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2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

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📅 2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)
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🏆 FA Cup: R3
🏆 Trophies: -
🥈 Runners Up: -
🥉 Semi Finals: -

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Joined Villa

In Date
Aged
Previous Role
9 March 1999
22
Cardiff City 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Player

Appointed Manager

Appointed
Aged
Previous Role
8 January 2021
34
Aston Villa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 u21s Manager

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Personal Profile

Birth Date
Birthplace
Birth Country
Full Name
13 May 1976
Haverfordwest 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
Mark Anthony Delaney

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Playing Career
Right Back

1996-98 Carmarthen Town 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
League of Wales

1998-99 Cardiff City 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Free
Football League Third Division
🕒 35 | 35 (0) | ⚽ 1 |

1999-06 Aston Villa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 £0.34m
Premier League
🕒 193 | 175 (18) | ⚽ 2 | #735 |

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Previous Coaching & Managerial Roles

2007-14 Aston Villa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
Youth Manager
1 Dec 2007 to 30 Jun 2014

2015-18 Aston Villa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
u21s Assistant Manager
1 Jul 2015 to 30 Jun 2018

2015-18 Aston Villa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
u23s Manager
1 Jul 2018 to 20 May 2022

Trophies Won

n/a

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Villa Managerial Debut

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Career Summary

🗓️
🕒
🟩
🟥
PPG
🟩 %
🟥 %
🇺
🥅
GPG
CPG
GD
1
1
0
1
0.00
0%
100%
0%
1
4
1
4
-3
0%

Seasons 🗓️, Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Unbeaten 🇺, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅, Goals per Game GPG, Conceded per Game CPG, Goal Difference GD, Clean Sheets ⛔, Points per Game PPG

Seasons

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Season Summaries

🗓️
Age
Division
Pos
🕒
🟩
🟨
🟥
🟩 %
🟨 %
🟥 %
GPG
🥅
CPG
PPG
2020-21
44
n/a
n/a
1
0
0
1
0%
0%
100%
1
1
4
4
0%
0.00

Seasons 🗓️, Games 🕒, Won 🟩, Drew 🟨, Lost 🟥, Unbeaten 🇺, Goals Scored ⚽, Goals Conceded 🥅, Goals per Game GPG, Conceded per Game CPG, Goal Difference GD, Clean Sheets ⛔, Points per Game PPG

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

League Performance

n/a

Aston Villa Manager Unai Emery
Competition

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Cup Performance
Aston Villa Manager
FA Cup finishes

2020-21
3rd Round
Lost to Liverpool

Aston Villa Manager Unai Emery
League Cup finishes

n/a

European finishes

n/a

Aston Villa Manager Unai Emery

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Final Villa Managerial Game

Players

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Signings

Player Summary
In Date
In Fee

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Departures

Player Summary
Out Date
Out Fee

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Villa Honours

Managed the Villa

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Left Managerial Position

Returned to normal duties before being removed from the club in outrageous fashion by the next manager who then replaced him with one of his cronies (who went on to fail spectacularly with a generation of talent at his disposal).

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Subsequent Coaching & Managerial Roles

2021-22 Aston Villa 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
u23s Manager
9 Jan 2021 to 20 May 2022

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Biography

Match List

2021 Mark Delaney | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | (Caretaker)

Match List

Match
#
PPG
🟩
🟨
🟥
🟩 %
🟨 %
🟥 %
🟥 8 Jan 2021, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Villa Park
103
1.43
42
21
39
40.78%
62.14%
37.86%
Matches

Birth_Date

Matches

🟥 8 Jan 2021, Villa 1-4 Liverpool, Villa Park

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Game #5564

Manager: Mark Delaney (Caretaker) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 | Haverfordwest, 2021
Referee: Craig Pawson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | Sheffield & Hallam, 2013-
Kick off: 7.45pm
HT Score: 🟨 1-1
FT Result: 🟥 Lost
FT Score: 🟥 1-4
Last 5: 🟩 🟩 🟨 🟥 🟥

Season | 2020-21 |
Matchday | #19 |
Manager Game | #1 |
Friday, 8 January 2021

FA Cup

3rd Round

Scorer(s) | Louie Barry | 41' |

Assist(s) | Callum Rowe | 41' |

Match Timeline
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Starting XI

GK Ákos Ónodi | 🇭🇺 | 🟢 | 🔴 |
LB Callum Rowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔥 | 🔴 | 🔁 |
CB Dominic Revan | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 |
CB Mungo Bridge | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 |
CB Lamare Bogarde | 🇳🇱 | 🟢 | 🔁 |
RB Jake Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 | 🔁 |
RB Kaine Kesler Hayden | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 |
M Ben Chrisene | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔁 |
M Mamadou Dialla Sylla | 🇪🇸 | 🟢 | 🔴 |
M Arjan Raikhy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 | 🔁 |
CF Louie Barry | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | ⚽ |

Substitutes

🔁 CF Brad Young | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 | for M Ben Chrisene | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 61' |
🔁 M Harrison Sohna | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 | for M Arjan Raikhy | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 65' |
🔁 M Hayden Lindley | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | 🔴 | for CB Lamare Bogarde | 🇳🇱 | 66' |
🔁 CB Sil Swinkels | 🇳🇱 | 🟢 | for LB Callum Rowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 75' |
🔁 M Teddy Rowe | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟢 | for RB Jake Walker | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 75' |

Unused Substitutes

GK Oliwer Zych | 🇵🇱 |
RB Frankie Ealing | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Taylor Jay-Hart | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Michael Tait | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

