Appearances:
24 |
Starts:
14 |
Substitute:
10 |
Unused:
1 |
Goals:
3 |
Games per Goal:
8.00 |
Assists:
1 |
Goal Involvements:
4 |
Player #891
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Forward
2016-17
2017-18
2
5 |
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Ross McCormack
Ross McCormack
Seasons Quick-View
Season
2016-17 | 2017-18 |
Age
29 | 30 |
Division
CH | CH |
Squad #
#44 | #44 |
Appearances
22 | 2 |
Starts
14 | 0 |
Subs
8 | 2 |
Unused
1 | 0 |
Goals
3 | 0 |
Assists
1 | 0 |
Bookings
5 | 0 |
Red Cards
0 | 0 |
Games / Goals
7.33 | 0.00 |
Goal
Involvements
4 | 0 |
FAC: FA Cup; FL: Football League; D1: Division 1; D2: Division 2; D3: Division 3; PL: Premier League; CH: Championship
Goalkeeping Statistics
Season
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
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2016-17 | 2017-18 |
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🥅 : Goals Conceded; 🔢 : Goals Conceded per Game; ⛔ : Clean Sheets.
Ross McCormack
Birth Date
18 August 1986
Birth Place
Glasgow
Birth Country
Scotland
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Citizenship
Scotland
Villa Youth
n/a
Previous Teams
2002-06 Glasgow Rangers
Scottish Premier League, 🕒 14 | 3 (11) | ⚽ 4 |
2006 Doncaster Rovers (L)
League Two, 🕒 19 | 12 (7) | ⚽ 5 |
2006-08 Motherwell, Free
Scottish Premier League, 🕒 57 | 44 (13) | ⚽ 14 |
2008-10 Cardiff City, £0.16m
Championship, 🕒 91 | 60 (31) | ⚽ 30 |
2010-14 Leeds United, £0.32m
Championship, 🕒 158 | 130 (28) | ⚽ 58 |
2014-16 Fulham, £10.62m
Championship, 🕒 100 | 97 (3) | ⚽ 42 |
Transfer in
Aged
29
From
Fulham
For
£12,870,000
On
4 August 2016
Under
Roberto Di Matteo 🇮🇹
Promoted to First Team Squad
In
Transfer In
Under
Transfer In
Loans Out
2016-17 Nottingham Forest, 31 Jan 2017 to 31 May 2017
Championship, 🕒 7 | 3 (4) | ⚽ 1 |
2017-18 Melbourne City, 29 Sep 2017 to 31 Jan 2018
A-League, 🕒 17 | 14 (3) | ⚽ 14 |
2018-19 Central Coast Mariners, 20 Sep 2018 to 4 Jan 2019
A-League, 🕒 5 | 5 (0) | ⚽ 1 |
2019 Motherwell, 5 Jan 2019 to 20 May 2019
Scottish Premiership, 🕒 4 | 1 (3) | ⚽ 0 |
Transfer Out
Aged
32
Unattached
To
For
Released
On
30 June 2019
Under
Dean Smith 🏴
Subsequent Clubs
2019-20 Without Club
2020-21 Aldershot Town
National League, 🕒 2 | 0 (2) | ⚽ 0 |
2021-23 Without Club
2023- Liversedge FC
Northern Premier League East, 🕒 0 | 0 (0) | ⚽ 0 |*
Villa Career
2016-17 £12.87m
Championship
🕒 24 | 14 (10) | ⚽ 3 | #891 |
Appearances
Unused
24
1
Goals
3
Played Under
Roberto Di Matteo 🇮🇹 2016
Steve Bruce 🏴 2016-17
Debut
Season
Date
Match
Age
Manager
(First Squad)
Manager
First Goal
2016-17
7 August 2016
Sheffield Wednesday (a), Championship
29
Roberto Di Matteo 🇮🇹
7 August 2016
Roberto Di Matteo 🇮🇹
16 August 2016
Appearances
Goals
24
3
Final Appearance
Season
Date
Match
2017-18
19 September 2017
Middlesbrough (h), EFL Cup
Aged
Manager
(Final Squad)
Manager
Steve Bruce 🏴
30
19 September 2017
Steve Bruce 🏴
Honours
Played for the Villa
Height
(5 ft 9 in) 1.75 m
Foot
Right
International Record
National Team
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Scotland
Years | Caps | Starts (Sub) | Goals |
2008-16 🕒 13 | 7 (6) | ⚽ 2 |
Caps with Villa
🕒 0 | 0 (0) | ⚽ 0 |
Ross McCormack
Villa News & Record
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Player #891 for Aston Villa, Ross McCormack played as a forward for the club between 2016-17 and 2017-18 making 24 appearances, scoring 3 goals.
