Aston Villa F.C.
Full name | Aston Villa Football Club | ||
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Nickname(s) | The Villans The Lions | ||
Short name | Villa | ||
Founded | 1874 | ||
Ground | Villa Park | ||
Capacity | 42,657[1] | ||
Owner(s) | V Sports (Nassef Sawiris, Wes Edens & Atairos) | ||
Chairman | Nassef Sawiris[2] | ||
Head coach | Unai Emery | ||
League | Premier League | ||
2022–23 | Premier League, 7th of 20 | ||
Website | Club website | ||
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Aston Villa Football Club, commonly referred to as Villa, is a professional
Aston Villa has been a leading English club since the 1880s, when its team were pioneers of the modern passing game. This short, quick combination passing style was introduced by Scotsman George Ramsay, who was appointed as the world's first professional football manager in 1886. The club was influential in the sport's move to professionalism in 1885, and it was a Villa director, William McGregor, who founded the world's first Football League in 1888.[3][4][5][6]
George Ramsay's trophy haul of six League Championships and six FA Cups established Aston Villa as the most successful club in England, a position it held from the 1890s until the 1970s. Villa scored 128 goals in
Aston Villa was a founding member of the Premier League in 1992, one of just three clubs to have been founding members of both the Football League and the Premier League. The club regularly qualified for European football in the 1990s, but following a period in which the club struggled to compete with the high levels of spending of the leading clubs, Doug Ellis sold his stake in the club to American billionaire Randy Lerner, whose ownership of the club ended with Villa's first and only relegation from the Premier League in season 2015–16. The club returned to the Premier League in 2019.
During its history Villa has spent 110 seasons in the top-flight, the second highest of any club, and provided 77 England internationals, also the second highest of any club. Aston Villa is currently ranked 5th in the all-time English top flight table, since its creation in 1888[8] and is the seventh most successful club in English football by competitive honours.
Villa have a fierce local rivalry with
History
Formation and rise to prominence (1874−1886)
Aston Villa Football Club are believed to have formed
The infant club's fortunes changed forever when a young Scotsman called
Villa began to establish themselves as one of the best teams in the Midlands, winning their first honour, the
Victorian and Edwardian golden age (1886–1914)
Following the professionalisation of football in 1885, the club decided that it needed a full-time paid manager. The following advert was placed in the Birmingham Daily Gazette newspaper in June 1886:
'Wanted: manager for Aston Villa Football Club, who will be required to devote his whole time under direction of the committee. Salary £100 per annum. Applications with reference must be made not later than June 23rd to Chairman of the Committee, Aston Villa Club House, 6 Witton Road, Aston’
Villa received 150 applicants for the role, but with his strong association with the club George Ramsay was the overwhelming choice of the membership. Thus on 26 June 1886, Aston Villa appointed what has been described as the world's first professional football manager.[20]
Despite Villa founding the league, by 1893 they had yet to win it. Villa Committee Member
Aston Villa emerged as the most successful English club of the
Success continued into the
Relative decline and first relegation (1920–1939)
In January 1920,
The club appointed
Following relegation to the Second Division, the Villa board brought back the ageing former club chairman
Mediocrity and discontent (1945–1961)
Like all English clubs, Villa lost seven seasons to the Second World War, and that conflict brought several careers to a premature end.
Despite narrowly avoiding relegation the season before, Aston Villa's first trophy for 37 years came in the 1956–57 season when another former Villa player,
Deep malaise and revival (1961–1974)
Hitchens' goals brought him to the attention of Italian club
The following season the fans called for the board to resign as Villa finished 16th in the Second Division. With mounting debts and Villa lying at the bottom of Division Two, the board sacked Tommy Cummings (the manager brought in to replace Taylor), and within weeks the entire board resigned under overwhelming pressure from fans.[37] After much speculation, control of the club was bought by London financier Pat Matthews, who brought in Doug Ellis as chairman in December 1968.[37] Ellis later recalled that "you could write your name in the dust, window frames were rotting, the smell of failure and imminent financial ruin hung in the air"; one of their first acts was to raise £205,835 in a share issue which cleared the club's debts. Doug Ellis's first managerial appointment was the outspoken Scottish manager Tommy Docherty, who after initial success, was sacked after 13 months in charge with the club at the foot of Second Division. His replacement was former club captain and reserve team manager Vic Crowe, who could not prevent Villa being relegated to the Third Division for the first time in its history at the end of the 1969–70 season.
