The 1910-11 English football season was Aston Villa's 23rd season in the Football League competing in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time.
Aston Villa featured in the plot of Arnold Bennett's 1911 comic novel The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns, putting in an offer for the fictional player, Callear.Bennett, Arnold, Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns.
Charity Shield Aston Villa F.C. started the 1910–11 season as champions,Association Football. Publication: The Times London, England, Monday, 2 May 1910 so opened the season in the Charity Shield game against Southern League champions Brighton & Hove Albion. Brighton are the only club to win just the Shield but never the FA Cup or the League. In the five years that the Charity Shield was contested by the winners of the Football League and Southern League between 1908 and 1912, this was the only occasion on which the Southern League champions prevailed. The victory remains Brighton's only national honour to date and they, not Aston Villa, were crowned the 'Champions of all England'.
First Division
Matches
Source: avfchistory.co.uk
FA Cup
In the First round, 36 of the 40 clubs from the First and Second divisions joined the 12 clubs who came through the qualifying rounds. The remaining sides, Stockport County, Lincoln City, Huddersfield Town and Gainsborough Trinity were entered in the fourth qualifying round. Huddersfield lost to Lincoln City and Stockport County lost to Rochdale in that round, while Lincoln City then lost to Stoke in the fifth qualifying round.
Sixteen non-league sides were given byes to the first round to bring the total number of teams up to 64. These were:
SouthamptonMillwall AthleticQueens Park RangersCrystal PalaceSwindon TownPlymouth ArgyleLeytonPortsmouthNorthampton TownBristol RoversNorwich CityGrimsby TownWest Ham UnitedBrighton & Hove AlbionCoventry CityBrentford
Grimsby Town had been voted out of the Football League during the 1910 close-season and were competing in the Midland League, while the others were all from the Southern League First Division.
32 matches were scheduled to be played on Saturday, 14 January 1911.
Tie noHome teamScoreAway teamDate24Portsmouth1–4Aston Villa14 January 1911
Second round
The sixteen second-round matches were played on Saturday, 4 February 1911. Four matches were drawn, with the replays taking place in the following midweek fixture.
Tie noHome teamScoreAway teamDate13Manchester United2–1Aston Villa4 February 1911
Birmingham Cup
Players Cocky Hunter, the first Villa player to be ever sent off, was sent off for a second time.https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/aston-villa/players/cards/red/season
There were debuts for Bill Renneville,https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/bill-renneville Jimmy Jones,https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/jimmy-jones Horace Henshall,https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/horace-henshall Clem Stephensonhttps://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/clem-stephenson and Brendel Anstey.https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/brendel-anstey Footnotes
References
External links Aston Villa official website