Aston Villa: Fast Facts & Ground Grab

A settled and competitive Villa squad go into the Spring Series looking to turn performances into results. The page records a 2016 campaign of seven wins, three draws and eight defeats, sixth in WSL 2 on 24 points, with Bethan Merrick both top scorer and player of the year on nine goals in eighteen games ahead of Katie Wilkinson’s six in ten. Hannah George and Merrick were ever-present across all eighteen league games. Coach Joe Hunt is a Football Development Manager at the club with eleven years across its girls’ and women’s sections, from the under-12s to the side that won the 2013 FA Women’s Premier League Cup. Home games are at Tamworth FC’s Lamb ground, a ten to fifteen minute walk from the town’s railway station, at five pounds for adults.