List of Everton F.C. international players

Everton Football Club, an association football club based in Liverpool, Merseyside, was founded in 1878 and competes in the top flight of English football the Premier League. Everton have a storied history winning nine League titles, five FA Cups and the European Cup Winners' Cup.

Players of the club can be called up to represent their national team and to date 238 players have played at senior international level whilst registered with the club.^[1] Everton's first international was Job Wilding who appeared for Wales against England on 14 March 1885. The most recent newly capped player is Demarai Gray for Jamaica against USA on 25 June 2023.

Countries (in blue) in which Everton players have been capped at international level.

Robert Warzycha became the first player from outside of the British Isles to represent his country, Poland in 1991 (Although some players born outside of the British Isles had played internationally for the club for Home Nation sides such as Pat Van Den Hauwe born in Belgium but representing Wales). Daniel Amokachi was the first non-European representative for Nigeria in 1993.^[2]

Since 2016, Tim Howard holds the record for most caps won with 93 for United States of America, previously Neville Southall had held the record with 91 caps for Wales since the early 1990s.^[3]

Dixie Dean held the record for most international goals with 18 for England held from the 1930s, Tim Cahill matched this in 2012 for Australia.

37 individual Everton players have represented their countries at the World Cup, with Everton being represented in 13 of the 22 tournaments (currently having taken part in 10 consecutive tournaments since 1986. Alex Parker the first in 1958 for Scotland.^[4] At the most recent 2018 World Cup 3 Everton players represented 3 countries. Tim Cahill, representing Australia, is the only player to appear at more than one tournament.

Over 2700 caps for 43 countries have been earned by players while contracted to Everton.

The most Everton players to play in a single fixture was between Republic of Ireland and England on 7 June 2016 when five players (three for Ireland, two for England) appeared.

List of internationals

The following list includes only caps earned while contracted to Everton.

Three Everton players (Eglington, Farrell and Stevenson) were dual internationals for Ireland. Their caps are listed separately below but included only once in the total player count of 235.

The following list includes only caps earned while playing for Everton. This includes players on loan to Everton but not players out on loan to other sides. For example: Neville Southall earned 92 Wales caps while contracted to Everton, one of these was while on loan to Port Vale and thus is not included.

