2005–06 Aston Villa F.C. season

Aston Villa

2005–06 season
Chairman	Doug Ellis
Manager	David O'Leary
FA Premier League	16th
FA Cup	Fifth round
League Cup	Fourth round
Top goalscorer	Milan Baroš and Luke Moore (8)
Average home league attendance	34,059
Home colours Away colours
← 2004–05 2006–07 →

During the 2005–06 English football season, Aston Villa competed in the FA Premier League.

Season summary

After a disappointing campaign saw Villa narrowly avoid relegation with a 16th-place finish, manager David O'Leary was sacked,^[1] to be replaced by Northern Irishman Martin O'Neill.^[2]

Final league table

			P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
C	1	Chelsea	38	29	4	5	72	22	+50	91
CLG	2	Manchester United	38	25	8	5	72	34	+38	83
CLQ	3	Liverpool	38	25	7	6	57	25	+32	82
CLQ	4	Arsenal	38	20	7	11	68	31	+37	67
UC	5	Tottenham Hotspur	38	18	11	9	53	38	+15	65
UC	6	Blackburn Rovers	38	19	6	13	51	42	+9	63
INTO.	7	Newcastle United	38	17	7	14	47	42	+5	58
	8	Bolton Wanderers	38	15	11	12	49	41	+8	56
UC	9	West Ham United	38	16	7	15	52	55	−3	55
	10	Wigan Athletic	38	15	6	17	45	52	−7	51
	11	Everton	38	14	8	16	34	49	−15	50
	12	Fulham	38	14	6	18	48	58	−10	48
	13	Charlton Athletic	38	13	8	17	41	55	−14	47
	14	Middlesbrough	38	12	9	17	48	58	−10	45
	15	Manchester City	38	13	4	21	43	48	−5	43
	16	Aston Villa	38	10	12	16	42	55	−13	42
	17	Portsmouth	38	10	8	20	37	62	−25	38
R	18	Birmingham City	38	8	10	20	28	50	−22	34
R	19	West Bromwich Albion	38	7	9	22	31	58	−27	30
R	20	Sunderland	38	3	6	29	26	69	−43	15

Pre-season

Date	Opponents	Home/ Away	Result F – A	Scorers	Competition
18 July 2005	Wycombe Wanderers	A	2 – 0		Friendly
20 July 2005	Gallstad FK	A	14 – 0		Friendly
23 July 2005	Jonkopings Sodra	A	1 – 1		Friendly
26 July 2005	GAIS	A	3 – 3		Friendly
30 July 2005	Wolverhampton Wanderers	A	1 – 2		Friendly
2 August 2005	Walsall	A	3 – 0		Friendly
5 August 2005	FC Utrecht	A	2 – 1		Friendly

Results

Aston Villa's score comes first^[3]

Legend

Win

Draw

Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
13 August 2005	Bolton Wanderers	H	2–2	38,026	Phillips, Davis
20 August 2005	Manchester United	A	0–1	67,934
23 August 2005	Portsmouth	A	1–1	19,778	Hughes (own goal)
27 August 2005	Blackburn Rovers	H	1–0	31,010	Baroš
12 September 2005	West Ham United	A	0–4	29,582
17 September 2005	Tottenham Hotspur	H	1–1	33,686	Milner
24 September 2005	Chelsea	A	1–2	42,146	Moore
2 October 2005	Middlesbrough	H	2–3	29,719	Moore, Davis
16 October 2005	Birmingham City	A	1–0	29,312	Phillips
22 October 2005	Wigan Athletic	H	0–2	32,294
31 October 2005	Manchester City	A	1–3	42,069	Ridgewell
5 November 2005	Liverpool	H	0–2	42,551
19 November 2005	Sunderland	A	3–1	39,707	Phillips, Barry, Baroš
26 November 2005	Charlton Athletic	H	1–0	30,023	Davis
3 December 2005	Newcastle United	A	1–1	18,255	McCann
10 December 2005	Bolton Wanderers	A	1–1	23,646	Angel
17 December 2005	Manchester United	H	0–2	37,128
26 December 2005	Everton	H	4–0	32,432	Baroš (2), Delaney, Angel
28 December 2005	Fulham	A	3–3	20,446	Moore, Ridgewell (2)
31 December 2005	Arsenal	H	0–0	37,114
2 January 2006	West Bromwich Albion	A	2–1	27,073	Davis, Baroš (pen)
14 January 2006	West Ham United	H	1–2	36,700	Hendrie
21 January 2006	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0–0	36,243
1 February 2006	Chelsea	H	1–1	38,562	Moore
4 February 2006	Middlesbrough	A	4–0	27,299	Moore (3), Phillips
11 February 2006	Newcastle United	H	1–2	37,140	Moore
25 February 2006	Charlton Athletic	A	0–0	26,594
4 March 2006	Portsmouth	H	1–0	30,194	Baroš
11 March 2006	Blackburn Rovers	A	0–2	21,932
18 March 2006	Everton	A	1–4	36,507	Agbonlahor
25 March 2006	Fulham	H	0–0	32,605
1 April 2006	Arsenal	A	0–5	38,183
9 April 2006	West Bromwich Albion	H	0–0	33,303
16 April 2006	Birmingham City	H	3–1	31,229	Baroš (2), Cahill
18 April 2006	Wigan Athletic	A	2–3	17,330	Angel, Ridgewell
25 April 2006	Manchester City	H	0–1	26,422
29 April 2006	Liverpool	A	1–3	44,479	Barry
7 May 2006	Sunderland	H	2–1	33,820	Barry, Ridgewell

