KARL WHITEHOUSE LOOKS AT THE HISTORY OF WOLVES V EVERTON
FIRST MEETINGS
- Division 1 – The first meeting of the two clubs was 26th January 1889 the game finished 5-0 win to Wolves.
- FA Cup – The first meeting of the two clubs in the FA Cup was in the Final on the 25th March 1893 the game finished 1-0 to Wolves.
- Premier League – The first meeting of the two clubs in the Premier league was on the 22nd November 2003 the game finished 2-0 to Everton.
MOST RECENT MEETINGS
- Premier League – The most recent game was on the 26th August 2023 the game finished 1-0 to Wolves with Sasa Kalajdzic scoring.
- FA Cup – The most recent game was in the 4th Round Replay on the 21st February 1967 after the original game finished 1-1 played on the 18th February 1967 at Molineux and this game finished in a 3-1 win to Everton.
- League Cup – The most recent game was in the 3rd Round on the 30th October 1991 the game finished 4-1 to Everton.
BIGGEST WINS
- Division 1 – The biggest win between the two clubs was on the 22nd February 1939 the game finished 7-0 to Wolves.
- Premier League – The biggest win between the two clubs was on the 12th July 2020 the game finished 3-0 to Wolves.
- FA Cup – The biggest win between the two clubs was on the 4th March 1939 the game finished 2-0 to Wolves.
BIGGEST DEFEATS
- Division 1 – The biggest defeat between the two clubs was on the 7th September 1901 the game finished 6-1 to Everton.
- Premier League – The biggest defeat between the two clubs was on the 9th April 2011 the game finished 3-0 to Everton.
- FA Cup – The biggest defeat between the two clubs was on the 21st February 1967 the game finished 3-1 to Everton.
MATCH OF THE DAY
There was a game near the date of the upcoming meeting which was played on 29th December 1956 the game finished 3-1 to Everton at Goodison Park.
do you remember?
Wolves 2 Everton 0 26th December 1970 in League Division 1 at Molineux
This was a game played at a packed Molineux with the pitch covered in Snow and had plenty of excitement from the start where Alan Ball picked up a booking early in the game when he had a flair up with John McAlle and Alan Whittle got involved too with both kept on pointing to the field where Alan Ball didn’t look so happy what happened.
Dave Wagstaffe started a counterattack when he put a pass through to Bobby Gould who then passed the ball to Derek Dougan who opened the scoring for Wolves to make it 1-0 to the hosts past the goalkeeper Andy Rankin in the Everton goal.
Everton had chances in the game to get an equaliser with a few shots on the Wolves goal with the goalkeeper Phil Parkes not troubled at all.
Then Wolves started another counterattack on the Everton goal when Bobby Gould and Derek Dougan both linked up well again to get the 2nd goal for Wolves to put the game safe.
Wolves held on to the victory at a cold Molineux 2-0
Wolves Team: Phil Parkes, Frank Munro, Bernard Shaw, John McAlle, Derek Parkin, Mike Bailey, Jim McCalliog, Kenny Hibbitt, Derek Dougan, Bobby Gould, Dave Wagstaffe.
Manager: Bill McGarry
Everton Team: Andy Rankin, Brian Labone, Keith Newton, Tommy Wright, John Hurst, Alan Ball, Colin Harvey, Howard Kendall, Alan Whittle, Joe Royle, Johnny Morrissey.
Manager: Harry Catterick
A LITTLE MORE HISTORY
Wolves 3 Everton 0 12th July 2020 in the Premier League at Molineux
Wolves started this game as they mean business in trying to get an early goal when Daniel Podence went down the right to test Jordan Pickford who saved it comfortably and smother the shot to stop Everton going behind.
Then Everton went up to the other end of the pitch and went and tested Rui Patricio in the Wolves goal only for him to save a shot made by Dominic Calvert Lewin.
Matt Doherty had a shot on target after playing a neat 1-2 with Leander Dendoncker but his shot on goal went wide of the mark.
After the drinks break Wolves had another chance at goal when Podence put in a perfectly placed ball towards Neto on the right-hand side only for Pickford & Digne to cut out the pass.
Neto had another opportunity at goal when got free from Michael Keane and Theo Walcott before firing low to the near post and Pickford was able to palm away the ball for a Wolves corner.
