Everton vs. Liverpool: Head-to-head record and past meetings before Merseyside derby

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Merseyside derby time astatine the Hill Dickinson Stadium is edging ever closer, arsenic Everton invited bitter adversaries Liverpool to their brand-new location for Sunday's Premier League showdown, successful gameweek 33 of the 2025-26 campaign.

The Toffees person been utilized to relegation scraps portion their red-clad rivals vie for rubric glory successful caller years, but heading into this weekend's affair, conscionable 5 points abstracted Everton and Liverpool successful the apical fractional of the Premier League table.

David Moyes's men person been demonstrating their European credentials passim 2026 and astir precocious claimed a hard-fought 2-2 gully distant to chap continental hopefuls Brentford, pursuing connected from their stunning 3-0 occurrence implicit Liam Rosenior's Chelsea.

Meanwhile, the reigning Premier League champions restored immoderate top-flight pridefulness with a 2-0 triumph implicit Fulham, earlier losing to Paris Saint-Germain by the aforesaid scoreline arsenic their Champions League escapade came to a premature end.

Ahead of Sunday's Merseyside derby showdown, Sports Mole takes an in-depth look astatine the head-to-head grounds and erstwhile meetings betwixt Everton and Liverpool.

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 247

Everton wins: 68

Draws: 78

Liverpool wins: 101

While Everton are among the astir historically palmy clubs successful English football, their grounds successful caller decades against their much illustrious neighbours Liverpool leaves a batch to beryllium desired.

There was precise small to abstracted the sides successful the head-to-head grounds during the aboriginal 1900s, the inter-war period, and soon after, earlier 1953, erstwhile they did not stock a part for astir a decade.

Everton enjoyed immoderate occurrence successful the 1960s, and won a league rubric successful 1970, earlier Liverpool dominated English and European shot for the adjacent decennary and a half, until some were hugely competitory arsenic the 2 large forces successful the state during the mid-1980s.

In 1984, Liverpool won the title, but some sides won a home cup, earlier they alternated archetypal and 2nd successful the First Division betwixt 1985 and 1987.

It was successful 1984-85 erstwhile Everton past completed a league treble implicit their neighbours, with 2 1-0 wins coming aft a triumph of the aforesaid scoreline successful the Charity Shield that season.

The pursuing play was the astir thrilling arsenic some won astatine their rival's stadium, but it was yet gut-wrenching for Everton, arsenic they missed retired connected some the league and cupful to Liverpool, losing the rubric precocious successful the play earlier losing 3-1 successful the FA Cup last acknowledgment to Ian Rush's double.

Cup games betwixt the 2 person often been the astir notable, and determination person been plentifulness of mammoth encounters betwixt them implicit the years.

Liverpool bushed Everton successful the last of the 1984 League Cup, with Graeme Souness scoring the lone extremity successful a replay, earlier the FA Cup occurrence 2 years later.

The reddish fractional of Merseyside repeated the instrumentality successful 1989 too, with Rush scoring doubly again successful a topsy-turvy 3-2 triumph aft other clip astatine Wembley, conscionable weeks aft the Hillsborough catastrophe which outgo the lives of 97 Liverpool fans.

Possibly the top ever Merseyside derby came successful the 1991 FA Cup, though, arsenic a 4th circular necktie astatine Anfield saw the sides gully 4-4, with Everton coming from down connected 4 occasions, and yet resulting successful Kenny Dalglish's resignation arsenic manager.

Since then, and during the Premier League era, Everton person not reached the aforesaid levels, and person played second-fiddle to Liverpool astir each year, winning conscionable 1 large honour.

Another cupful necktie gave them an ever-lasting representation though, successful the 2009 FA Cup 4th circular necktie which saw Dan Gosling people a 119th-minute victor nether the lights astatine Goodison during a run that saw them scope the final, but autumn agonisingly abbreviated to Chelsea.

Everton lone mislaid 1 league crippled against Liverpool betwixt the 1993-94 and 1999-00 seasons, but since then, determination has been precise small to look backmost connected with fondness successful this fixture for the bluish fractional of the city.

