Aston Villa Football Club Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional Association football, football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English foot ...

are an English professional

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular f ...

club based in

Aston Aston is an area of inner Birmingham, in the county of the West Midlands (county), West Midlands, England. Located immediately to the north-west of Birmingham city centre, Central Birmingham, Aston constitutes a wards of the United Kingdom, war ...

Birmingham Birmingham ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands (county), West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands (region), West Midlands region, in England. It is the Lis ...

, who currently play in the

Premier League The Premier League is a professional association football league in England and the highest level of the English football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the English Football Lea ...

. The club was founded in 1874 and were founding members of the

Football League The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in Association football around the world, the w ...

in 1888, as well as the

in 1992. They are one of the oldest football clubs in England, having won the First Division Championship seven times and the

FA Cup The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during ...

seven times. In

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

, the club became one of only six English clubs to win the

European Cup The UEFA Champions League (UCL) is an annual club association football competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) that is contested by top-division European clubs. The competition begins with a round robi ...

. This list encompasses the honours won by Aston Villa and the records set by the players and the club. The player records section includes details of the club's leading goalscorers and those who have made the most appearances in first-team competitions. Attendance records at Villa Park are also included in the list.

Honours

Aston Villa have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. Their most recent domestic honour was a League Cup win in 1996.

European

: ** Winners (1):

European Super Cup The UEFA Super Cup is an annual super cup football match organised by UEFA and contested by the winners of the two main European club competitions: the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League. The competition's official name was original ...

: ** Winners (1): 1982–83 *

Intertoto Cup The UEFA Intertoto Cup (from , "between" and , " betting pool"),Most precisely, from (football pool); cf. originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition between European clubs. The competition was discon ...

: ** Winners (1):

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

** Co-winners (1):

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

Domestic

League

Football League First Division The Football League First Division was the top division of the Football League in England from 1888 until the end of the 1991–92 season, when its teams broke away to form the Premier League. From 1992 to 2004, the name First Division was g ...

: ** Winners (7):

1894 Events January * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United States. * Ja ...

1896 Events January * January 2 – The Jameson Raid comes to an end as Jameson surrenders to the Boers. * January 4 – Utah is admitted as the 45th U.S. state. * January 5 – An Austrian newspaper reports Wilhelm Röntgen's dis ...

1897 Events January * January 2 – The International Alpha Omicron Pi sorority is founded, in New York City. * January 4 – A British force is ambushed by Chief Ologbosere, son-in-law of the ruler. This leads to a punitive expedit ...

1899 Events January * January 1 ** Spanish rule formally ends in Cuba with the cession of Spanish sovereignty to the U.S., concluding 400 years of the Spanish Empire in the Americas.''The American Monthly Review of Reviews'' (February 1899), p ...

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15 ...

1910 Events January * January 6 – Abé people in the French West Africa colony of Côte d'Ivoire rise against the colonial administration; the rebellion is brutally suppressed by the military. * January 8 – By the Treaty of Punakha, t ...

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

** Runners up (9):

1889 Events January * January 1 ** The total solar eclipse of January 1, 1889 is seen over parts of California and Nevada. ** Paiute spiritual leader Wovoka experiences a vision, leading to the start of the Ghost Dance movement in the Dakotas ...

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 10 – The Aceh Sultanate was fully annexed by the Dutch forces, deposing the last sultan, marking the end of the Aceh War that have lasted for al ...

1908 This is the longest year in either the Julian or Gregorian calendars, having a duration of 31622401.38 seconds of Terrestrial Time (or ephemeris time), measured according to the definition of mean solar time. Events January * January ...

1911 Events January * January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia. * January 3 ** 1911 Kebin earthquake: An earthquake of 7.7 m ...

1913 Events January * January – Joseph Stalin travels to Vienna to research his ''Marxism and the National Question''. This means that, during this month, Stalin, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito are all living in the city. * January 3 &ndash ...

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as the First World War, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip ...

1931 Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir I ...

1933 Events January * January 11 – Australian aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first commercial flight between Australia and New Zealand. * January 17 – The United States Congress votes in favour of Philippines independen ...

