Many pundits had tipped Everton for relegation that season: having escaped relegation from the Premier League by six points the previous season, Everton's task to stay in English football's top flight only seemed harder after the multimillion-pound transfer of teenage striker Wayne Rooney to Manchester United after setting the summer's European Championships VaEverton vakapukunyuka kudzikiswa kubva muPremier League nemapoinzi matanhatu mwaka wapfuura, basa raEverton rekugara muEngland nhabvu yepamusoro rakaratidzika kunge rakaoma mushure mekutengeswa kwemamirioni emapaundi ekuyaruka mutambi Wayne Rooney kuenda kuManchester United mushure mekumisikidza makwikwi eEuropean echirimo
chiedza. Zvisinei, mwaka wakazove wakabudirira kwazvo weEverton munhoroondo yePremier League sezvo vakaiswa pachinzvimbo chechina mumutambo ne 61pts. Everton yakaramba ichifambirana nevakadai seChelsea (95pts) neArsenal (83pts) kumusangano wePremier League kwehafu yekutanga yemwaka, ichipedza 2004 chete mapoinzi mashoma kubva kune vatungamiri Chelsea. Kunyangwe hazvo kurwira zita reEverton kwakapedzisira kwapera zvichitevera kutengeswa kwemutambi wepakati kunze kwechibvumirano Thomas Gravesen kuSpanish hofori Real Madrid, vakakwanisa kuona kukwikwidza kubva kune vanokwikwidza Liverpool (58pts) uye vamwe vekuchamhembe kwakadziva kumadokero Bolton Wanderers (58pts) kuti vapedze vari pachinzvimbo chechina, mapoinzi matatu pamberi pemapoka ese ari maviri. Izvi zvakachengetedza Toffees kukwanisa kuenda ku2005-06 Champions League, kwavaizopinda mumutambo mumutambo wechitatu wekukwanisa. Muzhizha, maneja David Moyes akapinza mari iyi muvatambi vakaita sevatambi veNetherlands neInter Milan Andy van der Meyde mukuedza kuchengetedza Everton munzvimbo yekuita dambudziko rakakomba rekukodzera kuEurope mwaka unotevera.