A church cricket team plants the seed of Everton Football Club.

A Methodist cricket club's search for a winter pastime quietly gave birth to one of English football's great institutions.
St Domingo's Methodist Church in the Everton district of Liverpool formed a cricket club in 1878, adding football as a winter pursuit. The following year, in 1879, the club formally adopted the name Everton Football Club, taking its identity from the neighbourhood. They played on open land in Stanley Park before settling at Anfield in 1884, a ground they would eventually lose to a landlord dispute that birthed Liverpool FC.














