Up the Toffees | Everton FC

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House Rules

• May only use 1 youth scout
• Maximum of 25 first-team squad players (this excludes loaned out players and players yet to be promoted from the youth system)
• Must adhere to UEFA and FA homegrown rules
• Can only sign players from clubs at a similar or lower level (i.e. if in the Europa league, cannot sign Champions League players) unless they are fringe players at a better team
• Similarly, if a higher-level team comes in for a player, I must enter into negotiations for selling that player
• If a fringe player is bid on by a team around the same level or lower, I must agree to negotiate their sale to get them more playing time
• Cannot break wage structure, and cannot buy a player rated more than +1 on the best player in the squad
• Can only train youth academy players.
• All players signed must be scouted through the Global Transfer Network or popular/well-known. No use of SoFIFA or other ratings sites.

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Club History

Full name: Everton Football Club
Nickname(s): The Blues, The Toffees, The People's Club, The School of Science
Founded: 1878; 145 years ago
Ground: Goodison Park
Capacity: 39,572
Owner: Farhad Moshiri
Chairman: Bill Kenwright
Manager: Sean Dyche
League: Premier League
2021–22: Premier League, 16th of 20

Everton was founded as St. Domingo's FC in 1878[4][5] so that members of the congregation of St Domingo Methodist New Connexion Chapel in Breckfield Road North, Everton could play sport year round – cricket was played in summer. The club's first game was a 1–0 victory over Everton Church Club.[6] The club was renamed Everton in November 1879 after the local area, as people outside the congregation wished to participate.[6][7]

The club was a founding member of the Football League in 1888–89 and won its first League Championship title in the 1890–91 season. Everton won the FA Cup for the first time in 1906 and the League Championship again in 1914–15. The outbreak of the First World War in 1914 interrupted the football programme while Everton were reigning champions, which was something that would again occur in 1939.[8][9]

It was not until 1927 that Everton's first sustained period of success began. In 1925 the club signed Dixie Dean from Tranmere Rovers. In 1927–28, Dean set the record for top-flight league goals in a single season with 60 goals in 39 league games, which is a record that still stands. He helped Everton win its third League Championship that season.[10] However, Everton was relegated to the Second Division two years later during internal turmoil at the club. The club quickly rebounded and was promoted at the first attempt, while scoring a record number of goals in the Second Division. On return to the top flight in 1931–32, Everton wasted no time in reaffirming its status and won a fourth League Championship at the first opportunity.[11][12] Everton also won its second FA Cup in 1933 with a 3–0 win against Manchester City in the final. The era ended in 1938–39 with a fifth League Championship.

The outbreak of the Second World War again saw the suspension of league football, and when official competition resumed in 1946, the Everton team had been split up and paled in comparison to the pre-war team. Everton was relegated for the second time in 1950–51 and did not earn promotion until 1953–54, when it finished as the runner-up in its third season in the Second Division. The club has been a top-flight presence ever since.[15]

Everton's second successful era started when Harry Catterick was made manager in 1961. In 1962–63, his second season in charge, Everton won the League Championship.[16] In 1966 the club won the FA Cup with a 3–2 win over Sheffield Wednesday.[17] Everton again reached the final in 1968, but this time was unable to overcome West Bromwich Albion at Wembley.[18] Two seasons later in 1969–70, Everton won the League Championship, finishing nine points clear of nearest rivals Leeds United.[19] During this period, Everton was the first English club to achieve five consecutive years in European competitions – covering the seasons from 1961–62 to 1966–67.[20]

However, the success did not last; the team finished fourteenth, fifteenth, seventeenth and seventh in the following seasons. Harry Catterick retired, but his successors failed to win any silverware for the remainder of the 1970s despite finishing fourth in 1974–75 under manager Billy Bingham, third in 1977–78 and fourth the following season under manager Gordon Lee. Lee was sacked in 1981.[21]

Howard Kendall took over as manager and guided Everton to its most successful era. Domestically, Everton won the FA Cup in 1984 and two League Championships in 1984–85 and 1986–87. In Europe, the club won its first, and so far only, European trophy by securing the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1985.[22] The European success came after first beating University College Dublin, Inter Bratislava and Fortuna Sittard. Then, Everton defeated German giants Bayern Munich 3–1 in the semi-finals, despite trailing at half time (in a match voted the greatest in Goodison Park history), and recorded the same scoreline over Austrian club Rapid Vienna in the final.[23] Having won both the League and Cup Winners' Cup in 1985, Everton came very close to winning a treble, but lost to Manchester United in the FA Cup final.[22] The following season, 1985–86, Everton was the runner-up to Liverpool in both the League and the FA Cup, but did recapture the League Championship in 1986–87.