From the resulting corner Raul Jimenez did an overhead kick only for Pickford to do a comfortable save.
Then Wolves managed to take the lead before the end of the first half when Podence was causing problems in the Everton box by taking on three players only to be fouled by Digne who clipped him and the referee pointed to the spot, Jimenez then did his usual stuttered run up for the penalty to send Pickford the wrong way and made it 1-0 to Wolves keeping his record up of scoring everytime against them.
Half Time: Wolves 1 Everton 0
A matter of seconds of the second half of the Game Wolves managed to get another goal and this time it was by Leander Dendoncker who flicked in a header from a from a free kick on the right-hand side with the ball beyond Pickford.
Wolves then suffered an injury when Neto pulled up with an injury and then was assisted off the pitch to be replaced by Jota.
Jota then had a chance of extending the lead for Wolves when he was found by Neves to be one on one with Pickford when he tried only for him to stumble in the box.
Everton had rare chances in the game and didn’t trouble Patricio in the Wolves goal and Digne found some space on the left only for his shot went wide of the post.
Seconds after that shot by Everton Wolves managed to get a third goal when a Patricio pass found Jota who raced through goal to make it 3-0 to Wolves and hopefully keep the points for the hosts.
Wolves carried on trying to get more opportunities in the game with Traore with his pace but held on for the points and to become the first English club ever to win two competitive games in different Julys.
Full Time: Wolves 3 Everton 0
Wolves Team: Patricio, Doherty, Boly, Coady, Saiss, Jonny, Neves, Dendoncker, Neto, Podence, Jimenez.
Substitutes: Ruddy, Jota, Traore, Moutinho, Kilman, Buur, Vinagre, Gibbs-White, Jordao.
Manager: Nuno Espirito Santo
Everton Team: Pickford, Walcott, Keane, Mina, Digne, Baines, Davies, Sigurdsson, Gordon, Richarlison, Calvert-Lewin.
Substitutes: Bernard, Coleman, Branthwaite, Iwobi, Kean, Stekelenberg, Virigina, Sidibe, Baningime.
Manager: Carlo Ancelotti
HEAD TO HEAD
Premier League
There has been 19 Meetings between the two sides.
Wolves have won 7 games with 3 Home wins and 4 Away Wins.
Everton have won 6 games with 4 Home wins and 2 Away Wins.
There has been 6 draws between the sides.
Wolves have scored 23 Goals.
Everton have scored 22 Goals.
Overall Head-to-Head
There have been 141 games in total.
Wolves have won 50 Games.
Everton have won 63 Games.
There has been 28 Draws.
Last 6 Premier League Games
19th May 2021 Everton 1 Wolves 0 at Goodison Park
1st November 2021 Wolves 2 Everton 1 at Molineux
13th March 2022 Everton 0 Wolves 1 at Goodison Park
26th December 2022 Everton 1 Wolves 2 at Goodison Park
20th May 2023 Wolves 1 Everton 1 at Molineux
26th August 2023 Everton 0 Wolves 1 at Goodison Park
PLAYING FOR BOTH TEAMS
Michael Branch Played for Everton 1995-2000 made 41 appearances and scored 3 goals and played for Wolves 1999-2000 loan spell and permanently 2000-2003 made 71 appearances and scored 10 goals.
Conor Coady Played for Wolves 2015-2022 Made 273 appearances and scored 6 goals and played for Everton in a loan spell 2022-2023 made 24 appearances and scored 1 goal
Wayne Clarke Played for Wolves 1976-1978 Started his career in the youth team and then made his first team appearances 1978-1984 & 1991 made 149 appearances and scored 30 goals and played for Everton 1987-1989 made 57 appearances and scored 18 goals.
Marcus Hahnemann Played for Wolves 2009-2011 made 40 appearances and played for Everton 2011-2012 didn’t make a first team appearance for the club.
Derek Mountfield Played for Everton made 106 appearances and scored 19 goals and played for Wolves 1991-1994 made 83 appearances and scored 4 goals.
Carlo Nash Played for Wolves 2000-2001 in a loan spell didn’t make a appearance for the club and played for Everton 2008-2010 didn’t make a appearance for the club.
Ruben Vinagre Played for Wolves 2017-2018 in a loan spell and 2018-2022 in a permanent spell made 43 appearances and scored 1 goal and also scored 2 goals in Europa League and played for Everton 2022-2023 in a loan spell from Sporting CP made 2 appearances.
