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2006–07 Aston Villa F.C. season
English football club season
English football club season
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| club | Aston Villa |
| season | 2006–07 |
| manager | Martin O'Neill |
| chairman | Randy Lerner |
| league | FA Premier League |
| league result | [11th](2006-07-fa-premier-league) |
| cup1 | FA Cup |
| cup1 result | [Third round](2006-07-fa-cup-third-round-proper) |
| cup2 | League Cup |
| cup2 result | [Fourth round](2006-07-football-league-cup-fourth-round) |
| league topscorer | Gabriel Agbonlahor (9) |
| season topscorer | Gareth Barry |
| Gabriel Agbonlahor (10) | |
| highest attendance | 42,551 (vs. Tottenham, Man Utd, Liverpool, Sheff Utd) |
| lowest attendance | 27,450 (vs. Bolton) |
| average attendance | 36,214 |
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| prevseason | [2005–06](2005-06-aston-villa-f-c-season) |
| nextseason | [2007–08](2007-08-aston-villa-f-c-season) |
Main article: History of Aston Villa F.C. (1961–present)
Gabriel Agbonlahor (10)
The 2006–07 English football season was Aston Villa's 15th season in the Premier League. It was Villa's first season under the management of Northern Irishman Martin O'Neill, who was appointed as manager following the sacking of David O'Leary at the end of the previous season.
In August 2006, it was confirmed Randy Lerner had reached a £62.6m agreement with Aston Villa to take over the club. The statement to the London Stock Exchange confirmed that 60% of the club's shares, including the 39% stake of Doug Ellis had been sold to Lerner, beating competition from consortia led by Michael Neville, Nicholas Padfield QC, and Athole Still. Eleven days after the announcement, the LSE confirmed that Lerner had secured 59.69% of Villa shares, making him the majority shareholder. Lerner appointed himself Chairman of the Board of the club. The BBC reported in September 2006 that Lerner had moved closer to taking full control of the club, after increasing his share to 85.5%.
By the time that the deadline passed in September 2006, Lerner had secured the acceptance of 89.69% of the shareholders. Due to the acceptance only being 0.31% below the conditional limit, Lerner accepted it and made the bid unconditional. On September 19, 2006, Aston Villa PLC executive chairman Doug Ellis and his board resigned, and were replaced by Randy Lerner as chairman with General Charles C. Krulak, Bob Kain and Michael Martin serving as non-executive directors. At the close of the deal in 2006, Lerner became only the second American owner of a Premiership club. Ellis became a President Emeritus (Life President) of the club.
Villa started life under Martin O'Neill strongly and were the last team in the Premier League to be beaten, going nine matches without defeat and taking points against the likes of Arsenal and Chelsea away before a 3–1 loss at Liverpool. A run of 11 games without victory during the middle of the season dragged Villa down to 14th place, putting paid to their early-season hopes of Champions League qualification, but Villa rallied and only lost 3 of their last 15 games to finish comfortably in 11th.
There were debuts for Ashley Young (210), Stiliyan Petrov (185), John Carew (113), Shaun Maloney (30), Isaiah Osbourne (19), Phil Bardsley (13), Chris Sutton (8), Didier Agathe (5), and Gábor Király (5).
