1934–35 Aston Villa F.C. season

Main article: History of Aston Villa

Aston Villa

1934–35 season
Manager	Billy Smith
Stadium	Villa Park
First Division	13th
FA Cup	Third round

Aston Villa played the 1934–35 English football season in the Football League First Division. This was manager Jimmy McMullan's first season having been appointed appointed as manager when Billy Smith retired at the end of the previous season.

The new year saw Aston Villa draw 1–1 away to Derby County, Eric Houghton scoring Villa's goal, leaving the club in 12th position.

League table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts	Relegation
1	Arsenal (C)	42	23	12	7	115	46	2.500	58
2	Sunderland	42	19	16	7	90	51	1.765	54
3	Sheffield Wednesday	42	18	13	11	70	64	1.094	49
4	Manchester City	42	20	8	14	82	67	1.224	48
5	Grimsby Town	42	17	11	14	78	60	1.300	45
6	Derby County	42	18	9	15	81	66	1.227	45
7	Liverpool	42	19	7	16	85	88	0.966	45
8	Everton	42	16	12	14	89	88	1.011	44
9	West Bromwich Albion	42	17	10	15	83	83	1.000	44
10	Stoke City	42	18	6	18	71	70	1.014	42
11	Preston North End	42	15	12	15	62	67	0.925	42
12	Chelsea	42	16	9	17	73	82	0.890	41
13	Aston Villa	42	14	13	15	74	88	0.841	41
14	Portsmouth	42	15	10	17	71	72	0.986	40
15	Blackburn Rovers	42	14	11	17	66	78	0.846	39
16	Huddersfield Town	42	14	10	18	76	71	1.070	38
17	Wolverhampton Wanderers	42	15	8	19	88	94	0.936	38
18	Leeds United	42	13	12	17	75	92	0.815	38
19	Birmingham	42	13	10	19	63	81	0.778	36
20	Middlesbrough	42	10	14	18	70	90	0.778	34
21	Leicester City (R)	42	12	9	21	61	86	0.709	33	Relegation to the Second Division
22	Tottenham Hotspur (R)	42	10	10	22	54	93	0.581	30

Source: World Football
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated

Squad statistics

Appearances

• Harry Morton, 43 appearances
• Eric Houghton, 42 appearances
• George Beeson, 41 appearances
• Danny Blair, 38 appearances
• Billy Kingdon, 36 appearances
• Jimmy Allen, 34 appearances
• Dai Astley, 33 appearances
• Tommy Gardner, 32 appearances
• Arthur Cunliffe, 26 appearances
• Pongo Waring, 25 appearances
• Ronnie Dix 24 appearances
• Joe Beresford, 23 appearances
• Jimmy Gibson, 12 appearances
• Bob Brocklebank, 12 appearances
• Archie Watkins, 11 appearances
• Alec Talbot, 10 appearances
• Reg Chester, 10 appearances
• Frank Broome, 7 appearances
• Tommy Mort, 5 appearances
• Billy Simpson, 3 appearances
• Fred Butcher, 2 appearances
• Jimmy McLuckie, 1 appearances
• George Brown, 1 appearances
• Tommy Wood, 1 appearances
• Ernie Callaghan, 1 appearances