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

: ** Runners up (1):

1993 The United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly of the United Nations designated 1993 as: * International Year for the World's Indigenous People The year 1993 in the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands had only 364 days, since its ...

Football League Second Division The Football League Second Division was the second level division in the English football league system between 1892 and 1992. Following the foundation of the FA Premier League, the Football League divisions were renumbered and the third tier ...

: ** Winners (2):

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Janu ...

** Runners up (2):

1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

1988 1988 was a crucial year in the early history of the Internet—it was the year of the first well-known computer virus, the Morris worm, 1988 Internet worm. The first permanent intercontinental Internet link was made between the United State ...

**Play-Offs (1):

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Football League Third Division The Football League Third Division was the third tier of the English football league system in 1920–21 Football League, 1920–21 and again from 1958–59 Football League, 1958 until 1991–92 Football League, 1992. When the FA Premier League ...

: ** Winners (1):

1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using Solar time, ...

Cups

: ** Winners (7):

1887 Events January * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the United States Navy to lease Pearl Har ...

1895 Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...

1905 As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...

1920 Events January * January 1 ** Polish–Soviet War: The Russian Red Army increases its troops along the Polish border from 4 divisions to 20. ** Kauniainen in Finland, completely surrounded by the city of Espoo, secedes from Espoo as its ow ...

1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

** Runners up (4):

1892 In Samoa, this was the only leap year spanned to 367 days as July 4 repeated. This means that the International Date Line was drawn from the east of the country to go west. Events January * January 1 – Ellis Island begins processing imm ...

1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

Football League Cup The English Football League Cup, often referred to as the League Cup and currently known as the Carabao Cup for sponsorship reasons, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout competition in men's domestic football in England. Orga ...

: ** Winners (5):

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

1977 Events January * January 8 – 1977 Moscow bombings, Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (no ...

1994 The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations. In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

** Runners up (4):

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses (Solar eclipse of February 25, 1971, February 25, Solar eclipse of July 22, 1971, July 22 and Solar eclipse of August 20, 1971, August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 1971 lunar eclip ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2020 The year 2020 was heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led to global Social impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, social and Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic disruption, mass cancellations and postponements of even ...

FA Charity Shield The Football Association Community Shield (formerly the Charity Shield) is English football's annual match contested at Wembley Stadium between the champions of the previous Premier League season and the holders of the FA Cup. If the Premier ...

: ** Winners (1):

(shared) ** Runners up (3):

Sheriff of London Charity Shield The Sheriff of London Charity Shield, also known as the Dewar Shield, was a football competition played annually between the best amateur and best professional club in England, though Scottish amateur side Queen's Park also took part in 1899. Th ...

: ** Winners (2):

1901 December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the unification of multiple British colonies in Australia on January ...

** Runners up (1):

Football League War Cup The Football League War Cup was an association football tournament held between 1939 and 1945. It aimed to fill the gap left in English football by the suspension of the FA Cup during the Second World War. Though it was often referred to in conte ...

: ** Winners (1): 1944

Youth

FA Youth Cup The Football Association Youth Challenge Cup is an English football competition run by The Football Association for under-18 sides. Only those players between the age of 15 and 18 on 31 August of the current season are eligible to take part. It ...

: ** Winners (5): 1972, 1980, 2002, 2021, 2025 * FA Premier League Cup ** Winners (1): 2018 *

HKFC Soccer Sevens The HKFC Soccer Sevens or Hong Kong Soccer Sevens, known as the HKFC Standard Chartered Soccer Sevens for sponsorship purposes, is an annual invitational seven-a-side football tournament which is organised and hosted by Hong Kong Football Club. He ...

**Winners (7): 2002, 2004, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2016, 2023 * NextGen Cup: ** Winners (1):

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

Friendly and exhibition

Football World Championship The Football World Championship, also known as the United Kingdom Championship or the International Club Championship, was an exhibition association football match played between the English and Scottish club champions (either national cup or lea ...

