Annual Report and Accounts 2015
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COVER SEPERATE DOC ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT CHAIRMAN’S EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS | 5 MANAGER’S REPORT MANAGER’S WELCOME TO REPORT CEO’S EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB COMPANY LIMITED REVIEW SEASON 2014/15 ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS CONTENTS DIRECTORS AUDITOR W Kenwright CBE Chairman Deloitte LLP EITC J V Woods Deputy Chairman Chartered Accountants 06 08 10 R I Earl & Statutory Auditor Chairman’s Manager’s CEO’s Sir P D Carter CBE (Deceased 23 April 2015) Horton House Statement Report Report Exchange Flags CHIEF EXECUTIVE Liverpool L2 3PG R Elstone FINANCIAL REVIEW 12 52 56 DEPUTY CHIEF EXECUTIVE BANKERS 2014/15 EITC Financial Barclays Bank PLC Season CEO’s Review D Barrett-Baxendale MBE Review Report Liverpool North Group COMPANY SECRETARY 337/339 Stanley Road Bootle G Ingles Liverpool 60 84 92 REGISTERED OFFICE L20 3EB Premier ACCOUNTS Accounts First Team Goodison Park REGISTRARS Statistics League Fan Survey Liverpool L4 4EL Capita IRG COMPANY REGISTRATION The Registry Northern House 96 NUMBER Woodsome Park Club 36624 Fenay Bridge TEAM STATISTICS FIRST Honours List Huddersfield West Yorkshire HD8 0GA PREMIER LEAGUE SURVEY PREMIER LEAGUE CLUB HONOURS CLUB CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT CHAIRMAN’S 6 | EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS EVERTON FOOTBALL CLUB ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNTS | 7 MANAGER’S REPORT MANAGER’S CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT REPORT CEO’S BILL KENWRIGHT 2014/15 SEASON REVIEW SEASON 2014/15 ready and so committed to wearing the football club, to build a winning mentality quality and potential we have in our squad. unveil on derby day will be a permanent blue shirt he loves and Romelu announcing and a winning team. Roberto’s mentality We look forward to many more moments memorial and it’s important that to the world that it was “time to write a is resolute and relentless. This is what like these in the coming seasons. Evertonians and all football fans know that new chapter”. Ross and John had agreed makes him such a remarkable man and a the truth is finally being told because of new long-term contracts alongside man I believe will definitely take the Club TRULY THE PEOPLE’S CLUB these relentlessly determined people who Roberto, Rom had well and truly shattered forward. Roberto will be the first to admit The work we do as a Club at the heart demanded answers. That’s the victory this our transfer record... and we dared to that you can’t get it right all of the time of our community, impacting lives and year. What they have to go through after dream of the silverware which for so long but I’m convinced that during 2015/16 the changing them for the better, was further what they’ve already had to go through for we have craved. But, despite all of our happiness we felt will return and we will endorsed at The Stadium Business Awards, all those years is unthinkable, but they’re hopes and endeavours, it wasn’t to be. get to that position which we all want held at the Camp Nou in Barcelona. winning. And it’s just a privilege to be able EITC so much. to say that there’s a little bit of Goodison We were fully deserving of our place on Everton in the Community embodies that will always be theirs. the European stage, having secured a The Manager’s commitment to bring young precisely why we are The People’s Club, points total in the previous season that, in players through into the first team, and with 60 community programmes, ranging We will remember in our prayers, too, AN EVERTON LEGEND almost any other year, would have secured the impressive work of our Academy was from mental health projects to young Kenny Rea, Kenny Birch, Matt Woods, Champions League football. And so it was demonstrated many times throughout the offenders, delivered day-in and day-out. Tony McNamara and Andy King. Andy was The great loss that we all felt as with great enthusiasm and excitement season. Seeing four Academy graduates Denise Barrett-Baxendale leads Everton in my hero, then my mate, and then my lad. FINANCIAL REVIEW Evertonians when Sir Philip Carter passed that we ventured into Europe, marvelling make their Goodison debuts against the Community in the most inspiring way Like all Evertonians, I fell in love with him, away remains uppermost in my mind as at our travelling fans and securing wins Krasnodar and the emergence of and was thoroughly deserving of the MBE his energy, his skills and his passion for I begin to reflect on the 2014/15 season. against Wolfsburg, Lille and Young Boys Brendan Galloway in the last few league she received last year. As always, I’d like the Blues from the moment he joined us Sir Philip was a wonderful friend who gave Bern, which brought us to the threshold games made us all proud and excited to thank my colleagues at Everton in the from Luton in 1976. The love affair was, of outstanding and enduring service to the of a Europa League quarter-final place. about the future. Community for their ongoing endeavours course, well and truly cemented in October Club. A true gentleman, a loyal colleague, The way we turned away ends blue all to make a real difference in people’s lives. 