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Everton were founder members of the Football League in 1888 and were champions of it for the first time in 1891. By the time World War II broke out in 1939, they had been league champions five times and had fielded some of the biggest names in English football, including goalkeeper Ted Sagar and forwards Dixie Dean and Tommy Lawton. In Everton ...
Everton were on course to win the Championship again in the 1974–75 season under Billy Bingham (some bookmakers had even stopped taking bets at Easter) but some surprising losses to lowly opposition ended the challenge and they finished fourth. After two relatively poor seasons (11th and ninth), Bingham left in 1977.
A fourth-place finish in 2004–05 ensured that Everton qualified for the UEFA 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 [39] and 2008–09 UEFA Cup competitions, and was the runner-up in the 2009 FA ...
Neville Southall, Everton's record appearance maker Dixie Dean, Everton's record goalscorer. 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.
The English football champions are the winners of the top-level league in English men's football, which since the 1992–93 season has been called the Premier League. Following the codification of professional football by the Football Association in 1885, [ 1 ] the Football League was established in 1888, after meetings initiated by Aston Villa ...
Everton's 1985 trophy win was therefore the last English club success in European competition until Manchester United won this competition again in 1991. This would also be the last time Everton participated in European competition until the 1995–96 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, following its 1994–95 FA Cup win.
This is the list of all Everton's European matches. The club's first entry into European competitions was the 1962–63 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, with their most recent being the 2017–18 UEFA Europa League. Their only trophy in European competitions came in the 1985 European Cup Winners' Cup. [1] [2]
October began with defeat at Arsenal but Everton then found their best form with successive victories over Aston Villa, Liverpool and Manchester United. Sharp's wonder goal clinched their first win at Anfield since the 1969-70 championship season and they were arguably even more impressive in beating Ron Atkinson 's United the following week.