Season #2 | 1880-81 | Games #3 - #6
133 Seasons, 33 Managers, 980 Players, 5,654 Matches, Only One Aston Villa
Player #452
Appearances:
146
Starts:
146
Goals:
40
Seasons:
5
Source: Football card #21 Jackie Sewell issued by Chix Confectionery under the Famous Footballers series, third series, 1958.
Source: Football card #21 Jackie Sewell issued by Chix Confectionery under the Famous Footballers series, third series, 1958.
Jackie Sewell
Position
Forward
From
1955-56
To
1959-60
IMAGE CREDIT
Jackie Sewell
Seasons Quick-View
Seasons
Age*
28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 |
Division
D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 | D2 |
Appearances
146 |
18 | 48 | 40 | 38 | 2 |
Starts
146 |
18 | 48 | 40 | 38 | 2 |
Substitute
0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unused
0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goals
40 |
3 | 18 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
*Age on opening day of the season
FAC: FA Cup; FL: Football League; D1: Division 1; D2: Division 2; D3: Division 3; PL: Premier League; CH: Championship
FULL SEASON BREAKDOWN
John Sewell
Birth Date
Monday, 24 January 1927
Birth Place
Kells, Whitehaven, Cumbria
Birth Country
England
Villa Youth
n/a
From
Transfer in
Sheffield Wednesday
From
For
£20,000
On
December 1955
Previous Clubs
Kells Centre FC |
Whitehaven Town |
1946-51 Notts County |
1951-55 Sheffield Wednesday |
Loans Out
None
Transfer Out
To
Hull City
For
Free
On
October 1959
Subsequent Clubs
1959-61 Hull City |
1961-65 City of Lusaka, Zambia |
Source: Football card #21 Jackie Sewell issued by Chix Confectionery under the Famous Footballers series, third series, 1958.
Source: Football card #21 Jackie Sewell issued by Chix Confectionery under the Famous Footballers series, third series, 1958.
Villa Career
Seasons Active, Fee, Starts (Sub) | Goals |
1955-59 Aston Villa, £20k, 146 | 40 |
STARTS
SUBS
GOALS
Played Under
Eric Houghton |
Joe Mercer |
First Squad Appearance
Saturday, 3 December 1955
Debut Appearance
Saturday, 3 December 1955
Sheffield United (a), Division One
DEBUT
First Goal
Saturday, 3 December 1955
Final Appearance
Wednesday, 26 August 1959
Sunderland (a), Division Two
FINAL
Final Squad Appearance
Wednesday, 26 August 1959
Honours
1956-57 FA Cup Winners |
Height
Foot
International Team
England
Died
26 September 2016, Aged 89
Jackie Sewell
Player #452 for Aston Villa, John Sewell, known as Jackie Sewell, played as a forward for the club.
Jackie played for Villa between 1955-56 and 1959-60 making 146 appearances and scoring 40 goals.
Jackie was born in Kells Village, Whitehaven on 24 January 1927 and made his debut appearance for Villa on Saturday, 3 December 1955 aged 28.
Few players can have made as much effort as Jackie to fit professional football into their life.
Even whilst a player with Notts County, and still a resident of his native Cumbria, Jackie would work his Friday shift in the local mineworks before traversing the country to Nottingham, via Carlisle and Derby, before reaching his destination - and a kick off date just a few hours later - in the early hours of Saturday morning.
That effort must have stood Jackie in good stead as he earned a move from Notts County to Sheffield Wednesday in 1951 which made him the most expensive footballer in Britain at a fee of £34,500.
Villa themselves signed Jackie from Sheffield Wednesday as a relative veteran aged 28 for a fee of £20,000 earlier in December 1955 and he would go on to appear for Villa 18 times, scoring twice, in his debut season. Indeed Jackie made a goalscoring debut against of all teams his old Steel City rivals Sheffield United.
During his time with Villa Jackie won the 1957 FA Cup and was an ever present throughout the victorious 1956-57 FA Cup campaign including the 2-1 triumph over Manchester United in the final held at Wembley Stadium in front of a crowd of 99,225 when Peter McParland scored twice to win Villa the Cup for a record seventh time.
However Jackie also experienced lows with Villa - playing 31 times and scoring 6 in Villa’s ultimately fruitless fight against relegation in 1958-59.
In Villa’s Second Division championship winning season Jackie made just two appearances for Villa with his last game coming on Wednesday, 26 August 1959 - aged 32 - before moving on to Hull City in October 1959
Jackie had played his Villa career under managers Eric Houghton and Joe Mercer.
Jackie passed away in Nottingham on 26 September 2016 aged 89.