FA Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	7 January 2006	Hull City	A	1–0	17,051	Barry
R4	28 January 2006	Port Vale	H	3–1	30,434	Baroš (2), Davis
R5	19 February 2006	Manchester City	H	1–1	23,847	Baroš
R5R	14 March 2006	Manchester City	A	1–2	33,006	Davis

League Cup

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R2	20 September 2005	Wycombe Wanderers	A	8–3	5,365	Davis (2), Baroš, Milner (2), Easton (own goal), Barry (2, 1 pen)
R3	22 October 2005	Burnley	H	1–0	26,872	Phillips
R4	29 November 2005	Doncaster Rovers	A	0–3	10,590

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[4]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Thomas Sorensen 2 DF Mark Delaney 3 DF Jlloyd Samuel[5] 4 DF Olof Mellberg 5 DF Martin Laursen 6 MF Gareth Barry 7 MF Lee Hendrie 8 MF Gavin McCann 9 FW Juan Pablo Angel 10 FW Milan Baroš 11 MF James Milner (on loan from Newcastle United) 12 MF Steven Davis 13 GK Stuart Taylor

No. Position Player 14 MF Eric Djemba-Djemba 15 DF Ulises De la Cruz 16 DF Wilfred Bouma 17 MF Peter Whittingham 18 DF Aaron Hughes 19 DF Liam Ridgewell 20 FW Kevin Phillips 21 DF Gary Cahill 22 FW Luke Moore 23 MF Patrik Berger 26 FW Craig Gardner 30 FW Gabriel Agbonlahor

Left club during season

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 11 MF Nolberto Solano (to Newcastle United) 16 MF Mathieu Berson (on loan to Auxerre) 24 MF Eirik Bakke (on loan from Leeds United)

No. Position Player 25 GK Wayne Henderson (to Brighton & Hove Albion) GK Stefan Postma (to Wolverhampton Wanderers) MF Steven Foley (to Bournemouth)

Reserve squad

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 39 GK Bobby Olejnik

Transfers

In

Date	Position	Player name	Previous club	League	Transfer fee	Notes
27 June 2005	GK	Stuart Taylor	Arsenal	FA Premier League	Undisclosed

• Patrik Berger - Portsmouth, 17 May, free^[6]
• Aaron Hughes - Newcastle United, 20 May, £1,000,000^[7]
• Kevin Phillips - Southampton, 29 June, £1,000,000^[8]
• Milan Baroš - Liverpool, 23 August, £6,500,000^[9]
• Wilfred Bouma - PSV, 30 August, £3,500,000^[10]
• James Milner - Newcastle United, 31 August, season-long loan
• Eirik Bakke - Leeds United, 31 August, loan^[11]

Out

• Thomas Hitzlsperger - Stuttgart, 13 April, free^[12]
• Stefan Moore - Queens Park Rangers, 13 June, free^[13]
• Darius Vassell - Manchester City, 27 July, £2,000,000^[14]
• Nolberto Solano - Newcastle United, 31 August, £1,500,000^[15]
• Stefan Postma - Wolverhampton Wanderers, 6 January, undisclosed^[16]
• Wayne Henderson - Brighton & Hove Albion
• Steven Foley - Bournemouth

Loan out

• Stefan Postma - Wolverhampton Wanderers, 19 August, five-month loan^[17]
• Mathieu Berson - Auxerre, 25 August, season-long loan^[18]

References

1. "O'Leary parts company with Villa". BBC Sport. 19 July 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
2. "O'Neill named Aston Villa manager". BBC Sport. 4 August 2006. Retrieved 5 February 2012.
3. http://www.statto.com/football/teams/aston-villa/2005-2006/results
4. http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/2005-2006/faprem/avilla.htm
5. Samuel was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, but also qualified to represent England internationally and has represented them at U-21 level. However, he later chose to represent the country of his birth and made his full international debut for Trinidad and Tobago in September 2009
6. "Berger set for Aston Villa move". BBC. 17 May 2005. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
7. Hughes completes switch to Villa
8. "Phillips completes Villa switch". BBC Sport. 29 June 2005. Retrieved 25 September 2007.
9. "Baros completes transfer to Villa". BBC Sport. 23 August 2005. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
10. "Villa land Dutch defender Bouma". BBC Sport. 30 August 2005. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
11. "Transfers - August 2005". BBC News. 1 September 2005.
12. "Stuttgart seal Hitzlsperger deal". BBC Sport. 13 April 2005. Retrieved 23 April 2008.
13. "Villa striker makes switch to QPR". BBC Sport. 13 June 2005. Retrieved 2 August 2009.
14. "Man City complete Vassell signing". BBC. 26 September 2012. Retrieved 29 April 2007.
15. "Solano makes return to Newcastle". BBC Sport. 31 August 2005. Retrieved 26 September 2012.
16. "Postma extends his stay at Wolves". BBC News. 6 January 2006.
17. "Wolves sign keeper Postma on loan". BBC News. 19 August 2005.
18. "Villa's Berson loaned to Auxerre". BBC News. 25 August 2005.