Updated as of fixtures played 21 November 2023

Name Country Caps Goals Years Walter Abbott   England 1 - 1902 Niclas Alexandersson   Sweden 23 2 2000–2003 Allan   Brazil 1 - 2020 Daniel Amokachi   Nigeria 6 2 1994–1995 Victor Anichebe   Nigeria 10 1 2008–2011 Smart Arridge   Wales 3 - 1894–1986 Christian Atsu   Ghana 13 3 2014–2015 Yakubu Ayegbeni   Nigeria 24 7 2008–2010 Leighton Baines   England 30 1 2010–2015 Ibrahima Bakayoko   Ivory Coast 4 1 1999 Alan Ball   England 39 6 1966–1971 Michael Ball   England 1 - 2001 William Balmer   England 1 - 1905 Ross Barkley   England 22 2 2013–2016 Nick Barmby   England 5 - 2000 Jack Bell   Scotland 3 1 1896–1898 Muhamed Besic   Bosnia and Herzegovina 21 - 2014–2020 Slaven Bilić   Croatia 14 2 1997–1999 Diniyar Bilyaletdinov   Russia 17 4 2009–2011 Billy Bingham   Northern Ireland 12 2 1960–1964 Jesper Blomqvist   Sweden 1 - 2002 Yannick Bolasie   DR Congo 8 1 2016–2020 Tom Booth   England 1 - 1903 Wally Boyes   England 2 - 1938 Paul Bracewell   England 3 - 1985 Dod Brewster   Scotland 1 - 1921 Cliff Britton   England 9 1 1934–1938 Tim Cahill   Australia 53 18 2004–2012 Dominic Calvert-Lewin   England 11 4 2020–2021 Lee Carsley   Republic of Ireland 21 - 2002–2008 Segundo Castillo   Ecuador 7 - 2008–2009 Edgar Chadwick   England 7 3 1891–1897 Sam Chedgzoy   England 8 - 1920–1924 Dave Clements   Northern Ireland 12 - 1973–1975 Tommy Clinton   Republic of Ireland 3 - 1951–1954 Seamus Coleman   Republic of Ireland 66 1 2011–2023 Bobby Collins   Scotland 6 3 1958–1959 John Collins   Scotland 6 1 1998–1999 John Connolly   Scotland 1 - 1973 Billy Cook   Ireland 12 - 1935–1939 Peter Corr   Republic of Ireland 4 - 1949 Tony Cottee   England 4 - 1988–1989 Jackie Coulter   Ireland 5 1 1934–1937 Warney Cresswell   England 1 - 1929 Jimmy Cunliffe   England 1 - 1936 Dai Davies   Wales 16 - 1975–1977 Joe Davies   Wales 2 - 1889 Llewellyn Davies   Wales 2 - 1889 Simon Davies   Wales 12 1 2005–2006 Stan Davies   Wales 3 1 1921 William "Dixie" Dean   England 16 18 1927–1932 Lucas Digne   France 22 - 2018–2021 Martin Dobson   England 1 - 1974 Don Donovan   Republic of Ireland 5 - 1954–1957 Abdoulaye Doucouré   Mali 2 - 2022 Landon Donovan   United States 1 - 2010 Dicky Downs   England 1 - 1920 Shane Duffy   Republic of Ireland 1 - 2014 Jimmy Dunn   Scotland 1 1 1928 Richard Dunne   Republic of Ireland 6 2 2000 Tommy Eglington *   Ireland 6 - 1946–1948 Tommy Eglington *   Republic of Ireland 22 2 1946–1955 Peter Farrell *   Ireland 7 - 1946–1949 Peter Farrell *   Republic of Ireland 26 3 1946–1957 Gareth Farrelly   Republic of Ireland 2 - 1998 Marouane Fellaini   Belgium 33 6 2008–2013 Duncan Ferguson   Scotland 3 - 1994–1997 Bert Freeman   England 2 1 1909 Ramio Funes Mori   Argentina 18 1 2015–2017 Jimmy Gabriel   Scotland 2 - 1960–1963 Fred Geary   England 2 3 1890–1891 Cecil Gee   England 3 - 1931, 1936 Albert Geldard   England 4 - 1933–1937 Scott Gemmill   Scotland 13 1 1999–2003 Darron Gibson   Republic of Ireland 10 - 2012–2016 Torry Gillick   Scotland 5 3 1937–1938 Ben Godfrey   England 2 - 2021 Thomas Gravesen   Denmark 44 5 2000–2004 Andy Gray   Scotland 1 - 1985 Demari Gray   Jamaica 5 2 2023 Phil Griffiths   Wales 1 - 1931 Thomas Griffiths   Wales 8 1 1927–1931 Idrissa Gueye   Senegal 45 4 2016–2023 Brian Hamilton   Northern Ireland 11 - 1976–1977 Harold Hardman   England 4 1 1905–1908 Val Harris   Ireland 14 - 1909–1914 George Harrison   England 2 - 1921 Asa Hartford   Scotland 8 1 1979, 1981 Colin Harvey   England 1 - 1971 Johnny Heitinga   Netherlands 40 1 2009–2013 Jimmy Hill   Northern Ireland 3 - 1963 Andy Hinchcliffe   England 4 - 1996–1997 Barry Horne   Wales 23 - 1992–1996 Johnny Holt   England 9 - 1890–1895 Marc Hottiger    Switzerland 7 - 1996 Johnny Houston   Ireland 3 - 1913–1914 Ben Howard Baker   England 1 - 1921 Tim Howard   United States 93 - 2007–2016 Bob Howarth   England 1 - 1894 Teddy Hughes   Wales 2 - 1899 Jack Humphreys   Wales 1 - 1947 Don Hutchison   Scotland 10 5 1999–2000 Bobby Irvine   Ireland 11 3 1922–1928 Alex Iwobi   Nigeria 27 4 2019–2023 Tommy Jackson   Northern Ireland 6 - 1968–1969 Lars Jacobsen   Denmark 6 - 2008–2009 Phil Jagielka   England 40 3 2008–2016 Frank Jefferis   England 2 - 1912 Nikica Jelavic   Croatia 13 3 2012–2013 Pat Jennings   Northern Ireland 1 - 1986 Andy Johnson   England 6 - 2006–2007 Tommy Johnson   England 3 2 1931–1932 T. G. Jones   Wales 17 - 1938–1949 Robert Jones   Wales 1 - 1894 Andrei Kanchelskis   Russia 16 3 1995–1996 Tony Kay   England 1 1 1963 Moise Kean   Italy 2 - 2020 Michael Keane   England 10 1 2017–2020 Joe Kendrick   Ireland 1 - 1927 Martin Keown   England 9 1 1992 Kevin Kilbane   Republic of Ireland 24 1 2003–2006 