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The 98 full seasons in the 20th century were reduced to 87 deducting the war years. Everton competed in 83 top flight seasons in the 20th century, the highest of any club. Everton averaged a top flight position of 8.15. Everton were founder members of the Football League in 1888 and were champions of it for the first time in 1891.
Neville Southall, Everton's record top appearance maker Dixie Dean, Everton's record top 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.
After a 7th place finish in 1973–74, Everton were on course to win the Championship again in the 1974–75 season under Billy Bingham, another former Everton player (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 mid ...
Everton were thus able to win the Football League Championship for the first time, by a margin of two points with fourteen victories from their 22 league games. Geary had been ever-present, and was the club's top goal-scorer with 21 goals.
The original league saw twelve teams become the founding members of the Football League in 1888–89: Accrington, Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Everton, Preston North End, Aston Villa, Derby County, Notts County, Stoke City, West Bromwich Albion and Wolverhampton Wanderers.
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.
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 ...