According to The Sun, Everton has gone 31 years without winning a trophy, the longest drought among all teams in England's top four professional leagues.

A striking table also illustrates why fans have every reason to be frustrated.

Statisticians jokingly refer to this ranking as the "England League of Misery," measuring teams by the length of their trophy droughts.

A trophy drought is defined as a period with no major trophies won and no promotions achieved.

In simple terms, Everton has accomplished little since winning the FA Cup in 1995.

Over the past 31 years, they have remained in the Premier League but have made only one appearance in an FA Cup final—in 2009 at Wembley, where they lost to Chelsea.

Remarkably, among the 92 teams across England's four professional leagues, no club currently has a longer trophy drought than Everton.

Colchester United, managed by Danny Cowley in the fourth tier, has endured a 20-year wait since their promotion to League One in 2006; Lee Grant's Walsall has waited 19 years.

But Everton's drought began more than a decade before theirs.

For a club that won league titles in the 1960s and competed among Europe's elite in the mid-1980s, this decline is difficult for supporters to accept.

David Moyes brought stability to the Toffees and consistently exceeded expectations between 2002 and 2013.

His impressive work on Merseyside earned him the Manchester United job, where he succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson, though that spell proved less successful.

Since then, Everton has cycled through numerous managers at a rapid pace.

Roberto Martinez, Ronald Koeman, Sam Allardyce, Marco Silva, Carlo Ancelotti, Rafa Benítez, Frank Lampard, and Sean Dyche have all managed the club over the past 13 years, culminating in Moyes' return.

This period has been turbulent.

The appointment of former Liverpool manager Rafa Benítez in 2021 proved controversial with supporters, particularly after Carlo Ancelotti departed for Real Madrid.

Just four months into Benítez's tenure, Everton suffered a humiliating 5-2 home defeat to Watford.

In the 2023-24 season, the club received a points deduction for breaching financial regulations.

The team has also narrowly escaped relegation on multiple occasions, and with a new stadium under construction, such a fall would have catastrophic consequences.

Current owners Friedkin Group have put the club up for sale less than two years after purchasing Everton.

At the very least, this presents a potential opportunity for the Toffees to rebuild under ambitious new ownership and management.

Beyond the 92 professional league teams, some non-league clubs face even more dire circumstances.

Gainsborough Trinity, founded in 1873, has endured a remarkable 153-year wait for a major trophy; Ashton United and Stalybridge Celtic, both over a century old, have never won a significant honour.

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