Everton Football Club have a long and detailed history. The club's roots loosely lie with an English Methodist congregation called St Domingo Methodist Church Sunday School in 1865, who decided to build a new chapel in the Liverpool area in 1868. The following year, the church bought some land on Breckfield Road North, between St. Domingo Vale and St. Domingo Grove. This was located in the district of Everton, which had become part of the City of Liverpool in 1835. Since then Everton have had a successful history winning the Cup Winners' Cup, the league title 9 times and the FA Cup 5 times. They are the only club to have played over 100 seasons in the top flight of English football, the 2014–15 season being their 112th. St. Domingo Methodist New Connexion Chapel was opened in 1871 in Breckfield Road North, Everton, Liverpool. The chapel took its name from St. Domingo Road, formerly St. Domingo Lane, Everton which in turn took its name from St. Domingo House, a building built in 1758 by West Indies trader and sugar boiler George Campbell who would frequent the Colony of Santo Domingo and later became Mayor of Liverpool (1763). St. Domingo House was named after the Spanish Colony which in turn was named after Saint Dominic. Six years later, Rev. Ben Swift Chambers was appointed Minister. He created a cricket team for the youngsters in the area but, as cricket was only played in summer, there was room for another sport during winter. Thus a football club called St. Domingo F.C. was formed
1878 foundation
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St. Dominic, whom Everton's original name
St. Domingo Methodist New Connexion Chapel was opened in 1871 in Breckfield Road North, Everton, Liverpool. The chapel took its name from St. Domingo Road, formerly St. Domingo Lane, Everton which in turn took its name from St. Domingo House, a building built in 1758 by West Indies trader and sugar boiler George Campbell who would frequent the Colony of Santo Domingo and later became Mayor of Liverpool (1763). St. Domingo House was named after the Spanish Colony which in turn was named after Saint Dominic. Six years later, Rev. Ben Swift Chambers was appointed Minister. He created a cricket team for the youngsters in the area but, as cricket was only played in summer, there was room for another sport during winter. Thus a football club called St. Domingo F.C. was formed
Many people not attending the chapel were interested in joining the football club so it was decided that the name should be changed.In November 1879 at a meeting in the Queen's Head Hotel, the team name was changed to Everton Everton originally played on an open pitch in the southeast corner of the newly laid out Stanley Park, the same site for the once proposed new Liverpool F.C. stadium. The first official match under the name Everton F.C. took place in 1879 against St. Peters with a 5-0 win. John Houlding's house backed onto the park and was attracted to the club that attracted large crowdsProfessional clubs required proper enclosed facilities. In 1882, a Mr J. Cruit donated land at Priory Road which became the club's home for two years, with proper hoarding and turnstiles. Mr Cruit asked the club to leave his land as the crowds became far too large and noisy. Everton moved to nearby Anfield in 1884, renting from John Orrell, a friend of Houlding. Proper covered stands were built.Houlding bought Anfield one year after Everton moved in, Everton initially making a donation to a local hospital in lieu of rent before paying rent to their own president.Within seven years of moving to Anfield the club had converted the ground from a brick field to a 20,000 plus international standard ground with accommodation on all sides. The club rose from amateur to professional, hosting an international match, England vs. Ireland, founder members of the Football League and winning their first title. The club's income rose substantially.
Main Titles:
- Premier League - 9 (1890-91, 1914-15, 1927-28, 1931-32, 1938-39, 1962-63, 1969-70, 1984-85, 1986-87)
- FA Cup (FA Cup) - 5 (1906, 1933, 1966, 1984, 1995)
- Charity Shield - 1928, 1932, 1963, 1970, 1984, 1985, 1986 (shared with Liverpool), 1987, 1995
- European Cup Winners Cup (Cup Winners' Cup) - 1985
Stadium
Goodison park
Everton originally played in the southeast corner of Stanley Park, which was the site for the new Liverpool F.C. stadium, with the first official match taking place in 1879. In 1882, a man named J. Cruitt donated land at Priory Road which became the club's home before they moved to Anfield, which was Everton's home until 1892. At this time, a dispute of how the club was to be owned and run emerged with Anfield's owner and Everton's chairman, John Houlding. A dispute between Houlding and the club's committee over how the club should be run, led to Houlding attempting to gain full control of the club by registering the company, "Everton F.C. and Athletic Grounds Ltd". In response, Everton left Anfield for a new ground, Goodison Park, where the club have played ever since. Houlding attempted to take over Everton's name, colours, fixtures and league position, but was denied by The Football Association. Instead, Houlding formed a new club, Liverpool F.C.Goodison Park, the first major football stadium to be built in England, was opened in 1892. Goodison Park has staged more top-flight football games than any other ground in the United Kingdom and was the only English club ground to host a semi-final at the 1966 FIFA World Cup. It was also the first English ground to have undersoil heating, the first to have two tiers on all sides.
