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.

Dean Smith’s Villa hammer League Two Barrow in their first ever match against the Cumbrians thanks to a hat-trick from under 23 striker Cameron Archer as a youthful line up delivers an exciting glimpse of the future. 

Villa face Barrow for the first time in competitive football, Barrow become the 162nd team that the Villa first team has played in League or Cup football.

Cameron Archer scores a hat-trick on only his second appearance for the club (First Start) to make it W2 D0 L0 and 3 Goals so far in his Villa career.

Aaron Ramsey makes his sole appearance for Villa having graduated from the Villa youth teams before moving to Burnley for £14,000,000 in August 2023

Caleb Chukwuemeka makes his sole appearance for Villa before being released in June 2023.

Frédéric Guilbert made the last of his 32 appearances for the club (28 Starts) since joining from Caen in January 2019 to leave with a record of W11 D6 L15, 3 Goals, 3 Assists and 6 Bookings.

Conor Hourihane made his 151st and final appearance for the club since joining in January 2017 to lave a record of W67 D35 L49, 29 Goals, 22 Assists and 25 Bookings.

Anwar El Ghazi contributes his 40th goal involvement and scores his 25th goal for the club on his 110th appearance (85 Starts) to make it W40 D25 L45, 26 Goals, 15 Assists, 11 Bookings and 1 Red Card so far in his Villa career.

Jed Steer keeps his 10th clean sheet in a Villa shirt on his 34th appearance (33 Starts) since arriving at the club 8 years previously to make it W21 D3 L10, 33 Goals Conceded and 10 Clean Sheets so far in his Villa career.

The opposition, Barrow, didn’t feature a single homegrown player in their squad of 18 but fielded fourteen players from the home nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.