Everton vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers: Head-to-head record and past meetings

Head-to-head record

Previous meetings: 147

Wolves wins: 52

Draws: 30

Everton wins: 65

One of the oldest head-to-heads in English football, the first-ever meeting between Wolverhampton Wanderers and Everton was fought all the way back in 1889, a Division One encounter that the West Midlands outfit convincingly won 5-0.

However, Everton have since overtaken the Old Gold in the wins column, prevailing in 65 of their 147 meetings to date while suffering 52 losses, and the two sides have also shared the spoils on 30 occasions.

Victories have generally been harder to come by for Everton in more recent seasons, though, as they went six without a win against Wolves from November 2021 to December 2023, losing five of those contests and drawing the other at Molineux.

The Toffees snapped that miserable sequence in ruthless fashion in December 2024, however, storming to a 4-0 win at Goodison Park thanks partly to two Craig Dawson own goals, which made the centre-back just the fifth Premier League player to score multiple own goals in a game.

Wolves rectified some of those mistakes in March 2025, holding Everton to a 1-1 draw at Molineux as a Jack Harrison opener was cancelled out by Marshall Munetsi's first goal for the Old Gold.

The most recent clash between the sides took place in January 2026, when a resurgent Wolves came from behind to earn a point in a 1-1 draw at the Hill Dickinson Stadium. The otherwise unremarkable will stalemate will live long in the memory as the game that saw Everton's Michael Keane and Jack Grealish both sent off.

In September 2025, the Old Gold beat the Merseysiders 2-0 at Molineux in the EFL Cup thanks to a strike from Munetsi within half an hour and a late sealer from summer signing Tolu Arokodare - his first goal for the club.

That victory served as revenge for a 3-2 defeat in the top flight just weeks earlier when first-half goals from Beto and Iliman Ndiaye gave the Toffees a 2-1 lead at the interval, and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall scored the winning goal early in the second half.

In the FA Cup, Everton and Wolves contested a controversial final in the 1892-93 season, which was won 1-0 by the Old Gold on a day where overcrowding saw spectators spill out onto the field.

The Toffees unsuccessfully requested a replay after the sheer number of fans hampered both sides' rhythm, and the Merseyside outfit were also on the wrong end of the most emphatic scoreline in this fixture, a 7-0 obliteration in a 1939 First Division game.

With 10 strikes in matches against Wolves, former Everton forward Joe Royle is the highest documented scorer in this particular matchup, while Raul Jimenez struck five versus the Toffees during his time with the Old Gold.