Joshua King   Norway 3 - 2021 Davy Klaassen   Netherlands 2 - 2017 Bill Lacey   Ireland 10 1 1909–1912 Brian Labone   England 26 - 1962–1970 Bob Latchford   England 12 5 1977–1979 Shayne Lavery   Northern Ireland 1 - 2018 Tommy Lawton   England 8 6 1938–1939 Joleon Lescott   England 7 - 2007–2009 Tie Li   China 6 - 2003–2006 Anders Limpar   Sweden 11 1 1994–1996 Tobias Linderoth   Sweden 23 - 2002–2004 Gary Lineker   England 11 9 1985–1986 Romelu Lukaku   Belgium 31 15 2013–2017 Harry Makepeace   England 4 - 1906–1912 Cuco Martina   Curaçao 4 - 2017–2018 Neil McBain   Scotland 2 - 1923 Stuart McCall   Scotland 11 1 1990–1991 James McCarthy   Republic of Ireland 25 - 2013–2016 Alex McCartney   Ireland 2 - 1905 Jim McDonagh   Republic of Ireland 4 - 1981 James McFadden   Scotland 33 12 2003–2007 Aiden McGeady   Republic of Ireland 21 2 2014–2017 Mick Meagan   Republic of Ireland 4 - 1961–1964 Joe Mercer   England 5 - 1938–1939 Yerry Mina   Colombia 25 1 2019–2023 Kevin Mirallas   Belgium 30 5 2012–2017 Joe-Max Moore   United States 22 4 2010 Ján Mucha   Slovakia 16 - 2010–2012 Thomas Myhre   Norway 20 - 1998–2001 Vitaliy Mykolenko   Ukraine 16 1 2022–2023 Steven Naismith   Scotland 26 4 2012–2015 Gary Naysmith   Scotland 32 1 2001–2007 Lucas Neil   Australia 3 - 2009 Phil Neville   England 7 - 2006–2007 Pat Nevin   Scotland 8 1 1989–1992 Keith Newton   England 8 - 1970 Oumar Niasse   Senegal 3 1 2016–2018 Alex Nyarko   Ghana 1 - 2000 Eamonn O'Keefe   Republic of Ireland 1 - 1981 Robin Olsen   Sweden 10 - 2020–2021 Amadou Onana   Belgium 8 - 2022–2023 Jimmy O'Neill   Republic of Ireland 17 - 1952–1959 Henry Onyekuru   Nigeria 1 - 2019 Leon Osman   England 2 - 2012–2013 John Oster   Wales 3 - 1997–1998 Bryan Oviedo   Costa Rica 14 - 2012–2016 Alex Parker   Scotland 1 - 1958 Nathan Patterson   Scotland 13 - 2022–2023 Charlie Parry   Wales 6 - 1891–1895 Mark Pembridge   Wales 16 1 1999–2003 Gerry Peyton   Republic of Ireland 4 - 1992 Terry Phelan   Republic of Ireland 3 - 1997 Fred Pickering   England 3 5 1964 Jordan Pickford   England 58 - 2017–2023 Steven Pienaar   South Africa 36 - 2007–2012 Aubrey Powell   Wales 2 - 1948–1949 Isacc Price   Northern Ireland 2 - 2023 Tomasz Radzinski   Canada 9 6 2001–2004 Kevin Ratcliffe   Wales 58 - 1980–1991 Peter Reid   England 13 - 1985–1988 Richarlison   Brazil 37 14 2018–2022 Bruce Rioch   Scotland 6 - 1977 Antonee Robinson   United States 2 - 2018–2019 Jacky Robertson   Scotland 1 - 1898 Jack Rodwell   England 2 - 2011 James Rodriguez   Colombia 4 1 2020 Salomón Rondón   Venezuela 10 6 2022 Wayne Rooney   England 17 9 2003–2004 Dick Roose   Wales 2 - 1905 Joe Royle   England 2 1 1971–1972 Ted Sagar   England 4 - 1935–1936 Louis Saha   France 1 - 2010 Alex Scott   Scotland 5 - 1963–1966 Billy Scott   Ireland 16 - 1905–1912 Peter Scott   Northern Ireland 2 - 1975 Jimmy Settle   England 4 - 1935–1936 Graeme Sharp   Scotland 12 1 1985–1988 Jack Sharp   England 2 1 1903–1905 Kevin Sheedy   Republic of Ireland 42 7 1983–1992 James Sheridan   Ireland 5 2 1903–1904 Gylfi Sigurdsson   Iceland 28 10 2017–2020 David Smallman   Wales 4 - 1975 Neville Southall   Wales 91 - 1982–1997 Gary Speed   Wales 9 1 1996–1997 Maarten Stekelenburg   Netherlands 4 - 2016 Trevor Steven   England 25 3 1985–1989 Gary Stevens   England 26 - 1985–1988 Alex Stevenson *   Ireland 14 5 1934–1947 Alex Stevenson *   Republic of Ireland 6 - 1946–1948 John Stones   England 10 - 2014–2016 Idan Tal   Israel 11 3 2000–2003 Derek Temple   England 1 - 1965 Mickey Thomas   Wales 1 - 1981 Jock Thomson   Scotland 1 - 1932 Claus Thomsen   Denmark 4 - 1997 Cenk Tosun   Turkey 20 10 2018–2020 Alex Troup   Scotland 1 - 1926 Nuno Valente   Portugal 15 - 2005–2006 David Unsworth   England 1 - 1995 Enner Valencia   Ecuador 9 5 2016–2017 Pat Van Den Hauwe   Wales 13 - 1985–1989 Roy Vernon   Wales 13 1 1960–1963 Nikola Vlasic   Croatia 1 - 2017 Mickey Walsh   Republic of Ireland 1 - 1978 Mike Walsh   Republic of Ireland 4 - 1982 Robert Warzycha   Poland 17 1 1991–1993 Dave Watson   England 6 - 1986–1988 David Weir   Scotland 43 1 1999–2006 Gordon West   England 3 - 1968–1969 Tommy White   England 1 - 1933 Norman Whiteside   Northern Ireland 2 1 1989 Job Wilding   Wales 2 1 1886 Ashley Williams   Wales 15 - 2016–2019 Ben Williams   Wales 6 - 1931–1935 George Wilson   Scotland 1 - 1907 Ian Wilson   Scotland 3 - 1987 Ray Wilson   England 33 - 1965–1968 Sam Wolstenholme   England 1 - 1904 George Wood   Scotland 3 - 1987 Tommy Wright   England 11 - 1968–1970 Abel Xavier   Portugal 7 1 1999–2001 Joseph Yobo   Nigeria 55 6 2008–2011 Alex Young   Scotland 2 2 1961–1966 Alex 'Sandy' Young   Scotland 2 - 1905–1907 Kurt Zouma   France 1 - 2018

