Loan Watch

Joe Gauci 🇦🇺 keeps his first clean sheet for Port Vale 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in their 2-0 League One win at Exeter. 🕒 3 | ✅ 3 | 🔁 0 | ⛔ 1 | 🥅 2 | 🇺 2 |

Finley Munroe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 contributes his second assist for Swindon in their 3-1 League Two victory over Kerr Smith's Barrow. 🕒 8 | ✅ 7 | 🔁 1 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 2 | 🇺 0 |

Villa u21 right back Triston Rowe follows Mungo Bridge in moving on loan to French Ligue 2 side FC Annecy.

Thierry Katsukunya follows in the footsteps of Tommi O'Reilly, Josh Feeney, James Wright, Finley Munroe and Yeimar Mosquera in joining Spanish Segunda Federación side Real Unión on loan.

Zépiqueno Redmond joins Championship side Huddersfield Town on loan two months after signing for Villa from Feyenoord 🇳🇱 on a free transfer.

Fresh from his sole unused substitute appearance against Newcastle on the opening day of the season, Samuel Iling-Junior departs on loan once again.

Lewis Dobbin 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes a goalscoring debut for Preston North End 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in their EFL Cup defeat at home to Wrexham before making his Championship debut as a 67th minute substitute in the 0-1 defeat to Portsmouth. 🕒 2 | ✅ 1 | 🔁 1 | ⚽ 1 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 |

Sil Swinkels 🇳🇱 makes it four successive starts for Exeter but suffers a serious injury on 42 minutes and looks likely to be on the sidelines for an extended period. 🕒 4 | ✅ 4 | 🔁 0 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | 🇺 1 |

Villa u21 attacking midfielder Ewan Simpson has joined Scottish League One side Hamilton Academical on loan for the 2025-26 season.

Lewis Dobbin August 2025: Aged 22, Loaned to Championship side Preston North End 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 for the 2025-26 season.

A curious player, a curious fellow, more out of form than in across his four seasons with Villa, Bailey always had the capacity but rarely the application to be a game-changer.

Kerr Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿, Villa's latest loanee, did not make his debut but did make Barrow's 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 squad for their 2-1 victory over Notts County 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

Kerr Smith has made his second loan move away from the club following his injury-curtailed spell at St Johnstone 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in 2024.

Joe Gauci makes his second loan move away from Villa by joining Port Vale for the 2025-26 season. Gauci, who has made two Cup appearances for the first team, spent time on loan at Barnsley in 2024-25 making seven appearances, conceding nine and keeping two clean sheets.

Josh Feeney 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (pictured) claims a clean sheet on debut for Huddersfield 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 as a 61st-minute substitute with the score at 0-0, Feeney's new club run out 2-0 winners at Reading 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 in League One.

Villa u21 midfielder I-Lani Edwards has joined National League North side Hereford on loan for the first half of the 2025-26 season. I-Lani made 6 PL2 appearances last season as well as representing Villa in the EFL Trophy and Birmingham Senior Cup.

Tommi O'Reilly 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his debut for Crewe 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 starting and playing 80 minutes in their 3-1 League One win at Salford City 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Yasin Özcan has left Villa on loan for Juliper Pro side RSC Anderlecht 🇧🇪 after just one month in the door. Özcan, highly sought after in the winter transfer window,i offcially signed with Villa in July for a fee of €7.00m from Kasımpaşa S.K. 🇹🇷

Villa u21's 'keeper Sam Lewis has made a short-term loan move to National League North club Oxford City.