- Nigel Reo-Coker
Nigel Shola Andre Reo-Coker is an English professional footballer. He is a midfielder, currently playing for Aston Villa.. He is known for being a powerful midfielder with excellent attaking and defensive qualities.
- Olof Mellberg
Erik Olof Mellberg (born September 3, 1977 in Amnehärad, Gullspång) is a Swedish football player who currently plays club football for Aston Villa. Besides playing for Aston Villa, Mellberg is an established player for the Swedish national team, and used to captain the side but stepped down from the role after the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany. Shortly thereafter, he also abdicated as team captain of his club team.
- Patrik Berger
Patrik Berger (born 10 November, 1973 in Prague) is a Czech football player. He is currently a midfielder for English Premiership team Aston Villa, having signed from Portsmouth on a free transfer on 1 June 2005. Patrik Berger began his career as junior with Sparta Prague in 1989 then he moved to the city rival Slavia Prague in 1991/92, and moved to Borussia Dortmund in 1995/96, with whom he won the Bundesliga title that year.
- Luke Moore
Luke Moore (born February 13, 1986 in Birmingham, West Midlands) is an English football player who currently plays for Aston Villa as a forward.
- Marlon Harewood
Marlon Harewood (born August 25, 1979) is an English professional footballer who plays as a forward for Aston Villa. He started his career at Nottingham Forest, had a successful spell on loan to FC Haka before joining West Ham United in 2003 and then Aston Villa in 2007.
- Peter Crouch
Peter James Crouch (born January 30 1981 in Macclesfield, Cheshire) is an English international football player. He currently plays for the English club Liverpool as a striker. His height of 2.01 m / 6 ft 7 in makes him the tallest man ever to play for either Liverpool or the England national team, as well as the tallest player currently in the Premiership. He is also known for his robotic dancing goal celebration, …
- Sam Williams
Sam Williams (born June 9, 1987) is a Welsh football player who currently plays for Aston Villa as a forward. He was sent on loan to Wrexham to gain first team experience. On February 4, 2006 Williams scored on his debut for Wrexham against Wycombe Wanderers. Williams, naturally a defensive midfielder before the start of the 2005/06 season, took straight into the role of an attacker, after injuries to strikers.
- Didier Six
Didier Six (born August 21st, 1954 in Lille) is a French former footballer. He played as a winger and he earned 52 caps and scored 13 goals for the France national football team. He played in the 1978 FIFA World Cup and the 1982 FIFA World Cup, and was also part of the winning team of Euro 84. He also acquired Turkish citizenship in order to play as a neutral player at Galatasaray.
- Gabriel Agbonlahor
Gabriel Agbonlahor (born October 131986 in Birmingham) is an English footballer of half Nigerian and half Scottish descent due to his Nigerian father and Scottish mother. Agbonlahor currently plays for English football club Aston Villa Although Agbonlahor, is eligible to play international football for both Nigeria and Scotland, he has stated that playing for England was always his first choice. He currently represents England at under 21 level.
- Dwight Yorke
Dwight Eversley Yorke (born November 3, 1971 in Canaan, Tobago) is a Trinidad and Tobagon football player. He currently plays for Sunderland A.F.C, having previously played for Aston Villa F.C. as his first club and most of his career, then Manchester United F.C., Blackburn Rovers F.C., Birmingham City F.C. and Sydney FC.
- Gareth Barry
Gareth Barry (born February 23, 1981 in Hastings, England) is an English footballer and the captain of Aston Villa and is the only player to play in both final matches at the old Wembley Stadium, once for Aston Villa against Chelsea and for England against Germany, both resulting in a 1-0 loss.
- Gary Williams
Gary Williams (born 17 June 1960) is a former English footballer who played for Aston Villa and was part of their European Cup victory in 1982.
- Kevin Phillips
Kevin Mark Phillips (born July 25 1973 in Hitchin, Hertfordshire) is an English footballer who currently plays for West Bromwich Albion. He holds the Sunderland record for most post-war goals, breaking a record previously set by Gary Rowell. He has also had spells at Watford, Southampton and Aston Villa. His favoured position is centre forward alongside a target man, which was the basis for his success at Sunderland, …
- David James
David Benjamin James (born 1 August 1970, Welwyn Garden City, England) is a English professional footballer who currently plays for Portsmouth in the Premier League. He has played as a goalkeeper for a number of English clubs, and most notably won the 1995 League Cup with Liverpool.
