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Game #2746

Monday, 27 May 1963

Attendance: 37,921

Drew

League Cup Final

Final

Birmingham City

WWDLD

Villa Park

Aston Villa

0-0

Birmingham City

Assist(s) | None

KEY MAN

RELATED MATCHES

MATCH TIMELINE

ON THIS DAY

Joe Mercer's Villa can only secure a goal-less draw in the second leg of the League Cup final as their first leg defeat at St Andrew’s hands relegated neighbours Birmingham their first ever trophy.

Villa’s final fixture of the season is their eighteenth in just sixty days after their wildly interrupted campaign delivered the inevitable fixture list congestion and required Villa to play once every three days in the final two months of the season.

Aston Villa

Birmingham City

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1962-63

FIXTURE HISTORY

Previous 5 vs. Birmingham City: | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟥 | 🟩 | 🟥 |

FIXTURE DETAILS

Season | 1962-63 |
Matchday | #53 |
Manager Game | #236 |
Monday, 27 May 1963

MATCH SUMMARY

Manager | Joe Mercer |
Referee | A.W. Sparling |
FT Result | Drew |
FT Score | 0-0 |
Aggregate Score | 1-3 |
Last 5 Games | WWDLD |

MATCH OFFICIALS

CARDS

Villa

Birmingham City

TEAM NEWS

Lew Chatterley replaces John Sleeuwenhoek for the second leg of the League Cup final.

TEAM STATS

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.47 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Sims | 31.82 |

Youngest Player |
M Lew Chatterley | 18.29 |

MANAGER

Joe Mercer

MANAGER

Aston Villa

GK Nigel Sims |
FB Gordon Lee |
FB Cammie Fraser |
LB Charlie Aitken |
M Lew Chatterley |
M Vic Crowe |
W Harry Burrows |
F Ron Wylie |
F George Graham |
F Alan Baker |
F Bobby Thomson |

Birmingham City

Schofield, Hennessey, Smith, Green, Lynn (ex), Auld, Beard (ex), Bloomfield, Hellawell, Leek, Harris

SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

SQUAD STATS

MATCHDAY SQUAD

UNAVAILABLE

Not recorded

UNAVAILABLE

Not Recorded

Player Abbreviations:

GK : Goalkeeper

LB, RB, FB : Left Back, Right Back, Full Back

CB, D : Centre Back, Defender

M, W : Midfielder. Winger

F, CF : Forward, Centre Forward

🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance

DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

MATCH STATS

Not recorded

TABLE

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PROGRAMME

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