** Winners (3):

, 1894,Aston Villa v. Celtic.
The Scotsman, 10 April 1894, scan via London Hearts Supporters Club 1900 (shared)
The Scottish Referee, 4 May 1900, scan via London Hearts Supporters Club * West Bromwich Charity Cup ** Winners (1): 1890 (shared) *

Bass Charity Vase The Bass Charity Vase is a friendly association football tournament founded in 1889 in Burton upon Trent to raise funds for medical and hospital charities. The trophy was donated by Lord Burton and Hamar Bass the great-grandsons of William Bass ...

** Winners (3): 1893, 1894, 2018 *Dublin Tournament ** Winners (1): 2003 *

Peace Cup The Peace Cup was an invitational pre-season friendly football tournament for club teams which was held every two years by the Sunmoon Peace Football Foundation. History and format Since 2003, the Peace Cup is being held every two years, the Su ...

: ** Winners (1):

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

*Cup of Traditions **Winners (1): 2017 *Queensland Champions Cup **Winners (1): 2022 *Al Wahda Challenge Cup **Winners (1): 2022 *

Orange Trophy The Orange Trophy (, ) is an annual friendly football tournament hosted by Valencia CF and first played in 1959. Wins by team Performance by nation References Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundat ...

**Winners (1): 2023

Player records

Appearances

* Youngest first-team player: Jimmy Brown, 15 years 349 days (v.

Bolton Wanderers Bolton Wanderers Football Club ( ) is a professional association football, football club based in Horwich, Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England, which competes in EFL League One, League One, the third level of the Englis ...

, Division Two, 17 September 1969). * Oldest first-team player:

Brad Friedel Bradley Howard Friedel (born May 18, 1971) is an American professional soccer coach and former player who played as a goalkeeper. Friedel played 84 games for the United States national team between 1992 and 2005, and represented his country a ...

, 40 years 4 days (v.

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

, 22 May 2011).

Most appearances

''Competitive matches only. Each column contains appearances in the starting eleven, followed by appearances as substitute in brackets.'' :''Other competitions include European Cup, UEFA Cup and Intertoto Cup''

Goalscorers

* Most goals in a season:

Tom 'Pongo' Waring Thomas Waring (12 October 1906 – 20 December 1980) was an English professional association association football, footballer. Nicknamed "Pongo" after a famous cartoon of the time called Pongo the Pup, Waring is one of Aston Villa F.C., Aston ...

, 50 goals in 1930–31 season. * Most league goals in a season: Tom 'Pongo' Waring, 49 goals in 1930–31 season.Ward, Adam; Griffin, Jeremy; pp.192–193 * In the 1899–1900 season

Billy Garraty William Garraty (6 October 1878 – 6 May 1931) was a footballer who played as a forward. He started his career in the early years of professional football in England, and played for Aston Villa from August 1897 to September 1908. Before play ...

became the top goalscorer in world football scoring 27 goals in just 33 league games and a total 30 goals in 39 league and cup games. * Most consecutive matches scored in: Len Capewell, 8 games, 1925–26 season.

Top goalscorers

''Competitive matches only. Number of appearances in brackets.''

International

''This section refers only to caps and honours won while an Aston Villa player.'' * Most capped international player:

Olof Mellberg Erik Olof Mellberg (; born 3 September 1977) is a Swedish football manager and former professional player who was last the manager of St. Louis City in Major League Soccer. During his career, Mellberg played as a defender, with his longest ...

, 69 caps for

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between July 2001 and July 2008.

England

* First capped players for

England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ...

: Arthur Alfred Brown and

Howard Vaughton Oliver Howard Vaughton (9 January 1861 – 6 January 1937) was an England international footballer who played as an inside left. Vaughton played for England on five occasions, scoring six goals. Five of his goals were scored in a 13–0 victor ...

on 18 February 1882. * Most capped player for England:

Gareth Southgate Sir Gareth Southgate (born 3 September 1970) is an English professional Association football, football manager and player, who played as a Defender (association football), defender and midfielder. A Crystal Palace F.C., Crystal Palace Crystal ...

, 42 caps.

