Season #2 | 1880-81 | Games #3 - #6
133 Seasons, 33 Managers, 980 Players, 5,654 Matches, Only One Aston Villa
Player #504
Appearances:
148
Starts:
148
Goals:
86
Seasons:
4
Source: Football card #186 Tony Hateley issued by Score under Soccer Stars series.
Source: Football card #186 Tony Hateley issued by Score under Soccer Stars series.
Tony Hateley
Position
Centre Forward
From
1963-64
To
1966-67
IMAGE CREDIT
Tony Hateley
Seasons Quick-View
Seasons
Age*
22 | 23 | 24 | 25 |
Division
D1 | D1 | D1 | D1 |
Appearances
148 |
39 | 53 | 44 | 12 |
Starts
148 |
39 | 53 | 44 | 12 |
Substitute
0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Unused
0 |
0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Goals
86 |
19 | 34 | 28 | 5 |
*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
Anthony Hateley
Birth Date
Friday, 13 June 1941
Birth Place
Derby, Derbyshire
Birth Country
England
Villa Youth
n/a
From
Transfer in
Notts County
From
For
£22,000
On
May 1963
Previous Clubs
Derby Schoolboy football |
Normanton Sports Club |
Derby County |
1958-63 Notts County |
Loans Out
None
Transfer Out
To
Chelsea
For
£100,000
On
October 1966
Subsequent Clubs
1966-67 Chelsea |
1967-68 Liverpool |
1968-69 Coventry City |
1969-70 Birmingham City |
1970-72 Notts County |
1973-74 Oldham Athletic |
1974 Boston Minutemen, NASL |
1974-75 Bromsgrove Rovers |
1975-76 Prescot Town |
1976-77 Barrow |
Source: Football card #186 Tony Hateley issued by Score under Soccer Stars series.
Source: Football card #186 Tony Hateley issued by Score under Soccer Stars series.
Villa Career
Seasons Active, Fee, Starts (Sub) | Goals |
1963-66 Aston Villa, £22k, 148 (0) | 86 |
STARTS
SUBS
GOALS
Played Under
Joe Mercer |
Dick Taylor |
First Squad Appearance
Saturday, 24 August 1963
Debut Appearance
Saturday, 24 August 1963
Nottingham Forest (a), Division One
DEBUT
First Goal
Saturday, 24 August 1963
Final Appearance
Saturday, 22 October 1966
Sheffield United (h), Division One
FINAL
Final Squad Appearance
Saturday, 22 October 1966
Honours
Played for the Villa
Height
Foot
International Team
Not selected
Died
1 February 2014, Aged 72
Tony Hateley
Player #504 for Aston Villa, Anthony Hateley, known as Tony Hateley, played as a centre forward for the club.
Tony played for Villa between 1963-64 and 1966-67 making 148 appearances and scoring 86 goals.
Tony was born in Derby on 13 June 1941 and made a goalscoring debut appearance for Villa on Saturday, 24 August 1963 aged 22.
Villa had signed Tony from Notts County for a fee of £22,000 earlier in August 1963 as a replacement for the troublesome and under-performing Derek Dougan.
The difference in the players however was acute, Tony could score but football at times seemed alien to him and he relied on more talented players to create the chances upon which his undoubted finishing capacity could capitalise.
Hateley was indebted to Phil Woosnam and Harry Burrows and later Tony Scott and Johnny MacLeod for many of his goals and although his heading was his key attribute he developed his abilities with his feet during his time with Villa.
Despite his limitations Tony immediately hit the goal trail for Villa, hitting 17 goals in his first season and then hit 34 and 28 respectively in the following two seasons before his ambition got the better of him and he demanded a move away from the club, and players, who had been so crucial in his development.
In truth however he played for the club in an era lacking success and after successive bottom 8 finishes in Division One he moved on.
Tony played his final game for Villa on Saturday, 22 October 1966 aged just 25, he moved on to Chelsea for a fee of £100,000.
Not the first and not the last casualty of a difficult period in Villa’s history.
By the end of that season Villa were relegated and didn’t return to top flight football for 9 seasons.
Yet Hateley’s career also went into decline just like the club he left, failing at Chelsea and then having the ignominy of playing for Coventry and Birmingham, toiling to little effect.
Tony had played under Villa managers Joe Mercer and Dick Taylor
Tony passed away in Preston on 1 February 2014 aged 72