Billy Evans scored twice. Johnny Dixon got one. Bob Iverson got one. 26,197 at Villa Park on a spring Saturday in 1947. The archive has quiet days too. #AVFC buff.ly/Dkp3fMz

For my lovely bluesky followers: Soft launch of 'The Terrace'. Select every game you have attended etc It's completely free, just sign up, choose your games and go from there... www.avdb.co.uk/the-terrace Have a play, have some fun and let me know what you think Make your mark early 💜💙 #avfc

Phil Woosnam scored on his final Villa appearance, then left for America to help build football there from scratch. 16 May 1966. One of the unsung ones. #AVFC buff.ly/5BxoRI9

On 20 May 2026, it's our chance to change history. On 20 May 2000, we lost the FA Cup Final. On 20 May: P3. W0. D2. L1. GF2. GA3. Wednesday, Istanbul, for the first time. The Route to the Final: Both Clubs, every round, every result, one deserved winner. buff.ly/f0XGWFX #AVFC #UEL2026

A truly terrible performance from referee Kavanagh is overcome by a vibrant Villa who never allow the odds, so clearly stacked against them, to triumph and secure Champions League qualification and a fourth consecutive season in European competition. Put that in your match report. #avfc

15 May 2018: Villa drew 0-0 with Middlesbrough in the play-off semi-final second leg to book a place at Wembley. Earlier in the afternoon, news started filtering through that Jlloyd Samuel had died in a road accident. 200 appearances. 9 seasons. He was 37. #AVFC buff.ly/nmqhj56

Not of any relevance to us, but personally, I find Southampton, the method, the denials, the blatant schoolboy-stare-at-shoes response so undignifying that I'd fully support them having the result taken off them and a 3-0 win awarded to Boro. Cheating is bad enough; being pathetic is intolerable.

14 May 2019: Jed Steer, trying to spot Big Cuts. Enter Mason Holgate. Jed caught his eye, and the Steer Stare entered Villa legend. #avfc buff.ly/jcLkfn9

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba... of course they will "showpiece" #avfc

The £30,000 Dunfermline signing who conquered Europe. 13 May 1989: Allan Evans played his 475th and final Villa game. #avfc buff.ly/VVvALe1

12 May 1984: Tony Barton's last game as Villa manager. Eamonn Deacy's last game in claret and blue. The sixth European Cup winner sold in two years. Ellis sacked Barton six weeks later. #avfc buff.ly/UwQE7XB

11 May 2019: Villa trailed West Brom at half-time in the play-off semi. Smith brought on Hourihane in the 67th minute. Hourihane scored in the 75th. Abraham scored a penalty. Villa went to Wembley. #AVFC

Just a reminder, this season started with Villa fans, singing "Premier League, corrupt as fuck" almost before a ball had been kicked

Funny how things get reported “DEPLETED” Forest: €371m Starting XI: €210m Subs: €47m Unused: €114m Villa: €320m Starting XI: €194m Subs: €54m Unused: €72m #avfc

The temptation is to say, "Cry your eyes out" to Forest, but we're too classy for that The embarrassing pre-match love-in for them across both legs now looks faintly ridiculous Watch them dust off the Ron Saunders archives they studiously ignored until now. #UTV #AVFC

Youri Tielemans. Tonight, 130th appearance, 28th birthday. Europa League semi-final second leg. Villa trail by one goal. If there is a pass that unlocks the tie, the smart money is on knowing who will play it. #avfc

Tonight, on his 28th birthday, Youri Tielemans plays his 130th game for Villa — a Europa League semi-final against Nottingham Forest. He was made for moments like this. #AVFC buff.ly/AeGecmE

Plenty has happened on 5th May. But never has the footballing world been happier than in 2001 when Villa sent the odious Coventry to a 25-year stint in purgatory. 2026-27 promises to bring their pathetic behaviour to a whole new audience. #avfc

4 May 1957: Peter McParland scored twice in five minutes at Wembley to win Villa the FA Cup for a record seventh time. #AVFC buff.ly/P2csUhm

Pure MON: "The supporters forget we are having a fantastic season and we are on the same points as Liverpool on 58." Never ends well #AVFC

Crazy interview "Last week we lost against Fulham and which players played against Fulham? We played against Nottingham Forest and we lost. Today we lost with different players." ALL on the manager then. Wow. #avfc

is it too early? www.avfchistory.co.uk/stories/emer... #avfc #AVLTOT

Pathetic, disgusting, abject. We've handed Forest the Europa, we've busted on 6th, and we've let Spuds escape relegation. All things considered, one of the worst nights in Villa's recent history #AVFC

3 May 1930: Villa beat Arsenal 4-2 on the final day to finish fourth. One year later: 128 goals and a runners-up finish. The machine was being assembled in plain sight. 🟣 #AVFC

440 appearances. 52 goals. 52 assists. Captain. 53 England caps. Gareth Barry gave Villa everything — and his departure said less about him than the noise around it suggested. #avfc

