Season #2 | 1880-81 | Games #3 - #6
133 Seasons, 33 Managers, 980 Players, 5,654 Matches, Only One Aston Villa
Player #324
Appearances:
250
Starts:
250
Goals:
73
Seasons:
9
Source: Football card #4 Joe Beresford issued by Lambert & Butler under the Footballers 1930-31 series.
Source: Football card #4 Joe Beresford issued by Lambert & Butler under the Footballers 1930-31 series.
Joe Beresford
Position
Forward
From
1927-28
To
1935-36
IMAGE CREDIT
Joe Beresford
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Seasons
Age*
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 |
Division
D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 |
Appearances
250 |
34 | 44 | 36 | 30 | 34 | 20 | 27 | 23 | 2 |
Starts
250 |
34 | 44 | 36 | 30 | 34 | 20 | 27 | 23 | 2 |
Substitute
0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unused
0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goals
73 |
11 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 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
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Joseph Beresford
Birth Date
Monday, 26 February 1906
Birth Place
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Birth Country
England
Villa Youth
n/a
From
Transfer in
Mansfield Town
From
For
£750
On
March 1927
Previous Clubs
Bentley Toll Bar School |
Bentley New Village Old Boys |
Ashern Road Working Men’s Club |
Bartley Colliery |
Mexborough Athletic |
Mansfield Town |
Loans Out
None
Transfer Out
To
Preston North End
For
£1,000
On
September 1935
Subsequent Clubs
Preston North End |
Source: Football card #4 Joe Beresford issued by Lambert & Butler under the Footballers 1930-31 series.
Source: Football card #4 Joe Beresford issued by Lambert & Butler under the Footballers 1930-31 series.
Villa Career
Seasons Active, Fee, Starts (Sub) | Goals |
1927-35 Aston Villa, £750, 250 | 73 |
STARTS
SUBS
GOALS
Played Under
Billy Smith led Management Committee |
Jimmy McMullan |
First Squad Appearance
Saturday, 3 September 1927
Debut Appearance
Saturday, 3 September 1927
Liverpool (a), Division One
DEBUT
First Goal
Monday, 5 September 1927
Final Appearance
Monday, 9 September 1935
Middlesbrough (h), Division One
FINAL
Final Squad Appearance
Monday, 9 September 1935
Honours
Played for the Villa
Height
Foot
International Team
England
Died
26 February 1978, Aged 72
Joe Beresford
Player #324 for Aston Villa, Joseph Beresford, known as Joe Beresford played as a forward for the club.
Joe played for Villa between 1927-28 and 1935-36 making 250 appearances and scoring 73 goals
Joe was born in Chesterfield on 26 February 1906 and he made his debut appearance for Villa on the 3 September 1927 aged 21.
Villa had signed Joe from Mansfield Town in March 1927 for a fee of £750.
Joe made his debut at Liverpool that September but it was on his home debut two days later that he would make his true impact - scoring a hat-trick against Portsmouth in a 7-2 victory, following it up with a hat-trick against Sheffield Wednesday in a 5-4 win on Christmas Eve.
He was a regular in their first team over the next eight seasons and made 250 appearances for Villa, scoring 73 goals and was part of their team that finished runners up in the League Championship in 1930-31.
That year he scored a career best 14 goals which included another hat-trick in Villa’s 4-2 win over Leicester City in February 1931.
He hit 11 the following season as Villa once again finished runners up in the First Division and in all for the five seasons that Beresford was a regular in the Villa side they finished in the top five.
Beresford was also an FA Cup semi finalist in March 1934 but Villa were beaten by eventual winners Manchester City at Leeds Road, Huddersfield.
Joe played his final game for Villa on 9 September 1935 at the age of 29 and he moved on to Preston North End for a fee of £1,000 in the same month.
Joe’s final 2 appearances were in the team who were relegated for the first time in Villa’s history - in the 1935-36 season - although he was not there to see the final denouement. In doing so Villa became the last of the founder members of the Football League to have lost their ever present top flight status.
Joe had played under the Billy Smith led Management Committee and Villa’s first manager proper Jimmy McMullan.
Joe passed away in Birmingham on 26th February 1978 aged 72.