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| - Questa pagina raccoglie i dati riguardanti l'Aston Villa Football Club nelle competizioni ufficiali della stagione 2001-2002. (it)
- During 2001–02, Aston Villa competed in the Premier League (known as the FA Barclaycard Premiership for sponsorship reasons). Aston Villa's early season form was good and the Midlanders even went top briefly at the end of October, but followed that with a run of eleven games with only one win, falling out of the title race. Still, it came as a shock when John Gregory announced his resignation after four years as Villa manager on 24 January. A host of names were linked with the vacancy, but in the end it was Graham Taylor, who took Villa to promotion in 1988 and second place in the league in 1990, who was appointed manager. Taylor was unable to improve Villa's form, but two wins against Southampton and Chelsea at the end of the season where enough to see Villa finish eighth: this was hardly (en)
- Dit artikel beschrijft de prestaties van voetbalclub Aston Villa FC in het seizoen 2001/2002. Dit seizoen werd de club achtste in de Premier League. John Gregory gaf op 24 januari 2002 zijn taak als trainer op en zou rust nemen. De club draaide namelijk een wisselvallig seizoen. Graham Taylor, voormalig bondscoach van Engeland, werd op 5 februari 2002 aangesteld als opvolger van Gregory. Gareth Southgate verruilde Aston Villa voor Middlesbrough. Middlesbrough betaalde £ 6.500.000 ,- voor Southgate. De Zweedse centrale verdediger Olof Mellberg was zijn vervanger. Gregory haalde hem weg bij de Spaanse eersteklasser Racing Santander. Paul Merson werd daarom aanvoerder. De 20-jarige Peter Crouch werd in de winter van 2002 overgenomen van Portsmouth. In augustus 2001 won de club de UEFA Interto (nl)
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