2 May 1981: Villa lost 0-2 at Highbury and were crowned First Division champions. The title was already mathematically won. Sometimes the numbers matter more than the scoreline. #AVFC buff.ly/sD1sxZd

Forest 1-0 Villa, Europa League Semi-Final 1st leg. One-off game or a trend? The answer may surprise. Every season. Without fail. The final seven games drop below his own standard - and the cost is mounting. Does Unai Emery have a finishing problem? Full piece at buff.ly/hYERDmI #AVFC

28 Apr 1982: Villa's European champions were losing 1-4 to relegation-threatened Leeds. Tony Barton sent on a 17-year-old sub. His name was Mark Walters. 🟣 #AVFC

1 May 1953: Dicky Dorsett — the Brownhills Bomber — played his 270th and final game for Villa. Seven seasons, thirty-five goals from left-back. A career of excellence. buff.ly/u8q1zzt

1 May, the day everything changed, 2010, Eastlands. #avfc buff.ly/a78ZFc8

i was just touching my 20's when we last won something i genuinely don't believe we will ever win anything again in my lifetime and i'm not planning to die tomorrow

"How we are arriving in the key moment in this competition, it has been fantastic, but now the semi-final is 50-50 for both teams." Unai Emery www.avfchistory.co.uk/stories/euro... #avfc

UEFA Europa League 2025–26 · Semi-Final Thursday, 30 April 2026 Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa · City Ground, Nottingham Different journeys, same aim. It's not how you start, it's how you finish. www.avfchistory.co.uk/stories/euro... #AVFC #AstonVilla #UEL #EuropaLeague #NFFC #NottinghamForest

Bob Chatt scored after 30 seconds in the 1895 FA Cup final — the fastest goal in the final's history. The records gave it to someone else. It was his. 🟣 #AVFC buff.ly/pNDAYwN

30 Apr 1975: Villa beat Norwich 4-1. Their eighth consecutive win. Already promoted, League Cup already won. The most complete season Villa had produced in years, finished in style. 🟣 #AVFC

Charlie Aitken 658 appearances. 17 seasons. Six managers. Three divisions. The League Cup, the Third Division title, Villa's first European game. Charlie Aitken - peerless. 🟣 #AVFC buff.ly/AqK0aty

29 Apr 1961: Johnny Dixon scored in his final game and was mobbed. Then Charlie Aitken came on as a substitute. One era ended. Another began. buff.ly/IOVa8y5 #AVFC

28 Apr 1990: 0-2 down to Norwich, Villa scored three in five minutes through McGrath, Cascarino and Platt. Still not enough. Liverpool won their game. The title stayed on Merseyside. #avfc buff.ly/t8G6UE1

47 goals in 63 games, two league titles, an FA Cup, the first ever goal at Villa Park — and Johnny Campbell left at 24. One of Villa's greatest short-stay stories. 🟣 #AVFC avfchistory.substack.com/p/player-in-...

26 Apr 1980: Villa were so short of fit players that seven under-21s started against Tottenham. They won 1-0. Twelve months later, Villa won the title. #avfc avfchistory.substack.com/p/26-april-a...

228 games. 95 clean sheets. Two League Cups. One of the best goalkeepers this club has ever had — and one of its most complicated stories. Mark Bosnich. #AVFC

25 Apr 1981: Villa 3-0 Middlesbrough. Gary Shaw, Peter Withe, Allan Evans. Four points clear with one game left. Champions. #AVFC

I'm not keen on the Baggies, but what has gone on there with PSR is a travesty. If in times like these we can't stick together, then we might as well be blue noses. Shocking what City got away with (past tense amplified). Us, Chelsea, NUFC, EFC have used loopholes, Albion gave to charity, madness

From Cardiff fan to Villan through and through 193 appearances, a debut on this very date in 1999, and a Villa career that deserved so much more. Mark Delaney — committed, consistent, and cut short. #AVFC buff.ly/LbnDyqs

On 24 April 1920, Billy Kirton scored in the 100th minute to win Villa their sixth FA Cup. The first final ever decided by extra time. #avfc

5 league titles. 2 FA Cups. 187 appearances. 39 goals. Steve Smith was Villa's greatest Victorian winger — and he played his final game on this day in 1901. Here's his story #avfc buff.ly/SbIT27W

10 consecutive league wins — a Villa record that had never been done before. On 22 April 2019, Dean Smith's side made history. And Wembley was just weeks away #AVFC buff.ly/8H8655A

28 January 2020 "We shouldn't be losing to a club like Aston Villa." 21 April 2026 *Boo* their own team BEFORE kick off on the verge of another relegation to the third tier. Leicester City, vile in victory, hateful in defeat, the football embodiment of Jamie Vardy. They'll not be missed

£110k from Wimbledon. 145 appearances. 12 goals. Full Back. Kevin Gage. Graham Taylor called him an outstanding buy. Never a truer word. #avfc

21 April 2017. Ugo Ehiogu died aged 44. 206 appearances. A League Cup winner's medal. One of the best centre backs in Villa's Premier League history. Gone far too young. #avfc buff.ly/ZAOYDK7