Everton fans have a big future to look forward to at the Hill Dickinson Stadium, with a lot of promise after a stadium and some solid recruitment – and Football Manager 2026 has issued an insight into what the near future could look like.
Moving away from the trials and tribulations of poor form that came at Goodison Park, Everton have done well at their new ground, taking 15 points from 11 Premier League games to fire themselves immediately away from Premier League relegation danger.
A number of top incoming stars such as Jack Grealish, and current standouts like Iliman Ndiaye have wowed fans at the new ground, and there is optimism for a future to see the Toffees become a top-half outfit once again.
And with Football Manager 2026 recently being released, Everton News has delved five years into the future to see just where the club ends up – including managerial changes, top transfers and any potential trophy wins.
Everton on Football Manager 2026: Managerial changes
In terms of managers, David Moyes didn’t last the five-year course. After taking over from Sean Dyche, the Scot left at the start of the 2026-27 season, having kept Everton in the Premier League by the skin of his teeth in 17th.
Bizarrely, he left the Hill Dickinson Stadium just three days after the season started to take the vacancy as Slovakia manager, where he remains by July 2030. That is one of the weirder managerial moves we’ve seen in Football Manager history…
He was replaced by relatively unknown Irish coach Paddy McCarthy.
The Crystal Palace icon had been Middlesbrough’s gaffer for the 2025-26 campaign, and stayed the course at Everton for two years before being sacked in December 2028 after a poor run of results left the Toffees on 12 points from 14 games. At least he steadied the ship of Moyes’ departure.
| Managers | Stint |
|---|---|
| David Moyes | January 2025-August 2026 |
| Paddy McCarthy | August 2026-December 2028 |
| Cameron Campbell | December 2028-January 2029 |
| Max Porter | January 2029-present |
Another relatively unknown boss took his place in Cameron Campbell. The Scottish coach was Rangers’ youth manager until 2024, before taking a job at Tottenham in real life. Switching to Swansea in-game, he spent just six months in South Wales before being poached by Everton, where he lasted just over a year before being given the boot.
Replaced by Max Porter – Arsenal’s under-21 manager in real life – Everton picked up their form, and he remains in the post on the game.
Everton on Football Manager 2026: League finishes and cup runs
An incredibly poor run of form from David Moyes’ men saw them finish on just 35 points, level with Burnley at the end of the 2025-26 season – but a better goal difference of just two saw the Toffees stay in the Premier League. A win on the penultimate day of the season against Sunderland, coupled with Burnley failing to take a point against Wolves on game week 38, kept Everton in the division.
A 15th-placed finish under Paddy McCarthy saw the Blues survive by seven points the season after, and a 10th-placed standing in 2027-28 saw fans happy with progress. But his awful start the following season meant it was another underwhelming campaign, only hitting 40 points, though it resulted in a 13th-placed finish.
Another 15th-placed finish beckoned in 2029-30, and having mustered just 39 points, improvement will be needed going forwards.
| Season | Matches played | Premier League results | Cup results |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 2 | 3-0 loss (away), 1-1 draw (home) | N/A |
| 2026-27 | 2 | 5-1 loss (home), 1-0 loss (away) | N/A |
| 2027-28 | 2 | 2-1 win (away), 1-0 loss (home) | N/A |
| 2028-29 | 3 | 2-2 draw (away), 3-0 loss (home) | 2-1 loss (away, FA Cup) |
| 2029-30 | 3 | 3-0 loss (away), 1-1 draw (home) | 2-0 loss (away, Carabao Cup) |
As for cup runs, there were a couple of decent campaigns. In fact, in the 2025-26 season that saw Everton survive by the skin of their teeth, David Moyes dragged the club to a Carabao Cup semi-final. However, a 7-4 aggregate defeat by Newcastle denied a Wembley trip, before an FA Cup exit to Coventry City in the fourth round marked their worst result of the season.
The Toffees’ best FA Cup run was to the quarter-final in 2027-28, where they suffered a 2-1 loss to Arsenal to once again deny a Wembley appearance.
Everton on Football Manager 2026: Transfer activity
Everton managed some solid business over the five-year spell.
No activity was undertaken in 2025-26, though a number of deals went through the following summer. Notably, Atalanta star Nicola Zalewski was the marquee signing at £24million, whilst Beto was the only major sale at £12.5m to Southampton – though Al-Nassr landed a free for Vitaliy Mykolenko with his contract expiring.
Harry Wilson joined in June 2027 at £39million, with no major outgoings, and transfer activity in 2028-29 was also at a minimum with Chris Fuhrich from Stuttgart being the major acquisition at just £5.25million, again with no huge departures.
2029-30 was the biggest window, spending £52million on Leicester youngster Jeremy Monga, whilst Croatian star Dominik Prpic and Tygo Land came in for a combined £35million.
Zalewski then departed for £41.5million, but no other major outgoings happened.
It means that players such as Jordan Pickford, Jake O’Brien, Jarrad Branthwaite, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, James Garner, Tyler Dibling and Iliman Ndiaye remain at the club. Jack Grealish, however, joined Zenit St Petersburg from Manchester City, just a year after his loan spell at Everton.
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