World Cup

* First player to play at the World Cup finals:

Peter McParland Peter James McParland (25 April 1934 – 4 May 2025) was a Northern Irish footballer who played as an outside left. He was the last surviving member of the Aston Villa team which won the 1957 FA Cup, in which game he scored twice. McParland wo ...

for

Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ; ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, part of the United Kingdom in the north-east of the island of Ireland. It has been #Descriptions, variously described as a country, province or region. Northern Ireland shares Repub ...

against

Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...

on 8 June 1958.Hayes, Dean; p.114 * First player to score at the World Cup finals: Peter McParland for Northern Ireland against

Argentina Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...

on 11 June 1958. * First player to score in a World Cup for England:

David Platt David Andrew Platt (born 10 June 1966) is an English retired football coach and player who played as a midfielder. Born in Chadderton, Lancashire, Platt began his career as an apprentice at Manchester United before moving to Crewe Alexandra, wh ...

for

against

Belgium Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. Situated in a coastal lowland region known as the Low Countries, it is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeas ...

on 26 June 1990. * Most World Cup finals goals: Peter McParland, 5 (

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

). * Most World Cup appearances: Paul McGrath, 9 (

and

), Steve Staunton, 8 (

and

2002 The effects of the September 11 attacks of the previous year had a significant impact on the affairs of 2002. The war on terror was a major political focus. Without settled international law, several nations engaged in anti-terror operation ...

, 8 (

and

2006 2006 was designated as the International Year of Deserts and Desertification. Events January * January 1– 4 – Russia temporarily cuts shipment of natural gas to Ukraine during a price dispute. * January 12 – A stampede during t ...

). * Most successful players at the World Cup: **''Winner'': Emi Martínez (

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

). **''3rd Place'':

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(

Ron Vlaar Ron Peter Vlaar (; born 16 February 1985) is a Dutch former Association football, footballer who played as a Defender (association football)#Centre-back, centre-back. Vlaar came up through AZ Alkmaar, AZ's youth ranks. After making his professi ...

(

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

). **''4th Place'': David Platt (

Record transfer fees

This section lists the record transfer fees paid by the club for a player. The highest transfer fee received by the club is the £100 million fee paid by

Manchester City Manchester City Football Club is a professional association football, football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the English football league system, top flight of Football in England, English footbal ...

for

Jack Grealish Jack Peter Grealish (born 10 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a winger or attacking midfielder for club Manchester City and the England national team. Grealish joined Aston Villa at the age of six, and made ...

in August 2021. The sale at the time was a British transfer record. The highest initial fee Aston Villa have ever paid for a player was £50 million for Belgian midfielder

Amadou Onana Amadou Ba Zeund Georges Mvom Onana (born 16 August 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for club Aston Villa and the Belgium national team. He is known for his aerial abilities as well as his defensive abiliti ...

from Everton in July 2024.

Fees Paid

Fees Received

Managerial records

* First manager/secretary of the club:

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, in charge of 1327 games from August 1884 to 5 May 1926. * Longest serving manager: George Ramsay. * Most successful manager: George Ramsay, 6 League Championships and 6 FA Cups.

Club records

Goals

* Most league goals scored in a season: 128 (in 42 matches in the 1930–31 season, Division One). * Fewest league goals scored in a season: 27 goals (in 38 matches in the 2015–16 season, Premier League).Ward, Adam; Griffin, Jeremy; pp.300–319 * Most league goals conceded in a season: 110 goals (in 42 matches in the 1935–36 season, Division One). * Fewest league goals conceded in a season: 32 goals (in 46 matches in the 1971–72 season,

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).Hayes, Dean; p.102

Points

* Most points in a season: ** Two points for a win: 70 points (in 46 matches in the 1971–72 season, Division Three).Hayes, Dean; p.131 ** Three points for a win: 83 points (in 46 matches in the 2017–18 season,

Championship In sport, a championship is a competition in which the aim is to decide which individual or team is the champion. Championship systems Various forms of competition can be referred to by the term championship. Title match system In this sys ...

). * Fewest points in a season: ** Two points for a win: *** 18 points (in 22 matches in the 1890–91 season, Division One). *** 29 points (in 42 matches in the 1966–67 season, Division One / 1969–70 season, Division Two). ** Three points for a win: *** 17 points (in 38 matches in the 2015–16, Premier League).