After the Heysel Stadium disaster and the subsequent ban of all English clubs from continental football, Everton lost the chance to compete for more European trophies. A large
1985 European Cup Winners' Cup Final starting line-up.
Everton was a founding member of the Premier League in 1992, but struggled to find the right manager. Howard Kendall had returned in 1990, but could not repeat his previous success. His successor, Mike Walker, was statistically the least successful Everton manager to date. When former Everton player Joe Royle took over in 1994, the club's form started to improve; his first game in charge was a 2–0 victory over derby rivals Liverpool. Royle dragged Everton clear of relegation and led the club to the FA Cup for the fifth time in its history by defeating Manchester United 1–0 in the final. The cup triumph was also Everton's passport to the Cup Winners' Cup, its first European campaign in the post-Heysel era. Progress under Royle continued in 1995–96 as the team climbed to sixth place in the Premiership.[22] A fifteenth-place finish the following season saw Royle resign towards the end of the campaign, and he was temporarily replaced by club captain Dave Watson.

Howard Kendall was appointed Everton manager for the third time in 1997, but the appointment proved unsuccessful as Everton finished seventeenth in the Premiership. The club only avoided relegation due to its superior goal difference over Bolton Wanderers. Former Rangers manager Walter Smith then took over from Kendall in the summer of 1998, but only managed three successive finishes in the bottom half of the table.[22] The Everton board finally ran out of patience with Smith, and he was sacked in March 2002 after an FA Cup exit at Middlesbrough and with Everton in real danger of relegation.[24] His replacement, David Moyes, guided Everton to a safe finish in fifteenth place.[25][26]

In 2002–03 Everton finished seventh, which was its highest finish since 1996. It was under Moyes' management that Wayne Rooney broke into the first team before being sold to Manchester United for a club record fee of £28 million in the summer of 2004.[27] A fourth-place finish in 2004–05 ensured that Everton qualified for the UEFA Champions League qualifying round. The team failed to make it through to the Champions League group stage and was then eliminated from the UEFA Cup. Everton qualified for the 2007–08[28] and 2008–09 UEFA Cup competitions, and was the runner-up in the 2009 FA Cup Final. During this period, Moyes broke the club record for highest transfer fee paid on four occasions: signing James Beattie for £6 million in January 2005,[29] Andy Johnson for £8.6 million in summer 2006,[29] Yakubu for £11.25 million in summer 2007,[30] and Marouane Fellaini for £15 million in September 2008.[31]

At the end of the 2012–13 season, Moyes left his position at Everton to take over at Manchester United, bringing in staff from Everton to join him in July (assistant manager Steve Round, goalkeeping coach Chris Woods and coach Jimmy Lumsden),[32] with Everton players Phil Neville and Marouane Fellaini also leaving for United, the former joining the coaching staff. Moyes was replaced by Roberto Martínez,[33] who led Everton to 5th place in the Premier League in his first season while amassing the club's best points tally in 27 years with 72.[34] The following season, Martínez led Everton to the last 16 of the 2014-15 UEFA Europa League, where it was defeated by Dynamo Kyiv,[35] whilst domestically finishing 11th in the Premier League. Everton reached the semi-finals of both the League Cup and the FA Cup in 2015–16, but was defeated in both. After a poor run of form in the Premier League, Martínez was sacked following the penultimate game of the season, with Everton lying in 12th place.[36]

Martínez was replaced in the summer of 2016 by Ronald Koeman, who left Southampton to sign a three-year contract with Everton.[37] In his first season at the club, he qualified for the Europa League, but a poor start to the 2017–18 season left Everton in the relegation zone after nine games, and Koeman was sacked on 23 October following a 5–2 home defeat to Arsenal.[38] Sam Allardyce was appointed Everton manager in November 2017,[39] but he resigned at the end of the season amid fan discontent at his style of play.[40]

Marco Silva was named Everton manager in May 2018.[41] In November that year, the club was banned from signing academy football players from its youth clubs for two years.[42] Silva led Everton to finish 8th in his first season in charge, but after a poor start to the following season which left the team in the relegation zone on 14 points, he was sacked on 5 December 2019.[43] His last league match was a 5–2 loss to Liverpool at Anfield. Former player and first-team coach Duncan Ferguson stepped in as caretaker manager for the next three games before his replacement, Carlo Ancelotti; Ferguson stayed as assistant manager.[44][45]

Ancelotti left the club in June 2021 to rejoin former club Real Madrid as manager, having led the club to a 10th place finish in his only full season at the club.[46] Former Liverpool manager Rafael Benítez was appointed as his replacement, subsequently becoming only the second person to manage both Liverpool and Everton.[47] He was dismissed in January 2022 following 9 losses in his last 13 games in charge at the club,[48] and was replaced by former Chelsea boss Frank Lampard.[49] Lampard was later also dismissed in January 2023 after extremely poor performance.[50]

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Club Honours

League Titles (10)

