List of Aston Villa F.C. records and statistics

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This article details all-time records. For a season-by-season statistical breakdown see List of Aston Villa F.C. seasons

The Aston Villa team of the late 19th century

Aston Villa Football Club are an English professional association football club based in Aston, Birmingham, who currently play in the Premier League. The club was founded in 1874 and have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were founding members of the Football League in 1888 and the Premier League in 1992.[1] They are one of the oldest and most successful football clubs in England, having won the First Division Championship seven times and the FA Cup seven times.[2] In 1982 the club became one of only five English clubs to win the European Cup.[3]

This list encompasses the major 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[]

The 1982 European Cup winning squad celebrate the 25th anniversary of their win.
The Aston Villa team of 1896–97 with the First Division Championship and the FA Cup

Aston Villa have won honours both domestically and in European cup competitions. Their most recent domestic honour was a League Cup win in 1996.[4][5]

European[]

  • European Super Cup:
    • Winners (1): 1982–83
    • Winners (1): 2001
    • Co-winners (1): 2008[C]

Domestic[]

League[]

Cups[]

Youth[]

Friendly and exhibition[]

  • :
    • Winners (1):

Player records[]

See also: List of Aston Villa F.C. players

Appearances[]

  • Youngest first-team player: Jimmy Brown, 15 years 349 days (v. Bolton Wanderers, Division Two, 17 September 1969).[6]
  • Oldest first-team player: Brad Friedel, 40 years 4 days (v. Liverpool, Premier League, 22 May 2011).

Most appearances[]

Competitive matches only. Each column contains appearances in the starting eleven, followed by appearances as substitute in brackets.[7]

Rank Player Years League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
1 Scotland Charlie Aitken 1959–1976 559 (2) 34 (1) 61 (0) 3 (0) 657 (3)
2 England Billy Walker 1919–1934 478 (0) 53 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 531 (0)
3 England Gordon Cowans 1976–1985
1988–1991		 399 (15) 8 (1) 40 (4) 39 (2) 508 (22)
4 England Joe Bache 1900–1915 431 (0) 42 (0) 0 (0) 1 (0) 474 (0)
5 Scotland Allan Evans 1977–1989 374 (6) 26 (0) 42 (1) 24 (0) 466 (7)
6 England Nigel Spink 1979–1996 357 (4) 28 (0) 45 (0) 19 (1) 449 (5)
7 England Tommy Smart 1919–1933 405 (0) 47 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 452 (0)
8 England Gareth Barry 1997–2009 353 (12) 19 (2) 29 (0) 22 (4) 423 (18)
9 England Johnny Dixon 1945–1961 392 (0) 38 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 430 (0)
10 England Dennis Mortimer 1975–1985 315 (1) 21 (0) 38 (0) 30 (0) 404 (1)
Other competitions include European Cup, UEFA Cup and Intertoto Cup

Goalscorers[]

  • Most goals in a season: Tom 'Pongo' Waring, 50 goals in 1930–31 season.[8]
  • Most league goals in a season: Tom 'Pongo' Waring, 49 goals in 1930–31 season.[9]
  • In the 1899–1900 season Billy Garraty 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.

Top goalscorers[]

Competitive matches only, appearances including substitutes appear in brackets.[10]

Rank Player Years League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
011 England Billy Walker 1919–1933 214 (478) 30 (53) 0 (0) 0 (0) 244 (531)
022 England Harry Hampton 1904–1920 215 (339) 27 (34) 0 (0) 0 (0) 242 (373)
033 England John Devey 1891–1902 169 (268) 18 (38) 0 (0) 0 (2) 187 (308)
044 England Joe Bache 1900–1914 168 (431) 17 (42) 0 (0) 0 (1) 185 (474)
055 England Eric Houghton 1927–1946 160 (361) 10 (31) 0 (0) 0 (0) 170 (392)
066 England Tom Waring 1928–1935 159 (216) 8 (10) 0 (0) 0 (0) 167 (226)
077 England Johnny Dixon 1945–1961 132 (263) 12 (38) 0 (0) 0 (0) 144 (430)
088 Northern Ireland Peter McParland 1952–1962 97 (293) 19 (36) 4 (11) 0 (1) 120 (341)
099 England Billy Garraty 1897–1908 96 (224) 15 (31) 0 (0) 1 (3) 112 (258)
1010= Wales Dai Astley 1931–1936 92 (165) 8 (8) 0 (0) 0 (0) 100 (173)
1010= England Len Capewell 1921–1930 88 (143) 12 (13) 0 (0) 0 (0) 100 (156)
Olof Mellberg, one of only three Villa players to play in two World Cups while at the club. He also captained Sweden during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[11]

International[]

This section refers only to caps won while an Aston Villa player.

Record transfer fees paid[]

Emiliano Buendía, Aston Villa's record signing. (Pictured here playing for Norwich City)

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 for Jack Grealish in August 2021. The sale at the time was a British transfer record.[17] The highest initial fee Aston Villa have ever paid for a player was £33 million, rising to £38 million with add-ons, for Argentinian midfielder Emiliano Buendía from Norwich City in June 2021.

[18]

Rank Player Fee From Date Ref.
1 Argentina Emiliano Buendía 096£33m (rising to £38m) England Norwich City 2021-06June 2021 [18]
2 Jamaica Leon Bailey 096£30m Germany Bayer Leverkusen 2021-08August 2021 [19]
3 England Ollie Watkins 096£28m (rising to £33m) England Brentford 2020-09September 2020 [20]
4 England Danny Ings 096£25m (rising to £30m) England Southampton 2019-07August 2021 [21]
5 Brazil Wesley 096£22m Belgium Club Brugge 2019-06June 2019 [22]

Managerial records[]

See also: List of Aston Villa F.C. managers
  • First manager/secretary of the club: George Ramsay, in charge of 1327 games from August 1884 to 5 May 1926.[9]
  • Longest serving manager: George Ramsay.[9]
  • Most successful manager: George Ramsay, 6 League Championships and 6 FA Cups.[9]

Club records[]

Goals[]

Points[]

Matches[]

Firsts[]

  • First match: Aston Villa 1–0 Aston Brook St Mary's, .[28]
  • First league match: Wolverhampton Wanderers 1–1 Aston Villa, 8 September 1888.[28]
  • First match at Villa Park: friendly; 3–0, Blackburn Rovers, on 17 April 1897.[29]
  • 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.[28]
  • First League Cup match: Aston Villa 4–1 Huddersfield Town, 12 October 1960.[30]
  • First European match: Royal Antwerp 4–1 Aston Villa, 17 September 1975, UEFA Cup.[31]

Record wins[]

Record defeats[]

  • Record defeat: 0–8 (v. Chelsea, Premier League, 23 December 2012).
  • Record FA Cup defeat: 1–8 (v. Blackburn Rovers, 3rd round, 16 February 1889).[9]
  • Record League Cup defeat: 1–6 (v. West Bromwich Albion, 2nd round, 14 September 1966).[5]
  • Record European defeat: 1–4 (v. Royal Antwerp, 1st round UEFA Cup, 17 September 1975).[35]

Attendances[]

  • Highest attendance at Villa Park:
  • Lowest attendance at Villa Park:
    • League game: 2,900 (v. Bradford City, Division One, 13 February 1915).[36]
  • Highest attendance at Wellington Road:
  • Lowest attendance at Wellington Road

Winning & Losing Runs[]

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.[46]
  • First football club in the world to appoint a paid manager, George Ramsay in 1886.[47]
  • First top-flight club to appoint a manager from outside the British Isles, Jozef Vengloš in July 1990.[48]
  • Villa Park was the first English stadium to stage international football in three different centuries.[49]
  • Villa Park has hosted more FA Cup Semi-Finals than any other ground, 55 to date.[50]
  • Highest FA Cup attendance (pre-World War I): 121,919 (Aston Villa vs Sunderland, Final at Crystal Palace, 19 April 1913)[51]
  • First English football club to have a Black player on the scoresheet in the English Football League, when Willie Clarke scored on Christmas Day 1901, in a 3–2 victory over Everton.[52]

Aston Villa in UEFA competitions[]

Below is Aston Villa's record in European and Intercontinental competitions sanctioned by UEFA. As of December 2012, they are one of only five English clubs to have won the European Cup, which they did in 1982.[5][53] Aston Villa's scores are noted first in both results columns.