The following season Villa surprised everyone by beating
Back among the elite (1974–1992)
Following a 14th-place finish in the Second Division, Crowe was replaced in August 1974 by
Aston Villa were back among the elite as Saunders continued to mould a winning team, finishing 4th in the league and winning a further League Cup in 1976–77, with the formidable strike partnership of Brian Little and Andy Gray, who became the first player to win both the PFA Young Player of the Year and PFA Players' Player of the Year in the same season.
The 1970s was an era of boardroom unrest at Villa Park. Ron Saunders had a strained relationship with Doug Ellis, resenting Doug's perceived interference in football matters. Over time Ellis became an isolated figure on the board, as the other directors sided with Saunders. He was ousted as chairman in 1975 to make way for Sir William Dugdale. He remained on the board until 1979, when he left the club after a protracted power struggle with majority shareholder Ron Bendall. With Ellis gone, Saunders became all-powerful as manager.
Villa achieved a seventh top-flight league title in 1980–81, with players such as Gordon Cowans, Tony Morley and captain Dennis Mortimer leading the club to its first top-flight title in 71 years. Remarkably, they did so using just 14 players, with seven players being ever-presents. Villa's Birmingham-born forward Gary Shaw was named 1980-1981 PFA Young Player of the Year.
To the surprise of commentators and fans, Ron Saunders quit halfway through the
The following season the defence of the European Cup ended in a quarter-final defeat to
However, Villa bounced back quickly, achieving promotion the following year under
24 years in the Premier League (1992–2016)
Villa were one of the founding members of the Premier League in 1992, one of just three clubs to have been founding members of both the Football League in 1888 and the Premier League, along with
Following a dip in form, Doug Ellis sacked Little and replaced him with another former Villa player
Ellis appointed Graham Taylor for a second spell in February 2002, but a 16th-place finish in the league led to his replacement with David O'Leary in June 2003. After a sixth-place finish in his first season, Villa the finished 10th and 16th, leading to O'Leary leaving in the summer of 2006.[49]
After 23 years as chairman and single biggest shareholder (approximately 38%), Ellis sold his stake in Aston Villa due to ill-health at the age of 82. American businessman
Just five days before the opening day of the
In February 2012, the club announced a financial loss of £53.9 million,
Takeovers, Championship years and promotion (2016–present)
In June 2016, Chinese businessman Tony Xia bought the club for £76 million.[64] Former Chelsea boss Roberto Di Matteo was appointed as the club's new manager, but was sacked after just 12 games following a poor start to the season.[65] He was replaced by former Birmingham manager Steve Bruce.[66] Bruce led the team to finish fourth in the 2017–18 season, but lost in the 2018 EFL Championship play-off final to Fulham.
Following failure to secure promotion to the Premier League, the club faced significant financial difficulties. Following rumours that administration was imminent, Xia looked to sell the club.[67] On 20 July 2018 it was announced that the NSWE Group, a consortium consisting of Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and the American billionaire Wes Edens, were to invest in the football club. They purchased a controlling 55% stake in the club, and Sawiris took over the role of club chairman, appointing Christian Purslow as CEO.[68]
In October 2018, Bruce was sacked after winning only once in a nine match stretch.[69] He was replaced by Brentford manager and boyhood Villa fan Dean Smith,[70][71] who led the team to fifth place, and reaching the playoffs again—helped on by a club-record 10 league game winning streak. They reached the 2019 EFL Championship play-off final and defeated Derby County 2–1 to gain promotion back to the Premier League after a three-year absence.[72]
On the eve of Villa's Premier League return,
Aston Villa appointed former
Colours and badge
The club colours are a claret shirt with sky blue sleeves, white shorts with claret and blue trim, and sky blue socks with claret and white trim. They were the original wearers of the claret and blue. Villa's colours at the outset were royal blue caps and stockings, royal blue and scarlet "striped" (in the context of the time, hooped) jerseys, and white knickerbockers, one of the club rules including a provision that "no member can take part in a match without wearing the above uniform".[81] For a few years after that (1877–79) the team wore several different kits from all white, blue and black, red and blue to plain green. By 1880, black jerseys with a Scottish Lion Rampant embroidered on the chest were introduced by Villa's Scottish leaders William McGregor and George Ramsay. This remained the first choice strip for six years. On Monday, 8 November 1886, an entry in the club's official minute book states:
(i) Proposed and seconded that the colours be chocolate and sky blue shirts and that we order two dozen. (ii) Proposed and seconded that Mr McGregor be requested to supply them at the lowest quotation.