In the Premier League era, Liverpool person mislaid conscionable 11 of the 66 meetings - winning 29, and they person inactive not suffered decision astatine location to the Toffees successful beforehand of a location assemblage since 1999.

Most of Everton's worst moments successful the derby person each travel this broadside of the millennium, including losing against 10 men connected 3 abstracted occasions (2001, 2006 and 2010), being thrashed 4-0 doubly (2014, 2016), going down successful the 94th infinitesimal conscionable a week earlier Christmas (2016), and having a joyous distant extremity sing the sanction of your existent much-maligned manager, Rafael Benitez, during a 4-1 location decision successful 2021.

None of those moments lucifer the embarrassment suffered during 2 1-0 defeats successful 2018 and 2020, though. The archetypal of those defeats saw Divock Origi people 1 of the astir bizarre goals successful Premier League history, six minutes into wounded time, aft Jordan Pickford inexplicably bounced the shot backmost disconnected his ain crossbar and out, allowing the Belgian to people connected the extremity enactment to the utter dismay and disbelief of each onlooker.

In aboriginal 2020, Everton had conscionable hired Carlo Ancelotti and would look Liverpool astatine Anfield successful the FA Cup 3rd round, but inactive mislaid 1-0 contempt the Reds changing astir their full XI and fielding galore inexperienced teenagers, with a young Curtis Jones getting the victor connected that occasion.

Between 2011 and 2020, Liverpool did not endure decision successful 23 consecutive derbies, the longest unbeaten streak they person ever enjoyed against a azygous hostile successful their history.

The closest Everton got to winning during that woeful tally was successful the astir memorable Premier League fixture betwixt the 2 aboriginal successful the 2013-14 play erstwhile they drew 3-3 astatine Goodison Park, and a youthful Romelu Lukaku netted doubly little than a period aft joining the club, but an 89th-minute leveller from Daniel Sturridge salvaged a precocious constituent for Liverpool, who came precise adjacent to the rubric that season, portion the Toffees besides amassed 72 points successful a fantastic run nether Roberto Martinez.

All of that doom and gloom was forgotten astir successful April 2024, though, erstwhile Everton won 1 of the astir important derby fixtures successful galore years, beating their rivals 2-0 to extremity Liverpool's rubric chances, portion besides ensuring they avoided relegation.

The bluish fractional of Merseyside besides had a infinitesimal to savour successful Goodison Park's last ever derby successful February 2025, erstwhile James Tarkowski netted an astonishing 98th-minute equaliser successful beforehand of the Gwladys Street extremity successful what was a fitting finale to a stadium wherever this fixture has produced truthful galore peculiar moments.

Last 20 meetings

Sep 20, 2025: Liverpool 2-1 Everton (Premier League)

Apr 02, 2025: Liverpool 1-0 Everton (Premier League)

Feb 12, 2025: Everton 2-2 Liverpool (Premier League)

Apr 24, 2024: Everton 2-0 Liverpool (Premier League)

Oct 21, 2023: Liverpool 2-0 Everton (Premier League)

Feb 13, 2023: Liverpool 2-0 Everton (Premier League)

Sep 03, 2022: Everton 0-0 Liverpool (Premier League)

Apr 24, 2022: Liverpool 2-0 Everton (Premier League)

Dec 01, 2021: Everton 1-4 Liverpool (Premier League)

Feb 20, 2021: Liverpool 0-2 Everton (Premier League)

Oct 17, 2020: Everton 2-2 Liverpool (Premier League)

Jun 21, 2020: Everton 0-0 Liverpool (Premier League)

Jan 05, 2020: Liverpool 1-0 Everton (FA Cup Third Round)

Dec 04, 2019: Liverpool 5-2 Everton (Premier League)

Mar 03, 2019: Everton 0-0 Liverpool (Premier League)

Dec 02, 2018: Liverpool 1-0 Everton (Premier League)

Apr 07, 2018: Everton 0-0 Liverpool (Premier League)

Jan 05, 2018: Liverpool 2-1 Everton (FA Cup Third Round)

Dec 10, 2017: Liverpool 1-1 Everton (Premier League)

Apr 01, 2017: Liverpool 3-1 Everton (Premier League)

Last 10 Premier League meetings