• First Division/Premier League (9): 1890–91, 1914–15, 1927–28, 1931–32, 1938–39, 1962–63, 1969–70, 1984–85, 1986–87
• Second Division/Championship (1): 1930-31

Domestic Cups (15)

• FA Cup (5): 1905–06, 1932–33, 1965–66, 1983–84, 1994–95
• Football League Cup (1): 2023-24
• FA Community Shield (9): 1928, 1932, 1963, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1986 (shared), 1987, 1995

European Cups (0)

• UEFA Champions League (0):
• UEFA Europa League (0):
• UEFA Conference League (0):
• UEFA Super Cup (0):

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Transfer History

2022-23 - Net Spend: £12,810,000

Incoming - £96,200,000

• 1/13/2023: Bought RW Brennan Johnson from Nott'm Forest for £15,700,000.
• 1/16/2023: Bought ST Evan Ferguson from Brighton for £3,100,000.
• 1/17/2023: Bought CB Micky van de Ven from VfL Wolfsburg for £25,400,000.
• 1/18/2023: Bought RW Marcus Edwards from Sporting CP for £32,000,000.
• 4/20/2023: Bought CM James Ward-Prowse from Southampton for £20,000,000.

Outgoing - £83,390,000

• 7/13/2022: Sold CB Yerry Mina to Lazio for £7,000,000.
• 7/25/2022: Sold CB Mason Holgate to FC Porto for £6,000,000.
• 8/8/2022: Sold CB Michael Keane to Napoli for £8,700,000.
• 9/10/2022: Sold RWB Kyle John to Ümraniyespor for £790,000.
• 10/7/2022: Sold CB Reece Welch to Miedz Legnica for £300,000.
• 11/18/2022: Sold ST Ellis Simms to VfL Bochum for £3,150,000.
• 12/6/2022: Sold RM Alex Iwobi to Leverkusen for £14,800,000.
• 12/21/2022: Sold LM Andros Townsend to Lyon for £4,150,000.
• 1/8/2023: Sold CM Dele Alli to Atalanta for £8,500,000.
• 4/15/2023: Sold ST Dominic Calvert-Lewin to Bayern Munich for £30,000,000.

2023-24 - Net Spend: £55,620,000

Incoming - £211,850,000

• 8/2/2023: Bought RB Ridle Baku from VfL Wolfsburg for £25,000,000
• 8/6/2023; Bought ST M'Bala Nzola from Spezia for £18,000,000.
• 8/9/2023: Bought ST Rasmus Højlund from Atalanta for £10,500,000.
• 8/24/2023: Bought CM Philip Billing from Bournemouth for £10,000,000.
• 10/29/2023: Bought GK Gavin Bazunu from Southampton for £10,000,000.
• 11/18/2023: Bought ST Karim Adeyemi from Borussia Dortmund for £30,000,000.
• 1/9/2024: Bought CM Matt O'Riley from Celtic for £4,750,000 + Ben Godfrey.
• 1/17/2024: Bought CB Armel Bella Kotchap from Southampton for £12,600,000.
• 1/28/2024: Bought ST Tammy Abraham from AS Roma for £75,000,000.
• 1/31/2024: Bought CB Tosin Adarabioyo from Stade de Reims for £16,000,000.

Outgoing - £156,230,000

• 7/9/2023: Sold CDM Andre Gomes to Toulouse FC for £4,880,000.
• 7/10/2023: Sold CDM Lewis Warrington to Arouca for £1,450,000.
• 7/23/2023: Sold LM Lewis Dobbin to SJ Earthquakes for £1,900,000.
• 8/28/2023: Sold RM Demarai Gray to FC Porto for £13,000,000.
• 8/31/2023: Sold CM Amadou Onana to Brighton for £20,500,000.
• 11/15/2023: Sold RW Marcus Edwards to Manchester City for £50,000,000.
• 11/16/2023: Sold LM Dwight McNeil to Spurs for £32,500,000.
• 1/31/2024: Sold RM Brennan Johnson to Atalanta for £32,000,000.

2024-25 - Net Spend: £56,200,000

Incoming - £307,200,000

• 7/31/2024: Bought CAM James Maddison from Leicester City for £65,000,000.
• 8/27/2024: Bought CM Carney Chukwuemeka from Chelsea for £4,500,000.
• 8/27/2024: Bought LB Prince Aning from Borussia Dortmund II for £2,500,000.
• 8/27/2024: Bought ST Youssoufa Moukoko from Olympique Marseille for £44,500,000.
• 8/28/2024: Bought CM Renato Sanches from Paris Saint Germain for £25,000,000.
• 9/15/2024: Signed LWB Ivan Perisic from Free Agents for £0.
• 1/1/2025: Signed CDM Douglas Luiz from Real Betis for £64,000,000.
• 1/1/2025: Signed CM Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall from Leicester City for £21,000,000.
• 1/1/2025: Signed RW Noni Madueke from Chelsea for £41,500,000.
• 1/1/2025: Signed CDM Romeo Lavia from Southampton for £8,100,000.
• 1/6/2025; Signed RM Michael Olise from Crystal Palace for £31,100,000.

