Villa, reigning European Champions, end the season with a 🟩 victory to make it 🟩 twenty one wins, 🟨 five draws and 🟥 sixteen losses in 🕒 forty two League games this season under Tony Barton.

But Villa fall to sixth on the final day of the season despite 🟩 beating Arsenal as teams around them win their games in hand.

Villa also delivered a European Super Cup 🟩 win over Barcelona in what proved another positive season after the highs of 1980-81 and 1981-82. 

Centre Back Ken McNaught 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 28 makes his 260th and final appearance in a Villa shirt before moving on to West Bromwich Albion for a fee of £125,000. McNaught a League and European Cup winner with Villa was an integral part of Villa’s success over the previous five seasons and left with a record of 🟩 W118  🟨 D65 🟥 L77, ⚽ 13 Goals and 🔥 9 Assists.

Centre Forward David Geddis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 25 makes his 🕒 57th & final appearance in a Villa shirt (52 Starts) before moving on to Barnsley in September 1983 for a fee of £50,000. Geddis left with a record of 🟩 W22 🟨 D15 🟥 L20, ⚽ 16 Goals and 🔥 5 Assists.

As a result, just 12 months after being crowned Champions of Europe, the boardroom regime under Chairman Doug Ellis - who had controversially wrestled back control of the club earlier in the season - had disposed of League Champions and European Cup winning players Kenny Swain 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, Jimmy Rimmer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿, David Geddis 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and Ken McNaught 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. 

More departures were to follow as Tony Barton’s 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 task was about to be made a whole lot more difficult by the powers that be.

Midfielder Gordon Cowans 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 secures his 🟩 150th win in a Villa shirt on his 🕒 323rd appearance (308 Starts) to make it 🟩 W149 🟨 D74 🟥 L97, ⚽ 50 Goals and 🔥 50 Assists at a goal involvement rate of one for every 3.23 games he has played so far in his Villa career.

Midfielder Dennis Mortimer 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his 🕒 350th appearance in a Villa shirt.

Right back Mark Jones 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 makes his first appearance in 4 months.