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Aston Villa is one of the most successful clubs in English football history, having won 25 honours in its history. This is a list of Aston Villa's notable players, generally this means players that have played 100 or more competitive matches for the club, a feat often referred to as joining the 100 club .
The Aston Villa team of 1899 that won the First Division and Sheriff of London Charity Shield (shared with Queen's Park), as well as a number of county cup honours. Aston Villa Football Club are believed to have formed on 21 November 1874, by members of the Villa Cross Wesleyan Chapel in Handsworth: which is now part of Birmingham. [12]
The 1989–90 Aston Villa season saw the football club competing in the Football League First Division. A lowly 17th the previous season, Villa improved drastically and spent most of the season challenging for the title though finishing in second behind Liverpool .
The team saw a slump in performances towards the end of the season, Aston Villa narrowly avoided relegation in the 1988–89 season after a draw on the final day of the season. [1] There were debuts for Chris Price (111), Derek Mountfield (90), Ian Olney (88), Ian Ormondroyd (56), Nigel Callaghan (26), Lee Butler (8) and Darrell Duffy (1) .
Lucas Digne (born 20 July 1993) is a French professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Aston Villa and the France national team.. Digne began his career at Lille before joining Paris Saint-Germain in 2013.
The 1980–81 season was Aston Villa's 81st in the Football League and their sixth consecutive season in the top division. They finished as league champions for the seventh time in their history, using just 14 players over the course of the campaign, of whom no fewer than seven were ever-present (Jimmy Rimmer, Kenny Swain, Ken McNaught, Dennis Mortimer, Des Bremner, Gordon Cowans and Tony Morley).
Morgan Elliot Rogers (born 26 July 2002) [3] is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Premier League club Aston Villa and the England national team.Born in Halesowen in the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, Rogers is a product of the West Bromwich Albion academy.
During the 1980s, Shaw's goals helped Aston Villa win the First Division championship in 1980–81 and the European Cup the following year – the only Birmingham-born player in the team. In 1981, he was voted PFA Young Player of the Year , and was awarded the Bravo Award the following year, as the best under-23 player in European competitions.