PAGE CONTENTS

• Everton: All-time leaders in the Top Flight
• Everton: Record of Distinction
  • In the League
  • In the Cup
  • Super Cup (The FA Charity Shield)
  • Scoring Goals
    • The most Leading Season Goalscorers
    • Dixie Dean: 60 goals in a season
    • Dixie Dean: Hat-trick King
    • Jack Southworth: six-shooter
    • Club Record: 121 goals in one season
    • Five forwards on target
    • 100 goals, back-to-back
    • Most goals scored at Home
  • Longest Reigning
    • Champions
    • Premiership/First Division
    • 3,000 Top League Matches
• Everton Travels
  • Everton in Everton: Never
  • Everton in Liverpool: Once upon a time...
    • Anfield: We wuz here
    • Everton Athletic: aka Liverpool FC
  • Everton in Argentina: Exhibitionists
  • Everton in Europe: First to Five
• Goodison Park
  • First Real Football Ground
  • Four Double Deckers
  • First Undersoil Heating
  • Internationals
    • Most Hosts: More played here
    • Brasil: made it home in 1966
    • World Cup Semi-Final: 1966
  • Passing Away
    • Dixie Dean dies at Goodison
    • Harry Catterick dies at Goodison
• Rules of the Game
  • In the Net: Mr Brodie bags a few balls
  • Corner Kicks: Sam Chedgzoy dribbles into history
  • Two Referees: As if one wasn't bad enough!
  • Shirt Numbers: Dean becomes the first Number 9
  • Donkey Flicks: Ernie Hunt's cunning free-kick at Coventry
• First, Biggest, Most, Best
  • Biggest Win: 11-2
  • First on TV: Highbury in 1936
  • Biggest Crowd: 78,300, minus one.
  • First Substitute: John Hurst
  • Most Capped Players
  • Youngest Player: Joe Royle
  • Youngest at Goodison: Terry Darracott
  • Youngest in the Premiership: Michael Branch
• Long Playing Records
  • Ted Sagar: For 24 years he was a Blue
  • Neville Southall: 700 and counting

All-Time Top-Flight Table

Everton's Unparalleled Record of Distinction

League

• Played more seasons in the Top-Flight than any other club.
• Played more Top-Flight matches than any other club.
• Won more Top-Flight matches than any other club.
• Scored more Top-Flight goals than any other club.
• Drew more Top-Flight matches than any other club.
• Accumulated more points than any other club.
• Champions by the largest points margin (13) in 1987

FA Cup

Super Cup

1928, 1932, 1963, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1986 (Shared), 1987, 1995.
  

Goal Scoring

William (Dixie) Dean holds the all time record of scoring 60 league goals in a season. This feat was accomplished in Everton's 1927-8 Championship season.  "Dixie" scored his sixtieth goal, against Arsenal, with eight minutes remaining in the last match of the season – naturally with a header.  William (Dixie) Dean also has the distinction of holding the club scoring record for Everton. He scored 377 League and FA Cup goals.

Dixie Dean: Hat-trick King Another astounding goalscoring record held by Billy Dean is 37 hat-tricks scored for Everton during his unparalleled career.  Follow this link for full details of all Everton Hat-tricks.

Jack Southworth holds the club record of scoring six goals in one match. Jack achieved this against West Bromwich Albion during a home league match in the 1893-94 season.

Everton's first season in the old Division Two, in 1930-31, resulted in an instant return to Division One. Everton set a Division Two and club record of scoring 121 goals in a season.

While in Division Two in 1930-31 all Everton's five forwards scored within eighteen minutes of each other in a 7-0 win at Charlton Athletic.

Directly after promotion from Division Two in 1930-31, Everton won the First Division Championship, in 1931-32, scoring 116 goals. Scoring 121 goals the previous season, resulted in Everton being the only club ever to score over 100 goals in consecutive seasons.

Most Goals Scored At Home: In the 1931-32 Championship season, Everton set an amazing Top-Flight record of scoring 84 league goals at Goodison Park. This is an average scoring rate of 4 goals per match.

                      HOME              AWAY     
            P   W  D  L   F   A   W  D  L   F   A   Pts
EVERTON    42  18  0  3  84  30   8  4  9  32  34   56

Long May We Reign

Everton are the longest-serving Football Club in the combined history of the Premier League and the old First Division.  The current season (1996/97) is Everton's 95th in the top flight. Everton have spent only four seasons in a lower division.

First to Three Thousand.  In 1971, Everton became the first League team to complete more than 3,000 games in the top division.  This unparalleled feat was acknowledged by the Football League, who presented Everton with a commemorative trophy.
  

Everton in Everton

Everton in Liverpool

Everton Athletic: The former Everton chairman Mr Houlding, who remained at Anfield after Everton departed, created a new club named Everton FC and Athletic Grounds Limited. The FA ordered Mr Houlding to change the name of his club, under protest from the original Everton FC. Also the FA at the time considered two clubs of the same name representing the same district would be confusing. Houlding change the name and called the club Liverpool AFC. Later the FA relaxed their stance on this point and allowed different clubs to have the same city, town or district names, such as Manchester City and United, Sheffield Wednesday and United. Luckily the FA at the time ruled against Mr Houlding or the city of Liverpool may have had two clubs with Everton in their titles – Everton and Everton Athletic.
  

