Things you may or may not know about Everton Football Club:

In 1904, Sheffield Wednesday provided the only instance of a club failing to win after leading 5-0 at half-time... because Everton scored 5 in the second half.

When Everton secured the League Championship in 1931/32, they lost an amazing 12 games (out of 42) in the process – a dubious record!

Everton won successive home games 9-3, 8-1, 7-2 and 9-2 on their way to the League championship in 1932.

Everton's worst start to a League season came in the 1994-95 season under Mike Walker. The Blues did not record a victory until the 13th match but went on to win the FA Cup the following May under Joe Royle!

The sale of Dixie Dean's medals realised £28,000 in 1991.

Legendary goalkeeper Ted Sagar spent 23 years at Goodison Park between 1929 and 1952 but he only played 16 league seasons because of the War.

The first complete match to be televised was when Everton lost 3-2 at Arsenal on 29 August 1936
Everton (1986) are one of seven clubs to have finished runners-up in both the League championship and FA Cup in the same season.

Shirt numbers were first worn as an experiment in the 1933 FA Cup Final when Everton beat Manchester City 3-0.
In 1958, Goodison Park was the first stadium with under-soil electric heating to beat the winter frost.

The last Wembley attendance to top 100,000 was for the 1985 FA Cup Final between Everton and Manchester United.

Before the demise of Wembley Stadium in 2000, the last time England played a tournament match home fixture away from Wembley was in 1966 for the World Cup Quarter Final against Poland at Goodison Park.

Everton were one of the three clubs who were founder members of the Football League in 1888 and the Premier League in 1992 – Blackburn and Aston Villa being the other two.

Nine title-winning players have gone on to win championships as managers: Former Evertonians Joe Mercer and Howard Kendall are two of them.

Everton jointly hold the record with Liverpool for most points accumulated in a First Division Season: 90 in 1984-85.
Liverpool is the only city – through Everton or Liverpool – to have staged top-flight football in every League season since 1888.

Just four clubs have won the (old) 2nd Division and the First Division titles in successive seasons: Everton (1931-32), Liverpool, Tottenham and Ipswich Town

The first FA Cup tie to be shown on closed circuit television was the 5th round match between Everton and Liverpool in March 1967. A combined total of 105,000 people saw the game, which remains the biggest single attendance for an FA Cup tie other than the final

The lowest ever top flight attendance since the war was for the Wimbledon v Everton match at Selhurst Park in 1993
The record number of career hat-tricks scored was by William "Dixie" Dean for Tranmere and Everton between 1924 and 1938

Dixie Dean scored in 12 consecutive games in Division 2 in the 1930-31 season.

The most goals scored for one club was 349 by Dixie Dean for Everton.

Dean still holds the record for the most league goals in a season with 60 in 39 matches in the 1927-28 season. He scored 82 in all competitions that year!

The last time an Everton player finished League top scorer was when Gary Lineker scored 30 in 1985-86
Everton are third behind Liverpool and Sheffield Wednesday for the greatest number of opening-day games won - 46 out of 97.

Everton have never won the League Cup

Everton have appeared in more FA Cup Quarter Finals than any other club

Everton have appeared in more FA Cup Semi-Finals than any other club

Only Manchester United have appeared in more FA Cup Finals than Everton winning 9 to Everton's 5

Goodison Park staged the FA Cup Final in 1894

David Moyes is Everton's 15th manager since the War.

Season 2002/03 was Everton's 100th in the top flight

Achievements

European Cup Winners Cup Champions: 1985

English League champions (9): 1891, 1915, 1928, 1932, 1939, 1963, 1970, 1985, 1987

FA Cup Winners (5): 1906, 1933, 1966, 1984, 1995

Everton currently hold the record of the most number of appearances in the top flight of the English League - 100 years to the 2002/2003 season

Everton have not been relegated in 49 years. This is the second longest period, after Arsenal who have spent 77 years without relegation. Everton have only been relegated twice since the league's construction, and have only spent four seasons out of the top division. No other English team can claim a similar record.