1882–83 Aston Villa F.C. season

Aston Villa
1882–83 season
Chairman	William McGregor
FA Cup	5th round

The programme for the 1883 Birmingham Senior Cup final between Wednesbury Old Athletic and Villa

The 1882–83 English football season was Aston Villa's 4th season in the Football Association Cup, the top-level football competition at the time. 1883 saw an increased takeover by professionals in the English game with Preston North End, in particular, attracting and paying a number of stars (mostly from Scotland). This move away from amateurism was to prove an advantage for Villa, whose industrial Birmingham home gave them access to large numbers of potential supporters. This in turn meant they could afford to pay decent wages to players with the ticket revenue accrued.

There were debuts for Joe Simmonds,^[1] Thomas Bryan,^[2] David Anderson,^[3] Alf Harvey,^[4] Wally Roberts,^[5] Charles Apperley^[6] and Tommy Mason.^[7] As the season progressed, the now-professional Aston Villa had built up a squad made of the strongest players in the district, while rivals such as Aston Unity stayed within the FA rules on amateurism. Villa outpaced Unity by such a degree that, six weeks after their close FA Cup tie, in the fourth round of the Birmingham Senior Cup, Villa beat Unity at the Aston Lower Grounds by 16 goals to 0. Ten of the goals were scored by Arthur Brown,^[8] who had left Unity for Villa earlier in the season, and had persuaded a number of team-mates to join him.^[9] Villa beat Wednesbury Old Athletic 3–2 in the final.

FA Cup

This season also saw Villa's longest run in the FA Cup. They beat Walsall Swifts, Wednesbury Old Athletic, Aston Unity and Walsall Town before a controversial 4–3 loss to Notts County. The beaten Walsall Swifts would later merge with Walsall Town to make the present-day Walsall FC.^[10]

1st Round	Aston Villa	4–1	Walsall Swifts
Note: ^[11]

2nd Round	Aston Villa	4–1	Wednesbury Old Athletic
Note: ^[12]

3rd Round	Aston Villa	3–1	Aston Unity
Note: ^[13] In the 1882–83 season, Unity entered the FA Cup for the first time, and obtained a bye through the first round. The club beat "the coming club" St George's 3–1 in the second, at the Pickwick Cricket Ground, but lost to Villa in the third, at the latter's Wellington Road ground, in front of a crowd of 4–5,000.^[14]

4th Round	Aston Villa	2–1	Walsall Town
Note: ^[15]

5th Round	Notts County	4–3	Aston Villa
Note: A County player appeared to punch the ball off the line in the dying stages, but the referee was unmoved.^[10]

Staffordshire Cup

Viila played West Brom for the ever first time on 9 December 1882, in the second round of the Staffordshire Senior Cup: Villa hosted a 3–3 draw in front of 13,900 fans, while in the replay West Bromwich Albion won by a single goal with an attendance of 10,500. It is possible that this is the first recorded incident of football violence with Albion fans being pelted with soil from home supporters before scuffles broke out between the two sets of fans.^[16]

References

↑ https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/joe-simmonds
↑ https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/thomas-bryan
↑ https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/david-anderson
↑ https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/alf-harvey
↑ https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/wally-roberts
↑ https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/charles-apperley
↑ https://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/tommy-mason
↑ "Birmingham Association Challenge Cup". Birmingham Post: 6. 12 February 1883.
↑ Bradbury, Mike (2013). Lost Teams of the Midlands.
1 2 "🟥 3 Mar 1883, Villa 3-4 Notts County, Castle Grounds". AVFC History.
↑ "🟩 21 Oct 1882, Villa 4-1 Walsall Swifts, Wellington Road". AVFC History.
↑ "🟩 18 Nov 1882, Villa 4-1 W.O.A.C., Wellington Road". AVFC History.
↑ "🟩 6 Jan 1883, Villa 3-1 Aston Unity, Wellington Road". AVFC History.
↑ "Aston Unity v Aston Villa". Morning Post: 2. 8 January 1883.
↑ "🟩 27 Jan 1883, Villa 2-1 Walsall Town, Wellington Road". AVFC History.
↑ "1882–1885". West Bromwich Albion History. Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

[1] ttps://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/joe-simmonds

[2] ttps://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/thomas-bryan

[3] ttps://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/david-anderson

[4] ttps://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/alf-harvey

[5] ttps://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/wally-roberts

[6] ttps://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/charles-apperley

[7] ttps://www.avfchistory.co.uk/player/tommy-mason

[8] "Birmingham Association Challenge Cup". Birmingham Post: 6. 12 February 1883.

[9] Bradbury, Mike (2013). Lost Teams of the Midlands.

[AVFC16-10] 1 2 "🟥 3 Mar 1883, Villa 3-4 Notts County, Castle Grounds". AVFC History.

[11] "🟩 21 Oct 1882, Villa 4-1 Walsall Swifts, Wellington Road". AVFC History.

[12] "🟩 18 Nov 1882, Villa 4-1 W.O.A.C., Wellington Road". AVFC History.

[13] "🟩 6 Jan 1883, Villa 3-1 Aston Unity, Wellington Road". AVFC History.

[14] "Aston Unity v Aston Villa". Morning Post: 2. 8 January 1883.

[15] "🟩 27 Jan 1883, Villa 2-1 Walsall Town, Wellington Road". AVFC History.

[lerwill-16] "1882–1885". West Bromwich Albion History. Archived from the original on 12 November 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2015.

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