Matches

Firsts

* First match: Aston Villa 1–0 Aston Brook St Mary's, March 1874.Hayes, Dean; p.62 * First league match:

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1–1 Aston Villa, 8 September 1888. * First match at Villa Park: friendly; 3–0,

Blackburn Rovers Blackburn Rovers Football Club is a professional football club based in Blackburn, Lancashire, England, which competes in the , the second level of the English football league system. They have played home matches at Ewood Park since 1890. Th ...

, on 17 April 1897. * First FA Cup match: Stafford Road Works 1–1 Aston Villa, 13 December 1879. Aston Villa won the replay 3–1 on 24 January 1880. * First League Cup match: Aston Villa 4–1

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, 12 October 1960. * First European match:

Royal Antwerp Royal Antwerp Football Club (commonly referred to as Royal Antwerp or simply Antwerp) is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Antwerp. They compete in the Belgian Pro League, the top flight of Belgian football. Founded in 1 ...

4–1 Aston Villa, 17 September 1975, UEFA Cup.

Record wins

* Record

win: 12–2 (v.

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, 12 March 1892). * Record

win: 7–1 (v.

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, 11 February 1995). * Record

win: 13–0 (v.

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, 1st round, 3 October 1886). * Record League Cup win: 8–1 (v. Exeter City, 2nd round, 9 October 1985). * Record European win: 5–0 (v. Valur in the European Cup, 16 September 1981, v.

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in the UEFA Cup, 28 September 1983 and v.

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in the Europa Conference League, 23 August 2023).

Record defeats

* Record defeat: 0–8 (v. Chelsea,

, 23 December 2012). * Record FA Cup defeat: 1–8 (v. Blackburn Rovers, 3rd round, 16 February 1889). * Record League Cup defeat: 1–6 (v. West Bromwich Albion, 2nd round, 14 September 1966). * Record European defeat: 1–4 (v.

, 1st round UEFA Cup, on 17 September 1975).Ward, Adam; Griffin, Jeremy; p.273

Attendances

* Highest attendance at

Villa Park Villa Park is a association football, football stadium in Aston, Birmingham, with a seating capacity of 42,918. It has been the home of Premier League club Aston Villa F.C., Aston Villa since 1897. The ground is less than a mile from both Witt ...

: ** League game: 69,492 (v.

, 27 December 1949).Hayes, Dean; p.13 ** FA Cup game: 76,588 (v.

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, sixth round, 2 March 1946). ** As an all-seater stadium: 42,824 (v.

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, 29 January 2025). * Lowest attendance at Villa Park: ** League game: 2,900 (v.

Bradford City Bradford City Association Football Club is an English professional football club in Bradford, West Yorkshire. The club competes in , the third tier of English football, and is managed by Graham Alexander. The club was founded in 1903 and ...

, Division One, 13 February 1915). *Highest attendance at Wellington Road: **League game: 20,000 (v.

Sunderland Sunderland () is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England. It is a port at the mouth of the River Wear on the North Sea, approximately south-east of Newcastle upon Tyne. It is the most p ...

, 5 October 1895; v. Everton, 26 September 1896).Paul Smith & Shirley Smith (2005) ''The Ultimate Directory of English & Scottish Football League Grounds Second Edition 1888–2005'', Yore Publications, p143, **FA Cup game: 26,849 (v.

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, fifth round, 7 January 1888). *Lowest attendance at Wellington Road **League game: 600 (v.

, 27 October 1888).

Streaks

* Longest winning runs (consecutive wins): **Multiple competitions: ***11 games in the

1896–97 Football League The 1896 in association football, 1896–1897 in association football, 97 season was the ninth season of The Football League. Final league tables Beginning in the 1894–95 season, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goa ...

1897–98 Football League The 1897– 98 season was the tenth season of The Football League. Final league tables Beginning in the 1894–95 season, clubs finishing level on points were separated according to goal average (goals scored divided by goals conceded). In case ...

and

1896–97 FA Cup The 1896–97 FA Cup was the 26th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The cup was won by Aston Villa, who defeated Everton 3–2 in the final o ...

(20 March – 18 September 1897) **League: ***10 games in the

2018–19 EFL Championship The 2018–19 EFL Championship (referred to as the Sky Bet Championship for sponsorship reasons) was the third season of the EFL Championship under its current name, and the twenty-seventh season under its current league structure. Norwich City w ...

