Aston Villa F.C.

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Aston Villa
Full name	Aston Villa Football Club
Nickname(s)	Villans, The Villa, The Lions, The Claret & Blue Army
Short name	Villa, AVFC
Founded	1874
Ground	Villa Park (Capacity: 42,660)
Owner	Recom Group Ltd.
Chairman	Dr "Tony" Xia
Manager	Steven Gerrard
Current League	Premier League
2021-22	Premier League, 14th
Website	Club home page
Current season

Aston Villa Football Club (nicknamed Villa, The Villa, The Villans and The Lions) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England. The club currently competes in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league system. Founded in 1874, they have played at their current home ground, Villa Park, since 1897. Aston Villa were one of the founder members of the Football League in 1888 and of the Premier League in 1992. Villa are one of only five English clubs to have won the European Cup, in 1981–82. They have also won the Football League First Division seven times, the FA Cup seven times, the League Cup five times, and the UEFA Super Cup once.

Villa have a fierce local rivalry with Birmingham City and the Second City derby between the teams has been played since 1879. The club's traditional kit colours are claret shirts with sky blue sleeves, white shorts and sky blue socks. Their traditional club badge is of a rampant lion. The club is currently owned by the NSWE group, a company owned by the Egyptian billionaire Nassef Sawiris and the American billionaire Wes Edens.

Players

First team squad

As of 28 February 2022

No. Position Player 1 GK Emiliano Martínez 2 DF Matty Cash 4 DF Ezri Konsa 5 DF Tyrone Mings (captain) 6 MF Douglas Luiz 7 MF John McGinn 8 MF Morgan Sanson 10 MF Emiliano Buendía 11 FW Ollie Watkins 15 FW Bertrand Traoré 16 DF Calum Chambers 18 DF Ashley Young

No. Position Player 19 MF Marvelous Nakamba 20 FW Danny Ings 23 MF Philippe Coutinho 25 GK Robin Olsen 27 DF Lucas Digne 30 DF Kortney Hause 31 FW Leon Bailey 33 MF Carney Chukwuemeka 38 GK Viljami Sinisalo 41 MF Jacob Ramsey 47 MF Tim Iroegbunam

On loan

No. Position Player 3 DF Matt Targett (on loan to Newcastle United until the end of the 2021-22 season.) 9 FW Wesley (on loan to Internacional until 1 January 2023) 12 GK Jed Steer (on loan to Luton Town until the end of the 2021–22 season) 14 MF Conor Hourihane (on loan to Sheffield United until the end of the 2021–22 season) 17 MF Trézéguet (on loan to İstanbul Başakşehir until the end of the 2021–22 season) 21 FW Anwar El Ghazi (on loan to Everton until the end of the 2021–22 season) 24 DF Frédéric Guilbert (on loan to Strasbourg until the end of the 2021–22 season) 28 GK Lovre Kalinić (on loan to Hajduk Split until the end of the 2021–22 season) 29 DF Kaine Kesler Hayden (on loan to Milton Keynes Dons until the end of the 2021–22 season) 32 MF Jaden Philogene-Bidace (on loan to Stoke City until the end of the 2021–22 season) 34 FW Tyreik Wright (on loan to Colchester United until the end of 2021–22 season) 35 FW Cameron Archer (on loan to Preston North End until the end of 2021–22 season)

No. Position Player 39 FW Keinan Davis (on loan to Nottingham Forest until the end of the 2021–22 season) 40 MF Aaron Ramsey (on loan to Cheltenham Town until the end of the 2021–22 season) 42 MF Arjan Raikhy (on loan to Grimsby Town until the end of the 2021–22 season) 44 GK Filip Marschall (on loan to Gateshead until the end of the 2021–22 season) 46 FW Caleb Chukwuemeka (on loan to Livingston until the end of the 2021–22 season) GK Ákos Onódi (on loan to Bromsgrove Sporting until the end of the 2021–22 season) DF Sebastian Revan (on loan to Hereford until the end of the 2021–22 season) FW Louie Barry (on loan to Swindon Town until the end of the 2021–22 season) FW Indiana Vassilev (on loan to Inter Miami until November 2022)

Under 23s and Academy

Further information: Aston Villa Under-23s and Academy

Players to have made their senior league debut are listed in the senior squad.

No. Position Player 36 DF Lamare Bogarde 37 DF Mungo Bridge 43 FW Brad Young 45 MF Ben Chrisene 48 GK Oliwier Zych 49 MF Hayden Lindley 50 MF Sil Swinkels 51 DF Paul Appiah 54 FW DJ Campton-Sturridge 58 MF Tommi O’Reilly

No. Position Player 60 FW Tristan Abldeen-Goodridge 61 DF Frankie Ealing 63 MF Finley Thorndike 65 DF Patrick Zito 69 MF Chisom Afoka DF Dominic Revan DF Myles Sohna MF Declan Frith MF Finn Azaz

Club alumni

Former players

Main List of Aston Villa F.C. players

Managers

Main List of Aston Villa F.C. managers

Club honours

Domestic league

• First Division (1892-1992) / Premier League
  • Champions (7): 1893-94, 1895-96, 1896-97, 1898-99, 1899-00, 1909-10, 1980-81

• Second Division (1892-1992) / First Division (1992-2004) / The Championship
  • Champions (2): 1937-38, 1959-60

• Third Division (1920-1992) / Second Division (1992-2004) / League One
  • Champions (1): 1971-72

Domestic cup

• FA Cup
  • Winners (7): 1886-87, 1894-95, 1896-97, 1904-05, 1912-13, 1919-20, 1956-57

• League Cup
  • Winners (5):1960-61, 1974-75, 1976-77, 1993-94, 1995-96

• Charity Shield / Community Shield
  • Winners (1): 1981 (shared)

European competition

• European Cup / Champions League
  • Winners (1): 1981-82

• Super Cup
  • Winners (1): 1982

• Intertoto Cup
  • Winners (1): 2001

External links

• Official website
• Aston Villa News – Sky Sports
• Aston Villa results and records at statto.com