2001–02_Aston_Villa_F.C._season

Aston Villa
2001–02 season
Chairman	Doug Ellis
Manager	John Gregory (until 24 January); John Deehan and Stuart Gray (caretakers); Graham Taylor (from 5 February)
Stadium	Villa Park
Premier League	8th
FA Cup	Third round
League Cup	Fourth round
Intertoto Cup	Winners
UEFA Cup	First round
Top goalscorer	League: ; Darius Vassell and Juan Pablo Ángel (12); All: ; Juan Pablo Ángel (16)
Average home league attendance	35,012
	← 2000–01 2002–03 →

2001–02 Aston Villa F.C. season

2001–02 season of Aston Villa

During 2001–02, Aston Villa competed in the Premier League (known as the FA Barclaycard Premiership for sponsorship reasons). Aston Villa's early season form was good and the Midlanders even went top briefly at the end of October, but followed that with a run of eleven games with only one win, falling out of the title race.

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John Gregory announced his surprise resignation after four years as Villa manager on 24 January. A host of names were linked with the vacancy, but in the end it was Graham Taylor, who took Villa to promotion in 1988 and second place in the league in 1990, who was appointed manager. Taylor was unable to improve Villa's form, but two wins against Southampton and Chelsea at the end of the season where enough to see Villa finish eighth thus finishing in the top 10 for the seventh year in succession.

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[6] Boateng was born in Nkawkaw, Ghana, but also qualified to represent the Netherlands internationally and represented them at U-21 level before making his international debut for the Netherlands in November 2001.

[7] Samuel was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago, but also qualified to represent England internationally and would represent them at U-21 level and be called up to the senior team before switching his international allegiance to Trinidad and Tobago and making his international debut for Trinidad and Tobago in September 2009.

[8] Tarrant was born in Darlington, England, but also qualified to represent Scotland internationally and represented them at U-21 level.

[9] Myhill was born in Modesto, California, United States, but was raised in England from the age of 1, qualifying to represent any of the home nations. He represented England at U-17, U-18, and U-20 level before making his international debut for Wales in March 2008.

[10] Speranza was born in Giessen, West Germany (now Germany), and later represented Italy internationally in futsal.

[11] Kandaurov was born in Zheleznogorsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia), but also qualified to represent Ukraine internationally and made his international debut for Ukraine in August 1992.

[12] Edwards was born in Madeley, England, and represented them at U-16 level, but also qualified to represent Wales internationally through his parents and would make his international debut for Wales in March 2003.

[13] Nicolas was born in Westminster, England, but also qualified to represent Cyprus internationally and represented them at U-21 level.

[14] Eremenko was born in Rostov-on-Don, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (now Russia), but was raised in Finland from the age of 7, gained Finnish citizenship in 2003, and would make his international debut for Finland in October 2003.

[15] Ward was born in Birmingham, England, but also qualifies to represent Northern Ireland internationally through his grandfather and represented them at U-19 and U-21 level before making his international debut for Northern Ireland in August 2011.

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Date	Pos	Player	From	Fee

20 June 2001	AM	Hassan Kachloul	Southampton	Free transfer
7 July 2001	LM	Mustapha Hadji	Coventry City	£4,500,000
12 July 2001	GK	Peter Schmeichel	Sporting	Free transfer
19 July 2001	CB	Olof Mellberg	Racing Santander	£5,000,000
24 August 2001	CF	Boško Balaban	Dinamo Zagreb	£5,800,000
27 March 2002	CF	Peter Crouch	Portsmouth	£5,000,000
				£20,300,000

Date	Pos	Player	From	Loan End

Date	Pos	Player	To	Fee

1 July 2001	CM	David Curtolo	-	Released
1 July 2001	GK	Neil Cutler	Stoke City	Free transfer
7 July 2001	CF	Julian Joachim	Coventry City	£2,000,000
11 July 2001	GK	David James	West Ham United	£3,500,000
11 July 2001	CB	Gareth Southgate	Middlesbrough	£6,500,000
31 October 2001	CF	Neil Tarrant	Ross County	Free transfer
20 December 2001	CF	Richard Walker	Blackpool	£50,000
8 February 2002	LM	David Ginola	Everton	Free transfer
19 March 2002	AM	Michael Standing	Bradford City	Free transfer
				£12,050,000