The chocolate colour later became claret.
A new badge was revealed in May 2007, for the
On 6 April 2016, the club confirmed that it would be using a new badge from the 2016–17 season after consulting fan groups for suggestions. The lion in the new badge has claws added to it, and the word "Prepared" was removed to increase the size of the lion and club initials in the badge.[11] In November 2022, following a fan-led vote, the club announced it would adopt a new badge for the following season.[84] The new badge's usage was later clarified to be exclusive to on-field kits and training wear by club president of business operations, Chris Heck, with the existing badge continuing to be utilized as the primary in all other channels.[85]
Kit manufacturers and sponsors
Tables of kit suppliers and shirt sponsors appear below:[80]
Years | Kit manufacturer | Kit sponsor | Sleeve Sponsor |
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1974–1981 | Umbro | No sponsor | No sponsor |
1981–1982 | Le Coq Sportif | ||
1982–1983 | Davenports Brewery | ||
1983–1984 | No sponsor | ||
1984–1985 | Mita Copiers
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1985–1987 | Henson | ||
1987–1990 | Hummel | ||
1990–1993 | Umbro | ||
1993–1995 | Asics | Müller | |
1995–1998 | Reebok | AST Computers
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1998–2000 | LDV Vans
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2000–2002 | Diadora | NTL | |
2002–2004 | Rover | ||
2006–2007 | 32Red | ||
2007–2008 | Nike | ||
2008–2010 | Acorns Children's Hospice | ||
2010–2011 | FxPro | ||
2011–2012 | Genting Casinos | ||
2012–2013 | Macron | ||
2013–2015 | Dafabet | ||
2015–2016 | Intuit Quickbooks
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2016–2017 | Under Armour | ||
2017–2018 | Unibet | ||
2018–2019 | Luke1977 | 32Red | |
2019–2020 | Kappa | W88 | BR88 |
2020–2021 | Cazoo | LT | |
2021–2022 | OB Sports | ||
2022–2023 | Castore | Kaiyun Sports
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2023– | BK8[86] | Trade Nation[87] |
Aston Villa's kit was produced by local manufacturers until 1974, when Umbro became the first kit supplier to have its logo on a Villa shirt. Aston Villa's first shirt sponsor was Davenports Breweries in the 1982–83 season.[80] Aston Villa forwent commercial kit sponsorship for the 2008–09 and 2009–10 seasons; instead advertising the charity Acorns Children's Hospice, the first deal of its kind in Premier League history.[88] The partnership continued until 2010 when a commercial sponsor replaced Acorns, with the hospice becoming the club's Official Charity Partner.[89] A shirt sleeve sponsor was used for the first time in the 2019–20 season with BR88 being displayed.[90]
Stadium
Aston Villa's current home venue is Villa Park; the team previously played at Aston Park (1874–1876) and Wellington Road (1876–1897). Villa Park is the largest football stadium in the English Midlands, and the eighth largest stadium in England. It has hosted 16 England internationals at senior level, the first in 1899, and the most recent in 2005. Thus, it was the first English ground to stage international football in three different centuries.[91] Villa Park is the most used stadium in FA Cup semi-final history, having hosted 55 semi-finals. In 2022, the club announced plans to rebuild the North Stand and part of the Trinity Road stand, which will take the maximum capacity over 50,000.[92]
The current training ground is located at Bodymoor Heath near Kingsbury in north Warwickshire, the site for which was purchased by former chairman Doug Ellis in the early 1970s from a local farmer. Although Bodymoor Heath was state-of-the-art in the 1970s, by the late 1990s the facilities had started to look dated. In November 2005, Ellis and Aston Villa plc announced a state of the art £13 million redevelopment of Bodymoor in two phases. The new training ground was officially unveiled on 6 May 2007, by then manager Martin O'Neill, then team captain Gareth Barry and 1982 European Cup winning team captain Dennis Mortimer, with the Aston Villa squad moving in for the 2007–08 season.[93]
It was announced on 6 August 2014, that Villa Park would appear in the FIFA video game from FIFA 15, with all other Premier League stadiums also fully licensed from this game onwards.[94]
