How Everton shirt sponsorship led to double David Moyes transfer swoop

It's been revealed that Everton's shirt sponsorship with Cazoo will come to an end following the culmination of the current season which will leave the Blues looking for a ninth company's logo to be emblazoned on their shirts.

We'll find out who that ends up being in the months ahead but for now, here’s a potted history of Everton’s shirt sponsors over the years.

The Blues went over a century without a sponsors logo on their shirt between 1878-1979 and for long periods they didn’t even have a club crest on their shirts but 100 years after they first adopted the name Everton, after previously being St Domingo’s, they took the plunge into football’s new commercial world.

Danish meat manufacturers Hafnia had the honour of becoming Everton’s first sponsor and their logo was on their shirts for both the 1984 FA Cup final win – the club’s first trophy for 14 years – and during the 1984/85 League Championship season.

Curiously though, despite this association with one of Goodison’s golden ages, Hafnia’s products, including corned beef; pork roll; jellied veal and ox tongue were never even available for UK customers and dissolving soon after their deal with Everton ended, their name was passed on to Tyson Foods – but again no link to ‘Iron Mike.’

With Everton back in the spotlight in 1985 having secured the title and the Cup-Winners’ Cup – what would prove to be their only European trophy so far – they managed to land a major global brand in the shape of their decade-long association with NEC (Nippon Electric Company), headquartered in the Minato ward in the Japanese capital of Tokyo.

An IT and network solutions firm, they were the world’s largest semiconductor company at the time as well as being one of the biggest