Finished 4th in the 2025/26 Premier League at 19-8-11. The 2026/27 Premier League season opens at home to Arsenal on Sat Aug 29, 2026.
Data as of 2026-08-05 · results through the 2025/26 season
2025/26 finish
4th
65 points
Premier League
Record (W-D-L)
19-8-11
38 matches
Goals scored
56
7th most of 20
Goals conceded
49
5th fewest of 20
Goal difference
+7
5th best of 20
Most-used starting XI
Premier League 2025/26 · 38 matches · most common formation 4-2-3-1 (34 of 38)
The eleven players with the most 2025/26 league starts, each shown in the line he most often started in, with his season start count. This is a record of last season, not a predicted lineup: team sheets come from the openfootball public-domain archive and cover the 2025/26 season in full. Rows follow the source team sheets, so a player used across several roles appears in his most common one.
Betting stats: goals, BTTS and clean sheets
Premier League 2025/26 · 38 matches · counts of what happened, not predictions
Record
Count
Rate
Over 2.5 goals
20 of 38
53%
Both teams scored (BTTS)
22 of 38
58%
Clean sheets
9 of 38
24%
Failed to score
10 of 38
26%
Draws
8 of 38
21%
Home record (W-D-L)
12-2-5
Away record (W-D-L)
7-6-6
Against the top five
Record vs the top-5 finishers of the 2025/26 Premier League (excluding themselves)
Opponent
Finished
W-D-L
Goals
Arsenal
1st
1-0-1
3-5
Manchester City
2nd
2-0-0
3-1
Manchester United
3rd
1-0-1
3-4
Liverpool
5th
1-0-1
4-4
Bournemouth
6th
1-1-0
5-1
All five
6-1-3
18-15
2026/27 opening fixtures
First five league fixtures · head-to-head is all Premier League meetings in our archive
Date
Fixture
Aston Villa W-D-L
Last meeting
Sat Aug 29
Aston Villa v Arsenal
9-9-28 in 46
Arsenal 4-1 Aston Villa
Sat Sep 5
Hull City v Aston Villa
6-1-1 in 8
Hull 2-0 Aston Villa
Sat Sep 12
Aston Villa v Nottingham Forest
4-2-2 in 8
Nott'm Forest 1-1 Aston Villa
Sat Sep 19
Tottenham v Aston Villa
12-10-24 in 46
Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham
Sat Oct 10
Aston Villa v Brentford
4-3-3 in 10
Aston Villa 0-1 Brentford
Closing form, 2025/26
Premier League · last ten matches · sequence LLWDWLLDWW (oldest first)
Date
Result
Venue
2026-05-24
Man City 1-2 Aston Villa
W
A
2026-05-15
Aston Villa 4-2 Liverpool
W
H
2026-05-10
Burnley 2-2 Aston Villa
D
A
2026-05-03
Aston Villa 1-2 Tottenham
L
H
2026-04-25
Fulham 1-0 Aston Villa
L
A
2026-04-19
Aston Villa 4-3 Sunderland
W
H
2026-04-12
Nott'm Forest 1-1 Aston Villa
D
A
2026-03-22
Aston Villa 2-0 West Ham
W
H
2026-03-15
Man United 3-1 Aston Villa
L
A
2026-03-04
Aston Villa 1-4 Chelsea
L
H
Season history
Last six seasons, competition named on every row, from our own match archive
Season
Competition
Finish
W-D-L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
2025/26
Premier League
4th
19-8-11
56
49
+7
65
2024/25
Premier League
6th
19-9-10
58
51
+7
66
2023/24
Premier League
4th
20-8-10
76
61
+15
68
2022/23
Premier League
7th
18-7-13
51
46
+5
61
2021/22
Premier League
14th
13-6-19
52
54
-2
45
2020/21
Premier League
11th
16-7-15
55
46
+9
55
Squad
Current first-team squad · as of 2026-08-05
Show full squad (36 players)
#
Player
Position
Age
23
E. Martínez
Goalkeeper
33
40
M. Bizot
Goalkeeper
34
64
J. Wright
Goalkeeper
21
2
M. Cash
Defender
28
3
V. Lindelöf
Defender
31
4
E. Konsa
Defender
28
5
T. Mings
Defender
32
12
L. Digne
Defender
32
14
Pau Torres
Defender
28
19
K. Nedeljković
Defender
20
22
I. Maatsen
Defender
23
26
L. Bogarde
Defender
21
43
T. Rowe
Defender
19
48
M. Cissé
Defender
20
3
R. Fortes
Midfielder
18
4
T. Carroll
Midfielder
19
6
R. Barkley
Midfielder
32
7
J. McGinn
Midfielder
31
10
E. Buendía
Midfielder
29
11
B. Broggio
Midfielder
18
18
J. Jimoh
Midfielder
19
24
A. Onana
Midfielder
24
25
Aidan Borland
Midfielder
18
35
João Gomes
Midfielder
24
44
J. Manzambi
Midfielder
20
49
B. Burrows
Midfielder
17
53
George Hemmings
Midfielder
18
11
O. Watkins
Attacker
30
16
T. Mulley
Attacker
18
18
T. Abraham
Attacker
28
19
S. Iling-Junior
Attacker
22
29
E. Guessand
Attacker
24
31
L. Bailey
Attacker
28
39
Brian Madjo
Attacker
16
47
Alysson Edward
Attacker
19
49
A. Garnacho
Attacker
21
Injuries and availability
Current season
Not yet connected
No injury feed for the current season
StatusThis block stays empty rather than stale
Where these numbers come from
Results, tables, head-to-head and betting stats. Our own match archive of Premier League and Premier League finals through 2025/26, derived from final scores. Every block names its competition and window.
2026/27 fixtures. The openfootball public-domain fixture file (CC0 1.0).
Starting XI. openfootball 2025/26 team sheets (CC0 1.0); the construction is stated under the graphic.
Squad. API-Football (api-sports.io). Injury data for the current season is not yet in our data plan, so that block renders empty rather than out of date.
Information, not betting advice. This page reports what happened: results, goal counts and team-sheet history from stated sources over stated windows. The betting stats are counts of past outcomes. It contains no picks, no projections and no recommendations.