Everton Women

Andrea McGrady – Everton in the Blood

As told to Rob Sawyer 

Lifelong Evertonian Andrea McGrady was Everton Ladies’ first number nine, in the wake of Leasowe Pacific coming under the Toffees’ umbrella. She combined turning out for the successful women’s team with following the men’s team at Goodison Park.

Here, in conversation with Rob Sawyer, she reflects on what playing for and watching Everton has meant to her. 

Lindsay Johnson – My Everton Years

As told to Rob Sawyer 

Lindsay Johnson went from kicking a football on a patch of grass as a child, as she wasn’t allowed to play in a boys team, to becoming Everton Ladies’ record appearance-maker, a two-time cup winner and the proud winner of forty-three Lioness caps. She goes down as one of the smartest pieces of recruitment that Blues boss Mo Marley ever made. In May 2026, alongside her former teammate Becky Easton, she was inducted into Everton Women’s Hall of Fame.

Rob Sawyer sat down for a coffee with Lindsay and discussed her journey in football.

Becky Easton and Lindsay Johnson Inducted into the Hall of Fame

Following the successful launch of the Everton Women’s Hall of Fame in the autumn of 2025, at which Louise Thomas, Joy McQuiggan, Mo Marley, Billy Jackson and Cathy Gore were inducted, the selection panel recently announced two new stars to join them. Becky Easton and Lindsay Johnson were duly inducted shortly before kick-off at the last match of the season, against Leicester City at Goodison Park.

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.

Earning their stars and stripes – international standard goalkeeping

With the World Cup looming, Paul Owens take a close look at the key role played by several of Everton’s custodians of the past. Among those featured are Rachel Brown-Finnis and Kirstie Levell.

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)