Date	Pos	Player	To	Loan End

26 July 2001	CF	Neil Tarrant	Motherwell	31 October 2001
14 September 2001	CF	Richard Walker	Wycombe Wanderers	11 December 2001
25 October 2001	LB	Jlloyd Samuel	Gillingham	3 December 2001
26 October 2001	LM	Thomas Hitzlsperger	Chesterfield	10 December 2001
9 March 2002	CM	Stephen Cooke	Bournemouth	21 April 2002
28 March 2002	CF	Dion Dublin	Millwall	31 May 2002

#	Name	Position	Place of birth	Date of birth (Age)	Signed from	Date signed	Fee	Apps	Gls
Goalkeepers
1	Peter Schmeichel	GK	Gladsaxe	(1963-11-18)18 November 1963 (aged 37)	Sporting	12 July 2000	Free transfer	-	-
12	Peter Enckelman	GK	Turku	(1977-03-10)10 March 1977 (aged 24)	TPS	1 February 1999	£200,000	14	0
13	Boaz Myhill	GK	Modesto, CA	(1982-11-09)9 November 1982 (aged 18)	Academy	1 July 2001	—	-	-
39	Wayne Henderson	GK	Dublin	(1983-09-16)16 September 1983 (aged 17)	Academy	1 July 2001	—	-	-
Defenders
2	Mark Delaney	RB	Haverfordwest	(1976-05-13)13 May 1976 (aged 25)	Cardiff City	9 March 1999	£250,000	59	1
3	Alan Wright	LB	Ashton-under-Lyne	(1971-09-28)28 September 1971 (aged 29)	Blackburn Rovers	10 March 1995	£1,000,000	286	5
4	Olof Mellberg	CB	Gullspång	(1977-09-03)3 September 1977 (aged 23)	Racing Santander	19 July 2001	£5,000,000	-	-
5	Alpay Özalan	CB	İzmir	(1973-05-30)30 May 1973 (aged 28)	Fenerbahçe	28 July 2000	£5,600,000	36	0
11	Steve Staunton	LB	Dundalk	(1969-01-19)19 January 1969 (aged 32)	Liverpool	6 December 2000	Free transfer	281	17
15	Gareth Barry	LB	Hastings	(1981-02-23)23 February 1981 (aged 20)	Academy	1 January 1998	—	121	4
25	Jon Bewers	RB	Kettering	(1982-09-10)10 September 1982 (aged 18)	Academy	1 July 1999	—	1	0
31	Jlloyd Samuel	LB	San Fernando	(1981-03-29)29 March 1981 (aged 20)	Academy	1 January 1999	—	17	0
Midfielders
6	George Boateng	CM	Nkawkaw	(1975-09-05)5 September 1975 (aged 25)	Coventry City	20 July 1999	£4,500,000	86	4
7	Ian Taylor	CM	Birmingham	(1968-06-04)4 June 1968 (aged 33)	Sheffield Wednesday	21 December 1994	£1,000,000	255	36
10	Paul Merson (c)	AM	Harlesden	(1968-03-20)20 March 1968 (aged 33)	Middlesbrough	8 September 1998	£6,750,000	117	16
14	David Ginola	LM	Gassin	(1967-01-25)25 January 1967 (aged 34)	Tottenham Hotspur	30 July 2000	£3,000,000	28	3
17	Lee Hendrie	RM	Solihull	(1977-05-18)18 May 1977 (aged 24)	Academy	1 July 1995	—	146	16
18	Steve Stone	RM	Gateshead	(1971-08-20)20 August 1971 (aged 29)	Nottingham Forest	11 March 1999	£5,500,000	88	6
20	Mustapha Hadji	LM	Ifrane Atlas-Saghir	(1971-11-16)16 November 1971 (aged 29)	Coventry City	7 July 2001	£4,500,000	-	-
21	Thomas Hitzlsperger	LM	Munich	(1982-04-05)5 April 1982 (aged 19)	Bayern Munich	5 August 2000	Free transfer	1	0
24	John McGrath	CM	Limerick	(1980-03-27)27 March 1980 (aged 21)	Academy	1 July 1999	—	3	0
27	Michael Standing	AM	Shoreham-by-Sea	(1981-03-20)20 March 1981 (aged 20)	Academy	1 July 1998	—	0	0
28	Gavin Melaugh	CM	Derry	(1981-07-09)9 July 1981 (aged 19)	Academy	1 July 2000	—	0	0
29	Stephen Cooke	CM	Walsall	(1983-02-15)15 February 1983 (aged 18)	Academy	1 July 2000	—	1	0
30	Hassan Kachloul	AM	Agadir	(1973-02-19)19 February 1973 (aged 28)	Southampton	1 July 2001	—	-	-
Forwards
8	Juan Pablo Ángel	CF	Medellín	(1975-10-24)24 October 1975 (aged 25)	River Plate	13 January 2001	£9,500,000	10	1
9	Dion Dublin	CF	Leicester	(1969-04-22)22 April 1969 (aged 32)	Coventry City	5 November 1998	£5,750,000	97	35
16	Peter Crouch	CF	Macclesfield	(1981-01-30)30 January 1981 (aged 20)	Portsmouth	27 March 2002	£5,000,000	-	-
19	Boško Balaban	CF	Rijeka	(1978-10-15)15 October 1978 (aged 22)	Dinamo Zagreb	24 October 2001	£5,800,000	-	-
22	Darius Vassell	CF	Birmingham	(1980-06-13)13 June 1980 (aged 21)	Academy	1 January 1998	—	58	7
23	Stefan Moore	CF	Birmingham	(1983-09-28)28 September 1983 (aged 17)	Academy	1 July 2001	—	-	-
26	Richard Walker	CF	Birmingham	(1977-11-08)8 November 1977 (aged 23)	Academy	1 July 1997	Loan	10	2
42	Peter Hynes	CF	Dublin	(1983-11-28)28 November 1983 (aged 17)	Academy	1 July 2001	—	-	-
44	Neil Tarrant	CF	Darlington	(1979-06-24)24 June 1979 (aged 22)	Ross County	28 April 1998	£250,000	0	0

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2001–02 Aston Villa F.C. season

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Transfers

Transferred in

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Transferred out

Loaned out

Overall transfer activity

Expenditure

Income

Balance

Squad

First Team

Final league table

Results

Legend

FA Premier League

FA Cup

League Cup

Intertoto Cup

UEFA Cup

Players

First-team squad

Left club during season

Reserve squad

U-19 squad

U-17 squad

Other players

Statistics

Appearances and goals

Starting 11

Transfers

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Notes

References

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Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
6	Chelsea	38	17	13	8	66	38	+28	64	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round^{[lower-alpha 1]}
7	West Ham United	38	15	8	15	48	57	−9	53
8	Aston Villa	38	12	14	12	46	47	−1	50	Qualification for the Intertoto Cup third round
9	Tottenham Hotspur	38	14	8	16	49	53	−4	50
10	Blackburn Rovers	38	12	10	16	55	51	+4	46	Qualification for the UEFA Cup first round^{[lower-alpha 2]}

Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
38	12	14	12	46	47	−1	50	8	7	4	22	17	+5	4	7	8	24	30	−6

Match	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	H	A	H	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	A
Result	D	D	W	D	W	W	W	L	W	W	L	D	D	L	D	L	W	L	L	D	D	W	W	D	D	D	L	W	L	L	D	L	D	L	L	D	W	W
Position	14	15	8	10	6	4	4	5	3	1	3	3	5	6	7	8	8	8	8	9	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	7	7	8	10	10	10	10	9	8

Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Scorers
18 August 2001	Tottenham Hotspur	A	0–0	36,059
26 August 2001	Manchester United	H	1–1	42,632	Vassell 4'
8 September 2001	Liverpool	A	3–1	44,102	Dublin 31', Hendrie 55', Vassell 86'
16 September 2001	Sunderland	H	0–0	31,668
24 September 2001	Southampton	A	3–1	26,794	Boateng 9', Ángel 15', Hadji 79'
30 September 2001	Blackburn Rovers	H	2–0	27,732	Ángel 46', Vassell 72'
14 October 2001	Fulham	H	2–0	28,579	Vassell 50', Taylor 61'
20 October 2001	Everton	A	2–3	33,352	Hadji 71', Schmeichel 90'
24 October 2001	Charlton Athletic	H	1–0	27,701	Kachloul 9'
27 October 2001	Bolton Wanderers	H	3–2	33,599	Ángel 13', (pen) 47', Vassell 43'
3 November 2001	Newcastle United	A	0–3	51,057
17 November 2001	Middlesbrough	H	0–0	35,424
25 November 2001	Leeds United	A	1–1	40,159	Kachloul 35'
1 December 2001	Leicester City	H	0–2	30,711
5 December 2001	West Ham United	A	1–1	28,377	Dublin 1'
9 December 2001	Arsenal	A	2–3	38,074	Merson 21', Stone 34'
17 December 2001	Ipswich Town	H	2–1	29,320	Ángel 44', 70'
22 December 2001	Derby County	A	1–3	28,001	Ángel 45'
26 December 2001	Liverpool	H	1–2	42,602	Hendrie 21'
29 December 2001	Tottenham Hotspur	H	1–1	41,134	Ángel (pen) 90'
1 January 2002	Sunderland	A	1–1	45,324	Taylor 59'
12 January 2002	Derby County	H	2–1	28,881	Vassell 12', Ángel 26'
21 January 2002	Charlton Athletic	A	2–1	25,681	Vassell 8', Ángel 42'
30 January 2002	Everton	H	0–0	32,460
2 February 2002	Fulham	A	0–0	20,041
9 February 2002	Chelsea	H	1–1	41,137	Merson 28'
23 February 2002	Manchester United	A	0–1	67,592
2 March 2002	West Ham United	H	2–1	37,341	Ángel 23', Vassell 90'
5 March 2002	Blackburn Rovers	A	0–3	21,988
17 March 2002	Arsenal	H	1–2	41,520	Dublin 69'
23 March 2002	Ipswich Town	A	0–0	25,247
30 March 2002	Bolton Wanderers	A	2–3	24,600	Warhurst (own goal) 15', Taylor 17'
2 April 2002	Newcastle United	H	1–1	36,597	Crouch 26'
6 April 2002	Middlesbrough	A	1–2	26,003	Ángel 60'
13 April 2002	Leeds United	H	0–1	40,039
20 April 2002	Leicester City	A	2–2	18,125	Vassell 22', Hitzlsperger 27'
27 April 2002	Southampton	H	2–1	35,255	Vassell 8', 42'
11 May 2002	Chelsea	A	3–1	40,709	Crouch 21', Vassell 63', Dublin 88'

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3	10 October 2001	Reading	H	1–0	23,431	Dublin 45'
R4	28 November 2001	Sheffield Wednesday	H	0–1	26,526

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R3 First Leg	14 July 2001	NK Slaven Belupo	A	1–2	3,000	Ginola 88'
R3 Second Leg	21 July 2001	NK Slaven Belupo	H	2–0 (won 3–2 on agg)	27,580	Hendrie 19', 41'
SF First Leg	25 July 2001	Rennes	A	1–2	15,753	Vassell 90'
SF Second Leg	1 August 2001	Rennes	H	1–0 (won on away goals)	30,782	Dublin 5'
F First Leg	7 August 2001	Basel	A	1–1	25,879	Merson 59'
F Second Leg	21 August 2001	Basel	H	4–1 (won 5–2 on agg)	39,593	Vassell 45', Ángel 55', 79', Ginola 83'

