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Aston Villa

2-2-1, 6 PTS

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Saturday, 5 October 1889

1889-90

4th (+4)

Won

6-2

Burnley

0-2-3, 2 PTS

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Football League

Turf Moor

Attendance: 8,000

🟩 5 Oct 1889, Villa 6-2 Burnley, Turf Moor

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Scorer(s) | Albert Allen | 10' | 11' | 3-1 | 50' | Archie Hunter | 35' | Dennis Hodgetts | 75' |

Assist(s) | Dennis Hodgetts | 10' | Albert Allen | 35' |

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Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩

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George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

🕒 44 | 🟩 | 26 🟨 10 🟥 8 | 2.00

Villa Career Form:

Top 4

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Game #70

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Match Record

Season | 1889-90 |
Matchday | #5 |
League Match | #5 |
Manager Game | #44 |
Saturday, 5 October 1889

Game Record

Manager: George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Glasgow, 1886-1926 led Management Committee
Referee: Unknown
HT Score: 🟩 4-1
FT Result: 🟩 Won
FT Score: 🟩 6-2
Last 5: 🟨 🟨 🟩 🟥 🟩

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Head to Head

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Previous 5 vs. Burnley: 🟩 🟥 🟨

Total 🕒 4 | 🟩 W2 (50% ) | 🟨 D1 | 🇺(75% ) | 🟥 L1 (25% ) | ⚽ 12 | 🥅 10 | GD 2

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Villa Trophy Cabinet

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1886-87

Head to Head

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Opposition Trophy Cabinet

League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

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Team News

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Unavailable

Injury | 2 |
GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B Frank Coulton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Opposition Unavailable

Not Recorded

Jimmy Warner, Frank Coulton and Sammy Gray drop out with George Davis brought in for his debut, Archie Hunter returning and Gershom Cox getting his first appearance of the campaign.

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Squad News

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Debut Appearances

🟢 GK George Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Final Appearances

🔴 GK George Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1889 | 🕒 1 | ⚽ 0 | 🔥 0 | #59 |

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Match Timeline

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🟢 | 1’ Debut, George Davis
⚽ | 10’ Goal, 1-0, Albert Allen, Assist by Dennis Hodgetts
⚽ | 11’ Goal, 2-0, Albert Allen
🥅 | 20' Goal, 2-1, (Burnley), Friel
⚽ | Goal, 3-1, Albert Allen
⚽ | 35’ Goal, 4-1, Archie Hunter, Assist by Albert Allen
🕒 | HT Burnley 1-4 Aston Villa
⚽ | 50' Goal, 5-1, Albert Allen
⚽ | 75' Goal, 6-1, Dennis Hodgetts
🥅 | 87' Goal, 6-2, (Burnley)
🕒 | FT Burnley 2-6 Aston Villa

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Line Up & Subs

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George Ramsay | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 1886-1926

GK George Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 |
B Albert Aldridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B Gershom Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB Jimmy Cowan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB Tom Clarkson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
IR Albert Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
IR Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔥 | ⚽ |
IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 | ⚽ |
IL Billy Dickson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CF Archie Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

No Substitutions permitted in period

Unused Substitutes

No Substitutions permitted in period

Management Committee

GK Walter Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
B Thomas White | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
B William Bury | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
HB Bill McFettridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
HB Dan Friel | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |
HB Jack Keenan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RF Robert Haresnape | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LF L. Heyes | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LF Jack Yates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RF J. Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
CF Robert Duckworth | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Substitutes

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Unused Substitutes

No Substitutions Permitted in Period

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Officials

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Referee: Unknown

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Officials

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Referee Profile

VAR Profile (Post 2021)

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Villa Bookings

None

Villa Sendings Off

None

Officials

Opposition Bookings

None

Opposition Sendings Off

None

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On This Day

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How can we do better next time?

Saturday, 5 October 1889

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Matchday Squads

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Match Stats

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Not recorded

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Match Media

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What they Said

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"The Villa had the best of the game at all points, passing superbly, the Burnley backs only saving them from more crushing defeat."

Burnley v. Aston Villa.
Played at Turf Moor

Six thousand spectators were present. The Villa took the lead, but Burnley retaliated, and the game became very fast.

Villa then scored a goal, which was claimed “offside” and immediately afterwards got a second point.

From a foul Burnley scored, and the Villa soon obtained a third point, their passing being superior to Burnley’s.

The home team then attacked and Heyes was hurt, but soon resumed.

A fourth point fell to theVilla, and several chances were missed by the Burnley forwards.

On resuming Allen scored for the Villa then Burnley had then a look in, but it came to nothing.

The Villa continued to hold the upper hand, and Burnley could not break through their defence, despite several good spurts.

A splendid run by Duckworth was not taken advantage of, and White and Bury played well to avert disaster, but the visitors gained their sixth goal.

The Burnley goalkeeper immediately after effected a good save, and was almost rushed through directly afterwards.

The Villa had the best of the game at all points, passing superbly, the Burnley backs only saving them from more crushing defeat. The result was a win for the visitors by 6 goals 2.
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Hodgetts now got possession and with one of his brilliant runs took the ball well up, then crossing to Allen enabled that player, always on the alert to draw first blood.

A claim for offside was set to, but was not allowed.

Just ten minutes has elapsed when the first goal was obtained, but a minute later, as the result of a remarkable piece of strategy on behalf of the forward, Allen notched the second point.