- Mark Bosnich
Mark Bosnich (born 13 January, 1972 in Fairfield, New South Wales), is widely regarded as one of Australia's best football (soccer) goalkeepers, representing his country on many occasions and playing for English Premier League clubs Aston Villa, Manchester United, and Chelsea.
- Mustapha Hadji
Mustapha Hadji is former a Moroccan international footballer. His younger brother, Youssouf Hadji, is also a Moroccan international and currently plays for AS Nancy. Hadji, nicknamed "Mous", immigrated with his family at an early age to France. They first settled at Saint-Etienne, then Monceau, and finally Creutzwald. Mustapha Hadji began playing football there.
- Chris Sutton
Christopher Roy Sutton (born 10 March 1973 in Nottingham, England) is an English former footballer. In his career, Sutton played for Norwich City, Blackburn Rovers, Chelsea, Celtic, Birmingham and Aston Villa. He has also been capped once by England. Sutton played in either defence, midfield or attack, although usually in the latter role.
- Liam Ridgewell
Liam Matthew Ridgewell (born July 21, 1984 in London) is an English footballer and defender for Aston Villa. Ridgewell was part of the Aston Villa team who won the FA Youth Cup final in May 2002 against Everton, but did so having transferred from West Ham United in February 2001. The day after scoring for England Under-19s in a 2-2 draw against Yugoslavia Under-19s in October 2002, he was loaned out to Bournemouth, …
- Craig Gardner
Craig Gardner (born November 25, 1986 in Solihull, Birmingham) is an English footballer, who plays for the English Premiership club Aston Villa as a midfielder. He grew up in the Yardley district of Birmingham and was offered the chance to play for Aston Villa's rivals Birmingham City but turned it down as he and his family are all such avid Villa fans. He currently weighs 75kg (11.8 stone) He turned professional on January 31, 2005.
- Isaiah Osbourne
Isaiah Osbourne (born 15 November 1987 in Birmingham, England) is an English professional footballer who currently plays in midfield for Aston Villa, and is a former England Under-16 international. He attended Kingsbury School and Sports college (Kingsbury Road, Erdington) from 1999 until 2004. Tall, Osbourne has been compared to former Arsenal captain Patrick Vieira, who is his role model.
- Mark Lillis
Mark Anthony Lillis (born 17 January, 1960 in Manchester, Greater Manchester, England) is a former English footballer and football manager. He has played for seven English football clubs, and managed one. Lillis is now assistant manager of Morecambe in the National Conference.
- Carl Tiler
Carl Tiler is a former English football player who had spells with Everton, Aston Villa and Charlton where he was a central defender. He started his career at Barnsley where he spent 3 season in which he attracted top clubs interest and in 1991 he signed for Nottm Forest for £1.4million. His spell at Nottm Forest was unspectacular, rarely holding down a first team place and he was sent on loan to Swindon in the 1994 season.
- Darren Byfield
Darren Byfield (born 29 September 1976 in Birmingham, West Midlands) is an English professional footballer of Jamaican descent currently playing for Millwall. He was signed by Millwall during pre-season of the 2006-07 season on a free transfer after he left Gillingham. Perhaps the most consistent time of his career was spent at Walsall, where he scored a spectacular winning goal in their 2001 Play-off final victory against Reading.
- Adrian Heath
Adrian "Inchy" Heath (born January 11 1961 in Newcastle-under-Lyme) is a British football manager and former player. As a player he is remembered as part of the Everton side of the 1980s. As a Manchester City player he scored only 3 goals in 79 games. He has managed Burnley and Sheffield United, as well as being assistant manager of Sunderland. He was caretaker manager of Coventry City following Micky Adams' departure.
- Michael Oakes
Michael Oakes is a footballer. His position is goalkeeper. He is currently playing for Cardiff City. He is the son of former Manchester City footballer Alan Oakes. Having previously played for Aston Villa (in which time he was loaned to Scarborough), Oakes joined Wolves in October 1999 for £450,000, and soon ousted long-serving Mike Stowell as number one at Molineux. He remained as the first-team goalkeeper until September 2002, …
- Marcus Allbäck
Marcus Christian Allbäck, born July 5, 1973 in Göteborg, is a Swedish football striker, who currently plays for F.C. Copenhagen in Denmark.
- Dion Dublin
Dion Dublin (born 22 April 1969 in Leicester) is an English footballer currently with Norwich City. He was capped four times for England. Dublin started his career and made his name as a goal-scoring centre forward but in recent years has shown his versatility by becoming an accomplished defender. He previously played for Norwich City, Cambridge United, Manchester United, Coventry City, Millwall, Aston Villa, Leicester City and Celtic.
