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1905 FA Cup Final
	A panoramic view of the Crystal Palace ground during the 1905 FA Cup final
Event	1904-05 FA Cup
Date	15 April 1905
Venue	Crystal Palace, London
Referee	P. R. Harrower
Attendance	101,117

Second City Derby
	9--0--4
	← 1903-04 1905–06 →

Aston Villa
1904–05 season
Chairman	Frederick Rinder
Manager	George Ramsay
First Division	4th
FA Cup	winners
	← 1903–04 1905–06 →

Harry Hampton scores one of his two goals in the 1905 FA Cup Final where Aston Villa defeated Newcastle United

The 1904–05 Football League season was Aston Villa's 17th season in the First Division, the top flight of English football at the time. The season fell in what was to be called Villa's golden era.^[1]

During the season Howard Spencer and Joe Bache shared the captaincy of the club.^[2]

Villa won both matches in the Second City derby, 2-1 at Villa Park^[3] and 3-0 away.^[4] Events surrounding the February 1905 match away to Small Heath highlighted their Coventry Road ground's inadequacies. The official attendance was given as 28,000,^[5] though with the gates closed before kick-off, thousands scaled walls or forced entrances in order to gain admission, and the actual attendance was estimated at anything up to 35,000.^[6]^[7]

Aston Villa won the FA Cup competition for the fourth time, beating Newcastle United 2–0 in the final at Crystal Palace, through two goals scored by Harry Hampton. The man of the match was Aston Villa's prolific scorer Billy Garraty, great-great grandfather of footballer Jack Grealish, who was born only a few miles from the now Villa Park.

Also known as "The Wellington Whirlwind," Hampton played as a centre forward for Aston Villa from 1904 to 1920.^[8] He scored both goals against Newcastle United in the 1905 FA Cup Final. Hampton was a prolific goalscorer.^[8]

There were debuts for Harry Hampton (339), Josiah Gray, Walter Brown, Jimmy Cantrell and Watty Corbett.^[9]

Football League

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GAv	Pts
1	Newcastle United (C)	34	23	2	9	72	33	2.182	48
2	Everton	34	21	5	8	63	36	1.750	47
3	Manchester City	34	20	6	8	66	37	1.784	46
4	Aston Villa	34	19	4	11	63	43	1.465	42
5	Sunderland	34	16	8	10	60	44	1.364	40
6	Sheffield United	34	19	2	13	64	56	1.143	40
7	Small Heath	34	17	5	12	54	38	1.421	39
8	Preston North End	34	13	10	11	42	37	1.135	36
9	The Wednesday	34	14	5	15	61	57	1.070	33
10	Woolwich Arsenal	34	12	9	13	36	40	0.900	33
11	Derby County	34	12	8	14	37	48	0.771	32
12	Stoke	34	13	4	17	40	58	0.690	30
13	Blackburn Rovers	34	11	5	18	40	51	0.784	27
14	Wolverhampton Wanderers	34	11	4	19	47	73	0.644	26
15	Middlesbrough	34	9	8	17	36	56	0.643	26
16	Nottingham Forest	34	9	7	18	40	61	0.656	25
17	Bury	34	10	4	20	47	67	0.701	24
18	Notts County	34	5	8	21	36	69	0.522	18

Source: World Football
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal average; 3) Goals scored
(C) Champions

First team squad

Billy George, 39 appearances, conceded 46
Billy Brawn, 37 appearances
Joe Bache, 37 appearances
Billy Garraty, 37 appearances
Alex Leake, 36 appearances
Freddie Miles, 35 appearances
Joe Pearson, 31 appearances
Jack Windmill, 30 appearances
Harry Hampton, 28 appearances
Albert Hall, 28 appearances
Howard Spencer, 24 appearances
Albert Wilkes, 10 appearances
Billy Matthews, 7 appearances
Alf Wood, 6 appearances
Willie Clarke, 5 appearances
Albert Evans, 5 appearances
Micky Noon, 5 appearances
George Johnson, 3 appearances
Harry Cooch, 1 appearance, conceded 2
Mart Watkins, 1 appearance
Josiah Gray, 7 appearances
Walter Brown, 11 appearances
Jimmy Cantrell, 3 appearances
Watty Corbett, 1 appearance ^[2]

References

^ "Aston Villa Club History 1900 – 1939". AVFC.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 August 2006. Retrieved 28 October 2007.
^ ^a ^b AVFC History: 1904-05 season
^ "Aston Villa 2-1 Small Heath, 1904-05 Division One, 29 Oct 1904". AVFC History. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ "Small Heath 0-3 Aston Villa, 1904-05 Division One, 25 Feb 1905". AVFC History. Retrieved 6 August 2023.
^ This Day's Matches. Birmingham Daily Mail. 25 February 1905. p. 4.
^ Matthews (1995), Complete Record. p. 57.
^ Inglis, Simon (1996). Football Grounds of Britain (3rd ed.) London: CollinsWillow. p. 44. ISBN 0-00-218426-5.
^ ^a ^b "Harry Hampton, Aston Villa and the First World War". Football and the First World War. Retrieved 24 November 2017.
^ "Aston Villa's Seasons". AVFC History.