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Everton Football Club is an English football club that currently plays in the Premier League. Everton is based in the city of Liverpool. The fans also call it: The Toffees, The Toffeemen, The Blues, The People's Club. The nicknames: "The Toffees" and "The Toffeemen" came from the name of "Mother Noblett's Toffee Shop" shop, which sold sweets and the Everton Mint, on match days. In such a way appeared the Toffee Lady tradition: a girl walks around the perimeter of the stadium before the start of a match throwing free Everton Mints into the crowd. The home ground of the club is Goodison Park that was built in 1892. It is a stadium that consists of four stands: The Park End, Bullens Road, Gwladys Street End, Main Stand. The total capacity of the stands is 40,569 all-seated. Goodison Park is one of the oldest football stadium in the world and was the first main football ground in England. The present chairman of the club is Bill Kenwright. He is an actor and theatrical producer. The current manager is David William Moyes. He is a former player. He played for such football clubs as: Celtic (1980-1983), Cambridge United (1983-1985), Bristol City (1985-1987), Shrewsbury Town (1987-1990), Dunfermline Athletic (1990-1993), Hamilton Academical (1993), Preston North End (1993-1998). His career of a manager started from Preston North End (1998-2002). David William Moyes became twice manager of the year in 2003 and 2005. The Everton football managers:

• 1888 - 1889 - W.E. Barclay
• 1889 - 1901 - Dick Molyneux
• 1901 - 1918 - William C. Cuff
• 1918 - 1919 - W.J. Saywer
• 1919 - 1935 - Thomas H. McIntosh
• 1936 - 1948 - Theo Kelly
• 1948 - 1956 - Cliff Britton
• 1956 - 1958 - Ian Buchan
• 1958 - 1961 - Johnny Carey
• 1961 - 1973 - Harry Catterick
• 1973 - 1977 - Billy Bingham
• 1977 - 1981 - Gordon Lee
• 1981 - 1987 - Howard Kendall
• 1987 - 1990 - Colin Harvey
• 1990 - 1993 - Howard Kendall
• 1994 - Mike Walker
• 1994 - 1997 - Joe Royle
• 1997 - 1998 - Howard Kendall
• 1998 - 1902 - Walter Smith
• 2002 - present David Moyes

The club was formed in 1878 and the first name was St. Domingo F.C. One year later at a meeting in the Queen's Head Hotel the club was renamed and became Everton F.C. They were the founder members of the Football League and spent more seasons in the top flight of English football than any other football club. Everton won the League Championship nine times, the FA Cup five times and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup once. Among the others club's honors are:

The club has a large fanbase. Everton regularly attracts sizeable crowds. During the 2005–2006 season the crowd over 36,000 people (around 90% of capacity of the stadium) attended home matches. The eye-catcher matcher are results of hard work of the managers and professional football players: