Everton Trivia
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60 free Everton trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Everton began as a Methodist chapel side, founded the Football League, fell out with their landlord and thereby created Liverpool FC, and have played more top-flight seasons than any other English club. This quiz covers the whole story: the first title in 1891, the four pre-war Cup finals, Dixie Dean's 60 goals, the Lock-Up on the crest and the toffee shop behind the nickname, Harry Catterick's champions and the Holy Trinity, the 1966 World Cup at Goodison, Howard Kendall's mid-80s side and the 3-1 over Bayern, Rapid Vienna in Rotterdam, the Heysel ban, the Dogs of War of 1995, Wayne Rooney's winner against Arsenal, David Moyes and the People's Club, the ten-point deduction, the Friedkin takeover and the move from Goodison to the dock. Early questions suit anyone who has heard Z-Cars ring round Goodison; later ones are for Blues who know their Bullens Road from their Gwladys Street: which player was tipped to be sold to Roma after the war, why the shirts were once dyed black, and what the club walked out to in 1994 before fans revolted. Good for a supporters' club night or a Merseyside pub quiz. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the club, its history and Goodison Park, and each question shows its source.
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Q 01Under what name were Everton founded in 1878, so a Methodist congregation could play sport year-round?
St Domingo's FC
St Domingo's FC was meant for the chapel's own cricketers, but so many outsiders wanted to join that in November 1879 it was renamed after the district, at a meeting in the Queen's Head Hotel.
Q 02Everton's first league title, in 1890-91, ended which club's run as champions of the Football League's first two seasons?
Preston North End
Preston North End finished two points behind: Everton had played all but one game by mid-January, then waited two months and lost their last match, 3-2 at Burnley, yet still took the title.
Q 03Everton won their first FA Cup in 1906 by beating which north-east club at Crystal Palace?
Newcastle United
Newcastle United won three league titles that decade, yet a single goal 13 minutes from time made this the second of three FA Cup finals they lost in four years.
Q 04Which Everton striker scored 25 seconds into the 2009 FA Cup final, then the fastest goal in final history?
Louis Saha
Louis Saha beat a record that had stood since 1895, yet Chelsea came back to win 2-1; his mark fell only in 2023, when İlkay Gündoğan scored inside 15 seconds.
Q 05Everton signed Dixie Dean in 1925 from which club?
Tranmere Rovers
Tranmere Rovers banked £3,000 for an 18-year-old who had just scored 27 league goals for a side that finished second from bottom.
Q 06How many league goals did Dixie Dean score in 1927-28, setting an English record for a single season?
60
60, reached with a hat-trick at Goodison on the final day: his third, a late header, beat by one the record George Camsell had set in the Second Division a year earlier.
Q 07Which club did Everton beat 3-0 in the 1933 FA Cup final?
Manchester City
Manchester City wore 12 to 22 and Everton 1 to 11, the first time shirts were numbered in an FA Cup final; City came back a year later and won the cup.
Q 08Which Italian club, co-owned with Everton since 2024, bid for T. G. Jones in the 1940s?
Roma
Roma's deal for the Welsh centre-half collapsed at the eleventh hour over post-war currency complications, and he stayed at Everton.
Q 09Everton were first relegated in 1930, two years after doing what?
Won the league title
Won the league title in 1928, then finished bottom two years later; they answered by winning the Second Division, the First Division and the FA Cup in successive seasons, and were next relegated in 1951.
Q 10Which manager, appointed in 1961, won Everton the title in his second season and the FA Cup in 1966?
Harry Catterick
Harry Catterick got the job after chairman John Moores sacked Johnny Carey in the back of a London taxi, with Everton fifth in the table; the title followed two years later.
Q 11Everton came from two goals down to win the 1966 FA Cup final 3-2 against which club?
Sheffield Wednesday
Sheffield Wednesday led 2-0 before Mike Trebilcock, surprisingly picked ahead of England forward Fred Pickering, scored twice in five minutes and Derek Temple ran through for the winner.
Q 12Everton's 1969-70 'Holy Trinity' midfield was Howard Kendall, Colin Harvey and who?
Alan Ball
Alan Ball joined weeks after winning the 1966 World Cup and the trio won the 1970 title by nine points, yet Everton finished 14th the next season and within two years he had been sold for a British record £220,000.
Q 13Which Everton left-back was the oldest member of England's team in the 1966 World Cup final?
Ray Wilson
Q 21In 1997-98 Everton stayed up only on goal difference at the expense of which club?
Bolton Wanderers
Bolton Wanderers began the final day a point ahead, but lost at Chelsea while Everton clung to a 1-1 draw with Coventry, surviving a missed penalty and a late equaliser.