Ownership
The first shares in the club were issued towards the end of the 19th century as a result of legislation that was intended to codify the growing numbers of professional teams and players in the Association Football leagues. FA teams were required to distribute shares to investors as a way of facilitating trading among the teams without implicating the FA itself. This trading continued for much of the 20th century until Ellis started buying up many of the shares in the 1960s. He was chairman and substantial shareholder of "Aston Villa F.C." from 1968 to 1975 and the majority shareholder from 1982 to 2006. The club were floated on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) in 1996, and the share price fluctuated in the ten years after the flotation.[95] In 2006 it was announced that several consortia and individuals were considering bids for Aston Villa.[96]
On 14 August 2006, it was confirmed that
On 18 May 2016, Randy Lerner agreed the sale of Aston Villa to
On 20 July 2018, it was announced that V Sports (at the time known as NSWE Group), a consortium consisting of Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and the American billionaire Wes Edens, were to invest in the football club. They purchased a controlling 55% stake in the club, and Sawiris took over the role of club chairman.[68] On 9 August 2019, following Villa's promotion to the Premier League, Companies House revealed that the remainder of Xia's shares had been bought out, and that Xia no longer had any stake in the club.[73]
On 15 December 2023, Aston Villa announced that Comcast-backed American investment firm Atairos would invest in V Sports, the ultimate parent company of the club.[101] The agreement, which saw Atairos obtain a stake of approximately 20% in V Sports, valued Villa at more than £500 million.[102] The deal with Atairos was finalised on 12 April 2024, with Atairos CEO and former Comcast CFO Michael Angelakis appointed to Villa's board of directors.[103][104]
Social responsibility
Aston Villa has a unique relationship with the Acorns Children's Hospice charity that is groundbreaking in English football.[105] In a first for the Premier League, Aston Villa donated the front of its kit shirts, usually reserved for high-paying sponsorships, to Acorns Hospice so that the charity would gain significant additional visibility and more funds.[106] Outside of the shirt sponsorship the club has paid for hospice care for the charity as well as regularly providing player visits to hospice locations.[107][108]
In September 2010, Aston Villa launched an initiative at Villa Park called Villa Midlands Food (VMF) where the club will spend two years training students with Aston Villa hospitality and events in association with Birmingham City Council. The club opened a restaurant in the Trinity Road Stand staffed with 12 students recruited from within a 10-mile (16 km) radius of Villa Park with most of the food served in the restaurant sourced locally.[109]
Aston Villa Foundation
In 2016, Aston Villa created a
In May 2021,
Supporters and rivalries
Aston Villa have a large fanbase and draw support from all over the
Like many English football clubs, Aston Villa has had several hooligan firms associated with it: Villa Youth, Steamers, Villa Hardcore and the C-Crew, the last mentioned being very active during the 1970s and 1980s. As can be seen across the whole of English football, the hooligan groups have now been marginalised.[117] In 2004, several Villa firms were involved in a fight with QPR fans outside Villa Park in which a steward died.[118] The main groupings of supporters can now be found in a number of domestic and international supporters' clubs. This includes the Official Aston Villa Supporters Club which also has many smaller regional and international sections.[119] There were several independent supporters clubs during the reign of Doug Ellis but most of these disbanded after his retirement.[97] The supporter group My Old Man Said formed to stand up for Villa supporters' rights, as a direct result of Villa supporters' protest against the club's appointment of Alex McLeish. The club's supporters also publish fanzines such as Heroes and Villains and The Holy Trinity.
