2000–01 Aston Villa F.C. season

Another season of decent (but rarely exciting) form saw Villa secure another top-10 finish, though this time they dipped slightly into eighth place after occupying sixth place a year earlier. Villa proved themselves as one of the hardest Premiership teams to beat, with only the top three sides suffering fewer defeats than Villa's 10, but a mere 13 wins and a staggering 15 draws ended any hopes of a title bid or even a top-six finish. The arrival of Croatian striker Boško Balaban at the end of the season gave fans renewed hope that next season might deliver more success.

Final league table

Main article: 2000-01 FA Premier League


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Manchester United (C)	38	24	8	6	79	31	+48	80	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Group stage
2	Arsenal	38	20	10	8	63	38	+25	70	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Group stage
3	Liverpool	38	20	9	9	71	39	+32	69	2001–02 UEFA Champions League Third qualifying round ¹
4	Leeds United	38	20	8	10	64	43	+21	68	2001–02 UEFA Cup First round ¹
5	Ipswich Town	38	20	6	12	57	42	+15	66
6	Chelsea	38	17	10	11	68	45	+23	61
7	Sunderland	38	15	12	11	46	41	+5	57
8	Aston Villa	38	13	15	10	46	43	+3	54	2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
9	Charlton Athletic	38	14	10	14	50	57	−7	52
10	Southampton	38	14	10	14	40	48	−8	52
11	Newcastle United	38	14	9	15	44	50	−6	51	2001 UEFA Intertoto Cup Third round
12	Tottenham Hotspur	38	13	10	15	47	54	−7	49
13	Leicester City	38	14	6	18	39	51	−12	48
14	Middlesbrough	38	9	15	14	44	44	0	42
15	West Ham United	38	10	12	16	45	50	−5	42
16	Everton	38	11	9	18	45	59	−14	42
17	Derby County	38	10	12	16	37	59	−22	42
18	Manchester City (R)	38	8	10	20	41	65	−24	34	Relegation to 2001–02 Football League First Division
19	Coventry City (R)	38	8	10	20	36	63	−27	34
20	Bradford City (R)	38	5	11	22	30	70	−40	26

Source: Premier League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹Since Liverpool qualified for the Champions League, their place in the UEFA Cup as FA Cup winners went to Ipswich Town, and as Liverpool also won the League Cup that place went to Chelsea.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results Summary

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	13	15	10	46	43	+3	54	8	8	3	27	20	+7	5	7	7	19	23	−4

Source: 2000-01 FA Premier League table

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38
Ground	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	H	A	H	H	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	D	D	L	W	W	D	W	L	D	W	W	W	L	D	D	D	D	W	L	L	L	L	L	W	D	L	D	W	D	W	W	D	W	D	D	D	W	L
Position	10	17	19	13	7	9	5	6	11	7	5	4	5	6	7	8	9	7	9	11	13	13	13	12	13	14	14	12	12	11	10	8	8	7	7	8	8	8

Source: 11v11.com: 2000-01 Aston Villa results
Ground: A = Away; H = Home. Result: D = Draw; L = Loss; W = Win; P = Postponed.

Results

Aston Villa's score comes first^[1]

Legend

Win	Draw	Loss

FA Premier League

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
19 August 2000	Leicester City	A	0-0	21,455
27 August 2000	Chelsea	H	1-1	27,057	Nilis
6 September 2000	Liverpool	A	1-3	43,360	Stone
9 September 2000	Ipswich Town	A	2-1	22,065	Hendrie, Dublin
16 September 2000	Bradford City	H	2-0	22,310	Southgate, Dublin (pen)
23 September 2000	Middlesbrough	A	1-1	27,556	Joachim
30 September 2000	Derby County	H	4-1	26,534	Joachim (2), Merson, Wright
14 October 2000	Arsenal	A	0-1	38,042
22 October 2000	Sunderland	H	0-0	27,215
28 October 2000	Charlton Athletic	H	2-1	27,461	Taylor, Merson
5 November 2000	Everton	A	1-0	27,670	Merson
11 November 2000	Tottenham Hotspur	H	2-0	33,608	Taylor (2)
18 November 2000	Southampton	A	0-2	14,979
25 November 2000	Coventry City	A	1-1	21,464	Dublin
2 December 2000	Newcastle United	H	1-1	34,255	Dublin
9 December 2000	West Ham United	A	1-1	25,888	Hendrie
16 December 2000	Manchester City	H	2-2	29,281	Dublin, Ginola
23 December 2000	Leeds United	A	2-1	39,714	Southgate, Boateng
26 December 2000	Manchester United	H	0-1	40,889
1 January 2001	Chelsea	A	0-1	33,159
13 January 2001	Liverpool	H	0-3	41,366
20 January 2001	Manchester United	A	0-2	67,533
24 January 2001	Leeds United	H	1-2	29,335	Merson
3 February 2001	Bradford City	A	3-0	19,591	Vassell (2), Joachim
10 February 2001	Middlesbrough	H	1-1	28,912	Stone
24 February 2001	Derby County	A	0-1	27,289
5 March 2001	Sunderland	A	1-1	47,196	Joachim
10 March 2001	Ipswich Town	H	2-1	28,216	Joachim (2)
18 March 2001	Arsenal	H	0-0	36,111
31 March 2001	Manchester City	A	3-1	34,247	Merson, Dublin, Hendrie
4 April 2001	Leicester City	H	2-1	29,043	Dublin, Hendrie
7 April 2001	West Ham United	H	2-2	31,432	Ginola, Hendrie
14 April 2001	Everton	H	2-1	31,272	Dublin, Taylor
17 April 2001	Charlton Athletic	A	3-3	20,043	Ginola, Vassell, Hendrie
21 April 2001	Southampton	H	0-0	29,336
28 April 2001	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0-0	36,096
5 May 2001	Coventry City	H	3-2	39,761	Vassell, Ángel, Merson
19 May 2001	Newcastle United	A	0-3	51,506