Round	Date	Opponent	Venue	Result	Attendance	Goalscorers
R1 First Leg	20 September 2001	NK Varteks	H	2–3	27,132	Ángel 54', 70'
R1 Second Leg	27 September 2001	NK Varteks	A	1–0 (lost on away goals)	12,100	Hadji 90'

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		Premier League		FA Cup		League Cup		Continental
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Goalkeepers
1	GK	DEN	Peter Schmeichel	36	1	29	1	1	0	2	0	4	0
12	GK	FIN	Peter Enckelman	14	0	9	0	0	0	0	0	4+1	0
Defenders
2	DF	WAL	Mark Delaney	39	0	30	0	0	0	1	0	8	0
3	DF	ENG	Alan Wright	32	0	23	0	1	0	1	0	7	0
4	DF	SWE	Olof Mellberg	36	0	32	0	1	0	1	0	2	0
5	DF	TUR	Alpay Özalan	24	0	14	0	0	0	2	0	8	0
11	DF	IRL	Steve Staunton	38	0	30+3	0	1	0	2	0	2	0
31	DF	ENG	Jlloyd Samuel	26	0	17+6	0	1	0	0	0	0+2	0
Midfielders
6	MF	NED	George Boateng	48	1	37	1	1	0	1+1	0	8	0
7	MF	ENG	Ian Taylor	18	4	7+9	3	1	1	1	0	0	0
10	MF	ENG	Paul Merson	27	3	18+3	2	1	0	0	0	5	1
14	MF	FRA	David Ginola	13	2	0+5	0	0	0	1+1	0	3+3	2
15	MF	ENG	Gareth Barry	28	0	16+4	0	0+1	0	0	0	6+1	0
17	MF	ENG	Lee Hendrie	39	4	25+4	2	1	0	2	0	7	2
18	MF	ENG	Steve Stone	32	1	14+8	1	0+1	0	1	0	5+3	0
20	MF	MAR	Mustapha Hadji	32	3	17+6	2	0+1	0	2	0	3+3	1
21	MF	GER	Thomas Hitzlsperger	12	1	11+1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	MF	MAR	Hassan Kachloul	31	2	17+5	2	0	0	2	0	6+1	0
Forwards
8	FW	COL	Juan Pablo Ángel	35	16	26+3	12	1	0	1	0	2+2	4
9	FW	ENG	Dion Dublin	30	6	9+12	4	0	0	1+1	1	5+2	1
16	FW	ENG	Peter Crouch	7	2	7	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	FW	CRO	Boško Balaban	11	0	0+8	0	0	0	1+1	0	1	0
22	FW	ENG	Darius Vassell	44	14	30+6	12	1	0	0+1	0	2+4	2
Players transferred out during the season

#	Pos	Player	From	Fee	Date
30	MF	Hassan Kachloul	Southampton	Free	June 2001
20	MF	Mustapha Hadji	Coventry City	£2,500,000 + Julian Joachim	July 2001
1	GK	Peter Schmeichel	Sporting CP	Free	July 2001
4	DF	Olof Mellberg	Racing Santander	£5,000,000	July 2001
19	FW	Boško Balaban	Dinamo Zagreb	£5,800,000	August 2001
16	FW	Peter Crouch	Portsmouth	£5,000,000	March 2002

#	Pos	Player	To	Fee	Date
12	FW	Julian Joachim	Coventry City	Swap	July 2001
1	GK	David James	West Ham United	£3,500,000	July 2001
4	DF	Gareth Southgate	Middlesbrough	£6,500,000	July 2001
13	DF	Neil Cutler	Stoke City	Free	July 2001
19	FW	Richard Walker	Blackpool	£50,000	December 2001
14	MF	David Ginola	Everton	Free	February 2002
27	MF	Michael Standing	Bradford City	Free	March 2002