Kit
| Kit Supplier | Sponsor |
|---|---|
| Hummel | [32Red.com](32red) |
Transfers
Transferred in
| Date | Pos | Player | From | Fee | **£22,150,000** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 August 2006 | CM | BUL Stiliyan Petrov | SCO Celtic | £6,500,000 | |
| 12 September 2006 | RM | REU Didier Agathe | SCO Celtic | Free transfer | |
| 3 October 2006 | CF | Chris Sutton | Birmingham City | Free transfer | |
| 22 January 2007 | CF | NOR John Carew | FRA Olympique Lyon | £5,000,000 | |
| (P/EX) | |||||
| 23 January 2007 | LW | Ashley Young | Watford | £9,650,000 | |
| 31 January 2007 | AM | SCO Shaun Maloney | SCO Celtic | £1,000,000 |
Loaned in
| Date | Pos | Player | From | Loan End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 December 2006 | GK | HUN Gábor Király | Crystal Palace | 8 January 2007 |
| 8 January 2007 | RB | SCO Phil Bardsley | Manchester United | 29 April 2007 |
Transferred out
| Date | Pos | Player | To | Fee | **£6,550,000** |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 July 2006 | RB | ECU Ulises de la Cruz | Reading | Free transfer | |
| 1 August 2006 | CM | FRA Mathieu Berson | ESP Levante | £500,000 | |
| 22 August 2006 | CF | Kevin Phillips | West Bromwich Albion | £700,000 | |
| 11 January 2007 | LM | Peter Whittingham | WAL Cardiff City | £350,000 | |
| 11 January 2007 | RM | REU Didier Agathe | - | Released | |
| 22 January 2007 | CF | CZE Milan Baroš | FRA Olympique Lyon | £5,000,000 | |
| (P/EX) | |||||
| 17 April 2007 | CF | COL Juan Pablo Ángel | USA New York Red Bulls | Free transfer |
Loaned out
| Date | Pos | Player | To | Loan End |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 September 2006 | RM | Lee Hendrie | Stoke City | 1 January 2007 |
| 29 September 2006 | CF | Sam Williams | Brighton & Hove Albion | 29 October 2006 |
| 20 October 2006 | LB | IRL Stephen O'Halloran | Wycombe Wanderers | 21 January 2007 |
| 23 November 2006 | AM | CZE Patrik Berger | Stoke City | 1 January 2007 |
| 12 January 2007 | DM | CMR Eric Djemba-Djemba | Burnley | 31 May 2007 |
| 30 January 2007 | RM | Lee Hendrie | Stoke City | 31 May 2007 |
| 8 March 2007 | GK | AUT Bobby Olejnik | Lincoln City | 29 April 2007 |
Overall transfer activity
Expenditure
£22,150,000
Income
£6,550,000
Balance
£15,600,000
Final league table
Main article: 2006–07 FA Premier League
Results
Pre-season
| Date | Opponents | Home/ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Away | Result | ||||
| F–A | Scorers | Competition | |||
| 21 July 2006 | Walsall | A | [5–0](https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/a/aston_villa/5205308.stm) | Agbonlahor (2), Moore (2), Whittingham | Friendly |
| 25 July 2006 | Hull City | A | [2–0](http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/astonvilla/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/07/25/SOCCER_Villa.html&TEAMHD=astonvilla&DIV=prem&TEAM=ASTON--VILLA&RH=Aston--Villa&PREV_SEASON=2005) | Davis, Gardner | Friendly |
| 26 July 2006 | Chesterfield | A | [2–0](http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/astonvilla/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/07/26/SOCCER_Villa.html&TEAMHD=astonvilla&DIV=prem&TEAM=ASTON--VILLA&RH=Aston--Villa&PREV_SEASON=2005) | Bridges (2) | Friendly |
| 29 July 2006 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | A | [3–0](http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/astonvilla/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/07/29/SOCCER_Wolves.html&TEAMHD=astonvilla&DIV=prem&TEAM=ASTON--VILLA&RH=Aston--Villa&PREV_SEASON=2005) | Ridgewell, Barry, Agbonlahor | Friendly |
| 5 August 2006 | Hannover GER | A | [0–0](http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/astonvilla/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/08/05/SOCCER_Villa_Nightlead.html&TEAMHD=astonvilla&DIV=prem&TEAM=ASTON--VILLA&RH=Aston--Villa&PREV_SEASON=2005) | Friendly | |
| 8 August 2006 | NEC Nijmegen NED | A | [1–2](http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/astonvilla/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/08/08/SOCCER_Villa_Report.html&TEAMHD=astonvilla&DIV=prem&TEAM=ASTON--VILLA&RH=Aston--Villa&PREV_SEASON=2005) | Agbonlahor | Friendly |
