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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 ...
Initially formed as St. Domingo FC, named after the chapel, the football team was renamed Everton in 1879 after the district of Everton. Since then Everton have had a successful history winning the Cup Winners' Cup, the league title nine times and the FA Cup five times. They were the first club to play over 100 seasons in the top flight of ...
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. [6] They have scored and conceded more top flight goals than any other club. [6] Everton have both drawn and lost more top flight matches than any other side. [6]
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 [40] and 2008–09 UEFA Cup competitions, and was the runner-up in the 2009 FA ...
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]
In 1890–91, Everton competed in the Football League's third season, and were crowned champions for the first time by two points over two-time defending champions Preston North End. They also competed in the FA Cup but lost in the first round to Sunderland .
Many pundits had tipped Everton for relegation that season: having escaped relegation from the Premier League by six points the previous season, Everton's task to stay in English football's top flight only seemed harder after the multimillion-pound transfer of teenage striker Wayne Rooney to Manchester United after setting the summer's European Championships alight.
Printable version; In other projects ... Everton F.C. competed in the Football League First Division. ... League Champions, qualified for European Cup: