List of Aston Villa F.C. records and statistics

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 were founding members of the Football League in 1888, as well as the Premier League in 1992.[1] They are one of the oldest 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]

The Aston Villa team of the late 19th century

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

The 1982 European Cup winning squad celebrate the 25th anniversary of their win.
The Aston Villa team of 189697 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

League

Cups

Youth

Friendly and exhibition

Player records

Appearances

Most appearances

Competitive matches only. Each column contains appearances in the starting eleven, followed by appearances as substitute in brackets.[14]

Rank Player Years League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
1Scotland Charlie Aitken19591976559 (2)34 (1)61 (0)3 (0)657 (3)
2England Billy Walker19191934478 (0)53 (0)0 (0)0 (0)531 (0)
3England Gordon Cowans19761985
19881991
399 (15)8 (1)40 (4)39 (2)508 (22)
4England Joe Bache19001915431 (0)42 (0)0 (0)1 (0)474 (0)
5Scotland Allan Evans19771989374 (6)26 (0)42 (1)24 (0)466 (7)
6England Nigel Spink19791996357 (4)28 (0)45 (0)19 (1)449 (5)
7England Tommy Smart19191933405 (0)47 (0)0 (0)0 (0)452 (0)
8England Gareth Barry19972009353 (12)19 (2)29 (0)22 (4)423 (18)
9England Johnny Dixon19451961392 (0)38 (0)0 (0)0 (0)430 (0)
10England Dennis Mortimer19751985315 (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 193031 season.[15]
  • Most league goals in a season: Tom 'Pongo' Waring, 49 goals in 193031 season.[16]
  • In the 18991900 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.
  • Most consecutive matches scored in: Len Capewell, 8 games, 1925–26 season.[17]

Top goalscorers

Competitive matches only, appearances including substitutes appear in brackets.[18]

Rank Player Years League FA Cup League Cup Other Total
011England Billy Walker1919–1933214 (478)30 (53)0 (0)0 (0)244 (531)
022England Harry Hampton1904–1920215 (339)27 (34)0 (0)0 (0)242 (373)
033England John Devey1891–1902169 (268)18 (38)0 (0)0 (2)187 (308)
044England Joe Bache1900–1914168 (431)17 (42)0 (0)0 (1)185 (474)
055England Eric Houghton1927–1946160 (361)10 (31)0 (0)0 (0)170 (392)
066England Tom Waring1928–1935159 (216)8 (10)0 (0)0 (0)167 (226)
077England Johnny Dixon1945–1961132 (263)12 (38)0 (0)0 (0)144 (430)
088Northern Ireland Peter McParland1952–196297 (293)19 (36)4 (11)0 (1)120 (341)
099England Billy Garraty1897–190896 (224)15 (31)0 (0)1 (3)112 (258)
1010=Wales Dai Astley1931–193692 (165)8 (8)0 (0)0 (0)100 (173)
1010=England Len Capewell1921–193088 (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, alongside Steve Staunton and Paul McGrath. Also Villa's most internationally capped player and captain of Sweden during the 2006 FIFA World Cup.[19]

International

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

Record transfer fees

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.[32] 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. [33]

Fees Paid

RankPlayerFeeFromDateRef.
1Argentina Emiliano Buendía096£33m (rising to £38m)England Norwich City2021-06June 2021[33]
2Jamaica Leon Bailey096£30mGermany Bayer Leverkusen2021-08August 2021[34]
3England Ollie Watkins096£28m (rising to £33m)England Brentford2020-09September 2020[35]
4Brazil Diego Carlos096£26mSpain Sevilla2022-05May 2022[36]
5England Danny Ings096£25m (rising to £30m)England Southampton2021-08August 2021[37]
France Lucas Digne096£25mEngland Everton2022-01January 2022[38]
7Brazil Wesley 096£22mBelgium Club Brugge2019-06June 2019[39]
8England Tyrone Mings096£20mEngland Bournemouth2019-07July 2019[40]
9England Darren Bent096£18m (rising to £24m)England Sunderland2011-01January 2011[41]
10Argentina Emiliano Martínez096£17mEngland Arsenal2020-09September 2020[42]
Burkina Faso Bertrand Traore096£17mFrance Lyon2020-09September 2020[43]
Brazil Philippe Coutinho096£17mSpain Barcelona2022-05May 2022[44]

Fees Received

RankPlayerFeeToDateRef.
1England Jack Grealish096£100mEngland Manchester City2021-08August 2021[32]
2Belgium Christian Benteke096£32.5mEngland Liverpool2015-07July 2015[45]
3England James Milner096£26mEngland Manchester City2010-08August 2010[46]
4England Stewart Downing096£20mEngland Liverpool2011-07July 2011[47]
England Carney Chukwuemeka096£20mEngland Chelsea2022-08August 2022[48]
6England Ashley Young096£17mEngland Manchester United2011-06June 2011[49]
7England Matt Targett096£15mEngland Newcastle United2022-06June 2022[50]
8Trinidad and Tobago Dwight Yorke096£12.6mEngland Manchester United1998-08August 1998[51]
9England Danny Ings096£12m (rising to £15m)England West Ham United2023-01January 2023[52]
England Gareth Barry096£12mEngland Manchester City2009-06June 2009[53]
10France Jordan Amavi096£8.9mFrance Marseille2018-01January 2018[54]


Managerial records

  • First manager/secretary of the club: George Ramsay, in charge of 1327 games from August 1884 to 5 May 1926.[16]
  • Longest serving manager: George Ramsay.[16]
  • Most successful manager: George Ramsay, 6 League Championships and 6 FA Cups.[16]

Club records

Goals

Points

Firsts

Record wins

Record defeats

  • Record defeat: 0–8 (v. Chelsea, Premier League, 23 December 2012).
  • Record FA Cup defeat: 18 (v. Blackburn Rovers, 3rd round, 16 February 1889).[16]
  • Record League Cup defeat: 16 (v. West Bromwich Albion, 2nd round, 14 September 1966).[5]
  • Record European defeat: 14 (v. Royal Antwerp, 1st round UEFA Cup, 17 September 1975).[67]

Attendances

Streaks

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.[81]
  • First football club in the world to appoint a paid manager, George Ramsay in 1886.[82]
  • First top-flight club to appoint a manager from outside the British Isles, Jozef Vengloš in July 1990.[83]
  • Villa Park was the first English stadium to stage international football in three different centuries.[84]
  • Villa Park has hosted more FA Cup Semi-Finals than any other ground, 55 to date.[85]
  • Highest FA Cup attendance (pre-World War I): 121,919 (Aston Villa vs Sunderland, Final at Crystal Palace, 19 April 1913)[86]
  • 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 in 1893.
  • 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.[87]
  • 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 Bradford City in November 1921.[88]
  • 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

Below is Aston Villa's record in European and Intercontinental competitions sanctioned by UEFA. As of December 2022, they are one of only five English clubs to have won the European Cup, which they did in 1982.[5][89] Aston Villa's scores are noted first in both results columns.

Season Competition Round Country Club Home Away
197576 UEFA Cup 1R  Belgium Royal Antwerp 01 14
197778 UEFA Cup 1R  Turkey Fenerbahçe 40 20
2R  Poland Górnik Zabrze 20 11
3R  Spain Athletic Bilbao 20 11
QF  Spain Barcelona 22 12
198182 European Cup (Winners) 1R  Iceland Valur 50 20
2R  East Germany Dynamo Berlin 01 21
QF  Soviet Union Dynamo Kyiv 20 00
SF  Belgium Anderlecht 10 00
F  West Germany Bayern Munich 10
1982 UEFA Super Cup (Winners) F  Spain Barcelona 30 01
1982 Intercontinental Cup F  Uruguay Peñarol 02
198283 European Cup 1R  Turkey Beşiktaş 31 00
2R  Romania Dinamo București 42 20
QF  Italy Juventus 12 13
198384 UEFA Cup 1R  Portugal Vitória de Guimarães 50 01
2R  Soviet Union Spartak Moscow 12 22
199091 UEFA Cup 1R  Czechoslovakia Baník Ostrava 31 21
2R  Italy Internazionale 20 03
199394 UEFA Cup 1R  Slovakia Slovan Bratislava 21 00
2R  Spain Deportivo La Coruña 01 11
199495 UEFA Cup 1R  Italy Internazionale 10 01
2R  Turkey Trabzonspor 21 01
199697 UEFA Cup 1R  Sweden Helsingborg 11 00
199798 UEFA Cup 1R  France Bordeaux 10 00
2R  Spain Athletic Bilbao 21 00
3R  Romania Steaua București 20 12
QF  Spain Atlético Madrid 21 01
199899 UEFA Cup 1R  Norway Stromsgodset 32 30
2R  Spain Celta Vigo 13 10
2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3R  Czech Republic Dukla Pribram 31 00
SF  Spain Celta Vigo 12 01
2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup (Winners) 3R  Croatia Slaven Belupo 20 12
SF  France Rennes 10 21
F  Switzerland Basel 41 11
200102 UEFA Cup 1R  Croatia Varteks 23 10
2002 UEFA Intertoto Cup 3R  Switzerland Zürich 30 02
SF  France Lille 02 11
2008 UEFA Intertoto Cup (Co-Winners) 3R  Denmark Odense 10 22
200809 UEFA Cup 2QR  Iceland Fimleikafélag Hafnarfjarðar 11 41
1R  Bulgaria Litex Lovech 11 31
GS  Netherlands Ajax 21
GS  Czech Republic Slavia Prague 10
GS  Slovakia Žilina 12
GS  Germany Hamburg 13
R32  Russia CSKA Moscow 11 02
200910 UEFA Europa League P/O  Austria Rapid Wien 21 01
201011 UEFA Europa League P/O  Austria Rapid Wien 23 11
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 May 2011

CompetitionPlayedWonDrawnLost Goals forGoals against
European Cup159332410
UEFA Cup502312157151
UEFA Europa League411256
UEFA Intertoto Cup166462117
UEFA Super Cup210131
FIFA Intercontinental Cup100102
Total8840202812487

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.[90]
D ^ The home team are listed first.

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