Everton's match against Manchester City at Hill Dickinson Stadium will be the club's seventh Monday night match this season
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - JANUARY 26: Everton fans hold banners aloft during the Premier League match between Everton and Leeds United at Hill Dickinson Stadium on January 26, 2026 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)
Everton supporters hold banners aloft during the Premier League match against Leeds United on January 26, 2026(Image: Simon Stacpoole/Offside/Offside via Getty Images)
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Everton manager David Moyes feels for the young Evertonians who are being denied the chance to watch their side as much this season.
The Blues welcome Manchester City to Hill Dickinson Stadium on Monday (8pm kick-off) for a vital clash in the fight for the title and the battle for Europe.
It will be the seventh time that Everton have played a fixture on a Monday night this season. That will be the most in the Premier League, one more than Manchester United, who currently have also played six games on the first day of the week.
The ECHO reported last month that large numbers of Blues fans feel angry and frustrated at the number of matches being moved to accommodate rival clubs and broadcasters.
Everton’s Fan Advisory Board (FAB), in a letter written to the Premier League, said the club’s schedule this season was “placing unacceptable strain on supporters”, adding the Monday fixtures in particular were “forcing fans to absorb additional travel costs, rearrange work and family commitments, and navigate significant logistical challenges at short notice”.
And at his press conference to preview the clash with treble-chasing Man City, Moyes was asked about the situation.
The Blues boss said: "We're all getting used to different sorts of things. From our culture, we wouldn't have had Monday night football, in years gone by, but look, we need the television companies to help with our funding, and all the things that go with it, so Monday night is a football night.
"And if you're good enough, and you get into Europe, you don't have too many Monday night games, so all those things are better.
"But the people I feel most for are the supporters. For the younger generation of supporters, Monday night football is not a good thing because kids can't get to the game because a lot of them are going to school. It's a late night and all the things that come from that.
"I think midweeks have been accepted in football but most folk find it difficult to get kids to games on a Monday night.
"I think we've got to make sure we don't discourage that generation of supporters by not giving them the opportunity to get to games."
The ECHO reported last month that Everton have been left vulnerable to Monday night matches by virtue of a perfect storm of issues largely outside their control.
The Premier League declined to comment when approached by the ECHO but pointed to its own warnings ahead of the campaign that there would be more anti-social match timings and late changes to games.
This, it said, was due to the expanded European competitions impinging on its own calendar and that nine English clubs had qualified for them.
The pool of teams available to fill the antisocial slots was therefore significantly reduced this season. Of them, the Blues are one of the biggest and - now pushing for Europe themselves - have also been one of the more entertaining.