Aston Villa's arch-rivals are Birmingham City, with games between the two clubs known as the
The rivalry with Birmingham City was renewed in 2016–17 when Aston Villa suffered relegation from the Premier League.[123] They were joined by West Brom two years later,[124] but Villa won promotion back to the Premier League in 2019.[125]
Statistics
Season 2023–24 is Aston Villa's 110th season in the top tier of English football. The only club to have spent longer in the top flight are
Aston Villa currently hold the record number of league goals scored by any team in the English top flight; 128 goals were scored in the 1930–31 season, one more than Arsenal who won the league that season for the very first time, with Villa runners-up.[128] Villa forward Archie Hunter became the first player to score in every round of the FA Cup in Villa's victorious 1887 campaign. Villa's longest unbeaten home run in the FA Cup spanned 13 years and 19 games, from 1888 to 1901.[129]
Aston Villa are one of six English teams to have won the European Cup. They did so on 26 May 1982 in Rotterdam, beating Bayern Munich 1–0 thanks to Peter Withe's goal.[130]
Honours
Aston Villa Football Club have won European and domestic league honours. The club's last English honour was in 1996 when they won the
Domestic
League
- First Division / Premier League (level 1)[131]
- Second Division / Championship (level 2)[131]
- Third Division (level 3)[131]
- Champions:1971–72
- Champions:
Cups
- FA Cup
- Football League Cup / EFL Cup
- FA Charity Shield
- Winners: 1981
- Sheriff of London Charity Shield
- Winners: 1901
- Winners:
European
- European Cup
- Winners: 1981–82
- European Super Cup
- Winners: 1982
- Intertoto Cup
Players
First-team squad
- As of 9 February 2024, official first team squad.[134]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Under-21s and Academy
Players under 21 who are listed in the official senior squad or have made their senior league debut are listed in the senior squad, this list below includes all academy players to have been named in a senior matchday squad.[135][136][137]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Out on loan
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Notable players
There have been many players who can be called notable throughout Aston Villa's history. These can be classified and recorded in several forms. The Halls of Fame and PFA Players of the Year are noted below. As of 2024[update], Aston Villa are only surpassed by Tottenham Hotspur (79), for providing the most
Aston Villa have had a number of players who have been successful on the international stage while they were at the club. Paul McGrath and Steve Staunton (Republic of Ireland), as well as Olof Mellberg (Sweden) all captained their national sides in the 1990, 2002 and 2006 World Cups respectively.[143][144] McGrath appeared nine times at the World Cup while at Aston Villa, a record for an active Villa player.[144] Emiliano Martínez has won all his senior Argentina caps to date while at Aston Villa, having debuted in June 2021. He is currently the most decorated international player for Aston Villa having won the 2021 Copa América, the 2022 Finalissima and the 2022 FIFA World Cup; he was awarded the Golden Glove awards at both the Copa América and World Cup; he was subsequently awarded The Best FIFA Goalkeeper award in February 2023 and the Yashin Trophy in October 2023.[145][146][147][148]
Three Aston Villa players have won the
In 2006 the club announced the creation of an "Aston Villa Hall of Fame." This was voted for by fans and the inaugural induction saw 12 former players, managers and directors named.[19] Former club captain Stiliyan Petrov was added to the list in May 2013.[150]
Non-playing staff
Corporate hierarchy
- Source:[151]
Position | Name |
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Executive Chairman | Nassef Sawiris |
Co-chairman | Wes Edens |
President of Business Operations | Chris Heck[152][153] |
Chief Commercial Officer | Ron Erskine[154] |
Chief Operating Officer | Ben Hatton[154] |
Vice President, Content & Digital | Ryan Disdier[154] |
Management hierarchy
Position | Name |
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Head Coach | Unai Emery[155] |
President of Football Operations | Monchi[156] |
First Team Coaching Department | |
Assistant Head Coach | Pako Ayestarán[157] |
First-Team Coach | Pablo Villanueva[157] |
Goalkeeping Coach | Francisco Javier Garcia[157] |
Individual Coach | Rodri |
Set-Piece Coach | Austin MacPhee[158] |
Analysis Department | |
Data/Video Analyst | Victor Manuel Manas[157] |
Performance Staff & Medical | |
Head of Strength & Conditioning | Moises de Hoyo[157] |
Performance Director | Jeremy Oliver |
Lead Physiotherapist | Alan Smith |
Head of Sport Medicine & Science | Ricky Shamji |
Head Psychologist | Martin Littlewood[159] |
Recruitment | |
Director of Football Operations | Damian Vidagany[156] |
Global Technical Role | Alberto Benito[160] |
Head of Recruitment | Vacant |
Head of Emerging Talents & Loans | Adam Henshall[161] |
Chief Scout | Alex Fraser[162] |
Scout | Pablo Rodriguez[160] |
Academy | |
Global Director of Football Development
and International Academies |
Matthew Kidson[163] |
Academy Manager | Mark Harrison[164] |
Assistant Academy Manager | Sean Verity |
Under-21 Head Coach | Josep Gombau[165] |
Under-21 Professional Development Coach | Dan Green[166] |
Under-21 Professional Development Coach | Peter Gilbert[166] |
Emerging Talent Programme Manager | Tony Carss[167] |
Under-18 Head Coach | Gerard Nash[168] |
Under-18 Professional Development Coach | Adem Atay |
Under-18 Professional Development Coach | Karl Hooper |
Notable managers
The following managers have all won at least one trophy when in charge or have been notable for Villa in the context of the League, for example Jozef Vengloš who holds a League record.