Everton in Argentina

Everton in Europe

Goodison Park

Double Deckers: Goodison Park evolved into the only British ground ever to feature double-decker stands on all four sides:

• The Park End Stand (originally the Goodison Avenue Stand) built in 1906
• The Goodison Road Stand, built in 1909
• The Gwladys Street and Bullens Road Stands, completed in 1939

The Goodison Road stand was torn down in 1971, and replaced with the current Main Stand.  The old Park End stand was demolished in 1994 and replaced with the current single-tier Park Stand.

First Undersoil Heating: The first undersoil heating installed at a British league ground was installed at Goodison Park in May 1958.  The initial system of electric heating wires proved to be a bit of a problem, as the drains could not cope with the excess water.  It was torn up and replaced by a new system in 1960.  As technology advanced, this was later replaced by the current system of hot water pipes, which works like a charm.
  

Internationals

Brasil in 1966: During the 1966 World Cup Finals, holders Brazil played all their games at Goodison Park. While using Everton's Bellefield training ground as a base they were so impressed with the facilities - indoor training pitches and advanced medical facilities - they took photographs and measurements and copied a similar format back in Brazil.

World Cup Semi-Final: Goodison Park was so superior to all other English league grounds it was chosen to host a World Cup semi-final in 1966 - West Germany beat the USSR 2-1. The England v Portugal semi-final was originally scheduled, but switched to the greater capacity Wembley stadium.
  

Passing Away

Former manager and player Harry Catterick, also died at his beloved Goodison Park directly after watching an Everton FA cup quarter-final tie against Ipswich Town in 1985.
  

Rules of the Game

Corner Kicks: In 1924 playing against Tottenham at White Heart Lane, the Everton winger Sam Chedgzoy passed the ball to himself from a corner kick, dribbled the ball along the goal line and scored a goal. The referee disallowed the goal. The incident created controversy resulting in the corner kick rule being amended. The amendments permitted scoring directly from a corner, but prevented a corner taker passing the ball to himself.

Two Referees: On 11 May 1935, one of two unique matches took place at Goodison Park as part of the George V Jubilee.  Warney Cresswell, Albert Geldard, Cliff Britton and Charles Leyfield played as Everton representatives for the Football League v Wales & Ireland.  The Football League side won 10-2, with Leyfield scoring a goal. This match was part of the only "two-referees" trial in English football.  There were two Jubilee matches, with the first at The Hawthorns three days earlier when the Football League beat West Brom 9-6, and both were "two-referee" trial matches.

Shirt Numbers: The first match that numbers were worn by players for identification was in the 1933 FA Cup Final. Everton were allocated numbers 1 to 11 and Manchester City 12 to 22, starting and ending with the goalkeepers who also wore numbers. William (Dixie) Dean was the first player ever to wear number nine. Everton won 3-0 wearing an away strip of white shirts.

Donkey Flicks: Again Everton were involved in a controversial game rules incident. In the 1970/71 season, former Everton player Ernie Hunt, scored a controversial goal for Coventry against Everton at Highfield Road. The goal was actually illegal but was allowed by the referee. The cunning incident resulted in the free kick rule being clarified by the FA. Willie Carr took a free kick by holding the ball between his ankles and back-flicking it into the air, confusing the Everton defence and setting up Ernie Hunt who volleyed into the Everton net. Television replays created controversy and resulted in the free-kick rule being clarified so that such incidents would not re-occur. The free-kick was illegal as one of the ankles had to touch the ball before the other before the ball was back-flicked into the air. This is a double touch – the kicker can only touch the ball once.
  

First, Biggest, Most, Best

First on TV: Everton participated in the world's first live fully televised football match in 1936. The fixture was Arsenal versus Everton. Due to the TV studios being in London, and limited outside broadcast facilities, a London club was chosen as the home host.

Biggest Crowd: The maximum attendance at Goodison Park was in August 1948. Everton entertained Liverpool in a First Division league match watched by 78,299 fans.

First Substitute: Everton's first substitute fielded in a league match was John Hurst. John replaced Fred Pickering against Stoke City in a 1-1 draw at the Victoria Ground in August 1965 - 1965-66 was the introductory season for one substitute. The first substitutes, were for injury only.

Most International Caps: Everton have furnished the four UK football nations - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - with more players than any other British club.

Youngest Player: The youngest player ever to play for Everton was the current manager, Joe Royle, aged 16 years and nine months. Unfortunately his debut was marked by a controversial 2-0 defeat at Blackpool in a First Division match in January 1966, where Joe Royle replaced the Alex Young – the Golden Vision.

Youngest at Goodison: Left-back Terry Darracott took over from the injured Ray Wilson on 6 April 1968 to become the youngest Everton player to appear in a first team match at Goodison Park. The occasion was a visit by Arsenal, with Darracott, at 17 years and 121 days, helping Everton to a 2-0 win.

Youngest in the Premiership: Michael Branch ran out at against Middlesbrough at Goodison Park on 14 September 1996 and became the youngest Everton player to make a full appearance in the FA Carling Premiership, at the tender age of 17 years and 322 days. 
  

Long-Playing Records

The present Everton goalkeeper Neville Southall holds the club record for most matches played.  Neville joined Everton in July 1981 and completed his 750th and final appearance against Tottenham Hotspur at Goodison Park in November 1997. Neville also holds the record for the most capped Welsh international player, with 93 caps.

From Information compiled by John Burns