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Starting XI

GK Caoimhin Kelleher | 🇮🇪 |
RB Neco Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 |
CB Rhys Williams | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Fabinho | 🇧🇷 |
M Georginio Wijnaldum | 🇳🇱 | ⚽ |
M James Milner (ex) | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
M Jordan Henderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🔁 |
M Curtis Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 🟨 | 🔁 |
W Takumi Minamino | 🇯🇵 | 🔁 |
W Sadio Mané | 🇸🇳 | ⚽ | ⚽ | 🔁 |
W Mohamed Salah | 🇪🇬 | ⚽ | 🔁 |

Substitutes

🔁 | M Thiago Alcántara | 🇪🇸 | for M Jordan Henderson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 46’ |
🔁 | F Roberto Firmino | 🇧🇷 | for M Curtis Jones | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | 61’ |
🔁 | W Xherdan Shaqiri | 🇨🇭 | for W Takumi Minamino | 🇯🇵 | 61’ |
🔁 | M Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 | for W Sadio Mané | 🇸🇳 | 74’ |
🔁 | CF Divock Origi | 🇧🇪 | for W Mohamed Salah | 🇪🇬 | 74’ |

Unused Substitutes

GK Alisson | 🇧🇷 |
RB Trent Alexander-Arnold | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |
LB Andrew Robertson | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 |
CB Nathaniel Phillips | 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 |

Match Timeline

🟢 | 1’ Debut, Ákos Ónodi, Callum Rowe, Dominic Revan, Mungo Bridge, Lamare Bogarde, Jake Walker, Kaine Kesler-Hayden, Ben Chrisene, Mamadou Dialla Sylla, Arjan Raikhy, Louie Barry
🥅 | 4’ Goal, 0-1, (Liverpool), Sadio Mané
⚽ | 41’ Goal, 1-1, Louie Barry, Assist by Callum Rowe
🕒 | HT Aston Villa 1-1 Liverpool
🥅 | 60’ Goal, 1-2, (Liverpool), Georginio Wijnaldum
🔁 | 61’ Sub off, Ben Chrisene, Sub on, Brad Young 🟢 🔴
🥅 | 63’ Goal, 1-3, (Liverpool), Sadio Mané
🥅 | 65’ Goal, 1-4, (Liverpool), Mohamed Salah
🔁 | 65’ Sub off, Arjan Raikhy 🔴, Sub on, Harrison Sohna 🟢 🔴
🔁 | 66’ Sub off, Lamare Bogarde, Sub on, Hayden Lindley 🟢 🔴
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Callum Rowe 🔴, Sub on, Sil Swinkels 🟢
🔁 | 75’ Sub off, Jake Walker 🔴, Sub on, Teddy Rowe 🟢
🕒 | FT Aston Villa 1-4 Liverpool

On This Day
  • Villa hand starting debuts to 11 players for only the second time in their history with the first having come in their first ever FA Cup game on Saturday, 13 December 1879 against Stafford Road. 

  • Villa handed debuts to 16 players in total - their most ever in a single professional fixture.

  • Villa fielded their youngest ever side with the starting line up having an average age of 18.80 years. 

  • Ákos Ónodi, 19, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt to become the 951st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Ónodi was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2022 aged 20.

  • Dominic Revan, 20, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt to become the 952nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Revan was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2022 aged 21.

  • Mungo Bridge, 20, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt to become the 953rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Bridge was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2022 aged 21.

  • Lamare Bogarde, 17, makes his debut in a Villa shirt to become the 954th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Kaine Kesler-Hayden, 17, makes his debut in a Villa shirt to become the 955th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Jake Walker, 20, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt to become the 956th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Walker was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2021 aged 20.

  • Callum Rowe, 21, contributes an assist on his sole appearance in a Villa shirt and becomes the 957th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Rowe was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2021 aged 20.

  • Ben Chrisene, 16, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt to become the 958th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Chrisene was sold to Norwich City in July 2024 for €1.80m / £1.53m.

  • Mamadou Dialla Sylla, 17, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt to become the 959th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Sylla was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2021 aged 18.

  • Arjan Raikhy, 18, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt to become the 960th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Raikhy was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2023 aged 20.

  • Louie Barry, 17, makes a goalscoring Villa debut to become the 961st player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Brad Young, 18, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt as a substitute to become the 962nd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Young was released from the Villa Youth set up in September 2023 aged 20.

  • Harrison Sohna, 18, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt as a substitute to become the 963rd player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Sohna was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2021 aged 19.

  • Hayden Lindley, 18, makes his debut in a Villa shirt as a substitute to become the 964th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Sil Swinkels, 17, makes his debut in a Villa shirt as a substitute to become the 965th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football.

  • Teddy Rowe, 17, makes his sole appearance in a Villa shirt as a substitute to become the 966th player to play for Villa in first team League or Cup football. Rowe was released from the Villa Youth set up in June 2024 aged 20.

  • Michael Tait, 19, makes his sole squad appearance for Villa. Tait was released from the Villa Youth set up in July 2021 aged 20.

  • Taylor-Jay Hart, 17, makes his sole squad appearance for Villa. Hart was released from the Villa Youth set up in June 2024 aged 20.

  • Oliwer Zych, 16, makes his first squad appearance for Villa.

  • Frankie Ealing, 16, makes his sole squad appearance for Villa. Ealing was released from the Villa Youth set up in June 2024 aged 20.

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