(2 March 2019 – 22 April 2019) * Longest unbeaten runs (without loss): **Multiple competitions: ***22 games in the

, and

(16 January 1897 – 18 September 1897) ** League: ***13 games in the

1898–99 Football League The 1898–99 season was the 11th season of The Football League. Two teams were able to win the First Division title going into the final day of the season: Aston Villa and Liverpool; second-placed Liverpool travelled to Villa Park for the final ...

(17 September 1898 – 24 December 1898)Ian Laschke: ''Rothmans Book of Football League Records 1888–89 to 1978–79''. Macdonald and Jane's, London & Sydney, 1980. ***13 games in the

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(9 November 2008 – 7 February 2009) * Longest losing run (consecutive losses): **11 games in the

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(23 March 1963 – 20 April 1963) **11 games in the

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(14 February 2016 – 30 April 2016) * Longest run without a win: ** Multiple competitions: *** 16 games in the

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and

2015–16 Football League Cup The 2015–16 Football League Cup (known as the Capital One Cup for sponsorship purposes) was the 56th season of the Football League Cup. It began on 11 August 2015 and concluded on 28 February 2016. It was a knock-out competition for the top 92 fo ...

(22 September 2015 – 12 January 2016 ** League *** 19 games in the

(14 August 2015 – 1 January 2016)

National records

*Most League Cup matches played (252) and won (148) * All-Time record for the most top-flight goals scored in a season, scoring 128 in season 1930–31. * First football club in the world to appoint a paid manager,

in 1886. * First top-flight club to appoint a manager from outside the

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in July 1990. * Villa Park was the first English stadium to stage international football in three different centuries. * Villa Park has hosted more FA Cup Semi-Finals than any other ground, 55 to date. * Highest FA Cup attendance (pre-World War I): 121,919 (Aston Villa vs Sunderland, Final at Crystal Palace, 19 April 1913) * First football club to have a player score in every round of the FA Cup, when captain Archie Hunter led the club to its first FA Cup trophy in 1887. * First football club to pay more than £100 for a player, for

Willie Groves Patrick William Groves (20 August 1868 – 13 February 1908)
, Spartacus Educational was a Scottish associat ...

in 1893. * First English football club to have a

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player on the scoresheet in the

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, when Willie Clarke scored on Christmas Day 1901, in a 3–2 victory over Everton. *First English club to have a player score a hat-trick of penalty kicks in a league match, Billy Walker doing so in a 7–1 win against

in November 1921. * First football club to have a player win both the PFA Young Player of the Year and PFA Players' Player of the Year in the same season, Andy Gray in 1976–77.

Aston Villa in UEFA competitions

As of July 2023, Aston Villa are one of only six English clubs to have won the

, doing so in

. Aston Villa's scores are noted first in both results columns.

List of matches

;Key * 2QR = Second qualifying round * P/O = Play-off round * 1R = First round * 2R = Second round * 3R = Third round * GS = Group stage * LP = League phase * R32 = Round of 32 * R16 = Round of 16 * QF = Quarter-finals * SF = Semi-finals * F = Final

Record by competition

Footnotes

:A. The Premier League took over from the First Division as the top tier of the

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upon its formation in 1992. The First Division then became the second tier of English football, the Second Division became the third tier, and so on. The First Division is now known as the

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, while the Second Division is now known as

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. :B In 1981, the Charity Shield was shared in the event of a draw. :C Aston Villa won their 3rd round, final tie of the 2008 Intertoto Cup and were named a co-winner of the tournament, as a result they qualified for the 2008-09 UEFA Cup. The outright winner of the Intertoto Cup was the team that progressed furthest in the UEFA Cup that season, which was

SC Braga Sporting Clube de Braga (), commonly known as Sporting de Braga or just Braga, is a Portuguese sports club from the city of Braga. Best known for the men's professional football team playing in the Primeira Liga, the top flight of Portuguese foo ...

. :D The home team are listed first.

References

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External links

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Aston Villa Aston Villa Football Club (commonly referred to as simply Villa) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club, founded in 1874, compete in the Premier League, the top tier of English football. The team have p ...