Outgoing - £363,400,000

• 7/13/2024: Sold CM Philip Billing to Brentford for £20,000,000.
• 7/15/2024: Sold ST Rasmus Hojlund to Real Sociedad for £92,500,000.
• 8/21/2024: Sold CM James Ward-Prowse to Manchester Utd for £35,000,000.
• 8/23/2024: Sold ST M'Bala Nzola to PSV for £11,000,000.
• 8/31/2024: Sold CM James Garner to West Ham for £14,000,000.
• 11/7/2024: Sold GK Joao Virginia to Burnley for £2,100,000.
• 11/16/2024: Sold ST Evan Ferguson to VfL Wolfsburg for £20,000,000.
• 11/16/2024: Sold CB James Tarkowski to Manchester Utd for £20,000,000.
• 12/4/2024: Sold CM Matt O'Riley to Arsenal for £33,700,000.
• 12/7/2024: Sold ST Tammy Abraham to Bayern Munich for £99,400,000.
• 1/6/2025: Sold CB Armel Bella Kotchap to Napoli for £15,700,000.

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Academy Graduates

• 4/1/2023: Promoted 17 year old CB Aidan Burt (63 OVR, Potential to be Special)
• 7/1/2023: Promoted 17 year old CM Dexter Reeves (69 OVR, Exciting Prospect)
• 8/28/2023: Promoted 17 year old RM Ronnie Howarth (69 OVR, Potential to be Special)
• 8/31/2023: Promoted 17 year old LM Reggie Hutchinson (66 OVR, Exciting Prospect)
• 8/31/2023: Promoted 17 year old CM Freddie Dunn (68 OVR, Showing Great Potential)
• 1/1/2025: Promoted 17 year old CB Patrick Greenwood (65 OVR, Exciting Prospect)

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Season-by-Season Recaps

Overall
League Titles: 0
Domestic Cups Won: 1
Continental Cups Won: 0
Biggest Win: 6-1 vs. Brentford, Oct 2023
Biggest Defeat: 5-1 vs. Arsenal, Aug 2022
Record Transfer Fee: £75,000,000
Total Earnings: £6,527,000
Club Record: 90GP, 48-18-24, 153GF, 112GA

2022/2023 Season
League Objective: Finish Mid Table
League Objective Achieved: Yes
Domestic Cup Objective: Reach the Round of 16 Stage
Domestic Cup Objective Achieved: Yes
FA Cup Progress: Quarter Finals
Carabao Cup Progress: Round 3
Manager of the Month Awards: 0
Manager of the Year Award: No
Record Transfer Fee Paid: Edwards - £32,000,000
Record Transfer Fee Received: Iwobi - £14,800,000
League Position (Premier League): 8th
Club Record: 45GP, 20-10-15, 59GF, 60GA

2023/2024 Season
League Objective: Finish in a UEFA Europa League spot
League Objective Achieved: Yes
Domestic Cup Objective: Reach the Round of 16 Stage
Domestic Cup Objective Achieved: YNo
FA Cup Progress: Round 3 Replay
Carabao Cup Progress: Winner
Manager of the Month Awards: 0
Manager of the Year Award: No
Record Transfer Fee Paid: Abraham - £75,000,000
Record Transfer Fee Received: Edwards - £50,000,000
League Position (Premier League): 5th
Club Record: 45GP, 28-8-9, 94GF, 52GA

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2022-23 Everton FC Board Expectations

Youth Development - Medium

• Long Term: Within 2 seasons, have at least 1 player from the Youth Academy signed in the first season play at least 50% of the games in the next season. (Remaining seasons: 2)

Brand Exposure - Medium

• Short Term: Sell out (at least 85% attendance) at least 50% of league home games this season
• Long Term: Within 3 seasons, increase season ticket holders with at least 10% of the stadium's capacity. (Remaining seasons: 3)

Financial - Medium

• Long Term: Within 3 seasons, increase the club worth by 100%. (Remaining seasons: 3)

Domestic Success - Medium

• Short Term: LaLiga Santander: Finish Mid Table
• Short Term: Copa de Espana: Reach the Round of 32 Stage
• Long Term: Within 2 seasons in LaLiga Santander: Finish in a UEFA Europa League spot (Remaining seasons: 2)

Continental Success - Very Low

• Short Term: UEFA Europa League: Reach the Final

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Everton Open the Season with a Draw at Home to Palace

Friday, August 12th, 2022
Premier League | Matchday #1

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