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Everton Football Club are an association football team based in Liverpool, England. They are one of the best supported clubs in English football with a strong support base around Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and North Wales. Everton fans are known colloquially as Evertonians or Blues. == Demographics == Everton have a large fanbase by virtue of being an original founder member of The Football League and contesting more seasons in the top flight than any other club. For the first nine seasons in the football league Everton had the highest average league attendances of any team in England.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=toffeeweb )〕 Recently the club has averaged around 36,000-38,000 in league games at Goodison Park which has a capacity of 40,158. This is despite having the most obstructed views and poor sight lines in the Premier League. A 2006–07 fan survey by the Premier League returned listed 15% of Everton fans as being unhappy with sight lines at Goodison Park. Only 19% described matchday views as "very good" as compared to Arsenal fans who described the Emirates Stadium as having 75% positive sight lines.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Premier League )〕 For the 2009–10 season Everton sold over 24,000 season tickets.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Liverpool Echo )〕 In the same season, around 7,000 Evertonians travelled to Lisbon for a match against Benfica. For the 2014-15 season the club had 27,500 season ticket holders. The 2004–05 Premier League survey, which asked almost 1400 Everton fans various questions, found that 40% of matchday fans live within 10 miles of Goodison Park. All together 77% of Everton fans lived less than 49 miles away from the stadium.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Premier League )〕 The 2007–08 found that on average Everton fans live 44 miles away from Goodison Park, 3 miles less than the average and a huge difference compared with rivals Liverpool and Manchester United who were 82 and 78 miles respectively from their stadium.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Premier League )〕 Everton draws the vast majority of its support from Merseyside, Cheshire, Lancashire and North Wales. Although no conclusive studies have been undertaken, supporters are more prominent in areas such as Aintree, Anfield, Bootle, Croxteth, Everton, Kirkdale, Vauxhall and Walton with the northern parts of Liverpool seen as Everton dominated. Fans can tag their location on the (Everton Fan Map ) on the official club website. Everton has a large overseas support, especially in Australia, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Thailand and United States of America. The 2003–04 Premier league survey found that 71% of Everton fans earn under £30,000 a year. This is the lowest average income in the league. Chelsea meanwhile had the lowest percentage with only 41% of fans earning below £30,000 per year.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Premier League )〕 The 2002–03 report found Everton had the highest number of season ticket holders from the two lowest social classifications with 16%, 1% more than Sunderland.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Everton F.C. )〕 A study in August 2012 by property website Zoopla found that houses around Goodison Park were the cheapest of any Premier League club averaging £66,000, almost £30,000 less than 19th placed Villa Park with £94,000. Chelsea's Stamford Bridge came in highest with average house prices of £1,467,000. .〔(【引用サイトリンク】 publisher=Mirror.co.uk )〕 For the 2013-14 season the club unveiled a new club badge which received overwhelmingly negative response. A fan named Danny Zocek made a petition online demanding the badge be changed, and the petition attracted over 24,000 signatures. The club announced they would be scrapping the design at the end of the season and would liaise with fans for the new design. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Everton F.C. supporters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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