Everton Firsts and Distinctions

• Founder members of the Football League in 1888
• Founder members of the Premier League in 1992
• First club presented with the League Championship trophy
• First club to present League winners medals
• First club to stage an FA Cup Final in 1894
• First English club to go on an overseas tour in 1905
• First Merseyside club to win the FA Cup
• First club to build a purpose-built football stadium
• First club to have a four-side stadium with two-tier stands
• First club to have a stadium with a three-tier stamd
• First club to issue a regular match programme
• First club to have a player score 60 league goals
• First club to wear numbered shirts, 1-11 in 1933
• First club to install dugouts
• First club to install floodlights
• First club to install undersoil heating
• First club to win a European Cup penalty shootout in 1970
• First club to play 4,000 top-flight games
• First club to amass 5,000 league points
• First club to play 100 seasons in the top flight
• First British club to stage a World Cup semi-final
• First club to break thw £100,000 transfer fee threshold in 1966
• Featured in the first televised game with Arsenal in 1936