Country Players Caps Goals First Last   England 70 586 92 1890 2023   Wales 28 331 7 1886 2019   Republic of Ireland 25 325 18 1946 2023   Scotland 33 266 39 1896 2023   Nigeria 6 123 20 1994 2023   United States 4 118 4 1999 2019   Ireland 12 105 12 1903 1947   Belgium 4 102 26 2008 2023   Sweden 5 68 3 1994 2021   Australia 2 56 18 2004 2012   Denmark 3 54 5 1997 2004   Northern Ireland 9 52 3 1960 2023   Senegal 2 48 5 2016 2023   Netherlands 3 46 1 2009 2017   Brazil 2 37 14 2018 2022   South Africa 1 36 - 2007 2012   Russia 2 33 7 1995 2011   Colombia 2 29 2 2019 2023   Croatia 3 28 5 1997 2007   Iceland 1 28 10 2017 2020   France 3 24 - 2010 2021   Norway 1 23 - 1998 2021   Portugal 2 22 1 1999 2006   Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 21 - 2014 2020   Turkey 1 20 10 2018 2020   Argentina 1 18 1 2015 2017   Poland 1 17 1 1991 1993   Ecuador 2 16 5 2008 2017   Slovakia 1 16 - 2010 2012   Ukraine 1 16 1 2022 2023   Ghana 2 14 3 2000 2014   Costa Rica 1 14 - 2012 2016   Israel 1 11 3 2000 2002   Venezuela 1 10 7 2022 2022   Canada 1 9 6 2001 2004   DR Congo 1 8 1 2016 2020    Switzerland 1 7 - 1996 1996   China 1 6 - 2003 2006   Jamaica 1 5 2 2023 2023   Ivory Coast 1 4 1 1999 1999   Curaçao 1 4 - 2017 2018   Italy 1 2 - 2020 2020   Mali 1 2 - 2022 2022 Total * (240 when including 3 Irish dual national players) 244 2760 333   Tim Howard is Everton's most capped international making 93 appearances for USA.   Tim Cahill holds the joint record with Dixie Dean for most international goals of 18 scored for Australia   Neville Southall was Wales most capped international until 2018. He made 92 appearances, 91 while playing for Everton in the 1980s and 1990s.   Fred Geary (along with Johnny Holt) was the first Everton player to represent England in 1890.