FA Cup

Main article: 2000-01 FA Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	7 January 2001	Newcastle United	A	1-1	37,682	Stone
R3R	17 January 2001	Newcastle United	H	1-0	25,387	Vassell
R4	27 January 2001	Leicester City	H	1-2	26,283	Joachim

League Cup

Main article: 2000-01 Football League Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	1 November 2000	Manchester City	H	0-1	24,138

Intertoto Cup

Main article: 2000 UEFA Intertoto Cup


Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3 1st Leg	16 July 2000	FK Marila Příbram	A	0-0	7,852
R3 2nd Leg	22 July 2000	FK Marila Příbram	H	3-1 (won 3-1 on agg)	8,200	Dublin, Taylor, Nilis
SF 1st Leg	26 July 2000	Celta de Vigo	A	0-1	14,000
SF 2nd Leg	2 August 2000	Celta de Vigo	H	1-2 (lost 1-3 on agg)	11,909	Barry (pen)

First-team squad

Squad at end of season^[2]

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	David James
2	DF	Mark Delaney
3	DF	Alan Wright
4	DF	Gareth Southgate (captain)
6	MF	George Boateng
7	MF	Ian Taylor
8	FW	Juan Pablo Ángel
9	FW	Dion Dublin
10	MF	Paul Merson
11	DF	Steve Staunton
12	FW	Julian Joachim
13	GK	Neil Cutler
14	MF	David Ginola
15	DF	Gareth Barry

No.	Position	Player
16	DF	Alpay Özalan
17	MF	Lee Hendrie
18	MF	Steve Stone
19	FW	Richard Walker (on loan to Blackpool)
21	MF	Thomas Hitzlsperger
22	FW	Darius Vassell
24	MF	John McGrath
27	MF	Michael Standing
28	MF	Gavin Melaugh
29	MF	Stephen Cooke
30	MF	Jon Bewers
31	DF	Jlloyd Samuel
35	FW	Neil Tarrant
39	GK	Peter Enckelman

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
5	DF	Ugo Ehiogu (to Middlesbrough)
11	MF	Alan Thompson (to Celtic)
20	FW	Luc Nilis (retired)
23	DF	Najwan Ghrayib (to Hapoel Haifa)

No.	Position	Player
25	FW	Gilles De Bilde (to Sheffield Wednesday)
32	DF	Aaron Lescott (to Sheffield Wednesday)
40	GK	Matthew Ghent (to Lincoln City)

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
		GK	Boaz Myhill
		DF	Rob Edwards
		DF	Leon Hylton
		DF	Andrew Marfell
		DF	Liam Ridgewell
		DF	Martin Ridley
		DF	Cameron Stuart

No.		Position	Player
		DF	Seán Dillon
		MF	Luke Prince
		MF	Keith Fahey
		MF	David Curtolo
		FW	Stephen Evans
		FW	Stefan Moore
		FW	Isaac Nkubi

Statistics

Starting 11

Considering starts in all competitions^[3]

No.	Pos	Name	MS	Notes
1	GK	David James	46
3	RB	Alan Wright	43
16	CB	Alpay Özalan	36
4	CB	Gareth Southgate	36
15	LB	Gareth Barry	36
26	RM	Steve Stone	41
7	CM	Ian Taylor	31
6	CM	George Boateng	37
10	LM	Paul Merson	45
12	CF	Julian Joachim	13	Lee Hendrie has 29 starts
9	CF	Dion Dublin	35

Transfers

In

#	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date
20	FW	Luc Nilis	PSV	Free	1 June 2000
16	DF	Alpay Özalan	Fenerbahçe	£5,600,000	28 July 2000
14	MF	David Ginola	Tottenham Hotspur F.C.	£3,000,000	30 July 2000
21	MF	Thomas Hitzlsperger	FC Bayern Munich	Free	5 August 2000
11	DF	Steve Staunton	Liverpool F.C.	Free	6 December 2000
8	FW	Juan Pablo Ángel	River Plate	£9,500,00	13 January 2001

Out

#	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date
2	DF	Steve Watson	Everton F.C.	£2,500,000	4 July 2000
8	MF	Mark Draper	Southampton F.C.	£1,250,000	17 July 2000
18	MF	Benito Carbone	Bradford City F.C.	Free	9 August 2000
11	MF	Alan Thompson	Celtic F.C.	£2,750,000	1 September 2000
32	DF	Aaron Lescott	Sheffield Wednesday F.C.	£100,000	3 October 2000
5	DF	Ugo Ehiogu	Middlesbrough F.C.	£8,000,000	20 October 2000
40	GK	Matthew Ghent	Lincoln City F.C.	Free	2 December 2000
20	FW	Luc Nilis	Retired	Free	24 January 2001
	FW	Mark DeBolla	Charlton Athletic F.C.	Free	26 January 2001
	DF	Najwan Ghrayib	Hapoel Haifa F.C.	£150,000	13 February 2001
	MF	David Curtolo	Released	Free	31 May 2001
	FW	Stephen Evans	Released	Free	31 May 2001
	DF	Martin Ridley	Released	Free	31 May 2001

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