Game #4201
Sunday, 16 February 1992
Attendance: 16,402
Won
FA Cup 5th Round
5th Round
Swindon Town
Last 5: 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩
County Ground
Villa see off second tier Swindon in the fifth round of the FA Cup with a stunning strike from Steve Froggatt - his first goal for the club.
Swindon Town
1-2
Aston Villa
Assist(s) | Garry Parker | 39' |
KEY MAN
Steve Froggatt, first senior goal.
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MATCH TIMELINE
⚽ | 39’ Goal, 1-0, Dwight Yorke, Assist by Garry Parker
🕒 | HT Swindon Town 0-1 Aston Villa
⚽ | 63’ Goal, 2-0, Steve Froggatt
🥅 | 76’ Goal, 2-1, (Swindon Town), Dave Mitchell
🔁 | 80’ Sub off, Dwight Yorke, Sub on, Bryan Small
🕒 | FT Swindon Town 1-2 Aston Villa
🟨 | Booking, Steve Staunton, Foul
ON THIS DAY
Ron Atkinson's Villa reach the FA Cup Quarter Finals as they see off Second Division Swindon courtesy of a spectacular Steve Froggatt strike.
Aston Villa
European Cup / Champions League: 🏆
League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆
Last Trophy: 1981-82
Swindon Town
European Cup / Champions League: ❌
League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1968-69
FIXTURE HISTORY
Swindon Town
Previous 5 vs. Swindon: 🟩 🟥 🟨 🟩 🟩
FIXTURE DETAILS
Season | 1991-92 |
Matchday | #36 |
Manager Game | #36 |
Sunday, 16 February 1992
MATCH SUMMARY
Manager: Ron Atkinson | 🏴 | Liverpool, 1991-1994
Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴 | Surrey, 1975-1993
FT Result | Won |
FT Score | 2-1 |
Last 5 Games | LDWLW |
MATCH OFFICIALS
Referee: Ray Lewis | 🏴 | Surrey, 1975-1993
Previous 5: 🟨 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥
Last Match: 🟥 4 May 1991, Villa 2-5 Leeds, Elland Road.
Incidents: 🟨
CARDS
TEAM NEWS
Dwight Yorke, Dariusz Kubicki and Steve Froggatt replace Martin Carruthers, Bryan Small and Ugo Ehiogu.
TEAM STATS
Starting XI Average Age
| 27.25 |
Oldest Player |
GK Les Sealey | 🏴 | 34.41 |
Youngest Player |
W Steve Froggatt | 🏴 | 18.95 |
MANAGER
MANAGER
Ron Atkinson | 🏴 |
Glenn Hoddle | 🏴 |
Aston Villa
GK Les Sealey | 🏴 |
LB Steve Staunton | 🇮🇪 | 🟨 |
CB Shaun Teale | 🏴 |
CB Paul McGrath | 🇮🇪 |
RB Dariusz Kubicki | 🇵🇱 |
M Kevin Richardson | 🏴 |
M Garry Parker | 🏴 | 🔥 |
W Tony Daley | 🏴 |
W Steve Froggatt | 🏴 | ⚽ |
CF Cyrille Regis | 🏴 |
CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | ⚽ | 🔁 |
Swindon Town
GK Nicky Hammond | 🏴 |
RB David Kerslake | 🏴 |
CB Colin Calderwood | 🏴 |
CB Shaun Taylor | 🏴 |
LB Paul Bodin | 🏴 |
M Martin Ling | 🏴 |
M Micky Hazard | 🏴 |
M Tom Jones | 🏴 | 🔁 |
M Ross Maclaren | 🏴 |
CF David Mitchell | 🇦🇺 | ⚽ |
CF Duncan Shearer | 🏴 |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 LB Bryan Small | 🏴 | for CF Dwight Yorke | 🇹🇹 | 80’ |
SUBSTITUTES
🔁 | M Tom Jones | 🏴 | (M Fitzroy Simpson | 🇯🇲 |)
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
M Matthias Breitkreutz | 🇩🇪 |
UNUSED SUBSTITUTES
M Nicky Summerbee | 🏴 |
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 7/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 8/13
MATCHDAY SQUAD
SQUAD STATS
1st XI:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 10/11
Squad:
Home Nation 🏴 🏴 🏴 🇬🇧 : 11/13
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
PROGRAMME



MATCHDAY QUOTES
"Yorke dispatched a delightful right-foot shot from 20 yards into the bottom corner of the net."
*Birmingham Evening Mail*
Monday, 17 February 1992
SWINDON TOWN discovered yesterday that it takes more than a cultured passing game to bring success in the FA Cup, as Aston Villa reached the quarter-finals for the second time in three years.
Dwight Yorke and Stephen Froggatt provided the goals to accompany the luck which took Villa into the last eight, and having replied through David Mitchell, Swindon were left to regret their early wasted opportunities.
Swindon, organised superbly by Glenn Hoddle off the pitch and well directed by Hazard on it, were often a joy to watch. They passed their way out of trouble, used overlapping full-backs to great effect and refused to be intimidated by their First Division opposition.
But Hoddle, whose style was honed on the Continent, was finally outsmarted by Ron Atkinson, the Villa manager, who led Manchester United to FA Cup success in 1985 and Sheffield Wednesday to triumph in the Rumbelows Cup a year ago.
Villa, who last won the Cup in 1957, had one advantage over Swindon players - they are capable of finishing, although their recent scoring rate has been poor. Yorke has now scored 15 goals this season, and, more importantly, five have come in the Cup. Swindon dominated the early play in an always enthralling tie and they should have been in the lead before Yorke scored.
In the eighth minute, Kerslake left Teale and Kubicki behind him before crossing to Jones, whose 15-yard drive clipped the top of the crossbar.
But Villa. who had made only one mediocre raid on the Swindon goal, took the lead in the 39th minute when Park passed to Yorke. who dispatched a delightful right-foot shot from 20 yards into the bottom corner of the net.
It was cruel luck for Swindon but they maintained their intelligent, inspirational passing game heroes and Shearer, their 28-goal striker, should have equalised when Hazard and Kerslake combined to give him a good chance.
But Villa stole what proved to be the winner in the 62nd minute when, after Yorke had wasted one chance, the ball fell to Froggatt, 18, whose remarkable 25-yard shot gave goalkeeper Hammond no chance - Froggatt's first goal in senior football.