Appearances

Villa win on the opening day of a top flight season for the first time since 2020-21 and for the first time away from home since 2015-16.

Villa cap their 1.000th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Amadou Onana makes a goalscoring Villa debut aged 22 following his €59.35m / £50.02m signing from Everton to become the 998th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Amadou Onana is the third Belgian player to score on his Premier League debut for Villa, after Luc Nilis (1-1 draw versus Chelsea on 27 August 2000) and Christian Benteke (2-0 home win over Swansea on 15 September 2012).

Ian Maatsen makes his Villa debut aged 22 from the subs bench following his €44.50m / £37.71m move from Chelsea to become the 999th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Kosta Nedeljkovic makes his Villa debut aged 19 from the subs bench following his €7.60m / £6.44m move from Red Star Belgrade to become the 1,000th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

Leon Bailey secures his 50th win in a Villa shirt on his 107th appearance (70 Starts) to make it W50 D16 L41, 20 Goals, 21 Assists and 16 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one every 1.89 starts so far in his Villa career.

Jhon Durán secures his 9th goal and 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 50th appearance (10 Starts) to make it W25 D10 L15, 9 Goals and 9 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one every 0.90 starts so far in his Villa career.

Jhon Durán had the best minutes to goal ratio, with a goal every 92 minutes (five goals in 462 minutes) of any Premier League player with at least five goals in 2023-24 and has now scored six Premier League goals from just 616 minutes played, an average of one every 103 minutes. Among players to have scored five or more Premier League goals, only Manchester City's Erling Haaland (85) has a better minutes-to-goals rate.

Pau Torres secures his 25th win in a Villa shirt on his 40th appearance (37 Starts) to make it W25 D7 L8, 2 Goals and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

Youri Tielemans makes his 30th start in a Villa shirt (47 Appearances) to make it W27 D9 L11, 3 Goals, 8 Assists and 6 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Villa now have the most debut appearance scorers in Premier League history alongside Chelsea with 27.

Matty Cash has conceded more penalties than any other player since his Premier League debut in September 2020 - six.

Unai Emery loses the 25th game of his 85 as manager to leave him with a record of W45 D15 L25, 153 Goals Scored, 117 Goals Conceded, 53% Win Rate, 29% Loss Rate at 1.76 Points per Game.

Ezri Konsa makes his 185th start in a Villa shirt (190 Appearances) to make it W81 D37 L72, 7 Goals, 3 Assists, 28 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Ollie Watkins makes his 160th start in a Villa shirt (171 Appearances) to make it W78 D27 L65, 70 Goals, 26 Assists, 31 Bookings and 1 Red Card at a goal involvement rate of one every 1.78 games played so far in his Villa career.

Matty Cash makes his 125th start in a Villa shirt (144 Appearances) to make it W62 D24 L58, 9 Goals, 10 Assists, 20 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Lucas Digne makes his 95th appearance in a Villa shirt (74 Starts) to make it W42 D18 L35, 4 Goals, 10 Assists and 17 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Amadou Onana collects his 1st booking in a Villa shirt on his 2nd appearance to make it W1 D0 L1, 1 Goal and 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

Amadou Onana scores his second goal in three appearances in a Villa shirt and becomes the 3rd player to score in each of his first 2 away Premier League appearances for the club after Robbie Keane (February 2012) and Moussa Diaby (August 2023). Onana now has a record of W2 D0 L1, 2 Goals and 2 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Jhon Durán scores his second goal in three games this season and his 10th in 52 appearances (10 Starts) with his first touch just 131 seconds after coming on to make it W26 D10 L16, 10 Goals and 10 Bookings at a goal involvement rate of one for every start he has made so far in his Villa career.

Lucas Digne contributes his 15th goal involvement in a Villa shirt on his 75th start (96 Appearances) to make it W43 D18 L35, 4 Goals, 11 Assists and 17 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Lamare Bogarde, 20, makes his second appearance in a Villa shirt and his first start and first League game, Bogarde’s only other appearance came in the FA Cup defeat to Liverpool when Villa fielded 16 debutants on 8 January 2021. Bogarde now has a record of W1 D0 L1, 1 Booking so far in his Villa career.

Emiliano Martínez secures his 75th win in a Villa shirt on his 162nd appearance to make it W75 D30 L47, 199 Goals Conceded, 54 Clean Sheets, 9 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Jacob Ramsey makes his 125th appearance in a Villa shirt (81 Starts) to make it W57 D19 L49, 13 Goals, 13 Assists and 16 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

Morgan Rogers secures his 10th win in a Villa shirt on his 19th appearance (15 Starts) to make it W10 D4 L5, 3 Goals, 1 Assist and 5 Bookings so far in his Villa career.

John McGinn collects his 57th booking in a Villa shirt on his 239th appearance (229 Starts) as he closes on Gareth Barry’s total of 62 in 440 games.

Joe Gauci makes it 14 squad appearances without making his debut equalling Lee Collins record for an outfield player but still behind fellow goalkeeper Andy Marshall’s 34.