1901–02 Aston Villa F.C. season

The 1901–02 Football League season was Aston Villa's 14th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.[1]

Aston Villa
1901–02 season
ChairmanEngland Frederick Rinder
ManagerScotland George Ramsay
First Division8th
FA Cupfirst round
Second City Derby
7--0--2

During the season Jimmy Crabtree, and Joe Bache shared the captaincy of the club.[2] Howard Spencer took the 1901–02 season off in order to rest his knee and ankle for twelve months in the hope of recovering from an injury.[3]

On Wednesday 25 December 1901, Villa won 3–2 away to Everton in front of a crowd of 18,000 at Goodison Park.[2] Villa scorer, Willie Clarke became the first non-white player to score in the English First Division.[4][5][6]

The previous season Small Heath had finished runners-up in Second Division, so were promoted to the First Division for 1901–02.[7] Villa won 2–0 at Coventry Road Muntz Street with goals by Jack Devey and Joe Bache.[8] In the 1901 Boxing Day fixture, Villa's Jasper McLuckie was the only scorer.[9] At the end of the season Small Heath were relegated back to the Second Division. In locally organised competition, they lost to Aston Villa in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup.[10]

Football League

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GAv Pts
6 Derby County 34 13 9 12 39 41 0.951 35
7 Bury 34 13 8 13 44 38 1.158 34
8 Aston Villa 34 13 8 13 42 40 1.050 34
9 The Wednesday 34 13 8 13 48 52 0.923 34
10 Sheffield United 34 13 7 14 53 48 1.104 33
Source: World Football
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored

First team squad

References
  1. "Aston Villa Club History 1900 – 1939". AVFC.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 August 2006. Retrieved 28 October 2007.
  2. AVFC History: 1901–02 season
  3. "Twelve months rest for Howard Spencer". Dundee Evening Post. 3 July 1901. Retrieved 17 December 2017.
  4. Dave Pendleton (6 July 2011). "Celebrating 106 Years of Black Footballers at Valley Parade". Boy From Brazil.
  5. "Football's Black Pioneers on Radio Leeds". Football's Black Pioneers. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  6. Murray, Scott (September 2017). The Title: The Story of the First Division (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9781472936622. Retrieved 9 September 2020.
  7. "Birmingham Senior Cup". The Birmingham City FC Archive. Tony Jordan. Archived from the original on 14 May 2005.
  8. "Small Heath 0-2 Aston Villa, 1901-02 Division One, 12 Oct 1901". AVFC History. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  9. "Aston Villa 1-0 Small Heath, 1901-02 Division One, 26 Dec 1901". AVFC History. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
  10. "Birmingham Senior Cup". The Birmingham City FC Archive. Tony Jordan. Archived from the original on 14 May 2005.
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