for a club record fee of £28 million.

At the end of the 2012-13 season David Moyes left his position at Everton to take over at Manchester United.

He was replaced by Roberto Martínez, who led Everton to 5th place in the league in his first season, amassing the club's best points tally for 27 years.

During the first decades of their history, Everton had several different kit colours. 

The team originally played in white and then blue and white stripes, but as new players arriving at the club wore their old team's shirts during matches, confusion soon ensued. 

It was decided that the shirts would be dyed black, both to save on expenses and to instill a more professional look. 

The result, however, appeared morbid so a scarlet sash was added.

When the club moved to Goodison Park in 1892, the colours were salmon pink and dark blue striped shirts with dark blue shorts then switching to ruby shirts with blue trim and dark blue shorts. 

The famous royal blue jerseys with white shorts were first used in the 1901-02 season.

The club played in sky blue in 1906, however the fans protested and the colour reverted to royal blue. Occasionally Everton have played in lighter shades than royal blue (such as 1930-31 and 1997-98).

In 1901, Everton became the first team ever to officially play in blue and white, and in the 1933 FA Cup Final, became the first club to employ kit numbers (1-11) on the back of the players' shirts.

Everton's traditional away colours were white shirts with black shorts, but from 1968 amber shirts and royal blue shorts became common. 

Various editions appeared throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

Recently however black, white, grey and yellow away shirts have been used.

The away shirt for the 2011-12 season was reverted to an amber shirt with navy blue shorts.

The home kit today remains royal blue shirts, white shorts and white socks although when playing teams away who also wear white shorts Everton wear all blue if the referee prefers the teams to wear different shorts.

Everton's home goalkeeper attire for the 2013-14 season was all black.


Shirt sponsors and manufacturers

Everton's current shirt sponsors are Chang Beer.

Previous sponsors include Hafnia, NEC, Danka, one2one and Kejian. 

For the 2008-09 season Everton sold junior replica jerseys without the current name or logo of its main sponsor Chang beer, following a recommendation from the Portman Group that alcoholic brand names be removed from kits sold to children.

Everton's current kit manufacturers are Umbro (who are expected to have agreed a 5 year deal with Everton), who replaced Nike from the previous two seasons, cutting short Nike's 3 year deal with the club.

The club currently has two 'megastores', one located near to Goodison Park on Walton Lane named 'Everton One' and a store in the Liverpool One shopping complex, named 'Everton Two', giving the second store the address 'Everton Two, Liverpool One'.

 

Crest

At the end of the 1937–38 season, Everton secretary Theo Kelly, who later became the club's first manager, wanted to design a club necktie. It was agreed that the colour be blue and Kelly was given the task of designing a crest to be featured on the necktie. 

Kelly worked on it for four months, until deciding on a reproduction of Prince Rupert's Tower, which stands in the heart of the Everton district.

The Tower has been inextricably linked with the Everton area since its construction in 1787.

It was originally used as a bridewell to incarcerate mainly drunks and minor criminals, and it still stands today on Everton Brow in Netherfield Road. 

The tower was accompanied by two laurel wreaths on either side and, according to the College of Arms in London, Kelly chose to include the laurels as they were the sign of winners. 

The crest was accompanied by the club motto, "Nil Satis Nisi Optimum", meaning "Nothing but the best is good enough".

The ties were first worn by Kelly and the Everton chairman, Mr. E. Green, on the first day of the 1938–39 season.

The club rarely incorporated a badge of any description on its shirts.

An interwoven "EFC" design was adopted between 1922 and 1930 before the club reverted to plain royal blue shirts, until 1972 when bold "EFC" lettering was added. 

The crest designed by Kelly was first used on the team's shirts in 1978 and has remained there ever since, undergoing gradual change to become the version used today.

In May 2013, the club launched a new crest to improve the reproducibility of the design in print and broadcast media, particularly on a small scale.

Critics suggested that it was external pressure from sports manufacturers Nike, Inc. that evoked the redesign as the number of colours has been reduced and the radial effect have been removed, making the kit more cost efficient to reproduce. 

