List of Everton F.C. international players

Everton Football Club, an association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, was founded in 1878 and competes in the top flight of English football the Premier League. Everton have a storied history winning nine League titles, five FA Cups and the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Players of the club can be called up to represent their national team and to date 234 players have played at senior international level whilst registered with the club.[1] Everton's first international was Job Wilding who appeared for Wales against England on 14 March 1885. The most recent newly capped player is Allan for Brazil against Venezuela on 14 November 2020.

Countries (in blue) in which Everton players have been capped at international level.

Robert Warzycha became the first player from outside of the British Isles to represent his country, Poland in 1991 (Although some players born outside of the British Isles had played internationally for the club for Home Nation sides such as Pat Van Den Hauwe born in Belgium but representing Wales). Daniel Amokachi was the first non-European representative for Nigeria in 1993. [2]

Since 2016, Tim Howard holds the record for most caps won with 93 for United States of America, previously Neville Southall had held the record with 91 caps for Wales since the early 1990s.[3]

Dixie Dean held the record for most international goals with 18 for England held from the 1930s, Tim Cahill matched this in 2012 for Australia.

34 individual Everton players have represented their countries at the World Cup. Alex Parker the first in 1958 for Scotland.[4] At the most recent 2018 World Cup 3 Everton players for 3 different countries appeared. Tim Cahill, representing Australia is the only player to appear at more than one tournament.

In total over 2500 caps for 39 different countries have been earned by players while contracted to Everton.

The most Everton players to play in a single fixture was between Republic of Ireland and England on 7 June 2016 when five players (three for Ireland, two for England) appeared.


List of internationals

The following list includes only caps earned while contracted to Everton.

Three Everton players (Eglington, Farrell and Stevenson) were dual internationals for Ireland. Their caps are listed separately below but included only once in the total player count of 234.

The following list includes only caps earned while playing for Everton. This includes players on loan to Everton but not players out on loan to other sides. For example: Neville Southall earned 92 Wales caps while contracted to Everton, one of these was while on loan to Port Vale and thus is not included.

Updated as of fixtures played 18 November 2020

World Cup players

The following were part of World Cup squads while playing for Everton.

Johnny Heitinga was runners-up for the Netherlands at the 2010 World Cup
Tournament Players
World Cup 1958 Alex Parker, Roy Vernon
World Cup 1966 Ray Wilson
World Cup 1970 Alan Ball, Brian Labone, Keith Newton, Tommy Wright
World Cup 1986 Gary Lineker, Peter Reid, Graeme Sharp, Trevor Steven, Gary Stevens
World Cup 1990 Stuart McCall, Kevin Sheedy
World Cup 1994 Anders Limpar
World Cup 1998 Slaven Bilic
World Cup 2002 Niclas Alexandersson, Lee Carsley, Thomas Gravesen, Tobias Linderoth, Joe-Max Moore
World Cup 2006 Tim Cahill, Nuno Valente
World Cup 2010 Yakubu, Tim Cahill, Johnny Heitinga, Steven Pienaar, Joseph Yobo
World Cup 2014 Leighton Baines, Ross Barkley, Tim Howard, Phil Jagielka, Kevin Mirallas
World Cup 2018 Idrissa Gueye, Jordan Pickford, Gylfi Sigurdsson

AFC Asian Cup

The following were part of Asian Cup squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
2007 Asian Cup Tim Cahill
2011 Asian Cup Tim Cahill

CAF Africa Cup of Nations

The following were part of African Cup of Nations squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
2004 Africa Cup of Nations Joseph Yobo
2006 Africa Cup of Nations Joseph Yobo
2008 Africa Cup of Nations Yakubu, Steven Pienaar, Joseph Yobo
2010 Africa Cup of Nations Yakubu, Joseph Yobo
2015 Africa Cup of Nations Christian Atsu
2017 Africa Cup of Nations Idrissa Gueye
2019 Africa Cup of Nations Idrissa Gueye, Henry Onyekuru

CONCACAF Gold Cup

The following were part of Gold Cup squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
2007 Gold Cup Tim Howard
2011 Gold Cup Tim Howard
2019 Gold Cup Cuco Martina

CONEBOL Copa America

The following were part of Copa America squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
2016 Copa America Ramiro Funes Mori, Tim Howard, Bryan Oviedo
2019 Copa America Richarlison

UEFA European Championship

The following were part of European Championship squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament Players
UEFA Euro 1968 Alan Ball, Brian Labone, Ray Wilson, Tommy Wright
UEFA Euro 1988 Kevin Sheedy, Trevor Steven, Gary Stevens, Dave Watson
UEFA Euro 1992 Martin Keown, Pat Nevin
UEFA Euro 1996 Marc Hottiger, Andrei Kanchelskis
UEFA Euro 2000 Nick Barmby, Thomas Myhre, Abel Xavier
UEFA Euro 2004 Thomas Gravesen, Tobias Linderoth, Wayne Rooney
UEFA Euro 2012 Nikica Jelavic, Johnny Heitinga
UEFA Euro 2016 Seamus Coleman, Romelu Lukaku, James McCarthy, Aiden McGeady

References

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