Q 22Wayne Rooney's first league goal for Everton, in October 2002, ended which champions' 30-match unbeaten run?
Arsenal
Arsenal were beaten 2-1 by a last-minute long-range shot from a substitute five days short of his 17th birthday, which drew the commentator's line: "Remember the name: Wayne Rooney!"
Q 23What nickname did Everton's new manager coin at his first press conference in March 2002?
The People's Club
Ray Wilson was 31 when England beat West Germany, weeks after winning the FA Cup with Everton; once he retired he left the game behind and ran an undertaker's business in Huddersfield.
Q 14Which Everton striker topped the First Division scoring chart with 30 goals in 1977-78?
Bob Latchford
Bob Latchford went into the final game two short of the 30 league goals that carried a £10,000 newspaper prize, and got there with a penalty 12 minutes from time in a 6-0 rout of Chelsea.
Q 15Which club did Everton beat 3-1 in the second leg of their 1985 Cup Winners' Cup semi-final?
Bayern Munich
Bayern Munich led at half-time at Goodison after a goalless first leg, but Everton scored three in the second half and, three weeks later, lifted their only European trophy.
Q 16Everton's only European trophy, the 1985 Cup Winners' Cup, was won 3-1 in the final against which club?
Rapid Vienna
Rapid Vienna were beaten in Rotterdam by goals from Gray, Steven and Sheedy; three days later Everton lost the FA Cup final in extra time, one win short of a treble.
Q 17Whose arrival in 1985 led champions Everton to sell striker Andy Gray back to Aston Villa?
Gary Lineker
Gary Lineker scored 30 league goals in his only Everton season and put them ahead in the FA Cup final, yet they finished runners-up in both and he left for Barcelona that summer.
Q 18After winning the 1987 title, Howard Kendall left Everton to manage which Spanish club?
Athletic Bilbao
Athletic Bilbao got him that June because English clubs were banned from Europe after Heysel: his champions had no European Cup to play in, and he wanted to test himself abroad.
Q 19Which manager won only six of his 35 games in charge of Everton before being sacked in November 1994?
Mike Walker
Mike Walker had saved Everton on the last day of 1993-94, when they beat Wimbledon 3-2 from two goals down, but they went the first 12 league games of the next season without a win.
Q 20Who scored the only goal when Everton's 'Dogs of War' beat Manchester United in the 1995 FA Cup final?
Paul Rideout
Paul Rideout headed in after Graham Stuart's shot came back off the crossbar on the half-hour, the high point of a season in which Everton had been bottom of the league in November.
The People's Club was his line on the day he arrived: the majority of people you meet on the street, he said, are Everton fans.
Q 24Which player became Everton's record signing on transfer deadline day in September 2008?
Marouane Fellaini
Marouane Fellaini arrived from Standard Liège at almost the last minute of the window; five years later, again on deadline day, he left for Manchester United to rejoin his old Everton manager.
Q 25Which on-loan striker scored 15 league goals as Everton reached 72 points in 2013-14, their best in 27 years?
Romelu Lukaku
Romelu Lukaku, borrowed from Chelsea, scored the winner on his debut at West Ham; Everton finished fifth and made the loan permanent that summer for a club-record fee.
Q 26Which manager was sacked in October 2017 after a 5-2 home defeat left Everton in the relegation zone?
Ronald Koeman
Ronald Koeman had spent well over £100 million that summer, yet Everton won only two of their first nine league games, and he was sacked the day after the 5-2 defeat.
Q 27Which former player won his first game as Everton's caretaker manager 3-1 against Chelsea in December 2019?
Duncan Ferguson
Duncan Ferguson raced down the touchline at each goal and swung a ball boy in the air; unbeaten in his three league games in charge, he then stayed on as Carlo Ancelotti's assistant.
Q 28Which former Anfield manager was appointed by Everton in June 2021 and sacked less than seven months later?
Rafael Benítez
Rafael Benítez was the first man to manage both clubs since William Barclay in the 1890s, but nine defeats in his last 13 league games ended the experiment.
Q 29Everton's ten-point deduction in November 2023 broke a Premier League record of nine, set in 2010 by which club?
Portsmouth
Portsmouth, punished for going into administration, were relegated; Everton's ten was cut to six on appeal, a second case cost two more, and they still stayed up.
Q 30Which American billionaire completed his purchase of Everton in December 2024?
Dan Friedkin
Dan Friedkin's group bought Farhad Moshiri's 94 per cent stake after a sale to Miami-based 777 Partners had collapsed; Moshiri lost hundreds of millions in eight years as owner.