1895–96 Everton F.C. season
| 1895–96 season | |||
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| Manager | Dick Molyneux | ||
| The Football League | Third | ||
| Top goalscorer | Alf Milward 19 | ||
| Highest home attendance | 30,000 vs Aston Villa 21 December 1895 | ||
| Lowest home attendance | 7,000 vs Wolves 2 November 1895 | ||
| Average home league attendance | 15,242 | ||
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The 1895/96 Football League season was the eighth in Football League history with Everton having been an ever present in the top division. The club played thirty-three games in England's two major competitions, winning eighteen, drawing seven and losing eight. The club finished the season in third place, six points adrift of Champions Aston Villa, and were defeated in the quarter final of the F A Cup by eventual winners The Wednesday. Their Goodison Park home hosted the drawn semi final between Wednesday and Bolton Wanderers.
The Everton board kept faith in the squad that had finished runners up the previous season with no major signings or departures during the summer. This meant that Jack Hillman was the undisputed first choice goalkeeper for the season and would go on to play all bar the final game in which Harry Briggs made his club debut in a 2-1 victory at Stoke. Bob Kelso, Charlie Parry and James Adams resumed their battle for the two full back positions from the previous season. Adams missed the first game of the season but returned to miss just one other game as he established himself as the first choice full back but Both Kelso and Parry fell out of favour as reserve, Smart Arridge emerged as a solid full back partner to Adams. Kelso, who played the first five games of the season, made just one further appearance for the club in the half back line before leaving to join Dundee in February. Parry's long love, hate relationship with the Goodison Park club finally came to an end after his second appearance of the season when he gave away a penalty, which was missed, in a 3-4 defeat at Aston Villa in September. Before the year was out the Welsh International defender had moved on to Ardwick.
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