Everton F.C. supporters

Everton Football Club are an association football team based in Liverpool, England. They are one of the best supported clubs in English football with a strong support base around Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire, North Wales and the Republic of Ireland. Everton fans are known colloquially as Evertonians or Blues.

Everton have a large fanbase by virtue of being an original founder member of The Football League and contesting more seasons in the top flight than any other club. For the first nine seasons in the football league Everton had the highest average league attendances of any team in England. Recently the club has averaged around 36,000-38,000 in league games at Goodison Park which has a capacity of 39,572. This is despite having the most obstructed views and poor sight lines in the Premier League. A 2006–07 fan survey by the Premier League returned listed 15% of Everton fans as being unhappy with sight lines at Goodison Park. Only 19% described matchday views as "very good" as compared to Arsenal fans who described the Emirates Stadium as having 75% positive sight lines. For the 2009–10 season Everton sold over 24,000 season tickets. For the 2016-17 season this had been upped to 31,000 season ticket sales. In the same season, around 7,000 Evertonians travelled to Lisbon for a match against Benfica.

The highest ever season-average attendance at Everton, was in 1963 with 51,603, the best of any club in that particular season. The following season the club was once again the best supported side in England.

The 2004–05 Premier League survey, which asked almost 1400 Everton fans various questions, found that 40% of matchday fans live within 10 miles of Goodison Park. All together 77% of Everton fans lived less than 49 miles away from the stadium. The 2007–08 found that on average Everton fans live 44 miles away from Goodison Park, 3 miles less than the average and a huge difference compared with rivals Liverpool and Manchester United who were 82 and 78 miles respectively from their stadium. Everton draws the vast majority of its support from Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and North Wales. Although no conclusive studies have been undertaken, supporters are more prominent in areas such as Aintree, Anfield, Bootle, Croxteth, Everton, Kirkdale, Vauxhall and Walton with the northern parts of Liverpool seen as Everton dominated.

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