Breaking away, the visitors’ left wing took the ball smartly up the filled and secured the third goal from a header.

Ten minutes before the whistle blew for half time Hunter was mainly instrumental in securing the fourth goal for his team.

In the second half the Villain’s made a capital start and pressed very early on. Burnley, by a combined effort managed to transfer the scene of hostilities and for two or three minutes kept up a perpetual but ineffectual bombardment. They seemed on the point of surmounting all difficult, when Allen seized the ball, and dodging the half backs, made right for the goal, which he lowered with one of those lightning shots which no keeper could stop.

Hodgetts centred to Allen, who had no much difficult in heading through.

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Match Highlights

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Team Selection

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Goalkeeper

GK George Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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🔥

🟩

🟨

🟥

🥅

Defenders

B Albert Aldridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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🔥

🟩

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🟥

B Gershom Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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🟥

HB Jimmy Cowan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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🟥

HB Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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🟥

Midfielders

HB Tom Clarkson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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🔥

🟩

🟨

🟥

IR Albert Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

🕒

🔥

🟩

🟨

🟥

IR Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

🕒

🔥

🟩

🟨

🟥

IL Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Forwards

IL Billy Dickson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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CF Archie Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

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Substitutes

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🔁

🔥

GK Sub

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🥅

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Sub 1

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🔁

🔥

Sub 2

🟩

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🔥

Sub 3

🟩

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🔁

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Sub 4

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Sub 5

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1889-90

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First Team Squad

GK George Davis | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #59 |

Goalkeeper

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Where are they now?

D Frank Coulton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #37 |

Defender

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Where are they now?

M Arthur Hickton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #61 |

Midfielder

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Where are they now?

M Harry Yates | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #42 |

Midfielder

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Where are they now?

M Tom Clarkson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #55 |

Midfielder

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Where are they now?

CF Albert Allen | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #43 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

CF Billy Dickson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | #57 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

F Ike Moore | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #60 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

GK Jimmy Warner | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #41 |

Goalkeeper

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Where are they now?

D Gershom Cox | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #44 |

Defender

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Where are they now?

M Bill Dickie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #65 |

Midfielder

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Where are they now?

M Jack Burton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #33 |

Midfielder

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Where are they now?

W Lewis Campbell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | #62 |

Winger

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Where are they now?

CF Archie Hunter | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | #5 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

F Daniel Paton | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | #66 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

F Jack Graham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #64 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

D Albert Aldridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #54 |

Defender

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Where are they now?

CB Jimmy Cowan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | #56 |

Centre Back

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Where are they now?

M Harry Devey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #45 |

Midfielder

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Where are they now?

M James Connor | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | #63 |

Midfielder

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Where are they now?

F Albert A Brown | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #32 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

F Batty Garvey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #47 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

F Dennis Hodgetts | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #38 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

F Sammy Gray | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | #58 |

Forward

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Where are they now?

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Matchday Programme

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League Table

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The Trophy Cabinet

Domestic:

🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 
League Champions: 1893-94, 1895-96, 1896-97, 1898-99, 1899-00, 1909-10, 1980-81

🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 
FA Cup Winners: 1886-87, 1894-95, 1896-97, 1904-05, 1912-13, 1919-20, 1956-57

🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆
League Cup Winners: 1960-61, 1974-75, 1976-77, 1993-94, 1995-96


Europe:
🏆
European Cup Winners: 1981-82
🏆
European Super Cup Winners: 1982-83


Other Domestic:

🏆 🏆
Second Division Champions: 1937-38, 1959-60

🏆
Third Division Champions: 1971-72


Other Europe:

🏆
Intertoto Cup Winners: 2001-02

🏆
Peace Cup Winners: 2009

Reserve League
:
🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆
Premier Reserve League Champions: 2003-04, 2007-08, 2008-09, 2009-10, 2011-12

🏆 🏆 🏆
Central League Champions: 1929-30, 1963-64, 1992-93

Reserve Cup
🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆
Birmingham Senior Cup Winners: 1879-80, 1881-82, 1882-83, 1883-84, 1884-85, 1887-88, 1888-90, 1889-90, 1890-91, 1895-96, 1898-99, 1902-03, 1903-04, 1905-06, 1907-08, 1908-09, 1909-10, 1911-12, 1984-85, 2023-24 

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NextGen Series Winners: 2012-13

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Premier League Cup Winners: 2017-18

Youth League:
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u18s Premier League Champions: 2024-25
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u18s Premier League National Champions: 2024-25
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u18 Premier League Tier Two Champions 2016-17
🏆 🏆 🏆
u18 Premier Academy League Academy Group B Champions: 2005-06, 2007-08, 2010-11
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u18 Premier Academy League National Champions 2007-08
🏆 🏆 
u17 FA Premier Academy League Champions: 1999-00, 2003-04
🏆 🏆🏆
Midland Youth League Champions: 1989-90, 1994-95, 1995-96

Youth Cup:
🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆
FA Youth Cup Winners: 1971-72, 1979-80, 2001-02, 2020-21, 2024-25
🏆 🏆
Midland Youth League Cup Winners: 1991-92, 1994-95
🏆 🏆 🏆
Midland Youth Cup Winners: 1991-92, 1995-96, 1997-98
🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆 🏆
Southern Junior Floodlit Cup: 1974-75, 1975-76, 1978-79, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1993-94

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