Andy Gray Played for Wolves 1979-1983 made 133 appearances and scored 38 goals and played for Everton 1983-1985 made 49 appearances and scored 14 goals.
Alan Ainscow Played for Everton 1981-1983 made 28 appearances and scored 3 goals and played for Wolves 1984-1986 made 58 appearances and scored 5 goals.
Marcus Bent Played for Everton 2004-2006 made 55 appearances and scored 7 goals and played for Wolves in a loan spell made 3 appearances.
Segundo Castillo Played for Everton in a loan spell from Red Star Belgrade 2008-2009 made 9 appearances and played for Wolves in a loan spell also from Red Star Belgrade 2009-2010 made 8 appearances.
Peter Eastoe Played for Wolves in two spells 1971-1973 & 1985 made 14 appearances and played for Everton 1979-1982 made 95 appearances and scored 26 goals.
Darron Gibson Played for Wolves 2007-2008 in a loan spell from Manchester United made 21 appearances and scored 1 goal and played for Everton 2012-2017 made 51 appearances and scored 2 goals.
Ted Hartill Played for Wolves 1928-1935 made 221 appearances and scored 162 goals and played for Everton 1935 made 5 appearances and scored 1 goal.
Ernie Hunt Played for Wolves 1965-1967 made 74 appearances and scored 32 goals and played for Everton 1967-1968 made 14 appearances and scored 3 goals.
Andy King Played for Everton 1982-1984 made 44 appearances and scored 11 goals and played for Wolves 1985 made 28 appearances and scored for 10 goals.
Joleon Lescott Played for Wolves 2000-2006 made 212 appearances and scored 13 goals and played for Everton 2006-2009 made 113 appearances and scored 14 goals.
Andrew Lonergan Played for Wolves 2016-2017 made 11 appearances and played for Everton 2021-? Playing there at the moment and hasn’t made any appearances to date.
Darren Potter Started his playing career in the youth team at Everton 1995-1999 didn’t make a first team appearance and played for Wolves 2006 in a loan spell from Liverpool and permanent spell 2007-2009 made 56 appearances.
John Ruddy Played for Everton 2005-2010 made 1 appearance and played for Wolves 2017-2022 made 50 appearances.
Vinny Samways Played for Everton 1994-1996 made 23 appearances and scored 2 goals and played for Wolves in a loan spell from Everton 1995-1996 made 3 appearances.
Mike Stowell Played for Everton 1985-1990 didn’t make a first team appearance and played for Wolves 1989 in a loan spell from Everton and Permanent 1990-2001 made 385 appearances.
Dave Thomas Played for Everton 1977-1979 made 71 appearances and scored 4 goals and played for Wolves 1979-1980 made 10 appearances.
Frank Wignall Played for Everton 1958-1963 made 33 appearances and scored 15 goals and played for Wolves 1968-1969 made 32 appearances and scored 15 goals.
Other Players who played for both clubs.
George Baker, Dod Brewster, Wilf Chadwick, David Clements, George Eccles, Stan Fazackerley,
Dick Forshaw, Archie Goodall, Willie Jordan, Reg Kirkham, Mickey Lill, Tommy Mayson, John Morrissey, Darren Oldroyd, Billy Owen, Sammy Thomson, Walter Weaver, Frederick White,
Robert Young.
Played, Coached and Managed both teams.
Ian Atkins Played for Everton 1984-1985 made 7 appearances and is currently a scout for Wolves.
Matt Jackson Played for Everton 1991-1996 made 138 appearances and scored 4 goals and used to be Strategic player marketing manager for Wolves.
Dave Jones Played for Everton 1974-1979 made 86 appearances and scored 1 goal and managed Wolves 2001-2004 and in 2003 he got Wolves promoted to the premier league in the play off final.
Bobby Mimms Played for Everton 1985-1988 made 29 appearances and worked for Wolves as a goalkeeping coach 2001-2008.
article by Karl Whitehouse
I am a Wolves fan been for over 30 years where
I have supported them both home and away games in the 80’s, 90’s and 00’s and now like looking into wolves games the stats behind the games they play in the premier league and also look other stats if asked by someone else in the podcast. I have also done the 92 football league grounds and shortly be doing a ebook about peoples favourite match they went to along with a match report and if possible stats from game.