Everton FC were founders of the football league and crowned champions for the first time in 1891.  They won their first FA Cup in 1906 against Aston Villa and followed this with another two FA cups before the Second World War along with four league championships.

During the 1920’s and 30’s, legend ‘Dixie Dean’ made history for ‘The Blues’ averaging a goal a game after signing from Tranmere Rovers, just across the Mersey.  In 1928 Everton FC won the league championship once again with ‘Deans’ best ever record of 60 league goals in 39 matches – a record that has stood ever since to this day.

The nickname "Dixie" is unknown to most but it was said that it was given to Dean because of his curly hairstyle that was similar to many people of African ethnicity, popularly nicknamed ‘Dixies’ at the time.  Dean is said to have not liked the nickname but reluctantly accepted it.

In 1933, Everton FC were crowned FA Cup champions yet again and followed this with another football league championship in 1938-39 season.

Following World War II, the 1960’s is regarded as the golden era of Everton FC by many fans.  Goodison Park saw arrival of manager Harry Catterick and Everton FC conceded fewer goals than any other team in the league and finished 4th in Cattericks first season.

Following on from this, the season after saw ‘The Toffees’ scoop the league title and record breaking striking partnership Roy Vernon and Alex Young scored more goals between them than any other 2 Everton FC players.

In 1966, the same year the English international team won the World Cup, Everton FC took home the FA Cup after overturning a two-goal deficit against Sheffield Wednesday in the final to win 3-2. Everton went on to reach the 1968 final, but were unable to overcome West Bromwich Albion at Wembley.

A year later in the 1969/70 season, Everton won the Championship again thanks in part to the scoring sensation of one Joe Royle, who would later manage the club to FA Cup success in 1995.
 
After a brief spell with Dave Watson in charge as the caretaker manager, Howard Kendall took on the job as manager again, but was only there for a year and was replaced by Walter Smith.  However, he found things much more tough at Everton and after flirting with relegation a couple of times, the club changed managers yet again, bringing in David Moyes from Preston, and he made an instant impact, keeping them up in his first few months and taking them to the brink of European football in his first full season.