EVERTON have confirmed the appointment of Sean Dyche as the club’s new manager.

Dyche has agreed a two-and-a-half-year contract until June 2025 and will take charge for the first time for the Blues’ Premier League clash against Arsenal at Goodison Park on Saturday 4 February.

Standing next to him on the touchline will be Dyche's assistant manager Ian Woan who worked with him at both Burnley and Watford.

Wirral-born Woan grew up in Heswall and went to Pensby High School before spending time as a young player with Manchester United and Manchester City.

Woan didn’t make the breakthrough into League football until signing for Brian Clough’s Nottingham Forest from Runcorn in 1990 and it was at the City Ground where he met a young Dyche who was struggling to make his way into the first team as a centre back.

The winger went on to spend a decade In Nottingham, playing over 250 games, winning two promotions and playing in the UEFA Cup before spells with Barnsley and Swindon Town.

Woan then played in the United States, either side of a spell back in England with Shrewsbury Town, before launching a coaching career in Swindon’s youth set-up.

After working with Rushden and Diamonds, he then returned to Forest as a youth coach before joining Portsmouth in 2007, where he went from working with the under-18s to first-team coach under former Burnley boss Steve Cotterill.

Woan then joined Watford as assistant to Dyche in June, 2011, spending 12 months at Vicarage Road before following Dyche north to Turf Moor just over a year later to continue a successful partnership which saw the pair twice take Burnley into the Premier League.

The 55-year-old is now back on Merseyside and will hope he and Dyche could be the men to steer Everton away from Premier League relegation.