The redesign was poorly received by supporters, with a poll on an Everton fan site registering a 91% negative response to the crest.

A protest petition reached over 22,000 signatures before the club offered an apology and announced a new crest would be created for the 2014-15 season with an emphasis on fan consultation. 

Shortly afterwards, the Head of Marketing left the club.

The latest crest was revealed by the club on 3 October 2013; after a consultation process with the supporters, three new crests were shortlisted, and of the final vote the new crest was chosen by almost 80% of the supporters that took part, and began being used in July 2014.


Nickname:

Everton's most widely recognised nickname is "The Toffees" or "The Toffeemen", which came about after Everton had moved to Goodison. 

There are several explanations for how this name came to be adopted, the best known being that there was a business in Everton village, between Everton Brow and Brow Side, named Mother Noblett's, a toffee shop, which advertised and sold sweets, including the Everton Mint. It was also located opposite the lock up which Everton's club crest is based on.

The Toffee Lady tradition in which a girl walks around the perimeter of the pitch before the start of a game tossing free Everton Mints into the crowd symbolises the connection. 

Another possible reason is that there was a house named Ye Anciente Everton Toffee House in nearby Village Street, Everton, run by Ma Bushell. 

The toffee house was located near the Queen's Head hotel in which early club meetings took place.

Everton have had many other nicknames over the years.

When the black kit was worn Everton were nicknamed "The Black Watch", after the famous army regiment.

Since going blue in 1901, Everton have been given the simple nickname "The Blues".

Everton's attractive style of play led to Steve Bloomer calling the team "scientific" in 1928, which is thought to have inspired the nickname "The School of Science".

The battling 1995 FA Cup winning side were known as "The Dogs of War".

When David Moyes arrived as manager he proclaimed Everton as "The People's Club", which has been adopted as a semi-official club nickname.

 

Stadium

Everton originally played in the southeast corner of Stanley Park, which is the site for the new Liverpool F.C. stadium, with the first official match taking place in 1879. 

In 1882, a man named J. Cruitt donated land at Priory Road which became the club's home before they moved to Anfield, which was Everton's home until 1892.

At this time, a dispute of how the club was to be owned and run emerged with Anfield's owner and Everton's chairman, John Houlding. 

A dispute between Houlding and the club's committee over how the club should be run, led to Houlding attempting to gain full control of the club by registering the company, "Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd". 

In response, Everton left Anfield for a new ground, Goodison Park, where the club have played ever since. 

Houlding attempted to take over Everton's name, colours, fixtures and league position, but was denied by The Football Association. Instead, Houlding formed a new club, Liverpool F.C.

Ever since those events, a fierce rivalry has existed between Everton and Liverpool, albeit one that is generally perceived as more respectful than many other derbies in English football. 

This was illustrated by a chain of red and blue scarves that were linked between the gates of both grounds across Stanley Park as a tribute to the Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough disaster.

Goodison Park, the first major football stadium to be built in England, was opened in 1892.

Goodison Park has staged more top-flight football games than any other ground in the United Kingdom and was the only English club ground to host a semi-final at the 1966 FIFA World Cup. 

It was also the first English ground to have undersoil heating, the first to have two tiers on all sides.
The church grounds of St Luke the Evangelist are adjacent to the corner of the Main Stand and the Gwladys Street Stand.

On matchdays players walk out to the theme tune to Z-Cars, named "Johnny Todd", a traditional Liverpool children's song collected in 1890 by Frank Kidson which tells the story of a sailor betrayed by his lover while away at sea, although on two separate occasions in the 1994, they ran out to different songs. 

In August 1994, the club played 2 Unlimited's song "Get Ready For This", and a month later, a reworking of the Creedence Clearwater Revival classic "Bad Moon Rising". Both were met with complete disapproval by Everton fans.

Everton's reserves play at Halton Stadium in Widnes.

 


Players

  • Yannick Bolasie
  • Idrissa Gueye
  • Oumar Niasse
  • Henry Onyekuru