Supporters and rivalries
Everton have a large fanbase, with the eighth highest average attendance in the Premier League in the 2008-09 season. The majority of Everton's matchday support comes from the North West Of England , primarily Mersyside Cheshire, West Lancasire and parts of Western Greater Manchester along with many fans who travel from North Wales and Ireland. Within the city of Liverpool support for Everton and city rivals Liverpool is not determined by geographical basis with supporters mixed across the city. However Everton's support heartland is traditionally based in the North West of the city and in the southern parts of sefton. Everton also have many supporters' clubs worldwide, in places such as North America, Singapore, Indonesia, Lebanon, Malaysia, Thailand, and Australia. The official supporters club is FOREVERTON, and there are also several fanzines including When Skies are Grey and Speke from the Harbour, which are sold around Goodison Park on match days.
Everton regularly take large numbers away from home both domestically and in European fixtures. The club implements a loyalty points scheme offering the first opportunity to purchase away tickets to season ticket holders who have attended the most away matches. Everton often sell out the full allocation in away grounds and tickets sell particularly well for North West England away matches. In October 2009, Everton took 7,000 travelling fans to Benfica, their largest ever away crowd in Europe since the 1985 European cup Winners cup final.
Everton's biggest rivalry is with neighbours Liverpool against whom they contest the Merseyside derby The Merseyside derby is usually a sellout fixture, and has been known as the "friendly derby" because both sets of fans can often been seen side by side red and blue inside the stadium both at Anfield and Goodison Park.
Recently on the field, matches tend to be extremely stormy affairs; the derby has had more red cards than any other fixture in Premiership history. The rivalry stems from an internal dispute between Everton officials and the owners of Anfield, which was then Everton's home ground, resulting in Everton moving to Goodison Park, and the subsequent formation of Liverpool F.C., in 1892.
Everton supporters in India
Everton fc fans in India are comparitevily less in number , but from the past 4 years they acheived to create some good fans those who mainly active in social networks, The first facebook Indian fan page was published in august 27 2011and Also the first twitter Indian fan page was published in jan 11 2015. so slowly the growth of fans are emerging in India.
Everton Football Club has officially launched a three-year deal with
the Indian Football Association (IFA) to deliver a unique grassroots
football programme in the state of Bengal in 2008.Everton fc in India
The new programme will see the IFA receive:
- Coaching services to football coaches licensed by the IFA.
- Training services to referees licensed by the IFA.
- Expert feedback and assessment of the programme.
- An Everton Academy coach 20 days of each year.
- Technical assistance of how to implement an elite football programme.
- IFA coaches to visit the Academy at Everton’s training headquarters, Finch Farm.
- Subscriptions to The Everton Way – Everton’s hugely successful online coaching and development tool evertonway.com
“At Everton we certainly believe there is a wealth of opportunity in this partnership for both parties and we are looking forward to imparting our knowledge, expertise and experience of grassroots football to help benefit the game in India.
“Premier League football has become a sort of global phenomenon and the people of India contributed to viewing figures with 30 million tuning in over the course of last season. This level of audience demonstrates a willingness to embrace the English game and at Everton we are only too happy to endorse that way of thinking.”
The IFA secretary Utpal Ganguli expressed tremendous optimism with the potential of the new arrangement and added: “As I have said previously this is fantastic news for everyone involved with the IFA and we expect this association will have dramatic effect on improving the quality of football in Bengal.”
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