VILLA CLUB FILE

 

 

COLOURS: CLARET SHIRT WITH SKY BLUE COLLAR AND SLEEVES, WHITE SHORTS WITH CLARET TRIM, SKY BLUE SOCKS WITH CLARET TRIM.

GROUND: VILLA PARK, BIRMINGHAM, B6 6HE

CAPACITY: 42.584

MANAGER: MARTIN O'NEILL

CHAIRMAN: RANDY LERNER

SPONSORS: ACORNS HOSPICE

MAIN SWITCHBOARD: 0121 327 2299

MOST LEAGUE APPEARANCES: CHARLIE AITKEN - 561 (1963/76)

MOST CAPPED PLAYER:  PAUL MCGRATH - 51  (REP OF IRELAND)

MOST LEAGUE GOALS:  HARRY HAMPTON - 215 (1904/20) &  BILLY  WALKER (1919/34)

RECORD TRANSFER PAID:  £12,000,000 TO NEWCASTLE FOR JAMES MILNER 2008, & TO MIDDLESBROUGH FOR STEWART DOWNING 2009

RECORD TRANSFER RECIEVED:  DWIGHT YORKE TO MAN UNITED £12,600,000 - 1998

OLDEST PLAYER: MUSH CALLAGHAN - 39 (1947)

YOUNGEST PLAYER: JIMMY BROWN - 15 (1969)

MANAGERS SINCE 1980:  RON SAUNDERS (1974/82),  TONY BARTON (1982/4),  GRAHAM TURNER (1984/6),  BILLY MCNEILL (1986/7),  GRAHAM TAYLOR (1987/90),  JOZEF VENGLOS (1990/1),  RON ATKINSON (1991/4),  BRIAN LITTLE (1994/8),  JOHN GREGORY (1998/2002),  GRAHAM TAYLOR (2002/3),  DAVID O'LEARY (2003/6),  MARTIN O'NEILL (2006 - )

PLAYER OF THE SEASON 2008/2009:  STYLIAN PETROV

YOUNG PLAYER OF THE SEASON 2008/2009:  NATHAN DELFOUNESO