2001–02 Aston Villa F.C. season


During the 2001–02 English football season, Aston Villa competed in the Premier League.

Season summary

Aston Villa's early season form was good and the Midlanders even went top briefly at the end of October, but followed that with a run of eleven games with only one win, falling out of the title race. Still, it came as a shock when John Gregory announced his resignation after four years as Villa manager on 24 January. A host of names were linked with the vacancy, but in the end it was Graham Taylor, who took Villa to promotion in 1988 and second place in the league in 1990, who was appointed manager. Taylor was unable to improve Villa's form, but two wins against Southampton and Chelsea at the end of the season where enough to see Villa finish eighth: this was hardly amazing, but it at least meant that Villa would be finishing in the top 10 for the seventh year in succession.

Final league table

Results

Aston Villa's score comes first

Legend

FA Premier League

FA Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R36 January 2002Manchester UnitedH2–338,444Taylor 51', Neville 53'

League Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R310 October 2001ReadingH1–023,431Dublin 45'
R428 November 2001Sheffield WednesdayH0–126,526

Intertoto Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R3 First Leg14 July 2001NK Slaven BelupoA3,000Ginola 88'
R3 Second Leg21 July 2001NK Slaven BelupoH 27,580Hendrie 19', 41'
SF First Leg25 July 2001RennesA15,753Vassell 90'
SF Second Leg1 August 2001RennesH 30,782Dublin 5'
F First Leg7 August 2001BaselA25,879Merson 59'
F Second Leg21 August 2001BaselH4–1 39,593Vassell 45', Ángel 55', 79', Ginola 83'

UEFA Cup

RoundDateOpponentVenueResultAttendanceGoalscorers
R1 First Leg20 September 2001NK VarteksH27,132Ángel 54', 70'
R1 Second Leg27 September 2001NK VarteksA 12,100Hadji 90'

Players

First-team squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

U-19 squad

U-17 squad

Other players

Statistics

Appearances and goals

! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Goalkeepers
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Defenders
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Midfielders
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Forwards
! colspan=14 style=background:#dcdcdc; text-align:center| Players transferred out during the season

Starting 11

Transfers

In

Out