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Players in Everton's early history are also included despite not necessarily playing 100 matches. For a list of all Everton players, major or minor, with a Wikipedia article, see Category:Everton F.C. players, and for the current squad see the main Everton F.C. article. Players are listed according to the date of their first team debut.
Everton enjoyed a hugely successful season, winning the First Division with 90 points (13 more than runners-up Liverpool) and the Cup Winners' Cup with a 3–1 win over Rapid Vienna. In recognition of these achievements, Howard Kendall was voted Manager of the Year while goalkeeper Neville Southall and midfielder Peter Reid picked up the FWA ...
Pages in category "Everton F.C. players" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,172 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Everton; 1985–86 season; Manager: Howard Kendall: Ground: Goodison Park: First Division: 2nd: FA Cup: Runners-up: League Cup: Quarter-final: Football League Super Cup: Runners-up (continued into 1986–87 season) FA Charity Shield: Winners: Top goalscorer: League: Gary Lineker (30) All: Gary Lineker (40) Highest home attendance: 51,509 vs ...
18 August 1979: Everton become the first team to wear a sponsored shirt in a Football League match when they wore their Hafnia sponsored shirts against Norwich City at Goodison Park. The only other side with a sponsored shirt in this season, Liverpool didn't play their first Football League match until 3 days later, on 21 August 1979.
Higgins joined Everton as an apprentice and earned his first team debut for the Toffees on 5 October 1976. He made a total of 183 appearances for the club, scoring 6 goals. [ 5 ] Higgins later picked up a severe injury, which forced him to temporarily retire from the game in May 1984.
They were a major component of the Everton team that reached the 1968 FA Cup Final, with Kendall again ending up on the losing side, and they went on to win the First Division title in the 1969–70 season. In the next three seasons, Kendall captained Everton as the side struggled to build on winning the league with a 17th-place finish in 1972 ...
Three days later, Everton played in the 1985 FA Cup final, but lost 1–0 to Manchester United after a Norman Whiteside goal in extra time. [43] At the end of the season, Southall was named as the FWA Footballer of the Year, becoming the first Everton player, second Welshman and fourth goalkeeper to win the award. [44]