Squad numbers confirmed for 2023-24 season

And, surely Branthwaite could have had No 4, Dobbin No 17! Who wants the likes of No 32 or 61!!

Nineteen players would appear to be the ones we will rely on heavily at least until January. Then we'll have the Africa Cup of Nations to contend with. It's going to be a long hard season – but we already knew that, didn't we.

Fingers crossed and we don't get any injuries this week and then 3 points off The Arsenal at the weekend. COYBs.

This lad Billy Crellin (great scouse-sounding name!) joined from Fleetwood back in January of last year. But we've seen very little of him in that time.

And we added Fraser Barnsley last week but he's Under-21.

ps: I've added what I believe to be the homegrown players as we need to have at least 8 of them in the named 25-man squad of over-21 players and we seem well in from that regard. Very little is mentioned of this requirement these days, but I believe it is still in place. Although I don't think any Premier League club has been banged to rights on this particular rule… have they?

1. Players have their favourite number
2. Dads can't afford the expense of a new shirt because, all of a sudden, the old one with Tarkowski 2 is no longer acceptable as he is Tarkowski 6

I do have a table of squad numbers going back to when it started.

If ToffeeWeb would want to start a thread - which could get heated - the best player to wear that number shirt since we went to squad numbers. How about it guys? There could be some very interesting debates. Might have to do it "out of order" as Seamus also wore the 31 shirt.

One thing that has puzzled me is why they don't extend the squad numbers down to the Under-21s so they wear named and numbered shirts in their Premier League 2 games? Wouldn't that go some way to reinforcing this mythical pathway to the first team?

I believe the numbers are already assigned to all professionals registered with the club, and indeed if they play in the EFL Trophy, they do wear such shirts. But for regular PL2 games, it's 1 to 11 (yes, Paul) with 12, and 14 to 17 on the bench (no Number 13 for some silly reason…).

Neal Maupay.

This must be a sign, I was deliberating whether I should change my planned flight as it falls on Friday 13th. Then I log onto ToffeeWeb and find this discussion about the unlucky number and it is compounded by the fact post 13 has gone awol between Mike's and yours…

Unless you are Italian as they regard 13 as a lucky number and I think for the same reason, the Last Supper.

So many greats have worn the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10… hard to make it your own
Rooney 18 stands out!
Coleman 23 his number now!
Cahill 17 another!

I see Beto at 14 could be one to remember if he has a big impact.

I'd have 69 myself… 😁

Jason Kearton
Paul Gerrard
Steve Simonsen
Iain Turner
Eliaquim Mangala
Yerry Mina
Neil Maupay

Now pick a best one from that lot!

Told you I had the list…

Pretty sure that pissed off Sgt was a kopite, get off the pitch.

Up there with the tic tac advert for halting our celebrations.

No 9, yes; No 2, yes; No 5 yes… however, what the hell, just get out there and produce the goods!

It's always been a bit fluid, but generally related to a player's position on the pitch, although that also differed.

Some went for 2(RB), 3(LB), 4 & 5 (CB), 7(RW), 11(Sheedy), then a mix between 6, 8 or 10 for midfield and 9 or 8 or 10 for forwards.

But then some teams had a number 4 as a midfielder, probably a throwback to the sweeper days.

I suppose there's always been a degree of preference. I remember Andy Gray's superstition and swapping numbers with Sharp.

I don't really care what numbers they wear, especially in the modern game.

Limpar!
Kanchelskis!
Cahill!
Lukaku!

Andrei, for me. Always. My all-time favourite evvtEvv–

Gareth Farrelly
Francis Jeffers
Scott Gemmill
Muhamed Besic
Idrissa Gana Gueye
and Alex Iwobi

How can you even pick 1 from these 10??? Gareth has to be in with a shout.

Some numbers are easy – Tom Davies the best player to ever wear the #41 shirt, or Ellis Simms the #50 – but the debate on others would be brilliant.

Season 1 number 14
Season 2 number 24
Season 3 number 34
Season 4 number 19
Season 5 number 29

Do we also remember those charging runs from the back - which always ended up with him shooting from 25 years and missing each time. Blue Mist descended. But what a man, what a player.

And Oumar never wore the 24 or 34 shirt - only ever assigned to him (unless he played in some mickey mouse cup with that shirt).

As a kid, that team spoiled me. We were brilliant the season before as well, so 69-70 didn't come out of the blue, unlike 84-85.

Just checked with that most wonderful of sites to ever clear up an argument https://www.evertonresults.com/index.htm. and we are both right. United home and away, both midweek and 10 days into the season it was P4 W4

Only missed one other home match that season - believe we beat West Brom 2-0 and I was in London on a school trip. I had forgotten that Alan Whittle scored in 6 consecutive games in that run-in.

I remember being intrigued by the Stoke Programme, which called itself "The Ceramic City Clipper".

Fuck, I'm an old git.

Everton squad for Premier League season 2023-24 (* indicates homegrown player):

Goalkeepers: Billy Crellin*, Andy Lonergan*, Joao Virginia*, Jordan Pickford*

Defenders: Ryan Astley*, Seamus Coleman, Ben Godfrey*, MacKenzie Hunt*, Kyle John*, Michael Keane*, Vitalii Mykolenko, Nathan Patterson, James Tarkowski*, Ashley Young*

Midfielders: Arnaut Danjuma, Dele Alli*, Abdoulaye Doucoure, James Garner*, Andre Gomes, Idrissa Gana Gueye, Jack Harrison*, Dwight McNeil*, Amadou Onana

Forwards: Beto, Dominic Calvert-Lewin*

Under-21 list includes: Jarrad Branthwaite, Youssef Chermiti, Lewis Dobbin, Katia Kouyate, Stanley Mills, Francis Okoronkwo, Tyler Onyango, Lewis Warrington, Reece Welch.