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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.
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 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.
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 ...
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 ...
Most Intercontinental Cup / FIFA Club World Cup wins: Sir Alex Ferguson, 2 (Manchester United) Most European Cup / UEFA Champions League wins: Bob Paisley, 3 * Most Inter-Cities Fairs Cup / UEFA Cup / Europa League wins: Don Revie, 2 (Leeds United) Most top-flight League game wins: Sir Alex Ferguson, 625 games (Manchester United) [130]
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.
Everton (C) 42 29 8 5 72 34 2.118 66 Qualification for the European Cup first round: 2 Leeds United: 42 21 15 6 84 49 1.714 57 Qualification for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup first round: 3 Chelsea: 42 21 13 8 70 50 1.400 55 Qualification for the Cup Winners' Cup first round [a] 4 Derby County: 42 22 9 11 64 37 1.730 53 Qualification for the ...