| 11 August 2006 | Groningen NED | A | [2–2](http://www.sportinglife.com/football/premiership/astonvilla/reports/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=soccer/06/08/11/SOCCER_Villa.html&TEAMHD=astonvilla&DIV=prem&TEAM=ASTON--VILLA&RH=Aston--Villa&PREV_SEASON=2005) | Moore, Ridgewell | Friendly |
Premier League
Results by matchday
Barry Sonko Ángel Zamora Zamora Barry McCann Moore Ángel Crouch Luis García Ángel Barton Distin Pedro Mendes Ángel Webber Baroš Scholes Hughes Carrick Ronaldo Agbonlahor Dyer Sibierski Agbonlahor Valencia Moore Petrov Maloney Young Berger Davies Moore
FA Cup
Solskjær
League Cup
Kisnorbo Barry Agbonlahor Shevchenko Essien Drogba
Players
First-team squad
:Squad at end of season
Left club during season
Reserve squad
:The following players spent most of the season playing for the reserve team, and did not appear for the first team.
Youth squad
:The following players spent most of the season playing for the youth team, and did not appear for the first team, but may have appeared for the reserve team.
Other players
Squad statistics
| No. | Pos. | Name | League | FA Cup | League Cup | Total | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Sorensen | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31 | 0 | ||||
| 3 | DF | Samuel | 2+2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | ||||
| 4 | DF | Mellberg | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 1 | ||||
| 5 | DF | Laursen | 12+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13+2 | 0 | ||||
| 6 | MD | Barry | 35 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 39 | 9 | ||||
| 8 | MF | McCann | 28+2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 31+2 | 1 | ||||
| 9 | FW | Angel | 18+5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 22+5 | 7 | ||||
| 10 | FW | Baroš | 10+7 | 1 | 0+1 | 1 | 1+2 | 0 | 11+10 | 2 | ||||
| 10 | FW | Carew | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | ||||
| 11 | MF | Petrov | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 34 | 2 | ||||
| 12 | MF | Davis | 17+11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 20+11 | 0 | ||||
| 13 | GK | Taylor | 4+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 | ||||
| 14 | MF | Djemba-Djemba | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | ||||
| 15 | FW | Agbonlahor | 37+1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41+1 | 10 | ||||
| 16 | DF | Bouma | 23+2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | 25+3 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | FW | Young | 11+2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 11+2 | 2 | ||||
| 17 | MF | Whittingham | 2+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 2+2 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | DF | Hughes | 15+4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 19+4 | 0 | ||||
| 19 | DF | Ridgewell | 19+2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | 22+3 | 1 | ||||
| 20 | FW | Sutton | 6+2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 6+3 | 1 | ||||
| 21 | DF | Cahill | 19+1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20+1 | 0 | ||||
| 22 | FW | Moore | 7+6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8+6 | 4 | ||||
| 23 | MF | Berger | 5+8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 5+9 | 2 | ||||
| 24 | DF | Bardsley | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | ||||
| 26 | MF | Gardner | 11+2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11+2 | 2 | ||||
| 27 | MF | Osbourne | 6+5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8+5 | 0 | ||||
| 28 | GK | Kiraly | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | ||||
| 28 | MF | Maloney | 5+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5+3 | 1 | ||||
| 31 | DF | Agathe | 0+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0+6 | 0 |
References
Notes
References
- (September 5, 2006). "Lerner closer to control of Villa". Article on BBC Sport.
- (11 October 2018). "RIP Sir Doug Ellis". Aston Villa F.C..
- "Aston Villa's Seasons".
- "FootballSquads - Aston Villa - 2006/07".
- "Aston Villa Player Database".
- "Villa matches 2006-07".
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