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Player #191

From:

To:

Career Status:

1906-07

1912-13

Retired

Appearances:

144

Starts:

144

Goals:

3

Assists:

-

Involvements:

3

Chris Buckley

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Centre Back

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PREVIOUS PLAYER

SUBSEQUENT PLAYER

Chris Buckley

Seasons Quick-View

1906-12 🕒 144 | ⚽ 3 | 🔥 - | #191 |

Season :

1906-07
1907-08
1908-09
1909-10
1910-11
1911-12
1912-13

Age :

19
20
21
22
23
24
25

Division :

D1
D1
D1
D1
D1
D1
D1

Squad # :

#
#
#
#
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#
#
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Appearances :

22
1
27
40
32
21
1

Starts :

22
1
27
40
32
21
1

Substitute :

0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Unused :

0
0
0
0
0
0
0

Goals :

1
0
1
1
0
0
0

Assists :

-
-
-
-
-
-
-

Involvements :

1
0
1
1
0
0
0

Games / Goal :

Bookings :

-
-
-
-
-
-
-

Sendings Off :

-
-
-
-
-
-
-

FAC: FA Cup; FL: Football League; D1: Division 1; D2: Division 2; D3: Division 3; PL: Premier League; CH: Championship

Christopher Sebastian Buckley

Birth Date

9 November 1886

Birth Place

Urmston, Manchester,

Birth Country

England

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Citizenship

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England

Villa Youth

n/a

Previous Teams (incl. Youth)

Manchester Catholic Collegiate Institute
Victoria Park FC
Manchester Ship Canal FC
Xaverian Brothers’ College
1905-06 Brighton & Hove Albion

Original Transfer

Aged

19

From

Brighton & Hove Albion

For

Free

On

August 1906

Under

George Ramsay

Returning Transfer 1

Aged

n/a

From

n/a

For

n/a

On

n/a

Under

n/a

Returning Transfer 2

Aged

n/a

From

n/a

For

n/a

On

n/a

Under

n/a

Transfer Notes

Loans Out

None

Transfer Out 1

Aged

To

For

On

Under

26

Woolwich Arsenal

Free

January 1913

George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Transfer Out 2

Aged

To

For

On

Under

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Transfer Out 3

Aged

To

For

On

Under

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

n/a

Subsequent Clubs

1914-21 Woolwich Arsenal
Retired

Died

11 January 1973, Aged 86

Chris Buckley

Villa Career

1906-12 🕒 144 | ⚽ 3 | 🔥 - | #191 |

🕒 Games | Starts (Subs) | ⚽ Goals | 🔥 Assists | 🇺 Unused | Player Number |

Played Under

George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Promoted to First Team Squad

In

3 September 1906

Under

George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

First Squad

3 September 1906

Manager

George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Debut

Season

Date

Match

Age

Manager

1906-07

3 September 1906

Stoke (a), Division One

19

George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Final Appearance

Season

Date

Match

Aged

Manager

1912-13

2 September 1912

Chelsea (h), Division One

25

George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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Final Squad

2 September 1912

Manager

George Ramsay 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Honours

1909-10 League Champions |

Height

Foot

International Record

National Team

Not selected

Years | Caps | Starts (Sub) | Goals |

Not selected

Caps with Villa

Chris Buckley

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Player #192 for Aston Villa, Christopher Sebastian Buckley, known as Chris Buckley and nicknamed Ticker played as a centre back for the club.

Chris represented Villa between 1906-07 and 1912-13.

Chris was born in Urmston on 9th November 1886 and made his debut for the club as a 19 year old on the 3rd September 1906

Villa had signed Chris from Brighton & Hove Albion in August 1906.

During his time with Villa Chris won the 1909-10 league title.

Chris made 37 appearances in the championship winning season however although he was still at Villa at the time Chris didn’t appear in the victorious 1912-13 FA Cup campaign,

In total Chris made 144 appearances for Villa over 7 seasons.

As well as the league title, Chris finished as league runners up 3 times, achieved a further top 5 finish and finished no lower than 7th in the league across his 7 seasons.

Villa sold Chris to Woolwich Arsenal having made his final appearance on 2nd September 1912.

After retiring, Buckley later returned to Villa, joining the club’s board of directors in 1936, and serving as chairman from 1955 to 1966. He stepped down as a director in 1967.

Chris had played his entire Villa career under the George Ramsay led Management Committee.

Chris passed away in Birmingham on 11 January 1973 aged 86.

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