Everton FC Everton FC was founded in 1878 as the football team of St Domingo's Church in Liverpool, adopting its current name a year later. In 1888 the club became one of the founder members of the Football League, the oldest professional football league in the world.
A special place in the club's history belongs to Dixie Dean, whose 60 league goals in the 1927/28 season remain an unmatched record in the English top flight to this day. It stands as one of the most recognisable records in the history of English football.
Everton have won the English league title nine times – in 1891, 1915, 1928, 1932, 1939, 1963, 1970, 1985 and 1987 – making them one of the most successful clubs in the country's history. Their greatest European triumph came in 1985, when Everton beat Austria's Rapid Vienna 3-1 in the European Cup Winners' Cup final in Rotterdam. The success could not be repeated in the following years, as English clubs were banned from European competitions for several seasons following the Heysel disaster.
For more than a century, Everton's home was Goodison Park, one of the first stadiums in England purpose-built for football, which hosted matches during the 1966 World Cup. In 2025, The Toffees moved into a new stadium at Bramley-Moore Dock, opening a new chapter in the club's history. The club's colours remain blue and white.