The 1909–10 English football season was Aston Villa's 22nd season in the Football League. Villa finished the season as the league's champions for a then record sixth time. This would be Villa's last league title for 71 years.
This season saw a straight fight between Villa and Liverpool and they finished well clear of the rest. Villa's record included a 15-match run without defeat. They built on this to finish five points ahead of Liverpool.
First Division
Matches
Source: avfchistory.co.uk
FA Cup
First round
39 of the 40 clubs from the First and Second divisions joined the 12 clubs who came through the qualifying rounds.
Thirteen Southern League sides were also given byes to the first round to bring the total number of teams up to 64: Southampton, Millwall, QPR, Crystal Palace, Swindon, Plymouth, Reading, Portsmouth, Northampton, Bristol Rovers, Norwich, West Ham, Brighton.
32 matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 15 January 1910.
Tie noHome teamScoreAway teamDate29Oldham Athletic1–2Aston Villa15 January 1910
Second round
The 16 second-round matches were played on Saturday, 5 February 1910.
Tie noHome teamScoreAway teamDate3Aston Villa6–1Derby County5 February 1910
Third round
The eight third-round matches were scheduled for Saturday, 19 February 1910.
Tie noHome teamScoreAway teamDate2Aston Villa1–2Manchester City19 February 1910
Birmingham Cup
Players The Villa team included centre-forward Harry Hampton and inside-forward Joe Bache. In their Villa careers, Hampton scored 213 goals in 338 appearances and Bache 167 in 431. Hampton was just 5 ft 8in tall and was a fearless, fast moving player on the field. The ever-present outside-right Charlie Wallace also enjoyed a long career at the club, scoring 54 goals in 314 League games. There were debuts for Billy Gerrish (55) https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/billy-gerrish and Arthur Moss,https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/arthur-moss while Cocky Hunter became the first Villa player to be ever sent off.https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/aston-villa/players/cards/red/season
Youth & Reserves Villa Reserves competed in the Birmingham & District League.Teams for Tomorrow, Birmingham Evening Mail, 26 November 1909, p3
References
External links Aston Villa official website