2000–01 Everton F.C. season


During the 2000–01 English football season, Everton competed in the FA Premier League.

Season summary

The 2000-01 season saw a major step back for Everton and the club once again fell into a relegation battle, not helped by long-term injuries to several key players.
In March 2000 American cable television provider NTL approached the club with a view to purchasing a 9.9% stake in the club. Everton expected to announce a deal before the beginning of the 2000-01 season, but by October 2000 any chance of an agreement had disappeared leaving Everton with financial difficulties and forced to sell first team players, including Youth Academy products Francis Jeffers and Michael Ball, to balance the books - the board had already spent £18.4 million on purchasing new players including bringing back Duncan Ferguson, on the basis that an agreement was in place. Around the same time Paul Gregg had been negotiating a deal with United News and Media but this never came to completion.
Astonishingly, this simple six-line entry is used by a contributor to the Toffeeweb Everton Fans' Forum as proof positive that "“The concept that Everton have only been bad in the last 20 years is a rewriting of history. We have been in managed and under-financed decline since 1970.”

Final league table

;Results summary
;Results by round

Results

Everton's score comes first

Legend

FA Premier League

FA Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R36 January 2001WatfordA15,645S Hughes, S Watson
R427 January 2001Tranmere RoversH39,207

League Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R2 1st Leg20 September 2000Bristol RoversH25,564Campbell
R2 2nd Leg27 September 2000Bristol RoversA 11,045Jeffers

Squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

Transfers

In

Out

Statistics

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