Aston Villa squad – Football Research Archive

Squad 2020/21

Season statistics: Wikipedia. The archive holds no team sheets for 2020/21, so these are Aston Villa's league figures according to the club-season article on English Wikipedia, in the article's order. Players link to their page where the archive holds them, matched through Wikidata.

Checks that did not pass

league starts add up to 417; 38 matches need 418
players' league goals (41) plus own goals (0) add up to 41; the club scored 55
goals table under "Appearances and goals" skipped: no league column (Premier League, EFL Cup, FA Cup, Other, Total)

Aston Villa 2020/21: league appearances and goals per player, according to Wikipedia
Player	Pos.	Apps	Starts	Sub	Goals	All apps	All goals
Tom Heaton	GK	0	0	0	0	0	0
Jed Steer	GK	0	0	0	0	2	0
Emiliano Martínez	GK	38	38	0	0	38	0
Ákos Onódi	GK	0	0	0	0	1	0
Matty Cash	DF	28	28	0	2	Not held	2
Neil Taylor	DF	1	0	1	0	Not held	1
Ezri Konsa	DF	36	35	1

Rows that differ from another source (both values kept):

Matty Cash: the player's article ("Matty Cash") gives 28 league apps and 0 goals
Ezri Konsa: the player's article ("Ezri Konsa") gives 36 league apps and 2 goals
Douglas Luiz: the player's article ("Douglas Luiz") gives 33 league apps and 0 goals
John McGinn: the player's article ("John McGinn") gives 37 league apps and 3 goals
Jack Grealish: the player's article ("Jack Grealish") gives 26 league apps and 6 goals
Ross Barkley: the player's article ("Ross Barkley") gives 24 league apps and 3 goals
Ollie Watkins: the player's article ("Ollie Watkins") gives 37 league apps and 14 goals
Bertrand Traoré: the player's article ("Bertrand Traoré") gives 36 league apps and 7 goals

The article lists 0 own goals by opponents in Aston Villa's favour. Aston Villa scored 55 league goals that season by the archive's results. A dash means the article gives no figure, not zero.

Includes data from Wikipedia (“2020–21 Aston Villa F.C. season”, revision 1375721235, read 16 Oct 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikipedia is edited by volunteers; the archive treats it as a secondary source and checks it against its own records where it can.

Transfers 2020/21

Aston Villa 2020/21: players joining, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	From	Move
21 Jul 2020	Aaron O'Reilly	St Patrick's Athletic	Transfer
3 Aug 2020	Sil Swinkels	Vitesse	Transfer
16 Aug 2020	Oliwier Zych	Zagłębie Lubin	Transfer
19 Aug 2020	Ben Chrisene	Exeter City	Transfer
1 Sept 2020	Ruben Shakpoke	Norwich City	Transfer
3 Sept 2020	Matty Cash	Nottingham Forest	Transfer
9 Sept 2020	Ollie Watkins	Brentford	Transfer
11 Sept 2020	Lamare Bogarde	Feyenoord	Transfer
15 Sept 2020	Emiliano Martínez	Arsenal	Transfer
19 Sept 2020	Bertrand Traoré	Lyon	Transfer
30 Sept 2020	Ross Barkley	Chelsea	Loan
26 Jan 2021	Morgan Sanson	Marseille	Transfer

Aston Villa 2020/21: players leaving, according to Wikipedia
Date	Player	To	Move
1 Jul 2020	Borja Bastón	Leganés	Released
1 Jul 2020	Isaiah Bazeley-Graham	Barwell	Released
1 Jul 2020	Jack Birch	Alvechurch	Released
1 Jul 2020	James Chester	Stoke City	Released
1 Jul 2020	Jake Doyle-Hayes	St Mirren	Released
1 Jul 2020	Andre Green	Sheffield Wednesday	Released
1 Jul 2020	Rushian Hepburn-Murphy	Pafos	Released
1 Jul 2020	Anton Hooper	Free agent	Released
1 Jul 2020	Colin Odutayo	Free agent	Released
1 Jul 2020	Callum O'Hare	Coventry City

According to Wikipedia: the transfer tables of the club-season article. Fees are held but not shown. One move does not check out against Wikidata's career dates or the season's dates; both values are kept.

Show the moves that do not check out

Lamare Bogarde (in, 11 Sept 2020): Wikidata dates the spell here from no date

Former players

People in this archive whose Wikidata career includes a senior spell at Aston Villa that has ended
Player	Years	Matches	Goals
Donyell Malen	2025–2026	35	7
Harvey Elliott	2025–2026	4	0
Jadon Sancho	2025–2026	23	0
Morgan Rogers	2024–2026	85	21
Youri Tielemans	2023–2026	93	5
Lucas Digne	2022–2026	140	2
Leon Bailey	2021–2026	122	16
Emiliano Martínez	2020–2026	213	0
Ollie Watkins	2020–2026	221	91
Douglas Luiz	2019–2026	188	21
Ezri Konsa	2019–2026	231	8
Axel Disasi	2025	7	0
Jacob Ramsey	2019–2025	137	14
Tim Iroegbunam	2022–2024	12	0
Jack Grealish	2012–2021	185	29
Tyrone Mings	2019	15	2
Sam Johnstone	2017–2018	66	0
Adama Traoré	2015–2016	11	0
Idrissa Gueye	2015–2016	35	0
Kyle Walker	2011	15	1
James Milner	2005–2010	100	12
Rob Edwards	1999–2004	8	0
Gareth Southgate	1995–2001	191	7
Bruce Rioch	1969–1974	154	34
George Graham	1961–1964	8	2

Not limited to the season above, and not the club's full list: only people who appear elsewhere in this archive are listed. Years and figures are the spells' own, across all competitions, as Wikidata records them.