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Aston Villa
1893–94 season
Chairman
Manager	George Ramsay
Ground	Wellington Road
First Division	Champions (1)
FA Cup	Round 3
	← 1892–93 1894–95 →

The 1893–94 English football season was Aston Villa's 6th season in the Football League since its formation. They finished the season as champions for the first time, and for the next few years they would be very much the dominant side of English football, winning a total of five championships and two FA Cups by 1900.

For the first two of these championship seasons, they were based at Wellington Road. Though reporters claimed gates of 20,000, it is not clear how many of these would have been able to see the game!

Villa built up a six-point lead by the end of December and maintained that margin to the end of the season, with only Sunderland providing a serious challenge.

Jack Devey was an all-round sportsman who enjoyed a long cricket career with Warwickshire. He played football for local clubs in Birmingham before joining Villa in 1891. He was capped twice by England.

Jimmy Cowan was an attacking centre-half in the days when this was a common tactic. He was well known as a sprinter and won the Powderhall Handicap in 1896. He was just 5 ft 61⁄2 in (1.69 m) tall, but his quoted weight of 12 st 3 lbs (77.6 kg) indicates a sprinter’s powerful build.

There were debut appearances for, Len Benwell, George Russell, Jack Reynolds, Jim Elliott, Jimmy Welford, James Gillan, Willie Groves, Steve Smith and Bill Randle.^[1]

First Division

Aston Villa won the league title in the final match of the season 3-1 against Everton with goals from top scorer Guy Jones.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts	Relegation
1	Aston Villa (C)	30	19	6	5	84	42	2.000	44
2	Sunderland	30	17	4	9	72	44	1.636	38
3	Derby County	30	16	4	10	73	62	1.177	36
4	Blackburn Rovers	30	16	2	12	69	53	1.302	34
5	Burnley	30	15	4	11	61	51	1.196	34
6	Everton	30	15	3	12	90	57	1.579	33
7	Nottingham Forest	30	14	4	12	57	48	1.188	32
8	West Bromwich Albion	30	14	4	12	66	59	1.119	32
9	Wolverhampton Wanderers	30	14	3	13	52	63	0.825	31
10	Sheffield United	30	13	5	12	47	61	0.770	31
11	Stoke	30	13	3	14	65	79	0.823	29
12	The Wednesday	30	9	8	13	48	57	0.842	26
13	Bolton Wanderers	30	10	4	16	38	52	0.731	24
14	Preston North End (O)	30	10	3	17	44	56	0.786	23	Qualification for test matches
15	Darwen (R)	30	7	5	18	37	83	0.446	19
16	Newton Heath (R)	30	6	2	22	36	72	0.500	14