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| [[Milan Baros]] || 3 || 5 |
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| [[Adam McGurk]] || 7 || 4 |
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| [[Craig Gardner]] || 10 || 3 |
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| [[Barry Bannan]] || 6 || 2 |
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| [[Patrik Berger]] || 7 || 2 |
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| [[Stephen O'Halloran]] || 13 || 2 |
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| [[Tobias Mikaelsson]] || 4 || 2 |
| [[Tobias Mikaelsson]]||{{SWE}} || 4 || 2 |
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Revision as of 21:46, 26 July 2007
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| Full name | Aston Villa Football Club Reserves | ||
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| Nickname(s) | The Villans | ||
| Founded | 1874 | ||
| Ground | Banks's Stadium Walsall | ||
| Capacity | 11,300 | ||
| Chairman |  Randy Lerner | ||
| Head Coach |  Kevin MacDonald | ||
| League | FA Premier Reserve League | ||
| 2006-07 | FAPRL Southern Division, 4th | ||
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Aston Villa Reserves are the reserve team of Aston Villa and have been part of the FA Premier Reserve League since its foundation in 1999. The team plays its home games at the Banks's Stadium - home of nearby Walsall F.C.. In accordance with Villa's impressive youth development, the team has received success in recent years - as well as becoming victorious in the 2003/04 season, the team has regularly sustained high positions along with the second-string becoming a place of learn for the likes of current first-teamers Gabriel Agbonlahor, Craig Gardner, Isaiah Osbourne and Luke Moore amongst others. The team is currently coached by Kevin MacDonald, but Aston Villa Youth Team coaches Gordon Cowans and Tony McAndrew also have close links with the second string. The Reserve team is primarily made up of players aged 17-19 - in the priority of development. The team also regularly includes fringe first-team players and first-team players recovering from injury.
Matchday
The Reserve team play their league matches at the Banks's Stadium, Walsall - although Villa Park is occasionally used when the first team are set to face an away match - thus rendering the Villa Park pitch free. Matches are played on weekday nights (usually Tuesdays) - although the day varies from match to match.
History
Signs of the team date back to 1892, when Aston Villa Reserves joined the Birmingham & District League. After finishing in the runners-up position twice in the first 2 seasons of the competition, Villa finally won their first trophy in the 1894/95 season, amazingly winning 26 out of 30 league games and losing just once all season. Several titles followed after this achievement, including an extraordinary run of 8 consecutive titles between 1902 and 1910. When Villa finally left the Birmingham & District League in 1915, they had accumulated a total of 12 league titles and 6 runners-up finishes.
In 1999/00, the FA Premier Reserve League was set up, Villa were one of the founding members, and were split into the Northern section of the league. Three disappointing seasons followed, however in the 2003/04 season - inspired by brothers Stefan Moore and Luke Moore - Villa eased to their first title. In the two seasons which followed Villa finished both as runners-up, both times to Manchester United.
2006–07
For the first time since its introduction, the FA Premier Reserve League excluded Coca-Cola Championship teams from playing in the league, with the 20 senior English Premiership teams parallelling the teams involved in the FA Premier League. This also meant that Aston Villa Reserves would be placed in the Southern division, due to the Northern promotees.
Reserve League South
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Pld = Matches played; W = Matches won; D = Matches drawn; L = Matches lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points
Top Scorers
| Player | Nationality | Appearances | Goals |
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| Luke Moore |  England |
7 | 7 |
| Milan Baros |  Czech Republic |
3 | 5 |
| Adam McGurk |  Northern Ireland |
7 | 4 |
| Craig Gardner | England |
10 | 3 |
| Juan Pablo Angel |  Colombia |
5 | 2 |
| Barry Bannan | England |
6 | 2 |
| Patrik Berger | CZE}} | 7 | 2 |
| Stephen O'Halloran |  Ireland |
13 | 2 |
| Tobias Mikaelsson |  Sweden |
4 | 2 |
| Zoltan Stieber |  Hungary |
13 | 2 |
Current squad
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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2007/08
Villa kicked off their pre-season with an away trip to Northern Premier League side Hednesford Town on 19 July 2007, in a match which finished 2-2, goals by Australian midfielder Chris Herd and Hungarian Zoltán Stieber.
Hong Kong Soccer Sevens
The yearly invitational seven-a-side tournament brings together the best youth sides in the world, and this competition has brought notable success to Aston Villa in the past - with the respective Reserve team fielded for the 3 day event.
Villa - inspired by Stephen Cooke and Steven Foley clinched the trophy in the final against Manchester United in 2004 for their first success. Striker Gabriel Agbonlahor captained Villa to the final in 2006 (which Urawa Red Diamonds won) and also received the 'Player Of The Tournament' accolade. Villa won the competition again in May 2007, and talented teenage playmaker Zoltán Stieber won 'Player Of The Tournament'.
