Manager William Edward Barclay Top goalscorer Edgar Chadwick (6) | The Football League 8th ← none 1889–90 → | |
Highest home attendance 15,000 vs Preston (19 January 1889) Lowest home attendance 2,079 vs West Brom (23 February 1889) | ||
Regular First team
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Everton fielded by far the most unsettled side of all the twelve original Football League members, using thirty-five players in their twenty-two game campaign. Indeed, the club have never fielded more players in any season since, despite having played as many as twenty league games more in over fifty subsequent seasons. So inconsistent was their team selection that at no time did the above combination actually take the field. Not surprisingly Everton's best result of the season, a 6–2 victory over Derby County on 20 October 1888 was achieved with ten of the above players on the field. Robert Watson missed that game while his deputy, Alex McKinnon scored the only hat-trick obtained by an Everton player all season. This was the only game in which ten of the first eleven featured.
Other players used
Jack Angus (5 appearances at outside left), William Briscoe (3 apps – inside left), William Brown (6 apps – outside left), Albert Chadwick (2 apps – left back), J. Coyne (2 apps – inside right), George Davie (2 apps – centre forward), Alec Dick (9 apps – righ back), George Fleming (4 apps – outside right), Mike Higgins (1 app – centre half), Charles Joliffe (4 apps – goalkeeper), Robert Jones (1 app – centre back), Bob Kelso (1 app – centre back), J Keys (1 app – centre forward), Wiliam Lewis (3 apps – centre forward), Alex McKinnon (6 apps – outside right), Alf Milward (6 apps – centre forward), R Morris (1 app – centre forward), Henry Parkinson (1 app – centre half), H Pollock (1 app – centre back), Roberts (1 app – centre back), George Stephenson (1 app – centre back), Harry Warmby (1 app – centre back), David Waugh (7 apps – inside right), Walter Wilson (1 app – left back)