1979–80 Aston Villa F.C. season

The 1978–79 English football season was Aston Villa's 81st season in the Football League and their 5th consecutive season in the top division.

There were debut appearances for Nigel Spink (361), Des Bremner (174), Tony Morley (137), David Geddis (47), Eamonn Deacy (33), Terry Donovan (24), Terry Bullivant (12), Mike Pejic (10), Noel Blake (4) and Robert Hopkins (3). On 8 September 1979, the national transfer record fee was broken for the second time in four days when Wolverhampton Wanderers pay almost £1,500,000 for Villa's Scotland striker Andy Gray. In October John Gidman was sold to Everton for £650,000 (2013: £) in a deal which saw left back Pat Heard (24) move the other way at a valuation of £150,000. Heard would make nine appearances in his first season at Villa Park.

3 May 1980: Liverpool clinch the league title in their penultimate league game of the season by beating Aston Villa 4–1 at Anfield.

Squad

First team squad

As of end of the season.

Transfers

In

Out

Competitions

Overview

First Division

League table

Results summary

Results by round

Matches

League Cup

FA Cup

Statistics

Appearances and goals

As of end of season

Goalscorers

As of end of season.

Clean sheets

As of end of season.

Overall

As of end of season.

See also

• List of Aston Villa F.C. records and statistics

References

External links

• avfchistory.co.uk 1979-80 season