- Alan Curbishley
Llewellyn Charles Curbishley (born 8 November 1957 in Forest Gate, East London), more commonly known as Alan Curbishley, is a former professional footballer and the current manager of West Ham United.
- James Cumbes
James Cumbes (born 4 May 1944), often known as Jim Cumbes, is a former English cricketer: a right-arm fast-medium bowler and lower-order right-handed batsman who played first-class cricket for four counties, and later served as Chief Executive of Lancashire. Born in East Didsbury, Manchester, Cumbes made his Lancashire debut against Worcestershire in last August 1963. In a game ruined by bad weather, only 55 overs were possible, …
- Alan Deakin
Alan Deakin (Born Balsall Heath, Birmingham, November 1941) was an English footballer during the 1960s, he went on to become captain of Aston Villa. Considered by many to be the most talented of Villa's young side that became known as 'Mercer's Minors' during the early 1960s, having signed for the club as a 15-year-old. He became a regular in the side during the 1960-61 season and collected a League Cup winners' tankard at the start of the following season.
- Steve McMahon
Stephen McMahon (born August 20, 1961 in Liverpool) was one of the toughest midfield football players of his generation who galvanised the Liverpool team of the late 1980s.
- Peter Withe
Peter Withe (born 30 August, 1951, Liverpool) is a much-travelled English centre forward, who played between 1971 and 1990. He now works as a manager, predominantly in South-east Asia.The highlights of his career came at Aston Villa, where he was a key player in the Football League title triumph of 1981 and scored his side's only goal in their European Cup final triumph in 1982.
- Tony Dorigo
Anthony Robert Dorigo is a retired football (soccer) player who played for Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leeds United and the England national side as a left-back. He is now a football pundit and appears on satellite television channel, Bravo, as part of their Serie A coverage. He signed for Chelsea from Aston Villa for £475,000 and he won the club's player of the year award in his first season, though they were also relegated.
- Stiliyan Petrov
Stiliyan Petrov (sometimes spelt Stilian Petrov) ((born July 5, 1979 in Montana) is a Bulgarian football player who currently plays for Aston Villa in the Premier League. He joined Aston Villa from Scottish Premier League club Celtic in August 2006. Petrov had become known for his solid performances in midfield for both Celtic and Bulgaria. He captained the national team at Euro 2004 where he was sent off during a match against Denmark.
- Davy Walsh
David John Walsh (born April 28, 1923, Waterford, Ireland), commonly referred to as Davy Walsh or Dave Walsh, is a former Irish footballer who played as a centre-forward for, among others, Linfield, West Bromwich Albion and Aston Villa. As an international, Walsh also played for both Ireland teams - the FAI XI and the IFA XI. In 1949 he was a member of the FAI XI that defeated England 2-0 at Goodison Park, …
- Ashley Young
Ashley Simon Young (born 9 July, 1985 in Stevenage, England) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as both a midfielder and a striker for Aston Villa. He was educated at The John Henry Newman School in Stevenage, and spent one year at The Barclay School in Stevenage where he took a BTEC in Sport.
- Gary Cahill
Gary James Cahill (born December 19, 1985 in Sheffield) is an English footballer who currently plays for Aston Villa as a defender. He has previously played for Burnley on loan and during his spell, which began in November 2004, he was handed the accolades of Burnley's Player Of The Year and Young Player Of The Year. He has since become an Under-20 international for England.
- Alexis Nicolas
Alexis Nicolas (born 13 February 1982 in Westminster, London) is a Anglo-Cypriot football player currently playing for St Albans. He formerly played for Aston Villa as a youth, and played professionally for Chelsea and Brighton.
- Fabio Ferraresi
Fabio Ferraresi (born 24 May 1979) is an Italian football (soccer) midfielder, currently plays for FC Chiasso. He also played for Aston Villa F.C. (1998-1999), A.C. ChievoVerona (1999-2000), Calcio Lecco 1912 (2000-2001), Castel di Sangro Calcio (2001-2003), U.S. Avellino (2003-2004), A.S. Sora (2004-2005) and A.C. Martina (2005-2006).
- Allan Evans
Allan Evans, (born 12 October 1956 in Dunfermline, Scotland) is a former Scottish footballer who played for Dunfermline Athletic (1973-77), Aston Villa (1977-89), Leicester City (1989-90) and Darlington (1990-91). A central defender, Evans was part of Villa's 1982 European Cup winning team. He was later club captain and helped them win promotion back to the First Division in 1988. Evans also won four caps for Scotland, and was a member of the country's 1982 World Cup squad.