Everton Women

Everton Women – Match Programme Special Editions

Two special edition match day programmes have been published – one to celebrate the first two fixtures of their first season at Goodison Park (Tottenham Hotspur and London City Lionesses), and the second for the Everton Women v Manchester United fixture at the Hill Dickinson Stadium on 12 October 2025. Everton FC Heritage Society members Rob Sawyer and Bradley Cates have contributed articles to both programmes. Click here to view.

Everton Women – Hall of Fame Inaugurated

Everton Football Club have proudly announced the first five inductees to the new ‘Everton Women’s Hall of Fame’. The historic first five are: Mo Marley, Joy McQuiggan, Cathy Gore, Billy Jackson and Louise Thomas.

Everton FC Heritage Society played a key role in the inauguration of the Hall of Fame as well as the election of inductees.

Ava’s Dream Comes True – The First Women’s Game at Goodison Park

After Lewis Royden (of EFCHS) took 5 year old Ava to watch the Women’s derby match at Goodison, she became a committed Blue. But a video clip of her went viral after the distraught Ava thought Goodison was to be demolished. But tears quickly turned to joy when she learned it would be used by Everton Women. And that was not all….

‘Women’s Football’ (1990)
A documentary made at the end of the 1980s about the history of the women’s game, but features rare footage of Dick Kerr’s Ladies versus St Helens Ladies at Goodison Park, Boxing Day 1920, (including the teams emerging from the Bullen’s Road changing rooms), plus 1989 cup winners Leasowe Pacific, the pioneering club that would eventually evolve into Everton Women who now call Goodison Park their home!

Tammy Burgess in conversation with Rob Sawyer
Tammy Byrne (now Burgess) was one of the emerging talents in the Everton Ladies squad which won, to date, the club’s only league title. Not a follower of a particular club, or football in general, as a child, the course of her life was changed by an encounter at Moss Farm in the mid-1990s. Here, Tammy describes the transformative impact on her of football and her Everton clubmates.

Rob Sawyer and Sarah Deboe on Radio Merseyside
On Friday 15 November 2024, EFCHS members Rob and Sarah appeared on Radio Merseyside to chat with Kev Duala regarding Goodison Park’s links to women’s football, as the women’s derby match was fast approaching.
Click image for BBC Sounds iPlayer (item is at 1 hr 20min)
In addition to this webpage, our society member Bradley Cates (a.k.a. EFCStatto) also has a dedicated webpage:
www.efcstatto.com/goodison-par…

Celebrating Everton Women’s Class of ‘98
Rob Sawyer

A Night of Acclaim for Everton’s Pioneering Women
Rob Sawyer describes the reunion of the 1997/98 Everton Ladies National League Champions of 1997/98, co-organised by Everton FC Heritage Society and Everton FC.

Emma Wright-Cates – Blueblood
Rob Sawyer’s interview with Emma Wright-Cates, who jetted in from Texas to link up with her former 1997/98 Championship teammates.

Goodison Park’s First Women’s Football Matches
Bradley Cates (EFC Statto and EFCHS member)
(External site – EFC Statto)

Everton Ladies Stats and more
by Bradley Cates (EFC Statto and EFCHS member)
(External site – EFC Statto)