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Game #2745

Aston Villa

Thursday, 23 May 1963

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Lost

Final

Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥

League Cup

Birmingham City

St Andrew's

Attendance: 31,580

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

Birmingham City

3-1

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Aston Villa

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Assist(s) | Harry Burrows | 1-1 |

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

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MATCH TIMELINE

Thursday, 23 May 1963

🥅 | 14' Goal, 0-1, (Birmingham City), Ken Leek
⚽ | Goal, 1-1, Bobby Thomson, Assist by Harry Burrows
🕒 | HT Birmingham City 1-1 Aston Villa
💥 | Player injured on field of play, Nigel Sims
🥅 | 52' Goal, 1-2, (Birmingham City), Ken Leek
💥 | Player injured on field of play, Vic Crowe
🥅 | 66' Goal, 1-3, (Birmingham City), Jimmy Bloomfield
🕒 | FT Birmingham City 3-1 Aston Villa

Match Statistics

Not recorded

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

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ON THIS DAY

Thursday, 23 May 1963

Joe Mercer's Villa suffer a disappointing reverse against neighbours Birmingham in the first leg of the League Cup final at St Andrew’s to cede the advantage. Villa’s latest fixture is their seventeen in fifty six days and comes just two days after their final League game after their wildly interrupted campaign delivered the inevitable fixture list congestion and required Villa to play once every three days in the final two months of the season. Villa now had it all to do in the return leg at Villa Park to deliver a trophy in an otherwise barren season and win the League Cup for the second time in three seasons since its inauguration.

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

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DEBUT APPEARANCES

FINAL APPEARANCES

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Aston Villa

League Champions: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆
FA Cup Winners: 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆
League Cup Winners: 🏆
Last Trophy: 1960-61

Birmingham City

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League Champions: ❌
FA Cup Winners: ❌
League Cup Winners: ❌
Last Trophy: ❌

Aston Villa

Birmingham City

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FIXTURE HISTORY

Villa v

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Birmingham City

Previous 5 vs. Birmingham: 🟨 🟥 🟩 🟥 🟩

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

FIXTURE DETAILS

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Season | 1962-63 |
Matchday | #52 |
Manager Game | #235 |
Tuesday, 21 May 1963

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🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

MATCH SUMMARY

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Manager: Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Ellesmere Port, 1958-1964
Referee: Ernest Crawford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Doncaster, -1965
HT Score: 🟨 0-0
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-3
Last 5: 🟥 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥

Scorers
Timeline
On This Day
Trophies
Matches
Fixture

MANAGERIAL RECORD

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Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

GAMES | WINS | DRAWS | LOSSES | POINTS PER GAME

🕒 232 | 🟩 | 107 🟨 48 🟥 77 | 1.59

Villa Career Form:

Top 8

ALL THE MATCHES LED BY:

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Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

MATCH OFFICIALS

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Referee: Ernest Crawford | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Doncaster, -1965
Previous 5:
Last Match:
Cards: None

ALL THE MATCHES REFEREED BY:

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CARDS

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None

None

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

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TEAM NEWS

TEAM STATS

John Sleeuwenhoek, Vic Crowe and Harry Burrows replace Alan Deakin, Tommy Ewing and Lew Chatterley for the first leg of the League Cup final.

Starting XI Average Age
| 24.54 |

Oldest Player |
GK Nigel Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 31.81 |

Youngest Player |
F George Graham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | 18.49 |

Referee
Manager

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

MANAGER

Joe Mercer | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 1958-1964

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Aston Villa

GK Nigel Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🚑 |
FB Gordon Lee | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Cammie Fraser | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
LB Charlie Aitken | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB John Sleeuwenhoek | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Vic Crowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
W Harry Burrows | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔥 |
F Ron Wylie | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F George Graham | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
F Alan Baker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Bobby Thomson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | ⚽ |

MANAGER

Gil Merrick | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Birmingham City

GK Jimmy Schofield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
FB Colin Green | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
D Terry Hennessey | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Trevor Smith | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
RB Stan Lynn (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LH Malcolm Beard | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Bertie Auld | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
M Jimmy Bloomfield | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | ⚽ |
W Mike Hellawell | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
F Ken Leek | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | ⚽ | ⚽ |
CF Jimmy Harris | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Line Ups

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions permitted in period

SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Substitutes

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions permitted in period

UNUSED SUBSTITUTES

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No Substitutions Permitted in Period

Player Positions:

GK : Goalkeeper
CB, D, B : Centre Back, Defender, Back
FB, LB, RB, WH : Full Back, Left Back, Right Back, Wing Back, Wing Half


M, CH, LH, RH : Midfielder, Centre Half, Left Half, Right Half
W, OL, OR : Winger, Outside Left, Outside Right
F, IF, IL, IR : Forward, Inside Forward, Inside Left, Inside Right, Second Striker, False 9
CF : Centre Forward

Match Symbols:

⚽ | Goal
🔥 | Assist
🔁 | Substitution

🟨 | Booking

🟥 | Sending off

🆘 | Poor refereeing performance
🟢 : Debut 🔴 : Final Game

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

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MATCHDAY SQUAD BIOGRAPHIES

STARTING XI

* This Game

Game
Start
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red
GK Nigel Sims | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

SUBSTITUTES

Game
Sub
Goal
Assist
Win
Draw
Loss
Goal Conceded
Clean Sheet
Yellow
Red

UNUSED

Unused
Squad Bios

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

SQUAD STATS

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Villa XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

SQUAD STATS

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Birmingham XI:
Home Nation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇬🇧 : 11/11

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

MATCHDAY SQUAD

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MATCHDAY SQUAD

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🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

UNAVAILABLE

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Injured | 4 |
F Phil Woosnam | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
F Derek Dougan | 🇬🇧 |
M Alan Deakin | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
W Tommy Ewing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |

UNAVAILABLE

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Not Recorded

Unavailable

LEAGUE TABLE

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MATCHDAY PROGRAMME

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Tables & Programmes

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

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MATCH QUOTES

Quotes

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

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MATCH REPORTS

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Reports

🟥 23 May 1963, Villa 1-3 Birmingham, St Andrew's

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