Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club is an English professional football club based in Liverpool. The club has won nine league titles, five FA Cups, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and nine Charity Shields. Everton is the second-longest continuous serving club in English top flight football, having been in the Premier League for a record 117 seasons. Everton’s supporters are colloquially known as ‘Evertonians’ or ‘Blues’
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Everton Football Club is an English professional football club based in Liverpool. The club has won nine league titles, five FA Cups, one European Cup Winners’ Cup and nine Charity Shields. Formed in 1878, Everton won their first League Championship during the 1890–91 season. Everton has been based at Goodison Park since 1892, having moved from its original home at Anfield following a disagreement over its rent. Everton’s supporters are colloquially known as ‘Evertonians’ or ‘Blues’ The club’s main rivals are Liverpool, whose home stadium at Anfield is just under one mile away from Everton’s home. The two clubs contest the Merseyside derby, and the two clubs also play each other in the Capital One Cup. Everton is the second-longest continuous serving club in English top flight football, having been in the Premier League for a record 117 seasons. Everton was a founding member of the Football League in 1888–89 and won its first League championship title in the 1890-91 season, before returning to the top flight in 1931. In 1925 the club signed Dixie Dean from Tranmere Rovers, who 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. Everton won the FA Cup for the first time in 1906 and the League Championship again in 1914–15. The outbreak of World War I in 1914 interrupted the football programme while Everton reigned, which was something that would again occur in 1939.
After a post-World War II lull until a revival in the 1960s, the club experienced a period of sustained success in the mid-1980s, when Everton won a further two League Championships, one FA Cup and the 1985 European Cup winners’ Cup. However, the success did not last; the team finished fourteenth, seventteenth and seventh in the seventeenth, seventeenth and eighteenth seasons of the 1990s. The most successful era was under manager Lee Lee, who guided Everton to its most successful season in 1984–85. Lee was sacked in 1981 and replaced by Howard Kendall, who took over as manager in 1981. The following season Everton won two FA Championships and two FA Cups. In 1966 the club won theFA Cup with a 3–2 win over Sheffield Wednesday. Everton again reached the final in 1968, but this time was unable to overcome West Bromwich Albion at Wembley. Two seasons later in 1969–70 Everton won Championship, finishing nine points clear of nearest rivals Leeds United. The team was the first English club to achieve five consecutive years in European competitions – the seasons from 1961–62 to 1966–70 – covering the period from 1966–67 to 1967–67. Everton also won its second FA Cup in 1933 with 3–0 win against Manchester City in the final. In 1953–54, when it finished as the runner-up in its third season in the Second Division. The club was relegated for the second time in 1950–51 and did not earn promotion until 1953-54.
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