Name | Period | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Win%[D] | Honours | |
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From | To | |||||||
George Ramsay | 1 August 1884 | 31 May 1926 | 1,327 | 658 | 414 | 255 | 49.59 | 6 FA Cups, 6 Division One championships.[171] Inducted into the Aston Villa Hall of Fame in 2006.[150] |
Jimmy Hogan | 1 November 1936 | 1 September 1939 | 124 | 57 | 26 | 41 | 45.97 | Division Two champions[172] |
Eric Houghton | 1 September 1953 | 30 November 1958 | 250 | 88 | 65 | 97 | 35.20 | FA Cup winner. Inducted into the Aston Villa Hall of Fame in 2006.[173] |
Joe Mercer | 1 December 1958 | 31 July 1964 | 282 | 120 | 63 | 99 | 42.55 | |
Ron Saunders | 4 June 1974 | 9 February 1982 | 353 | 157 | 98 | 98 | 44.48 | 2 League Cups, Division One champions. Inducted into the Aston Villa Hall of Fame in 2006.[175]
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Tony Barton | 9 February 1982 | 18 June 1984 | 130 | 58 | 24 | 48 | 44.62 | European Super Cup[176]
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Jozef Vengloš | 22 July 1990 | 28 May 1991 | 49 | 16 | 15 | 18 | 32.65 | First manager not from Britain or Ireland to take charge of a top-flight club in England.[177] |
Ron Atkinson | 7 July 1991 | 10 November 1994 | 178 | 77 | 45 | 56 | 43.26 | League Cup winner[178]
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Brian Little
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25 November 1994 | 24 February 1998 | 164 | 68 | 45 | 51 | 41.46 | League Cup winner. Inducted into the Aston Villa Hall of Fame in 2006.[179]
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John Gregory | 25 February 1998 | 24 January 2002 | 190 | 82 | 52 | 56 | 43.16 | Intertoto Cup winner[180]
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Dean Smith | 10 October 2018 | 7 November 2021 | 100 | 43 | 20 | 37 | 43.00 | Championship play-off winner[181] |
In popular culture
An Aston Villa team were the subject, together with that of Sunderland, of one of the earliest football paintings in the world – possibly the earliest – when in 1895 the artist Thomas M. M. Hemy painted a picture of a game between the teams at Sunderland's then ground Newcastle Road.[183]
A number of television programmes have included references to Aston Villa over the past few decades. In the sitcom
In the 1952 film The Card, the main character Denry Machin (Alec Guinness) becomes a town councillor and purchases the rights to locally born Aston Villa player 'Callear', the "greatest centre-forward in England", for the failing local football club.
Villa have also featured on several occasions in prose. Stanley Woolley, a character in Derek Robinson's Booker shortlisted novel Goshawk Squadron is an Aston Villa fan and names a pre-war starting eleven Villa side. Together with The Oval, Villa Park is referenced by the poet Philip Larkin in his poem about the First World War, MCMXIV.[187] Aston Villa are also mentioned in Harold Pinter's play The Dumb Waiter.[188] The club receive a passing mention in Aldous Huxley's debut novel Crome Yellow.
Notable supporters of Aston Villa include
Aston Villa Women
Aston Villa have a women's football side that compete in the
Footnotes
- A. 2008 Intertoto Cup rounds to be named joint-winners and progress to the UEFA Cup, the format was changed in 2006 to award the Intertoto Trophy to the side progressing furthest in the UEFA Cup, which was S.C. Braga.
- B. Football League One.
- C ^ Saunders was never a player for Aston Villa; he was the manager from 1974 to 1982.
- D ^ Win% is rounded to two decimal places
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External links
- Official website
- Aston Villa News – Sky Sports
- Aston Villa F.C. on BBC Sport: Club news – Recent results and fixtures
- Aston Villa F.C. companies grouped at OpenCorporates
- Aston Villa results and records at statto.com
- Media related to Aston Villa F.C. at Wikimedia Commons