McCormack was born in Glasgow on 18 August 1986.
Roberto Di Matteo had signed Ross from Fulham for a fee of £12,870,000 on 4 August 2016.
McCormack made his debut appearance for Villa in the 0-1 Championship defeat at Sheffield Wednesday on Sunday, 7 August 2016 at the age of 29 in what was the opening game of Villa’s first season in the second tier since 1987.
McCormack would make 8 successive appearances under Di Matteo and scored his first goal for the club in the 1-1 draw with Huddersfield Town on Tuesday, 16 August 2016. McCormack followed that up with a goal in the Championship draw with Nottingham Forest on Sunday, 11 September 2016 but then McCormack disappeared from first team view under Di Matteo with his next start coming under new Villa boss Steve Bruce on Saturday, 15 October 2016.
McCormack, just two months after his arrival, was already a sporadic and fitful feature of the first team and after alternating between starts and substitute appearances for the following two months, McCormack hit his third goal for the club, and first under Bruce in the 2-1 Championship win over Burton Albion on Monday, 26 December 2016.
Already Bruce was losing patience with McCormack and he was eventually absented from first team consideration and sent out on loan for the remainder of his debut season to Championship rivals Nottingham Forest.
McCormack had looked a good Championship player during his time with Leeds United earlier in the decade and with a scoring rate of over 1 in 3 a big money move was predictable. Whilst a nigh on £11m move to Fulham was an unexpected destination, and suggested not everything was motivated by results on the pitch for McCormack, he put in a good showing despite there being rumours of issues behind the scenes at Craven Cottage with McCormack.
On a purely footballing basis, Villa’s acquisition of McCormack was an understandable one. 91 Championship goals in 233 games suggested someone who could fire Villa back to the top flight at the first attempt, and as a result they were persuaded to part with the thick end of £13m for McCormack’s services.
For the 2017-18 season McCormack returned to Villa from his loan spell but the trust had apparently gone between him and Steve Bruce and he made just two appearances in the EFL Cup before being sent out on loan once again, this time to Melbourne City until the end of January 2018. On his return McCormack remained out of first team consideration and it was clear there would be no rapprochement with Bruce to allow him to return to favour.
Indeed McCormack would not appear under Bruce again and by the time of the latter’s dismissal in October 2018, McCormack had been sent out on loan once again to Australian A League outfit Central Coast Mariners.
With the arrival of Dean Smith as Steve Bruce’s replacement and the change in football philosophy the question of McCormack’s re-emergence was a topical one however on the expiry of his loan arrangement with Central Coast Mariners he was immediately shipped out by Smith to Motherwell, never to play for Villa again.
McCormack had made his final appearance for Villa on Tuesday, 19 September 2017 aged 31 and was released by Villa in June 2019 aged 32.
Whatever issues were causing McCormack problems earlier in his career, clearly they sky-rocketed at Villa and resulted in one of the most embarrassing and undignified stays with Villa. That McCormack remains popular with many of the members of the Villa squad he fleetingly played alongside makes the episode all the more curious.
One positive from the whole affair was that the post 2016 Villa were no longer the sort of club that put up with disruptive nonsense.
McCormack played under Roberto Di Matteo and Steve Bruce.