1978 when he scored that famous goal to The passion of our fans was demonstrated an inspirational leader – the tributes have across the continent was so uplifting give us a 1-0 victory over the Reds. If the in the amount of sell-out games at These endeavours even extended to all been stated, along with our undying and, to that band of Evertonians in goal itself wasn’t special enough, Goodison - 12 out of 19 in the Kyiv where children at School #309 ACCOUNTS love and gratitude for his great life. particular who ventured to the shores of Andy’s celebrations made it even more Premier League - and the highest average in the Poznyaky district of the city were We will continue to miss him terribly. the Black Sea and the edge of the Crimea, so. And for the next season at least that attendance in over 10 years. Once again visited by our community staff and But it is some consolation at least, to I salute you! famous dual carriageway of Queen’s Goodison rocked, not only the stands but Club Ambassadors Graeme Sharp and us and to his family as well, particularly Drive, the one that delivers thousands of Our Europa campaign may have ended also the ‘bench’! Watch how the manager Ian Snodin who delivered a series of the wonderful Lady Rita, that he will Evertonians to Goodison Park for every disappointingly in Kyiv, but we enjoyed and the coaching staff celebrated the special coaching sessions. After meeting always have a place at the heart of this game, was rechristened King’s Drive. some great times on our European goals in our thrilling victory against the Ukraine Ambassadors when they great Club. My hero, my mate, my lad - and too young TEAM STATISTICS FIRST adventure and will be stronger for the Manchester United and you’ll see what I were over here, I know how ‘gobsmacked’ to go. HIGH HOPES experience. And don’t let us forget we mean! Should the opportunity progress, they were at what Everton does for its were the last British team competing in of course, to play our part in the community, and indeed what Everton did Instinctively, I know how much Everton THANK YOU Europe. What we can all be certain of is regeneration of our local community to welcome them. The statement by Football Club means to each and every one that not once did the group of lads who here in north Liverpool and to move to Yulia Yurova from UNICEF Ukraine that, Finally, and most importantly as ever, of you. So it would be wrong for me not to wear the Everton shirt step onto the Walton Hall Park, we will do so, but, for “You are just the best!” and later that I say thanks to each and every one of acknowledge that last season was not the pitch not wanting to win for the fans, now, Goodison will remain a passionate, evening seeing our smiling manager you Evertonians. Your dedication and one Evertonians had hoped for. not wanting to get us further up the vibrant home for our Club. embraced by a group of Chernobyl children passionate support of the team and SURVEY PREMIER LEAGUE Buoyed by the enduring spirit, the bold league than the position we finished. prior to our game at the Olympic Stadium the Club is awe-inspiring and makes this The enduring memory of the season, of new style of football, the return of the are memories that warm the soul. Club so unique and special. Home and What we can be certain about, too, is course, will be of those five seconds or School of Science in Roberto’s first season away, your loyalty and the emotions you that there is no more hard-working a so that it took for the ball to come to EVERTON REMEMBERS and excited by the quality of this group wear on your shirt sleeves humble me. manager in the land than the manager our captain, Phil Jagielka, and for him of players, the beginning of the season We remembered again the victims and the Truly. You are the best. Thank you. we have, the manager who immersed to fire his thunderbolt shot into the top was a world of sunshine and happiness, families of the victims of Hillsborough, himself in our history from day one and corner of the Liverpool goal – thanks Jags! COYB.