World Cup players

The following were part of World Cup squads while playing for Everton.

 

Johnny Heitinga was runners-up for the Netherlands at the 2010 World Cup

Tournament	Players
World Cup 1958	Alex Parker,   Roy Vernon
World Cup 1966	Ray Wilson
World Cup 1970	Alan Ball,   Brian Labone,   Keith Newton,   Tommy Wright
World Cup 1986	Gary Lineker,   Peter Reid,   Graeme Sharp,   Trevor Steven,   Gary Stevens
World Cup 1990	Stuart McCall,   Kevin Sheedy
World Cup 1994	Anders Limpar
World Cup 1998	Slaven Bilić
World Cup 2002	Niclas Alexandersson,   Lee Carsley,   Thomas Gravesen,   Tobias Linderoth,   Joe-Max Moore
World Cup 2006	Tim Cahill,   Nuno Valente
World Cup 2010	Yakubu,   Tim Cahill,   Johnny Heitinga,   Steven Pienaar,   Joseph Yobo
World Cup 2014	Leighton Baines,   Ross Barkley,   Tim Howard,   Phil Jagielka,   Kevin Mirallas
World Cup 2018	Idrissa Gueye,   Jordan Pickford,   Gylfi Sigurdsson
World Cup 2022	Conor Coady,   Idrissa Gueye,   Amadou Onana,   Jordan Pickford

AFC Asian Cup

The following were part of Asian Cup squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament	Players
2007 Asian Cup	Tim Cahill
2011 Asian Cup	Tim Cahill

CAF Africa Cup of Nations

The following were part of African Cup of Nations squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament	Players
2004 Africa Cup of Nations	Joseph Yobo
2006 Africa Cup of Nations	Joseph Yobo
2008 Africa Cup of Nations	Yakubu,   Steven Pienaar,   Joseph Yobo
2010 Africa Cup of Nations	Yakubu,   Joseph Yobo
2015 Africa Cup of Nations	Christian Atsu
2017 Africa Cup of Nations	Idrissa Gueye
2019 Africa Cup of Nations	Idrissa Gueye,   Henry Onyekuru
2021 Africa Cup of Nations	Alex Iwobi

CONCACAF Gold Cup

The following were part of Gold Cup squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament	Players
2007 Gold Cup	Tim Howard
2011 Gold Cup	Tim Howard
2019 Gold Cup	Cuco Martina
2023 Gold Cup	Demarai Gray

CONEBOL Copa America

The following were part of Copa America squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament	Players
2016 Copa América	Ramiro Funes Mori,   Tim Howard,   Bryan Oviedo
2019 Copa América	Richarlison
2021 Copa América	Yerry Mina,   Richarlison

UEFA European Championship

The following were part of European Championship squads while playing for Everton.

Tournament	Players
UEFA Euro 1968	Alan Ball,   Brian Labone,   Ray Wilson,   Tommy Wright
UEFA Euro 1988	Kevin Sheedy,   Trevor Steven,   Gary Stevens,   Dave Watson
UEFA Euro 1992	Martin Keown,   Pat Nevin
UEFA Euro 1996	Marc Hottiger,   Andrei Kanchelskis
UEFA Euro 2000	Nick Barmby,   Thomas Myhre,   Abel Xavier
UEFA Euro 2004	Thomas Gravesen,   Tobias Linderoth,   Wayne Rooney
UEFA Euro 2012	Nikica Jelavic,   Johnny Heitinga
UEFA Euro 2016	Seamus Coleman,   Romelu Lukaku,   James McCarthy,   Aiden McGeady
UEFA Euro 2020	Dominic Calvert-Lewin,   Lucas Digne,   Robin Olsen,   Jordan Pickford

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