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away
1975–76 UEFA Cup 1R  Belgium Royal Antwerp 0–1 1–4
1977–78 UEFA Cup 1R  Turkey Fenerbahçe 4–0 2–0
2R  Poland Górnik Zabrze 2–0 1–1
3R  Spain Athletic Bilbao 2–0 1–1
QF  Spain Barcelona 2–2 1–2
1981–82 European Cup (Winners) 1R  Iceland Valur 5–0 2–0
2R  East Germany Dynamo Berlin 0–1 2–1
QF  Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv 2–0 0–0
SF  Belgium Anderlecht 1–0 0–0
F  West Germany Bayern Munich 1–0
1982 UEFA Super Cup (Winners) F  Spain Barcelona 3–0 0–1
1982 Intercontinental Cup F  Uruguay Peñarol 0–2
1982–83 European Cup 1R  Turkey Beşiktaş 3–1 0–0
2R  Romania Dinamo București 4–2 2–0
QF  Italy Juventus 1–2 1–3
1983–84 UEFA Cup 1R  Portugal Vitória de Guimarães 5–0 0–1
2R  Soviet Union Spartak Moscow 1–2 2–2
1990–91 UEFA Cup 1R  Czechoslovakia Baník Ostrava 3–1 2–1
2R  Italy Internazionale 2–0 0–3
1993–94 UEFA Cup 1R  Slovakia Slovan Bratislava 2–1 0–0
2R  Spain Deportivo La Coruña 0–1 1–1
1994–95 UEFA Cup 1R  Italy Internazionale 1–0 0–1
2R  Turkey Trabzonspor 2–1 0–1
1996–97 UEFA Cup 1R  Sweden Helsingborg 1–1 0–0
1997–98 UEFA Cup 1R  France Bordeaux 1–0 0–0
2R  Spain Athletic Bilbao 2–1 0–0
3R  Romania Steaua București 2–0 1–2
QF  Spain Atlético Madrid 2–1 0–1
1998–99 UEFA Cup 1R  Norway Stromsgodset 3–2 3–0
2R  Spain Celta Vigo 1–3 1–0
2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3R  Czech Republic Dukla Pribram 3–1 0–0
SF  Spain Celta Vigo 1–2 0–1
2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup (Winners) 3R  Croatia Slaven Belupo 2–0 1–2
SF  France Rennes 1–0 2–1
F   Switzerland Basel 4–1 1–1
2001–02 UEFA Cup 1R  Croatia Varteks 2–3 1–0
2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3R   Switzerland Zürich 3–0 0–2
SF  France Lille 0–2 1–1
2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup (Co-Winners) 3R  Denmark Odense 1–0 2–2
2008–09 UEFA Cup 2QR  Iceland Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar 1–1 4–1
1R  Bulgaria Litex Lovech 1–1 3–1
GS  Netherlands Ajax 2–1
GS  Czech Republic Slavia Prague 1–0
GS  Slovakia Žilina 1–2
GS  Germany Hamburg 1–3
R32  Russia CSKA Moscow 1–1 0–2
2009–10 UEFA Europa League P/O  Austria Rapid Wien 2–1 0–1
2010–11 UEFA Europa League P/O  Austria Rapid Wien 2–3 1–1
Key
  • 2QR = Second Qualifying Round
  • P/O = Play-off Round
  • 1R = First Round
  • 2R = Second Round
  • 3R = Third Round
  • GS = Group Stages
  • R32 = Round of 32
  • QF = Quarter-Finals
  • SF = Semi-Finals
  • F = Final

Record by competition[]

Correct as of 2 October 2008

Competition Played Won Drawn Lost Goals for Goals against
European Cup 15 9 3 3 24 10
UEFA Cup 50 23 12 15 71 51
UEFA Europa League 3 1 1 1 3 3
UEFA Intertoto Cup 16 6 4 6 21 17
UEFA Super Cup 2 1 0 1 3 1
FIFA Intercontinental Cup 1 0 0 1 0 2
Total 87 40 20 27 122 84

Footnotes[]

A. ^ The Premier League took over from the First Division as the top tier of the English football league system 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 Football League Championship, while the Second Division is now known as Football League One.
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.[54]
D ^ The home team are listed first.

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  • Holt, Frank Lee; Bishop, Rob (2010). Aston Villa: The Complete Record. Derby: Derby Books Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85983-805-1.
  • Ward; Griffin, Jeremy (2002). The essential history of Aston Villa. Headline book publishing. ISBN 0-7553-1140-X.

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