The first league game at Goodison Park took place on 3rd September 1892 with Nottingham Forest being the first visitors to Everton's new home. Everton's line up for the match was:

Jardine, Howarth, Dewer, Boyle, Holt, Robertson, Latta, Maxwell, Geary, Chadwick, Millward.

The game inself ended in a 2-2 draw with the honour of scoring the first competitive goal at Goodison going to Forest’s Horace Pike, with the first Everton goal coming from, inevitably, Fred Geary. The team’s first league victory at their new ground came in the next home game when they crushed Newton Heath, later to become Manchester united, 6-0.